Day 2 – Clue 2

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Combine this clue with the first clue given away in today’s edition of The Forum!

A symbol of American pride; looks away from where the coin does hide

Stay tuned to AM970 WDAY and WDAY.com streaming radio for the next clue at 12:15 p.m. on The Christopher Gabriel Program! Listen The Jay Thomas show at 3:15 p.m. for the fourth clue of the day.

UPDATED: Northern Plains Coin found at the Fargo Downtown Street Fair

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Gail Flom in front of the Klai Hall sign in downtown Fargo. The first of three Northern Plains Coins was hidden along the bottom of the green sign. Shane Mercer / The Forum

FARGO – The first of three coins to be hidden at the Fargo Downtown Street Fair was found today by West Fargo resident Gail Flom.

Flom has never participated in The Forum’s annual treasure hunt.
But when she read Thursday’s first online clue, “A passport you will not need; instead, follow our clues to succeed” from her work upstairs at the federal building downtown, she had a hunch she was close.

So Flom found a copy of Thursday’s Forum to find the printed clue and headed outside.

“It’s really exciting, I can’t believe I got it right away,” Flom said.

She looked at the green sign reading “Klai Hall” on the east side of Klai Hall at 711 2nd Ave. N. and walked toward a nearby church that seemed to have some relationship with printed clue.

Flom said even though she had walked by the “Klai Hall” sign, something made her turn around and sweep the bottom of it.

There she found the first of three Northern Plains Coins to be hidden this week, during the annual Street Fair.

The coin is worth $500 in gold from Northern Plains Coin. Another coin will be hidden at the Street Fair for today’s hunt.

Flom said that just before finding the coin, she was forced to buy new tires for her car, so the $500 prize comes just in time.

The West Fargo resident said she plans to also donate a part of her winnings to Sunshine Kids at Prudential.

The first clue for the Friday’s treasure hunt will appear in the print edition of Friday’s Forum.

See our coin hunt blog here.

Find the Northern Plains Coin, win $500!

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It’s time for the Fargo Downtown Street Fair and successful scavengers could turn their skills into a $500 prize.

It’s The Forum’s sixth annual hunt, this year partnering with Northern Plains Coins in Fargo. If you’re the lucky person to find one of the three coins hidden downtown during the three-day event, you could be a winner.

Here’s how it works:

  • The Forum will hide one Northern Plains Coin each day of the fair, starting Thursday. Coins will be hidden in a spot accessible to the public and somewhere between the boundaries of Sixth Avenue South and Sixth Avenue North, The Red River on the west and 10th Street on the east.
  • Each day, read The Forum to find the first clue to help find thad day’s coin. Additional clues will be given online each day at coin.areavoices.com and during The Christopher Gabriel Program, which airs from 11 a.m to 2 p.m on WDAY AM 970. If the coin is still unclaimed, the final clue will be given on The Jay Thomas Show between 2 and 5 p.m. Listen LIVE to AM 970 WDAY streaming online.
  • Go downtown and start looking. Coins will be hidden well, but no digging, dumping, destroying or trespassing will be necessary to find the coin. PLEASE respect the business owners and residents of downtown Fargo during your search.
  • You’ll also be able to follow the Northern Plains Coin hunt via Twitter. Just keep tabs on @Inforum for the latest updates. We will let the public know if the coin is found as soon as we are informed of it being turned in.
  • If you find the coin, return it by 5 p.m to Northern Plains Coins at 2425 Main Avenue in Fargo for $500 worth of gold that the store can buy back, if desired. Your name, photo and the story of how you found the coin will be published in the next day’s Forum.
  • Most importantly. Have fun and happy hunting!