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Participating in the International art and literacy project, Pinwheels for Peace, students, teachers and staff at Port Charlotte High School sent their nonpolitical message on peace to the public Friday by creating pinwheels that were then planted on the front lawn of the school in commemoration of International Peace Day.

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Squatting among the garden of pinwheels, Nairobi Bermudez shoots a few photos of the Pinwheels for Peace for a class project. Bermudez was among those who arrived before the break of dawn to help plant the pinwheels to commemorate International Peace Day.

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Port Charlotte senior Shayla Price plants her pinwheel among the hundreds of others on the front lawn at Port Charlotte High School in commemoration of International Peace Day.

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Members of Tiffiny Coffey’s photography class at Port Charlotte High spent their class time taking photos of the Pinwheels for Peace planted in commemoration of International Peace Day,

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Friday morning the wind was not quite cooperating with the whirling of the Pinwheels for Peace project at Port Charlotte High School. Freshman Alora Hardman tries blowing on one of the pinwheels to get an action photo for her photography class project.

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Friday morning the wind was not quite cooperating with the whirling of the Pinwheels for Peace project at Port Charlotte High School. Freshman Alora Hardman tries blowing on one of the pinwheels to get an action photo for her photography class project.

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When a 1973 Volkswagen Beetle, driven by Donna Burbidge, pulled up to view the Pinwheels for Peace project, the photography students from Tiffiny Coffey’s class could not resist taking photos of the car, Peace sign licence plates, and seat covers, and having their photo taken with the car that seems to epitomize the time of the original Peace sign.

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Future photographers from Tiffiny Coffey’s class spent their class time photographing this year’s Pinwheels for Peace project on the front lawn of Port Charlotte High School in commemoration of International Peace Day.

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Port Charlotte junior Matthew Farrow, photography student of Tiffiny Coffey, could not resist taking photos of the Peace license plate on the front of the 1973 VW driven by Donna Burbidge when she stopped to view the Pinwheels for Peace Project on the front lawn of Port Charlotte High School.

SUN PHOTO BY BETSY WILLIAMS
Participating in the International art and literacy project, Pinwheels for Peace, students, teachers and staff at Port Charlotte High School sent their nonpolitical message on peace to the public Friday by creating pinwheels that were then planted on the front lawn of the school in commemoration of International Peace Day.