A visual memorial illustrating and honoring the Butler County residents who died this year due to drug overdoses has been constructed on Main Street.
Memorials are a great way of remembering people, they can have so much meaning and yet be as simple as these teak memorial benches, or even planting a single flower somewhere. These acts of remembrance are a simple way for people to show their love and appreciation for someone.
For the Butler County residents who died this year, it has been decided that the best way to remember them is through a visual memorial. This is a true way to honor them, and plenty of people will look on it and will remember them.
There have been 83 confirmed fatal overdoses in Butler County this year, and counting. Eighty three crosses have been set up in the former Worsley’s lot on Main Street, each adorned with a wreath and a purple ribbon signifying overdose awareness.
It’s really important that people are made aware of this happening. It might not affect you directly, but you may know someone who could overdose in the future. You need to be there for them, to prevent them from overdosing in the future.
Project Manager Georgette Fleeger says she was personally inspired to create a memorial because she knows the sting of loss. She owns a couple of recovery houses in Butler and knew two people who overdosed and died after leaving her house.
She also knows the sting of addiction as a person in recovery herself.
