It took just one clue for someone to figure out that the Farm-City Days medallion was hidden at the LaHarpe City Park.
The medallion was found in record time, on the first day of the hunt.
It had been hidden in the bleachers at the baseball field.
The first clue, it turned out, immediately narrowed the location to LaHarpe.
The clue read: “Your heart beats about 115,000 times per day inside of you.”
LaHarpe in recent years has called itself “The heart of Allen County.”
Committee member Jill Hartman hid the medallion and admitted she may have made the first clue a little too easy.
She had planned a couple of other clues that would include something related to baseball trivia and President Abraham Lincoln, because the park is located on Lincoln Street. That clue could have sent hunters down numerous Lincoln streets in various towns in Allen County, Hartman said.
That will be the end of this year’s medallion hunt. The committee discussed possibly offering a second hunt but decided against it.
Other events will continue, like a photo contest with three categories: Allen County History, Farm or City, Nature or Landscape. The deadline to email photos is 5 p.m. Sunday.
Farm-City Days will take place in downtown Iola Oct. 15-18 and will enforce safety procedures related to the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s theme is “Candyland.”
