Flying free: Delmont library officials release monarchs into butterfly garden

Delmont Public Library officials and community residents gathered July 24 to release more than 80 monarch butterflies into a grant-funded butterfly garden.

The project was made possible through a Community Foundation of Westmoreland County grant.

The garden was created by a volunteer group, the Delmont Diggers, whose work isn't finished, according to library Director Denni Grassel.

“We are going to meet (on July 31) to keep weeding the garden, and we'd like to do this again next year and maybe add some birds and some bird feeders, too,” Grassel said.

Patrick Varine is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at 724-850-2862, pvarine@tribweb.com or via Twitter @MurrysvilleStar.