People, including a group of “strangers” from Naples, Italy, ate, danced, talked, and rang bells during the Peace Day activities presented by the Kauai Soto Zen Temple, the Storybook Theatre, and sponsored by the Interfaith Roundtable of Kauai (IROK).

Peace Day extended until Monday because organizers of the “Ring Your Bell for Peace Day” wanted school children to participate. Peace Day traditionally is celebrated on Sept. 21, which was a Sunday this year. Ring Your Bell organizers arranged to have the bells rung on Monday.

“The theme of this year’s International Peace Day is ‘Act Now,’” said Steve “Stream” Backinoff of IROK in an email. “Of course, we all know that we need to live, and live peace, every day and every moment.”

Several hundred people turned out in Hanapepe where Peace Da

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