Registration is Being Taken for Butterfly Moments

 
 Blessing Hospice brings back Butterfly Moments on Sunday, August 17, at the Moorman Park large shelter house in Quincy. Butterfly Moments is open to all area residents who wish to honor the memory of a deceased loved one by purchasing and releasing a butterfly. The person being honored does not have to have received hospice care. 
 
 The butterfly symbolizes the transition between life and death. The caterpillar forms its cocoon and prepares to leave the life it knows, becoming a lovely butterfly and beginning a new life. 
 
 Cost is $10 per butterfly. Orders must be placed by August 1 at blessinghealth.org/butterflymoments and completing the online form. 
 
 The event will begin at 1:30 pm on Sunday, August 17, with the distribution of purchased butterflies. A list of the names of those being honored, and the release of the butterflies in unison, will take place at 2:00 p.m. If the individual reserving the butterfly is unable to attend, it will be released by a member of the Blessing Hospice staff. 
 
 Butterfly Moments will be held rain or shine. In the event of rain, those reserving butterflies will come to Moorman Park and pick up their butterfly to release at their own time when the weather clears. 
 
 The Moorman Park large shelter house is off of North 36th Street, with an additional entrance from Columbus Road between 36 and 48th Streets, in Quincy 
 
 For additional questions about Butterfly Moments, please call Blessing Hospice at 217-440-0816.