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• Mary Sanders, a seventh-grader, made four paper cranes. The 12-year-old called the Newtown incident "really bad" and said it was hard to believe someone could do that.
• The cranes from Hill City will eventually be sent to Bethel High School, a nearby school in Connecticut that is working to create 1,000 cranes for every person killed at Sandy Hook, said Kristin Donnan Standard with the Hill City Arts Council.
• The Hill City organizers hope to expand the project to other schools, she added. Acott also hopes to donate a large bronze sculpture she created to Sandy Hook. The 15-foot female figure holds folded cranes over her head as a gesture of peace.
• Artistic donations from all over the world have poured in to Newtown following the shooting, said Lisa Scails, executive director of the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, one of three organizations working to coordinate arts-focused relief efforts.
• Donations to the effort, called Healing Newtown, include original artwork, photos, music, performance events and workshops, among other things, Scails said. Art therapist have also offered to donate their time for workshops and programming for the community.
• "We're really very fortunate that the love that has poured into the community has been overwhelming," Scails said.
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SD state museum becomes affiliate of Smithsonian
CHET BROKAW,Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota State Historical Society's museum in Pierre has become an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., a move that will give the historical society access to the Smithsonian's vast resources, officials announced Friday.
• The partnership will allow the museum at the state's Cultural Heritage Center to borrow artifacts and exhibits from the Smithsonian, the world's largest museum. The partnership also will give South Dakota museum staff a chance to work with the Smithsonian -- which has 19 museums and nine research centers-- to create new educational programming for schools.
• "This exciting new endeavor brings the Smithsonian, in all its breadth and scope, to our prairie home and offers opportunities for the public to explore perspectives on history and culture," State Historical Society director Jay D. Vogt said at a news conference.
• Harold Closter, director of Smithsonian Affiliations, said there are 18,000 muse (Continued on page 23)
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