Today the kids and I were walking through town and decided to partake in some impromptu volunteering or as my son said 'we are volunteering without telling anyone' :) The local dfcs office puts pinwheels out for child abuse awareness: 'Pinwheels for Prevention of Child Abuse'. Well, recently we had some pretty strong winds and storms come through so these pinwheels were blown all apart and scattered instead of standing up and spinning pretty. The kids and I walked by and stopped to look at them, I asked 'you wanna fix them?' and the kids said 'yea, sure!' so we sat and put the pinwheels back together as best we could and stood them back up in their places. As we were working on them someone drove by and yelled out the window 'looking good ya'll, keep up the good work!' :) We got some funny looks from people coming in and out of the office, but oh well, we had fun working on them and did some good at the same time...
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and for more than 10 years the Catoosa County Family Collaborative (CCFC), area students, and citizens have placed pinwheels at different spots in the community to represent children who have been abused or neglected in Catoosa County. Phil Ledbetter of the CCFC said about 11 abused or neglected children are represented by one pinwheel and there are 100 pinwheels total.
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