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Students partake in global peace project


Second-grade students at Genoa Central Elementary participated in Pinwheels for Peace, an international art and literacy project, Monday afternoon by planting pinwheels with messages of peace on the grounds of the school. Staff photo by Tanner Spendley
Genoa Central Elementary School students joined a global call for peace, creating Pinwheels for Peace and scattering them across the school’s lawn Monday morning.

Art students in second through fourth grades placed the pinwheels on campus in unison with hundreds of other schools around the world—just a day after the International Day of Peace, Sept. 21.

It was Genoa’s first year to participate in the three-year-old project. Art teacher Carolyn Walker said she became interested in the idea last year after reading an art magazine and thought it would be a good lesson for...
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