MELANIE SEDGE GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF COMMUNITY SHIFTING GEARS COMPETITION
Community Shifting Gears grand prize winner Melanie Sedge of Trent University, seen with her children Leah Gibbs, 9, and her brother Wade, 5, wins a $750 gift certificate to Resorts of Ontario. Community Shifting Gears hosted a wrap-up celebration Thursday afternoon at Millennium Park to honour the hundreds of enthusiastic participants who shifted to active and sustainable transportation during the spring contest. this spring. City transportation demand management planner Susan Sauve, announced the 2017 Travel Wise Award Winners, along with the Shifting Gears co-ordinator, Lindsay Stroud. The winners include: Micro Category (workplaces with fewer than 10 employees) – Engage Engineering | workplace co-ordinator Paul Hurley, logging the highest number of trips for workplaces in the micro category; Small Category (workplaces with between 10 and 24 employees) – Partners in Pregnancy | workplace co-ordinator Tracey Condon, nearly 100% participation and double the trips logged of any other small workplace; Medium Category (workplaces with between 25 and 249 employees) – Peterborough Public Library | workplace co-ordinator Marisa Giuliani; Large Category (workplaces with more than 250 employees) – Ontario Public Service | workplace co-ordinator, James Britton; Masters Class – B!KE | workplace co-ordinator Tegan Moss, B!KE is a community leader, demonstrating how practical and fun it can be using a bike for transportation; and 100% Participation – Studio–N and Peterborough County, Armour Road. See more photographs from the ceremony in the online gallery at www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com.