(Radio Iowa) – The northwest Iowa town of Sheldon is getting some national media attention for a lost time capsule that, well, is not lost. The original story indicated that the location of the time capsule buried during Sheldon’s centennial celebration back in 1972 had been lost to time, leaving officials without its precise location. The capsule was to be opened as part of Sheldon’s sesquicentennial celebration on Friday. Sheldon’s Chamber Director Ashley Nordahl says there was some confusion.

“A big misunderstanding, I think. We always knew where the time capsule was. It was just a matter of making sure that we could get to it,” she says. “There is a little bit of concrete that’s laid around it, so we did not want to create a mess in front of Celebration Days.”

Sheldon Time Capsule (KIWA photo via Radio Iowa)

Nordahl says the ceremony and the other events are all on as scheduled in Sheldon.