{"id":32415,"date":"2023-08-10T00:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/winners-in-cortezs-truck-naming-contest-are-announced\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:57:37","slug":"winners-in-cortezs-truck-naming-contest-are-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/winners-in-cortezs-truck-naming-contest-are-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners in Cortez\u2019s truck-naming contest are announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fc7c81ae-bf10-5414-b661-bc5825e8ab8c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" alt=\"Two winning names are displayed on the new trucks in the Public Works fleet. (Kelly Codner\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Two winning names are displayed on the new trucks in the Public Works fleet. (Kelly Codner\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The winning names are:<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-x-im-unordered-list\">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.<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A five-person selection committee was responsible for selecting the winners. The committee consisted of four city staff members and one \u201cat-large citizen,\u201d according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>The news release stated that several of the winning names had multiple entries. In these cases, the contestants\u2019 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winning names included PacMan and Sidewinder; honorable mentions included Binderella and Sweeping Beauty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81784,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415\/revisions\/81784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32415"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}