The eight winners of West Lothian’s Name a Gritter competition have been announced.
Over 700 names were put forward, an incredible 48,000 votes were cast.
And the eigth names with the most amount of votes were Sir Chilly Connolly (Katie Ford, S1 West Calder High School), Han Snowlo (P6, Bellsquarry Primary School, Livingston), Elvis Spreadly (Matthew Fontaine, S5 The James Young High School), West Snowthian (Whitburn Academy 5W1 and Dedridge Primary Autism Resource Class), Alba Gritting Ye (Alfie Dunnett, P5 Boghall Primary), Meltin John (Alba Macgregor, P1 Williamston Primary School), Obi Wan Gritobi (Dominik Wisniewski, P7 Simpson Primary School) and Salt-tyre (Cassidy Aitken, Simpson Primary Nursery Class).
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Executive councillor for the environment, Tom Conn said: “Congratulations to the eight winners.
“We have been overwhelmed by the number of votes cast and the amount of tremendous ideas put forward.
"We’d like to thank everyone that took time to submit ideas, and to those who took the time to vote.
“This is obviously light meant to be a little bit of fun however, there is a serious message behind the competition which is to recognise the work that our staff do over the winter period, and highlight the importance of being prepared during the Winter period.
"Thank you to all those that took part.”
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There were over 700 entries so we can’t name them all. However we’d like to congratulate the op 20, in particular.
There were brilliant names put forward and several only just missed out on a top eight finish.”
The council is urging residents wishing to find out more about how to prepare for Winter to visit: www.westlothian.gov.uk/winter.
