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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.

This is just one of the many photos that The Review took at the various winter carnivals around Eastern Ontario during the months of January and February. To see our best shots from the different carnivals, click here to check out our photo gallery slideshow.

Alexandria-based musician Shannon Hardy recently celebrated her 26th birthday in style - at a Toronto recording studio with well-known producer Mark Zubek.

Zubek came across a song of Hardy's while listening to CKUT 90.3 FM, a Montreal-based radio station. He quickly hunted down the eastern Ontario songstress and expressed his interest in working with her.

 

 

The Vankleek Hill Community Centre, also known as "The Cougars Den," welcomed a struggling team from Gatineau on Saturday, February 13 for the last game of the regular season.

The Vankleek Hill winter carnival kicks off this weekend, but there is still lots of time to register for the carnival talent show, which takes place on Sunday, January 31 at 2 p.m. Performers of all ages are invited to participate in one of the following three categories: dance, vocal and variety.