February Festival Medallion Hunt
and Literary Bingo

February Festival is held on Lake Ann in early February each year and is sponsored by the City of Chanhassen in cooperation with the SouthWest Metro Chamber of Commerce. This one-day event draws 1,500-2,000 participants and spectators.

The Friends Of The Chanhassen Library sponsors the Medallion Hunt and Literary Bingo. For more information on the activities of the February Festival visit the City of Chanhassen web site.

Literary Bingo

Saturday, February 5, 2011
1:00-2:30 PM
Lake Ann - Located under the tent.

Try your luck at a game of BINGO, literary style, with fun prizes to be won. Sponsored by the Friends of the Chanhassen Library.

2011 Medallion Hunt

Medallion Clues are found at the bottom of this page!

The Medallion has been found!

For more is available in the Library.

A city-wide Medallion Hunt will be held beginning Sunday, January 30. The medallion will be hidden on public land in Chanhassen and a clue as to its location will be released daily at Byerly's, Chanhassen Center Drug, Chanhassen Library, the Chanhassen Villager and on this site, until Saturday, February 5. For contest rules and more information, visit the Chanhassen Library. Prize package is provided by Byerly's, Chanhassen Center Drug and Friends of the Chanhassen Library.”

The Rules

1.  Search but do not destroy or damage any property.  The Friends of the Chanhassen Library reserves the right to terminate the hunt if property becomes damaged.  The medallion will not be hidden under the ground; nor will it be hidden at a height requiring special equipment to find it.  A shovel may be useful if it is buried in the snow, but a metal detector is useless as the medallion is acrylic.

2.  The Chanhassen Library has resources that may help you solve some of the clues.

3.  The medallion must be and the prize claimed by 12 noon, on Monday February 7th. The winner will be required to fill out a W-9 Request for Taxpayer ID prior to receiving the prize.

4.  Employees of the Carver County Library System, Director of the Friends of the Chanhassen Library and immediate family members of those two groups are ineligible to win as well as anyone who has found the Medallion in the last five years.

Medallion Clues

Clue 1 - Sunday, January 30

In a town this large, there are places that are,
Destinations that draw people afar.

Clue 2 - Monday, January 31

The cold whistles by, the snow levels high.
Do you have an idea of how I stay dry?

Clue 3 - Tuesday, February 1

Before, we have sent you in many directions,
This year we dwell in a place of mentions.....

Clue 4 - Wednesday, February 2

I reside in a place that in not 24/7.
It will still be daunting, but will seem like heaven.

Clue 5 - Thursday, February 3

Up, down, in or out,
When you find me please don't shout.

Clue 6 - Friday, February 4

Accessible I am than most in my lot,
Pat Robertson figures into the plot.

Clue 7 - Saturday, February 5

99 bottles of beer on the wall,
If empty will make the hunter crawl.

Bonus Clue!!

Pat Robertson's club and all those beers
Would make Melvil Dewey stand and cheer.
Where I reside doesn't open 'til 10,
So hunker way down and I will see you then.