The Ilan County Cultural Center (later to become the Cultural Affairs Bureau) set up a taskforce to organize the event. But there was not enough manpower to swing open the gates. Almost as if all that was needed was the will, the Ilan inhabitants were joined, to their surprise, by idealistic youngsters who returned to their northeastern homeland to throw in their weight.
當時還沒改制成文化局的文化中心成立專案小組，但是人力著實不足，於是敞開大門，幾乎只要有心，就會被延攬至這個團隊，這其中除了宜蘭子弟，竟然還吸引了許多具理想性格的年輕人，進入這個僻靜的台灣東北角山城一起打拚。