***MEDIA ALERT***

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

(MINT CITY, USA/St. Johns, MI) December 8th, 2009 – At 6:00PM, December 10^th 2009, the Crosby Mint Farm may be facing its final chapter. Stanton Auctioneers will then take bids from potential buyers to purchase one or both of the parcels that make up the farm of a total of 140 acres.

Over the past year, the farm received a lot of media attention, local and national, due to the foreclosure and the tragedy of another family owned small farm vanishing.  This auction may be the end of the Crosby Mint Farm as the nation’s oldest, continuously family operated mint farm.  Public and media are invited to this public auction to show support, and to raise attention to this event.

The auction will be conducted in Smith Hall on the Clinton County Fairgrounds (west of St. Johns on M-21, on the North Side of the St. Johns High School).