Jefferson Middle School fifth graders in Mindi Lydell’s class show some of the origami cranes they have created. The project began because student, Bella Snow, wanted to create origami cranes for her classmate, Jacob Johnson, who was recently in the hospital battling an illness.

Jefferson Middle School sixth graders in David Digirolamo’s class talk with classmate, Julian Hultin, from his hospital room at Oishei Children’s Hospital where he is battling leukemia.