Carnegie Mayor Stacie Riley
Signed the National Wildlife Federation's
"Mayors' Monarch Pledge" to Help Save the Monarch Butterfly

 
 
   

 

Mayor Stacie Riley's Proclamations  |  2023  |  2022  |  2021

Press Release  |  Mayor Riley renews Mayor's Monarch Pledge for 2022

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Monarch Butterfly Animation
Transformation, Migration and Diet

 

2023 - Carnegie Shade Tree Commission members Gina Thornberg and Chris James, Councilman Pete Mullins, and volunteers Will and Sam Bigham handed out native nectars, seeds, milkweed, brochures, watering cans and bulbs at Carnegie's 3rd Annual Butterfly Festival. Monarch Princess Mary Grace Nichol spoke with children and posed for pictures. Artists and Shade Tree Commission members Alicia and Nate Kesneck created tie dyed art with visitors while Carnegie Elementary PTA members Laura and Becky painted faces.Milkweed plants grown by H3art Farms and native nectars grown by Bednar Farms

 

Mayor Riley proclaims August 20, 2023 as MONARCH BUTTERFLY DAY in CARNEGIE and COMMENDS Shade Tree Commission for their hard work.

2023 BUTTERFLY FESTIVAL - Carnegie's Shade Tree Commission and community volunteers handed out native nectars, seeds, milkweed, brochures, watering cans and bulbs and visitors at Carnegie's 3rd Annual Butterfly Festival. Local artist and Shade Tree Commission member Alicia Kesneck created tie dye shirts with children while CarnegieElementary's PTA painted faces.

 

MAYOR RILEY'S MONARCH CONSERVATION PLEDGE PUBLIC ART ACTION FOR 2023

Carnegie artist and Shade Tree Commission Vice President Alicia Kesneck created a Monarch butterfly display featured at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library.

 

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EARTH DAY AT THE LIBRARY

Carnegie Shade Tree Commission members and junior council handed out butterfly garden kits, brochures, coloring books, crayons, Monarch information, certified habitat information, and more at the Library's annual Earth Day Celebration, Saturday, April 22, 2023

 

BUTTERFLY GARDEN - Carnegie Borough Building, 1 Veterans Way

2022 BUTTERFLY FESTIVAL - Carnegie's Shade Tree Commission and community volunteers handed out native nectars, seeds, milkweed, brochures, watering cans and bulbs

 

and visitors at Carnegie's 2nd Annual Butterfly Festival. Local artist and Shade Tree Commission member Alicia Kesneck created butterflies

using paint on canvas with children while CarnegieElementary's PTA painted faces.

DLC Community Impact Grants 2022 Carnegie has been awarded $3,200 for its upcoming Butterfly Festival
Mayor Riley's 2022 Monarch Proclamation
POST GAZETTE - Carnegie to Mark Mayors' Monarch Challenge with Butterfly Festival
OBSERVER REPORTER - Celebrating the Monarch - Carnegie Hosts 2nd Butterfly Fest

 

Mayor Riley proclaims July 31, 2022 as MONARCH BUTTERFLY DAY in CARNEGIE and COMMENDS Shade Tree Commission for their hard work.

 

MONARCH BUTTERFLY CREATIVE COMPETITION

Mayor Stacie Riley presented Carlynton rising junior Leslie Rwigyema with the Mayor's Monarch Conservation Pledge Creative Award for her original freeform lament poem. The presentation took place Sunday afternoon at Third Street Art Gallery.

 

MONARCH BUTTERFLY PUBLIC ART PROJECT using RECYCLED MATERIALS

 

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Artist Alicia Kesneck designed Monarch Butterfly Sculpture Pieces using recycled materials installed in the East Main Parking Lot Rain Garden.

Alicia turned trash into treasure by creating pieces with Bishop Canevin students: Kelsey Adamski, Ayla Altman, Miriam Hardy, Addison Hillebrand, Gretchen Klauss, Alexis Leppert-Bell, Emily Maida, Clare Ruffing, and Hannah Zurbola

 

Monarchs on Morrow Avenue
Photos by: Patty Reaghard

 

Mayor Stacie Riley attended the Andrew Carnegie Library's

Earth Day Celebration on April 25.

Along with Carnegie Borough administrative assistant Deneen Underwood, Mayor Riley provided education on monarch butterfly conservation, migration, transformation, and diet with butterfly masks for attendees to color.

 

Program Commitment Action Items

Check back for progress. As these action items are undertaken progress will be recorded here.


Program Demonstration Gardens

  • Launch or maintain communication efforts to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens and make communication available in other languages.
  • Work with Carnegie's Shade Tree Commission to assist in continuing their efforts to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
  • Work with public works department and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed/native nectar plant planting programs.
  • Support monarch butterfly conservation and create a community-driven educational conservation strategy that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.
  • Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
  • Issue a Proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species need for habitat.

Program Demonstration Gardens

  • Plant or maintain a public monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden
  • Convert vacant lots to monarch habitat.
  • Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants in medians and public rights-of-way.
  • Launch or maintain an outdoor education program that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation's Eco-Schools USA Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
  • Earn or maintain recognition for being a wildlife-friendly borough by participating in other wildlife and habitat conservation efforts (i.e., National Wildlife Federation's Community Wildlife Habitat program).
  • Host or support a monarch neighborhood challenge to increase awareness, support community unity around a common mission, and/or create habitat for the monarch butterfly.
  • Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
  • Work with Carnegie Shade Tree Commission to maintain native milkweed and nectar producing plants in community gardens.
  • Host a monarch butterfly festival that is accessible to all residents and promotes monarch and pollinator conservation, as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
  • Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Systems Change

  • Change ordinances so herbicides, insecticides, or other chemicals used in the community are not harmful to pollinators.
  • Remove milkweed from the list of noxious plants in borough weed/landscaping ordinances.
  • Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native plant habitats.
  • Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs, and trees that must be used in borough landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.
  • Direct property managers within the borough to consider the use of native milkweed and nectar plants where possible.
  • Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the borough's master plan and future sustainability and climate action plans.
  • Adopt ordinances that support reducing light pollution.
 

RESOURCES

National Wildlife Federation

www.nwf.org

NWF Facebook

National Wildlife Federation

Mayor's Monarch Pledge Newsletter

April 2021

 

 

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