Jerry Hirata of the Kauai Soto Zen Temple said as long as people make ozuru, or paper cranes, he’ll be participating in International Peace Day.

“This box of paper cranes is from Jim Jung who folds paper cranes at every chance he gets, usually while watching TV,” Hirata said. “There’s this lady who brought in about 2,000 cranes that she made. And, the fourth-graders of Eleele School have always contributed by folding more than 1,000 paper cranes each year. People like to make paper cranes, and as long as they make them, I guess there’ll be Peace Day.”

The International Day of Peace is marked on Sept. 21, which falls on Sunday this year.

“The Storybook Theatre with Mark Jeffers, and the Soto Zen Temple are sponsoring the 13th annual Peace Celebration in Hanapepe town on Sunday,” Hirata s

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