Humm Online Exclusives - April 2015

Empty Bowls Perth

For more information about the Foodsmiths event on Saturday, April 18th, visit the event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/1549238872024104.

For more information about Empty Bowls at the Festival of the Maples visit emptybowls.ca or facebook.com/emptybowls.ca.

Hike for Hub Hospice Palliative Care

Please join Hub Hospice Palliative Care at the third annual Mississippi Mills Hike for Hospice on Sunday, May 3 at the Mill of Kintail. Registration is from 1 to 3 p.m. The official kickoff is shortly after 1 and the walk itself will finish by 4 p.m. All funds raised in Mississippi Mills will go to Hub Hospice Palliative Care.

Pledge forms are available at the Hub in Almonte or online at http://www.hubhospice.com/fundraising-events/.

Lanark County Hike for Hospice

Come out on Sunday, May 3 to support hospice care in Lanark County. The hike begins at Crystal Palace at Drummond Street Bridge in Perth. Registration is from noon. The hike is at 1pm, and a silent auction follows at 2pm. To register and start fundraising, go to chpca.convio.net/CommunityHomeSupportLanarkCounty.

Hike for Hospice Palliative Care is a unique national fundraising event held across Canada that brings together organizations working collectively in hospice palliative care to raise funds and awareness in their community!

The Perth Shoe Factory Experiment

For more details, visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1379094422390201/.

Letter to the Editor on GM apples

This month's Letter to the Editor touches on genetically modified foods. It references a 2012 survey commissioned by the BC Fruit Growers' Association and the Federation of Quebec Apple Growers which showed that 69% of Canadians didn't want the GM apples in question approved. Download the survey results here [PDF].

Brock Zeman's music video for Little Details

From his 2015 CD Pulling Your Sword from the Devil's Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZnxqwn5q6Y.

Read more about Brock Zeman right here on theHumm. Details >

Featured Artist - Photographer Sally Hansen

Read the profile and view the photo gallery for theHumm's own Intrepid Arts Reporter, Sally Hansen. Read more >

Speaking Volumes

Here is Elizabeth Goldman’s list of recommended books on volunteering and the power of community and giving back. Elizabeth was the CEO/Chief Librarian at the Perth & District Union Public Library.

Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World by Craig Kielburger
Deepening Community: Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times by Paul Born
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
The Library Tree: How a Canadian Woman Brought the Joy of Reading to a Generation of African Children by Deborah Cowley
Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family’s Lives Forever by John Marshall

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