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MADDOG 
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Posted on: Aug. 17 2013,3:00 pm |
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QUOTE 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
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?
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twingroves
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Posted on: Aug. 17 2013,6:15 pm |
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didn't everyone pay 10.00 to enter why did they only pick 10 did everybody else get their money back 
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grassman
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Posted on: Aug. 18 2013,8:48 am |
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I see The Bimford Super Suck 10,000 did not make it! 
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git er done!
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Self-Banished
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Posted on: Aug. 18 2013,9:00 am |
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^ 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.
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Glad I Left
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Posted on: Aug. 18 2013,9:59 am |
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It's "Mega-Dredge" sir,
She's gone from suck... ... to blow!
(Spaceballs reference for those wonder WTH that means)
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hymiebravo
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Posted on: Aug. 18 2013,9:25 pm |
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Is it customary to name a dredge?
Did it have a name before?
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hymiebravo
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Posted on: Aug. 18 2013,9:29 pm |
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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
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Botto 82
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Posted on: Aug. 19 2013,1:13 pm |
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Will this dredge sit in the northwest corner of the lake, unused for decades as well?
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sumpdump
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Posted on: Aug. 20 2013,3:24 pm |
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Only after 50K is paid for rental storage.
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hymiebravo
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Posted on: Sep. 08 2013,9:39 am |
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This isn't your daddies dredge:
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