“Really, the only guideline was appropriate names only,” Tatko said. Each school was assigned a snowplow in a maintenance garage close to it and given a blank slate to choose a name. State officials announced plans for the program in late October. The trend quickly caught on in North America, which has seen plow-naming contests in Michigan, Minnesota, Colorado, South Dakota and Canada.Įarlier this year, the Vermont Agency of Transportation - no stranger to heavy snow - decided to get into the game. (One of last year’s winners: Grit Expectations.) Scots vote in public contests to name snowplows, which are known as “gritters” there. The inspiration for naming snowplows came first from Scotland, according to Amy Tatko, a spokesperson for Vermont’s Agency of Transportation. But how we came up with Snowy Chicken instead of a Snowy Robin? I really don't know.” “Our mascot is a robin, so we think in terms of birds. “I mean, ‘snowy’ is obvious,” Frazer said. Then, via a schoolwide vote, students chose a final winner: Snowy Chicken. “It really was very exciting.”Įarlier this fall, after getting word of the Agency of Transportation’s plans for the contest, each class at the Starksboro school chose a candidate for the plow’s name. “We had so much fun with this thing,” Robinson Elementary School Principal Edorah Frazer said. On Wednesday, aka “Vermont Plow Day,” school officials across the state celebrated the rechristening of Vermont’s fleet of snowplows. The Captain is among 163 plows throughout Vermont that were given new names this week by schoolchildren through a statewide Agency of Transportation program. Berlin Elementary School students meet the plow they named, "Yo Bro No Snow." Photo courtesy Mary Peterson, Agency of EducationĪs the Vermont days grow shorter and the dark storm clouds of winter approach, residents of Braintree will look to a new hero to protect them: Captain Snowmerica.īut Captain Snowmerica, whose powers include clearing snow from roads and distributing salt, is no Avenger.
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