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Bluebag Media
Annual pinwheel
display creates Child Abuse Awareness
GREENVILLE – “This is more of a problem than people realize,” said
Banner Bound 4-H Club advisor Melanie Stikeleather. “Involving kids in
things like this helps make them more aware that not everyone has
someone to care about them no matter what.”
She watched as Banner Bound 4-H President Skyler Marker handed out
pinwheels to the volunteers measuring distances and ‘planting’ them on
the Darke County Courthouse lawn April 7. When asked how many would be
planted, Marker wasn’t sure. “Not enough,” she said. “If we had enough
space to include a pinwheel for every case out there, we would.”
Banner Bound has been involved in the pinwheel event since the club was
started four years ago. The club’s focus is agriculture, specifically
raising and showing pigs, but this project was part of its service to
the community. Banner Bound has 10 members and nine ‘Clover Buds’,
future 4-H’ers currently too young but still willing to learn and get
some experience for when they are old enough...
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