A number of monarch butterflies are on their way to south for the winter, thanks to a woman from Steinbach.
Marcie Rempel released 367 Monarchs throughout the year. She has only been raising the butterflies for three years and her granddaughters really enjoy releasing them.
“They love letting them crawl on their hands and sometimes up onto their face,” she says. “They love seeing them being released.”
And Rempel enjoys sharing this unique experience with anyone who is interested. Butterflies were released in a couple of different places this summer.
“My mom lives at Fernwood so, we released a few there. We went out to Paradise Village which is close to Ste. Anne. I thought two or three people were going to come and there ended up being 40 or 50 people to release butterflies,” she says with laughter. “So, I think everybody there really enjoyed it.”