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TAYLORSVILLE -- Blue and silver pinwheels are popping up throughout the state, and the Taylorsville Exchange Club is no exception.
Renee Sorensen, Chair for the Prevention of Prevent Child Abuse at the Taylorsville Exchange Club, has been busy "planting" more than 250 of these pinwheels along the club's entrance in a pinwheel garden to observe Child Abuse Awareness month this month.
"(Pinwheels represent) the best of childhood," Sorensen said. "Every time you see a pinwheel, you smile and it brings back fond memories of a beautiful childhood. Every child deserves to have a good childhood."
The Taylorsville Exchange Club partnered with Prevent Child Abuse Utah and Pinwheels for Prevention, programs focused on raising awareness about and ending child abuse.
"We want people to realize that child abuse can be corrected," Sorensen said.
Child Abuse Utah provides programs and resources for parents, grandparents, and other family members who may be a part of child abuse. They also work with children to teach them how to protect themselves from abuse, and with communities to teach them how to break the cycle of abuse.
"When our families are stronger, our communities are stronger," Sorensen said. "As a community, we have responsibility for all the children that live here, and that's what this is about -- to make us all aware of the children that live in our community."
