MEDIA ADVISORY
Community Kindness Crane Project
(updated with "media approved" locations below)
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Who:
Garfield Elementary School Students
What:
Garfield students will present one-thousand hand-made paper cranes to community members to practice and encourage kindness, hope and peace toward others.
Why:
Garfield students, staff and former educators have spent the last few months hand-making one-thousand paper cranes to be distributed to community members. The project commemorates
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
, a children's historical novel, which celebrates the extraordinary courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan,
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When/Where:
On Friday, April 5, 2019 Garfield students will visit a number of
Boise locations
presenting their hand-made paper cranes with special messages written inside, to specific groups of people - veterans, the elderly, educators, small business owners, city government leaders/workers, library patrons, college students and refugees.
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News Media Coverage:
News media representatives are invited to cover this special kindness event on Friday, April 5, 2019 at the following locations:
- 10 a.m., Idaho Veterans Home, 320 Collins Rd., Boise.
- 10:15 a.m., Boise Mayor's Office, 150 N. Capitol, Boise.
- 11:45 a.m., Downtown Boise/The Grove, 601 W. Grove, Boise.
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About Kindness in Boise School District
Boise School District supports the recently announced
Boise Kind
initiative, a community-wide initiative to promote and protect Boise's values of civility, kindness and neighborliness.
The District looks forward to promoting the initiative and highlighting the many kindness, character education and citizenship programs currently taking place in our schools in every Boise neighborhood.
"A culture of kindness, respect and dignity is not new to Boise, nor to our schools," said Dr.
Don Coberly
, superintendent, Boise School District "In Boise's neighborhood public schools, you'll find that our students and staff seize that opportunity every day. We look forward to this partnership."
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Media contact:
Dan Hollar
Public Affairs Administrator
Boise School District
208.854.4064
dan.hollar@boiseschools.org
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Boise School District | 8169 W. Victory Rd., Boise, Idaho | 208-854-4000 | Fax 208-854-4003| | www.boiseschools.org
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Boise School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to all individuals.
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