The city of Cortez has announced the winners for the Public Works truck naming contest held June 16-July 20. Winners are awarded a $100 Cortez Cash gift card.
A news release Wednesday said that the City Council approved the purchase of three rear-load Freightliners and one side-load unit for Refuse and Recycling, as well as a street sweeper for the Public Works Department.
Public Works aimed to engage residents of Cortez and Montezuma County by holding a naming contest for the new trucks. A total of 218 entries were received.
The winning names are:
- PacMan, submitted by Jason Bedker.
- Bin Diesel, submitted by Carol Duran.
- Truck Norris, submitted by Chelsi Podrazik-Frascht.
- Sidewinder, submitted by David Roberts.
- Meryl Sweep, submitted by Ginny Rock.
Honorable mentions included Binderella and Free Loader for the rear-load units, Big Gulp and Kanye Waste for the side-load unit, and Lightning McSweep and Sweeping Beauty for the street sweeper.
A five-person selection committee was responsible for selecting the winners. The committee consisted of four city staff members and one “at-large citizen,” according to the news release.
The news release stated that several of the winning names had multiple entries. In these cases, the contestants’ names were placed in a bowl and drawn at random to determine the winner of the $100 Cortez Cash gift card. Other contestants who submitted the same names will receive a $10 Walmart gift card.
