Medallion Found
In Trash Cans In
Badger Park,
Claiming $500
By LIBBY CUDMORE
COOPERSTOWN - If Frankie Panzarella, 13, hadn’t bumped his head, he and his dad Frank might never have come across the 2019 Winter Carnival Medallion.
“I was looking behind the trash cans in Badger Park and I hit my head on the corner,” he said. “I saw something taped to the side with black tape, but I didn’t know what it was at first.”
It wasn’t until he turned it over that he realized what he was holding.
“He asked, ‘What is this?’” said his dad, Frank, Bassett Medical Group vice president/COO. “And when I saw it was the medallion, we started screaming and high-fiving.”
The medallion was hidden on the back right side of the trash cans at Badger Park. “I felt fine once I found it!” said Frankie.
This is only the second year the Panzarella family has joined the annual hunt for the medallion and $500 prize, offered by The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta.
