![Christina Volk smiles as she looks at a butterfly on her hand during the Community Memorial Butterfly Release on Tuesday.](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2024/06/25/butterflyreleaselady_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
Christina Volk smiles as she looks at a butterfly on her hand during the Community Memorial Butterfly Release on Tuesday.
June 26, 2024
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June 26, 2024 1:07 a.m.
Breaking grief's hold in Coeur d'Alene
Butterfly release offers hope, comfort for those who have lost loved ones
The painted lady butterflies for the release arrived in Moscow as caterpillars in May and were raised int he National Resources Entomology Lab of Professor Stephen Cook at the University of Idaho