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The following press release was issued by Blue Mountain Coalition for Youth and Families.
Blue Mountain Coalition for Youth and Families has launched a community project to fold a thousand paper cranes for the New Year. The goal is to have individuals throughout the community, local churches, businesses, students and families, fold paper cranes at home and then bring them together to be hung in West Point in the New Year.
There is an ancient Japanese legend that says anyone who folds 1,000 paper cranes will be granted a wish. Many of us were introduced to this tradition in school through the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. This historical childrenâs novel, written by Eleanor Coerr, tells the story of Sadako Sasaki a young girl who contracted leukemia after being exposed to radiation in the bombing of Hiroshima. Sadako attempted to fold a thousand papers cranes with a wish for recovery from her illness. When she became too sick to continue, her classmates and fri