A visual memorial illustrating and honoring the Butler County residents who died this year due to drug overdoses has been constructed on Main Street.
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.
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.
