The Review working in your community

In recent years, The Review has assisted the Vankleek Hill Firefighters to purchase Jaws of Life, assisted the Royal Canadian Legion in Hawkesbury to raise more than $100,000 to rebuild after fire destroyed their Hawkesbury premises and just a few years ago, The Review was a major force behind the Higginson Tower Restoration project.

In 2008, The Review paid for and installed a sign on the side of the Bru

ce Barton Fire Hall. Review staff members keep these event listings updated and the sign includes four websites that visitors can refer to for more information about community events taking place in Vankleek Hill. This sign cost $2,000 and The Review is pleased to keep you thinking about community events even when as you drive through town!

Starting from 2010, we have decided to list some of the events, committees, projects and fundraisers that we support. We hope this list inspires you to take part in the many good works and worthwhile projects going on in the communities all around us!

Louise Sproule, Review publisher since 1992

2010:
ALL YEAR: The Review is proud to host the Business Spotlight series, featuring businesses located in Champlain Township. Published every second week, each spotlight is published in newspaper space equivalent to a quarter-page ad, or $300. During the course of the year, this repre

sents $7,800 in promotion for Champlain businesses. The Review also posts these profiles on this website, on www.vankleekhill.ca (when the business are located in Vankleek Hill) and on www.reviewbizlist.com which is The Review's online business directory.
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ALL YEAR LONG:
The Review is donating free advertising all year long to the Vankleek Hill Business and Merchant Association, to advertise its monthly meetings, special meetings and to solicit new members. This contribution of advertising space adds up to a $200-per-month contribution. Review publisher Louise Sproule is vice-presid

ent of the association for 2010-2011.
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ALL YEAR LONG:
The Review is pleased to be the sole and major sponsor of the Vankleek Hill Music Festival, at which local music students perform each year. Included in this sponsorship is the Vankleek Hill Music Festival Summer Music and Arts Camp and any other fundraising concerts undertaken by the Vankleek Hill Music Festival.

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ALL YEAR LONG:

The Review is pleased to be a major sponsor of Festival Alexandria, by donating $1,000 of free advertising space to this concert series, which takes place in July.
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The Review is pleased to be a major sponsor of the Vankleek Hill-based women's choir, Amaryllis, donating free advertising, design an

d printing of programmes, show tickets and posters, plus online advertising of its concerts.

October 2010:
The Review donated development of a website for the Dalkeith History Club as that community prepared for bicentennial celebrations, fundraising and the possible purchase of the former church to be used as a heritage centre.
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November 6, 2010:
The Review organizes the Victorian Christmas Home Tour each year. More than 800 visitors toured five heritage homes in Vankleek Hill. Proceeds from this event were shared with the following organizations, which also provided volunteers to help make this community event possible: Each of the following groups will be receiving a $500 donation:
• The Vankleek Hill Agricultural Society (the building of a new horse barn) • The Vankleek Hill Skating Club
• Arbor Gallery Centre for Contemporary Art

• The Vankleek Hill Fiddle and Dance Association
• Pleasant Corners Public School (the building of a new playground)
• École St-Grégoire (new play structure)
• The Vankleek Hill and District Historical Society
• The Higginson Tower Committee
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December 5, 2010:
The Review has donated $500 worth of advertising to assist with the promotion of a Centennial Choir Concert, taking place on December 5, at Knox Presbyterian Church. The event is a fundraiser for local Music Education for Youth.
Visit www.vankleekhill.ca to find out more about this concert

. Click on the events page.
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December 12, 2010
The Review was pleased to be the major sponsor of this event, donating more than $1,500 worth of advertising, printing, website support and online advertising to this fundraiser, which shared proceeds with the Andy Gump Foundation and the Vankleek Hill Food Bank. This event is livestreamed on concert night to that people everywhere can tune in and either listen to the audio stream, or watch and listen to the video. In addition, The Review is re-locating part of its telephone system to Knox Presbyterian Church on December 12 so that volunteers can take pledges called in.

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December 3, 2010:

The Review is always pleased to host Santa before the town's annual Parade of Lights. Children visit with Santa inside The Review from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

February 9, 2011:

The Review sales staff sold advertising for a two-page spread about the two teams participating in the National Capital Junior Hockey League All-Star Game. This feature, published February 9, included the team rosters with a profile of the players from both the "original" team and the "expansion" team.
In addition to profiling the players, the two pages were a promotion for the February 20 game, which took place at the Vankleek Hill Arena. The Review donated a quarter-page ad, valued at $250, to advertise the game in the February 16 edition of The Review.
At the game on February 20, The Review presented the Vankleek Hill Cougars with a cheque for $1,000, representing a share of the advertising proceeds from the two-page spread published on February 9.

Derek Duval, one of the organizers of the Pond Rocket Cup, is seen here accepting a cheque from Review publisher Louise Sproule. The $500 cheque represents a share of the advertising sales from the “Pond Rocket Review” which was published to publicize the Pond Rocket Cup event. In turn, the Pond Rocket Cup tournament raised $2,400 ($1,900 plus the $500 from The Review) for the Vankleek Hill Business & Merchant Association.