The partners in the "I'm active in Notre-Dame-de- Grâce" campaign were all on hand with their stands, and participated in the draw for the eight winners of the contest to find the most popular businesses on Sherbrooke Street West and Monkland and Somerled avenues. We would like to thank the campaign partners: Michael Applebaum, CDN–NDG Borough mayor, Sylvie Thibault of the Caisse Populaire Desjardins Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Marie-Josée Mastromonaco, CSDM school commissioner for NDG, Nicole Schiebel, NDG Éco-Quartier coordinator, Gillian Keefe, NDG Community Council director, Brita Brown, CSSS Cavendish community organizer, Guillaume Longchamps of Mobiligo, Marilène Bergeron of Équiterre and Susan Clarke, chair of the CDN/NDG CDEC Board of Directors.

We would also like to congradulate the following five businesses that were most frequented by the contest participants, which are, in order, the Coopérative la Maison Verte at 5785 Sherbrooke St. W., the Fleur Sauvage natural food store at 5561 Monkland Ave., the Maître Boucher gourmet boutique at 5719 Monkland Ave., Ben & Jerry's at 5582 Monkland Ave. and M&M foods at 6295 Somerled Ave. The eight winners of the contest are Edgar Hardy, who won the active citizen grand prize, sponsored by the Caisse Populaire Desjardins de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Gail Tedstone, Jacqueline Proulx, Laurence Nadeau, Claude Giasson, Rhoda Madoff, Adria Collins and Henry Ko, who even won two prizes!

Over 200 participation coupons were filled out and returned. Moreover, the participating residents and workers made close to 400 commitments to do their everyday shopping in NDG, to discover new businesses and to ride a bike or walk to get around their neighbourhood. They also decided to use active or public transportation to get to work least once a week. In conclusion, a heartfelt thank you goes out to the 146 merchants who participated in this awareness-raising campaign. Let’s do it again next year!