Fourth Annual Butterfly Release for Katie on Saturday
The 'Katie’s Foundation for Child Safety' butterfly release will happen Saturday at Jeanes Hospital from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
About seven years ago, three-year-old Katie Elise Lambert was killed when a large, unsecured piece of furniture fell on her. Since Katie’s death, her family has been releasing butterflies on her birthday… but her family didn’t stop there. Her father, Bob Lambert, along with her mother Judy, following their daughter’s death, researched tip-over fatalities in the country. The pair then founded Katie’s Foundation for Child Safety, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting children by “increasing the awareness to parents of the hidden dangers that present themselves in everyone's home.” According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were 293 reported tip-over related fatalities in the country between 2000 and 2010; …
Daniel Kaye
8:04 am on Friday, July 27, 2012
It'll be a great event, so please consider coming out. Thanks for the story, Abington Patch! more ›