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Weekend of SnoFest Activities

  • February 5, 2014 at 1:41 pm
  • SNOFESTQNET02 Frank Horn, 60, of Elphin Ont., races to the finish line in the first race of the day, during the dog sled event on Saturday. This is Horn's eighth year attending the dog sled races. Photo by Graeme Murphy
  • SNOFESTQNET06 Enneke Newman, a spectator at Marmora SnoFest, touches noses with Firefox, one of the lead dogs. Newman has been attending this event for a couple of years, mostly to interact with dogs. Photo by Maggie Naylor
  • SNOFESTQNET03 Sled dogs howl before the first race of the day at the sled dog race event during Marmora SnoFest. Photo by Graeme Murphy
  • SNOFESTQNET05 Ten teams competed in the 20-mile, eight-dog race at Marmora's annual SnoFest. Photo by Sarah Taylor
  • SNOFESTQNET07 Levi Caya, 27, of Campbellford, carves an owl using various tools during the Marmora SnoFest. Caya has been carving for 12 years starting with whittling in high school. After apprenticing for a local carver, he began working full-time for himself. Photo by Alistair Maitland
  • SNOFESTQNET08 Acting captain Pete Hamilton and Adam Reid (right) pull the rescue raft to firm ice during a Marmora and Lake Fire Department water rescue demonstration, part of the Marmora SnoFest. Photo by Alistair Maitland
  • SNOFESTQNET10 Frank Horn, 60, spends time with his dogs after the first race at the Marmora SnoFest. This is his eighth year participating in the races. He finds spending time with dogs therapeutic. Photo by Hannah Yoon
  • SNOFESTQNET04 Charity Cox participates in the "Little Nippers" dog sled run at the Marmora SnoFest on Feb. 2. The weekend events included numerous races, a chilli championship and a talent show. Photo by Carla Antonio
  • SNOFESTQNET01 Kathy MacKay leads her pack of dogs near the finish line during Marmora's SnoFest dog sled event on Feb. 1. MacKay finished with a time of 44 minutes and 55 seconds, leaving her in fifth place. Photo by Maggie Naylor
  • SNOFESTQNET09 Captain Leonard Heath of the Marmora and Lake Fire Department plunges into the frigid waters of the Crowe River to play the victim of a water rescue during the Marmora SnoFest on Saturday. Photo by Alistair Maitland

MARMORA – The traditions of sled-dog racing and other winter activities were celebrated at Marmora’s 36th annual SnoFest last weekend. Loyalist photojournalism students  paid a visit.

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