Butler County Opioid Overdose Coalition Chairman Beth Ehrenfried-Neveux, Butler County Community College Community Initiatives Center Assistant Ken Clowes and Lisa Gill, a prevention specialist with the Butler County Human Services Drug and Alcohol programs, show the tree that will be planted during National Overdose Awareness Day on Wednesday in Butler. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle

Butler County victims of the ongoing opioid crisis will be remembered Wednesday, Aug. 31, in downtown Butler in a ceremony by the Butler County Opioid Overdose Coalition.

The coalition will have a National Overdose Awareness Day event from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Grace Community Wellness Center of Glade Run Lutheran Services in the former Grace @ Calvary Church at 123 E. Diamond St. across from Diamond Park.

The coalition is made up of first responders, police and sheriff’s deputies, drug and alcohol treatment providers and representatives from Butler County Community College and Slippery Rock University, said Lisa Gill, prevention specialist with Butler County Human Services Drug and Alcohol programs.

“We’re a group of professionals collaborating to eliminate overdoses in the county,” Gill said. “We started in 2016 and meet once a month.”

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