Sweet Home Mayor Craig Fentiman will declare April Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month in Sweet Home after the Linn County Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse (LCCPCA) provides a proclamation to be read.
Marsha Swanson, with LCCPCA, asked the City Council to make the declaration and to burn a three-wick candle at its meetings during April to represent the three children who die to child abuse each day.
The council agreed, and Swanson…