Yellowknife (Apr 11/03) - What do laundromat owner Easty Clayton, pioneer Henry Gluesing and blacksmith Carl Malmsten have in common?

Sure, they all played an important role in the early days of this city, but they also are on the waiting list to have streets or public properties, named after them.

When a city committee decided recently to choose a name for a new street, they realized they had 75 potential names and no process to choose one.

The committee decided to establish a process for choosing new names by looking at other cities' policies and instructed administrators to contact other cities to see how they choose them.

"So far it seems that, like us, they really have no process to choose their names," said Mayor Gord Van Tighem.

"We usually just go with the choice of the day."

City councillors have an alphabetical list of names that runs from Horace (Slim) Argue, an early day liquor store manager and ardent curler, to Frank and Agnes Winters, a retired couple who spent much of their lives in early Yellowknife.

People can submit nominations for other dignitaries they think deserve to have streets named after them through the mayor's office.