Topic: dredge name contest
started by: MADDOG
Posted by MADDOG on Aug. 17 2013,3:00 pm
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The Lakes Foundation of Albert Lea is asking for the public’s help in naming the Shell Rock River Watershed District’s dredge.
The foundation received 31 entries for the Name the Dredge Contest and has narrowed them down to 10, said Connie Kaupa, office manager for the watershed district.
The submissions are:
• Sediment AL Journeys
• Mud Monster
• The Dredginator
• Colonel Albert Lea
• Big AL
• Progress
• Sediment Piranha
• The Spirit of Albert Lea
• Dredgie
• Perseverance
People can vote for their favorite name through a poll at the Tribune’s website or by calling the Albert Lea Convention and Visitors Bureau at 373-2316 or the Shell Rock River Watershed District at 377-5785.
The poll will be online at < www.albertleatribune.com > to midday Aug. 19.
The district purchased the dredge last fall for about $340,000, along with the pipes, pumping and other equipment necessary to pump the dredge material away from the lake for $435,000. The equipment would be used first on Fountain Lake and then could be used on other area lakes. The entire Fountain Lake dredging is estimated to cost $15 million.
The winning name will be announced at the Albert Lea-Freeborn County Chamber of Commerce’s Business After Hours Aug. 20 at the new Edgewater Park pavilion. The dredge will be on display that evening.
< Bias bast...ards >
The foundation received 31 entries for the Name the Dredge Contest and has narrowed them down to 10, said Connie Kaupa, office manager for the watershed district.
The submissions are:
• Sediment AL Journeys
• Mud Monster
• The Dredginator
• Colonel Albert Lea
• Big AL
• Progress
• Sediment Piranha
• The Spirit of Albert Lea
• Dredgie
• Perseverance
People can vote for their favorite name through a poll at the Tribune’s website or by calling the Albert Lea Convention and Visitors Bureau at 373-2316 or the Shell Rock River Watershed District at 377-5785.
The poll will be online at < www.albertleatribune.com > to midday Aug. 19.
The district purchased the dredge last fall for about $340,000, along with the pipes, pumping and other equipment necessary to pump the dredge material away from the lake for $435,000. The equipment would be used first on Fountain Lake and then could be used on other area lakes. The entire Fountain Lake dredging is estimated to cost $15 million.
The winning name will be announced at the Albert Lea-Freeborn County Chamber of Commerce’s Business After Hours Aug. 20 at the new Edgewater Park pavilion. The dredge will be on display that evening.
< Bias bast...ards >
Sounds like not all entries pass the mustard. The so-called Lakes Foundation invites the public to name the dredge through a contest, then chops it up to fit their ideas.
Why is it that this town just does not want to do things fairly? Perhaps they (who think they must be better than thou) don't believe the public is capable of doing something right without pissant interference?
Posted by twingroves on Aug. 17 2013,6:15 pm
didn't everyone pay 10.00 to enter why did they only pick 10 did everybody else get their money back 
Posted by grassman on Aug. 18 2013,8:48 am
I see The Bimford Super Suck 10,000 did not make it! 
Posted by Self-Banished on Aug. 18 2013,9:00 am
^ Would that be of the muck it dredges or the funds it sucks out of the taxpayers coffers.Nice name pick though.
I would have just named it the USS Moneypit.
Posted by Glad I Left on Aug. 18 2013,9:59 am
It's "Mega-Dredge" sir,She's gone from suck... ... to blow!
(Spaceballs reference for those wonder WTH that means)
Posted by hymiebravo on Aug. 18 2013,9:25 pm
Is it customary to name a dredge? Did it have a name before?
Posted by hymiebravo on Aug. 18 2013,9:29 pm
Secondly; if those are the cream of the crop the others must have been. . . well. . . pretty lousy. Those all sound like a joke.
Here I have a couple of ideas for a name:
1. It's Only Money
2. The Lucky Charm
Posted by Botto 82 on Aug. 19 2013,1:13 pm
Will this dredge sit in the northwest corner of the lake, unused for decades as well?
Posted by sumpdump on Aug. 20 2013,3:24 pm
Only after 50K is paid for rental storage. 
Posted by hymiebravo on Sep. 08 2013,9:39 am
This isn't your daddies dredge:
Posted by hymiebravo on Sep. 08 2013,9:43 am
Looks like you could really churn up some serious sledge with that aggressive mechanism:
Posted by hymiebravo on Sep. 08 2013,9:47 am
Go Big AL; Go!
Posted by hymiebravo on Sep. 08 2013,9:51 am
C-mon admit it! You'd luv to hop in that cab and churn up some Fountain Lake sledge, in that mean machine.
What's it gonna take to put you in this fine dredge today?
Posted by bulldog on Sep. 19 2013,3:21 pm
They said it will not get used till sometime in 2014 , maybe they will dig up some dead bodies in there .