Carnegie Mayor Sam Bigham
Signed the National Wildlife Federation's 2026
"Mayors' Monarch Pledge" to Help Save the Monarch Butterfly
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29 Action Items - 2024
Mayor Stacie Riley
28 Action Items - 2023
Mayor Stacie Riley
25 Action Items - 2022
Mayor Stacie Riley
21 Action Items - 2021
Mayor Stacie Riley
Mayor Sam Bigham's Proclamation 2026
Mayor Sam Bigham's NWF Mayor's Monarch Pledge
Mayor Stacie Riley's Proclamations 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021
Press Release | Mayor Riley renews Mayor's Monarch Pledge for 2022
Monarch Butterfly Animation
Transformation, Migration and Diet
2026 FESTIVAL - Mayor Sam Bigham, former Mayor, the Honorable Stacie Riley were present. Carnegie Shade Tree Commission members Gina James and Chris James handed out native nectars, brochures, watering cans, and bulbs at Carnegie's 6th Annual Butterfly Festival. Monarch Princess Mary Grace Nichol spoke with children and posed for pictures. Carnegie Elementary PTA members Laura Lenk and Becky Watkins painted faces. Paz and Ukulele Eddie played music, representatives from Pittsburgh Botanical Gardens had an information table. Native nectars were grown by Bednar Farms.
2025 FESTIVAL - Mayor Stacie Riley, PA State Representative Anita Kulik, Allegheny County Council President Pat Catena, and festival coordinator Sam Bigham were present. Carnegie Shade Tree Commission members Gina James, Chris James, and Bill Moldovan handed out native nectars, milkweed, brochures, watering cans and bulbs at Carnegie's 5th 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 art with visitors while Carnegie Elementary PTA members Laura Lenk and Becky Watkins painted faces. Paz and Ukulele Eddie played music, Woolly Bear Books and Gifts brought Monarch themed books and the library brought event flyers. Milkweed plants grown by H3art Farms and native nectars grown by Bednar Farms.
Visit student artwork at the Andrew Carnegie Library
2025 Public Art Action
Mayor Stacie Riley's National Wildlife Federation Mayor's Monarch Pledge Public Art Action is on display August-September at the Andrew Carnegie Library, 300 Beechwood Avenue. Monarch inspired artwork was created by 32 young artists including Mayor Riley's daughters and members of Girl Scout Troops 21987 and 52398 plus a few moms to celebrate and honor the Monarch Butterfly.
Mayor Riley proclaims August 24, 2025 as MONARCH BUTTERFLY DAY in CARNEGIE and COMMENDS Shade Tree Commission for their hard work.
Visit the mural at Carnegie Park's Monarch Shelter
2024 Public Art Action
This colorful, vibrant mural was created by Visual Artist/Teaching Artist Alison Zapata, learning and creating in partnership with Carlynton High School art teacher Marlynn Vayanos, her students, and Borough of Carnegie community members during a Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Media Artist Residency Project. The mural was inspired by and Mayor Stacie Riley's National Wildlife Federation Mayor's Monarch Pledge and completed the public art action. This project was supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Borough of Carnegie, the Carnegie Shade Tree Commission, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
2024 FESTIVAL - Mayor Stacie Riley and her daughter Marlee were in attendance with PA State Representative Anita Kulik. Carnegie Shade Tree Commission members Gina and Chris James, Councilman Pete Mullins, and volunteer Will Bigham handed out native nectars, seeds, milkweed, brochures, watering cans and bulbs at Carnegie's 4th 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 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 25, 2024 as MONARCH BUTTERFLY DAY in CARNEGIE and COMMENDS Shade Tree Commission for their hard work.
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.
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.
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 Carnegie Elementary'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
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
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
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.