The results of the Fake Ad contest from the Spring Community Observer are a classic good news/bad news situation.

The good news is that we finally took the training wheels off the contest. For years, we’ve been coddling readers by including the word “community” in the Fake Ad right out in the open for anyone to see. In the last issue, though, we obscured the secret word by combining “calm” and “unity” to make a sort of conjoined homonym of community. We thought you were ready for more of a challenge. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that, once we took off the training wheels, all but nine readers immediately fell off their bikes. That’s right—only nine people correctly identified the ad for Unity Therapeutic Services on page 35 of the Spring Community Observer.

Laura Irgang was one of the clever ones who did find it, but it wasn’t easy. “I was anything but ‘calm’ after searching three times in vain for the Fake Ad in the Community Observer,” she wrote. “Until it hit me: ‘Calm unity.’ Very clever!”

Lorraine Hergenreder of Chelsea was chosen as our winner. She’s taking her gift certificate to the Common Grill.