Student Wins Landmark Scavenger Hunt

Kaitlyn Johnson (center) receives gift basket from Sharon Swehla (left), Kirksville tourism director, and Mary Turner (right), city planner.

Truman student Kaitlyn Johnson from Wright City, Missouri, was the Explore Kirksville landmark scavenger hunt gift basket winner from the Red Barn Arts Festival, Sept. 24. Participants of this scavenger hunt downloaded an app and got a passport. The passport had a list of downtown businesses to stop by and receive a stamp when they visited. Anyone who received a stamp from each historic location and dropped of their passport was entered into a raffle to win a prize pack valued at $350. More than a dozen downtown businesses partnered with the city to offer this prize.