KING CITY — A joint project with the King City High School Agriculture Department and the community has produced colorful wrought-iron butterflies to decorate the pollinator plantings at the new mural at Mee Memorial Healthcare System.
Located at 809 Broadway St., behind 7-11, the planter underneath the mural was landscaped by King City in Bloom members featuring flowering plants that are already attracting hummingbirds and bees. Kim Schmidt and Marlise Uebelhart were the project designers.
They worked with King City High School welding instructor Patrick Smith, who helped student Kate Brewen create butterflies from wrought iron.
The 10 butterflies were then delivered to Sol Treasures Arts and Cultural Center, where artist Nica White added brightly colored paint and her artistic talent.
On Sept. 10, Uebelhart and Schmidt worked with John Jernigan to place the butterflies in the planter, accenting the mural painted earlier this year by Brenda Scettrini-Saglio and Paul Richmond.
“Marlise Uebelhart and Kim Schmidt of King City in Bloom stopped by this morning to install the beautiful butterfly sculptures that King City High School students created to enhance the pollinator garden beneath our new mural,” wrote Mee Memorial in a Facebook post. “A huge thank you to King City in Bloom and our student artisans for making this project quite literally come to life.”
This community effort is just another example of a business, volunteer and student partnership that is bringing beauty to the town.
