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The annual Remembrance Day ceremonies took place across eastern Ontario and western Quebec in November, and this year saw a good turnout in towns like Hawkesbury, Alexandria, Vankleek Hill, L'Orignal and Brownsburg.

See below for The Review's photo gallery of the local ceremonies.

The 11th edition of the Relay for Life was held in Maxville on Friday, June 3, welcoming 163 teams and 375 survivors to the village's fairgrounds for the annual 12-hour remembrance ceremony and celebration.

This year, the Relay for Life raised $470,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. The event was assisted by 350 volunteers, and saw a total of 2,817 luminaries placed around the track.

A therapeutic riding program at Synergy Equestrian Centre is helping those in need gallop toward a sense of renewed strength and confidence.

The program was launched in early June by naturopath and riding instructor Jeannine Bastien, on the 20-acre farm in East Hawkesbury that houses her business and stables.

Oktoberfest, hosted by Beau's All-Natural Brewery, arrived in Vankleek Hill on October 2 and 3 and brought about 5,700 visitors to the town's fairgrounds. Over 150 kegs of beer were sold to raise $26,000 for the Vankleek Hill Agricultural Society, United Way, and Canadian Organic Week.

The 10th annual Relay For Life took place at the Maxville Fairgrounds last Friday, June 4, with 174 registered teams and 390 survivors taking part in the 12-hour awareness and fundraising event organized by the Canadian Cancer Society. This year's event raised $545,000, the Society's highest amount to date.

See below for a multimedia soundslide of the evening's event, including interviews with several Relay team leaders and survivors.

What sort of treasure hunt has six million members worldwide, is played across the globe, and employs both the internet and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to let participants hide, seek and report their finds from any place at any time?

The answer is geocaching, a high-tech form of treasure hunt wherein players hide a "cache" - often a small container filled with a logbook and other small items - in a relatively obscure location, and post its geographical coordinates online at www.geocaching.com. Worldwide members can then use GPS-enabled devices to access the locations and background information behind each cache, and can decide to "hunt" for them at their own convenience.

Many local geocachers are members of the Geocachers of Eastern Ontario group, including Hawkesbury-area resident Ian Mitchell, who met with The Review for a geocaching hunt around Vankleek Hill this spring. See below for a soundslide on the experience.

Renowned songstress, Nanette Workman brought her intimate and interactive live performance to a sold-out crowd at the Bonnie Glen Pavilion in Alexandria on Saturday, May 15. The concert, which was organized by Le centre culturel les trois p'tits points in Alexandria, featured Nanette and her entire band of musicians.

Get the crowd's perspective - watch the video below.

It was a packed house for the 12th annual recital of Ian and Ashley MacLeod''s music students last Friday evening at Laggan Public School. Fiddle and piano students and groups of fiddlers performed at the concert, where Audrey Johnson MacDonald was emcee.

Graduation bursaries were presented to fiddle and piano students who will complete high school this year.

See below for a photo gallery of the evening.

With the mercury hitting 27 degrees over Easter weekend, many took to the slopes of the Laurentian mountains to enjoy a the best of both worlds - summer weather and fresh snow - or take part in two major competitions: the two-day Ride Shakedown event at Mont Saint-Sauveur, which attracted over 25,000 people, and the 10-day Telus Spin Festival at Mont Tremblant.

See below to watch a slideshow photo gallery, both a reminder of last weekend's unusually warm weather or a glimpse of the massive crowds and snowboarding skills that were present.