December 2nd, 2024

Finalists unveiled for city’s Name the Fleet campaign

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on October 24, 2024.

The city's municipal works department has released the list of finalists in the Name the Fleet campaign.--NEWS FILE PHOTO

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Online voting has begun to choose names of each of the city’s 15 plows and sanders after the municipal works department chose its finalists in a warm-hearted initiative that is being adopted in a number of communities across the country.

Residents can now vote on names that include “Taylor Drift,” “Sir Sand A Lot” and “Colonel Sanders” by visiting shapeyourcity.medicinehat.ca until 5 p.m. Oct. 5. The top names will be attached to plows while in service this winter.

Residents can vote in two categories that include naming the city’s four graders as well as its 11 sanders and plows.

The following names have been announced as finalists in the grader category:

– Sargent Windrow

– Slim Gradey

– Taylor Drift

– Snowbi Gone Kenobi

– Grade Eh!

– Blades of Glory

– Graderator

– Clearopatha

– Connor McGrader

– Tom Grady

– Scrape Dog

– Ice Ice Grady

The following names have been announced as the finalist in the sander and plow category:

– Brrr-ito

– Sander Clause

– Fast and the Flurryious

– Ole’ Salty

– Blizzard Wizard

– Better Call Salt

– Luke Snowwalker

– Gritney Spears

– Flake Shelton

– Emperor Plowpatine

– Sir Sand Alot

– Sandosaurus Rex

– Snowba Fett

– Plowzilla

– Sander Bullock

– Darth Blader

– Hugh Slatman

– Gripzilla

– Skip the Ditches

– Plowabunga

– Ctrl-Salt-Delete

– Spread Zeppelin

– Pebbles

– Adam Sander

– Betty Whiteout

– Gripper

– KaPlow

– Blade

– Colonel Sanders

– Flower Plower

The list of finalists was chosen from more than 200 submissions.

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