The ‘Stones’ and a pickaxe helped Glencoe man win medallion hunt
As he scrambled from the west end of 10th Street to his house on North Hennepin Avenue Friday afternoon, Jan. 10, Mark Simons wondered if other people were as close to finding the Glencoe Chamber of Commerce’s medallion as he believed he was.
A short time later, Simons had unearthed the medallion from a frozen flowerbed beneath the DQ sign. The pickaxe he hustled home to get was the only way he was going to retrieve the medallion and claim the $500 Glencoe Bucks prize donated by Crow River Snow Pros.
The medallion took a beating in retrieving it from the frozen flowerbed. People have been searching for it since November. Mild temperatures, rain and bitter cold left the flowerbed a frozen hiding place. The medallion bears marks from the pickaxe.
“Looks like we might need to buy a new medallion,” Sally Custer, the chamber’s executive director wrote on the organization’s Facebook page.
(For the complete story, see the Jan. 15 print edition of The Chronicle.)