free APRIL 2011 p.26 & 27 April’s Events p.7 First Edition Reading Series p.11 The Art of Anna Funnekotter p.3 Local Flavour p.16 Miss Mills’ Début PO Box 1391 Almonte ON K0A 1A0 Phone: (613) 256–5081 Editor: Kris Riendeau
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[email protected] Advertising and Here’s an interesting coincidence: back in 2009, within Promotions: two months of each other, we received these two photos of diff erent people reading theHumm at the Kris Riendeau same location in Havana, Cuba. Here’s what our readers Phone: (613) 256–5081 Editor, had to say.
[email protected] Shocking events in Japan have preoccupied the news report- (above) Wendy Whitaker writes: I was off with my family ing for all of us. It’s as if the most frightening movie special and two other area families for a week in Cuba and so Assistant Editor: eff ects have come to life. Coming weeks and months will only we took a copy to read in front of Hemingway’s favourite Rona Fraser deepen this huge disaster. pub. I thought you would like to see it. In the shot are
[email protected] We are the fi rst Buddhist group to make a home in rural Chris, Elizabeth, Isabella and Kathryn Whitaker; Tonio, Eastern Ontario, with members in Lanark, Renfrew and Ot- Vickie, Carmen, Sebastion, and Leo Powell-Sadick; and theHumm is a monthly arts, en- Readers Write Readers tawa. Th ese events have struck our small congregation par- Agnes, Taylor, Sky,and Aaron Spriggs Jackle.