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Cortney Easterling with BI-LO Charities pushes the pinwheels For Prevention sign into the ground in front of the Mauldin Cultural Center. The sign was followed by some 400 pinwheels, the national symbol of child abuse prevention, placed there by BI-LO employees and other volunteers. BI-LO Charities is a sponsor of Greenville County First Steps’ Pinwheels for Prevention Campaign.
Julie Patton with BI-LO Charities puts a pinwheel into place at the Mauldin Cultural Center.
Claudette Frenette with the Mauldin Garden Club uses a hammer to create holes in the ground in front of the Mauldin Cultural Center. The ground was too hard to push the pinwheels into place without having a hole to start with.
Photos by Greg Beckner / Staff
George Patrick McLeer, executive director of the Mauldin Cultural Center, helps with the pinwheel garden.
Ashley Newton, left, and Lindsey Young, both with BI-LO Charities, add more pinwheels to the pinwheel garden. Nearly 80 other “pinwheel gardens” totaling more than 20,000 pinwheels will spring up across Greenville County through the month of April.
Ashley Downing with BI-LO Charities adds the last of the 400 pinwheels to the pinwheel garden.
APRIL 6, 2012 | Greenville Journal 53