‘Ctrl Salt Delete’ and five other winning snowplow names announced in Chatham-Kent
The one and only D-O double G — ‘Scoop Dogg’ is one of six snowplows that will be hitting the streets of Chatham-Kent come winter.
The results are in from Chatham-Kent’s snowplow naming contest with more than 1,600 votes cast and over 30 submissions.
The winning entries are:
- Betty Whiteout with 159 votes
- Ctrl Salt Delete with 155 votes
- Flurrie Jenkins, named for local baseball legend Fergie Jenkins had 150 votes
- Harry Plowter with 100
- Edward Blizzardhands with 89
- Scoop Dogg with 88
Again this year, Chatham-Kent Infrastructure and Engineering Services has partnered with WINMAR Property Restoration to fund the new plow decals.
One plow will be named in each of Chatham-Kent’s six wards.
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