Several innovative transportation related projects, and exciting proposals for the downtown core were among dozens of potential winners that could take home three cash prizes of $300, $200 and $100 next month.

A panel of judges is now reviewing the suggestions and narrowing the competition down. They’ll announce the winners at a special public meeting on Friday, April 3 at 7 p. m. in the Dundas Town Hall upstairs auditorium.

The meeting is also expected to provide an opportunity to bring potential volunteers together to help make some of the suggestions a reality.

Dundas Ontario In Transition, or “Do It”, wants the details of the submissions kept under wraps until the big event on April 3. But anyone attending the meeting will likely be impressed by some of the interesting original suggestions.

The local group developed based on a model from the United Kingdom, where individual communities found innovative ways to deal with rising oil prices, global warming and neighbourhood resilience in the face of major economic and environmental change.

But projects undertaken by other Transition Towns, and several suggested in the local ideas contest, also show elements of bringing the community together in distinctive, fun ways.

For more information on Dundas Ontario In Transition, and the Transition Town movement, visit the group’s website at www.dundasontariointransition.ca and be sure to attend next month’s meeting at Dundas Town Hall to start some of the projects going.