SPRING 2016

Waterpark To Reopen With A Splash Even in the dead of winter, rebuilding Holding the official ceremony after work never stopped on the Cranberry members and guests have already Community Waterpark pool. When tested the waters will provide time for things got too cold to work outdoors, the Parks & Recreation to get the Waterpark contractors simply shifted work inside fully up and running, to get its staff to the facility’s expanded pump house, trained, and to work out any new installing its new filtration equipment. equipment kinks that might come up along the way. Still, it was a short and relatively mild winter. As a result, the extensive work “We want to provide our guests with involved in the $1.7 million renovation a great experience,” Hutner said, “so of the Waterpark starting at the end of June 18 is when the grand opening last season shows every sign of being celebration is going to happen. It will completed on schedule with the facility be open to anyone, whether they’re a ready to take in guests by the start of season member or someone who’s just Memorial Day weekend. New highlights, paid for a single-day admission. We including an expanded zero-depth entry want people there. We want them to pool with a dump bucket, a barrier see what’s been done.” separating it from the deeper main pool, Come on in a climbing wall at the deep end, easier disabled access, and several water slide Plans for the event include musical enhancements, will all be featured. entertainment, games, crafts and “There will also be inflatables – big other activities which will take place jump-around castles and things like Waterpark opens May 28th. throughout the day to keep guests that. It’s the Grand Pool Re-Opening at engaged, to have fun, and to celebrate Cranberry Community Waterpark, and Ceremony June 18th. the region’s most appealing waterpark. we want everyone to attend.” “CT will be there in full crocodile mode, Until then, the Township will continue A Grand Reopening ceremony is planned but we don’t expect any speeches. We hiring for positions at the Waterpark for three weeks later, Saturday, June want to keep this as festive as possible. including customer service, concession, 18. “We have a celebration planned – a However, there will be a dress code. lifeguards and maintenance personnel. band, all kinds of games and activities,” “You must wear proper swimming Online application forms are available Parks Program Manager Dave Hutner attire,” he said, smiling. at the Township’s website. said. “Fun is the theme of the day.” ˜

A Publication of Inside This Issue: Save The Lifeguards!...... 2 Calendar...... 12 CranFest Is Baaaack!...... 3 Seneca Valley Hits All The Right Notes...... 15 When Managing Stormwater...... 4 Regional Learning Alliance...... 16 Hovering Around Cranberry...... 5 Getting Online In Cranberry Township...... 17 Life Can Be Messy...... 6 1991 Time Capsule Reveals...... 18 Cranberry EMS Aspires To Head Of Its Class...... 7 Cranberry Takes On Street Trees...... 19 In Brief ...... 8 Cranberry’s New Road Maintenance...... 20 Fire Company’s Talent Search ...... 9 Cranberry Gets To Bill The Power Company...... 21 724-776-4806 Residential Building Codes...... 10 Crud In Your Plumbing Is Good For You...... 22 www.cranberrytownship.org Supervisor’s Commentary...... 11 2016 Water System Flushing Schedule...... 23 PARKS & RECREATION Save The Lifeguards! Allegheny County wasn’t able to open could slow the programs in the the deep end of its huge North Park certification region average $250 pool at all last summer. And other pools process. with some as high as in the region were scrambling just to $285. For a beginning But weather maintain their posted hours. Why? lifeguard, that can conditions affect equal a week or more of “Right now there’s a massive shortage more than just income – a significant of lifeguards in the region,” Cranberry training; they also bite out of a relatively Parks & Recreation Director Pete affect the ability short season. So Geis is Geis acknowledged. “It’s not just of lifeguards to making a better offer: in Cranberry. Last year we were work consistent $150 tuition for the comfortable hiring about 60 lifeguard hours. If there’s a stretch of bad class with $100 of that refunded once but we could only get 45. The lifeguards weather, the pool remains closed and the lifeguard completes a season at were happy because they got a lot of its staff doesn’t get paid. Cranberry’s Waterpark. hours. But we were only at 75 percent of where we wanted to be. “Any seasonal job is a Red Cross pool certification is good for any pool, and the certificate follows the “Butler County was doing their training challenge, particularly if individual. “If you wanted to work for us down here and they weren’t getting during the summer and then go to Pitt their lifeguards until the last second. it relies on the weather.” during the winter as a lifeguard in their Everybody is challenged right now natatorium, go right ahead,” he said. getting lifeguards.” “Any seasonal job is a challenge, “You’ll have the credentials to do that.” particularly if it relies on the weather,” It’s an issue that Geis and his Geis noted. “We have to control Registration for the discounted department are working hard to solve, expenses, so when we’re not going to lifeguarding class is now open. Contact at least in Cranberry, and at least for be open, we usually can’t work it out. Parks & Recreation Customer Service this year. A key part involves enticing If we do, we’re getting jobs done like for more information at 724-779-4386. younger people to step up and secure cleaning, fixing, whatever. We do a Interviews for hiring lifeguards as well as their lifeguard certification. To help, he pretty good job of keeping them busy.” seasonal workers in pool maintenance, has been developing a partnership with customer service and Waterpark food Alcoa, which maintains a full-size indoor Help! concessions, are also being held. pool at its Kwaneer plant in Cranberry One of the other things working against Interested applicants should go to the Business Park. Among other things, prospective lifeguards is that it costs Township website for details and online using that pool for training this spring money to become certified. Fees application forms. removes any weather uncertainties that for 30-hour Red Cross certification ˜

Dek Hockey Leagues Forming The Pens-Highmark Dek Hockey rink in Graham Park is poised for its second full season of play, with age-grouped youth leagues about to be assembled for players ranging from 4 to 15 years of age, beginning the week of Monday, April 11. That’s when players’ skill levels are evaluated before team members are drafted. All players are required to provide and wear their own protective gear during the season, which includes eight games plus playoffs in the Chipmunks division for those ages 4 through 6. The season is 10 games long, plus playoffs. For the other leagues: Penguins for children ages 7 to 9, Beavers for those 10 to 12, and Cadets for kids 13 to 15. Registration fees for the Chipmunk division are $40 for Cranberry residents and $45 for non-residents. Fees for youth and teen division leagues are $50 and $55, respectively. All fees are payable at the time of registration. Parent coaches are needed and welcome for all league games. ˜

PAGE 2 Cranberrytoday CranFest Is Baaaack! CranFest – it’s two great family events in displays and tools that demonstrate one. Folk & Food Festival and Cranberry their work as they talk with guests. at Your Service will both be held in the In the back parking lot, Township Municipal Center on Saturday, April 9 vehicles will assemble for Touch-a- together with the Cranberry Public from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Truck – a first-hand experience with Library and the Butler County Tourism Cranberry at Your Service provides an Cranberry’s fleet of specialized mobile and Convention Bureau, the Folk and opportunity to go behind the scenes equipment, created for children and Food Festival will feature entertainment and see your tax dollars at work. Learn adults alike. Among the work vehicles by residents of the Cranberry area what Cranberry’s operating departments on hand: an aerial fire truck, a 20-ton representing countries all around the actually do for the Township and how dump truck, patrol cars, an ambulance, world. Presentations will be held in they go about doing it. At stations a garbage truck, a front loader, a golf venues throughout the Municipal Center. spaced throughout the Municipal Center, cart and more. An assortment of authentic nationality each of the Township’s departments foods will be served inside the gym. The Cranberry Area Diversity Network’s – Public Works, Public Safety, Entrée-size portions will be available Folk & Food Festival will once again Administration, Parks & Recreation, for prices set individually by each booth be the key attraction of CranFest, Engineering, Codes, Information vendor. celebrating Cranberry’s ethnically and Technology and Customer Service – culturally diverse population. Presented There is no charge for admission to will have representatives, along with by the Network and the Township, either CranFest program. ˜ A Hot Cuppa Joe? Township Takes Top Trophy Cranberry’s Coffee A statewide association’s competition to promote and Conversation communication excellence among Pennsylvania’s series with townships has awarded Cranberry its top prize for 2015. Township Manager The competition, conducted by the Pennsylvania State Jerry Andree Association of Township Supervisors, was the organization’s continues this 48th annual communication contest and its 25th year spring with one for presenting its highest honor, the Outstanding Citizen morning and two Communication Award. Cranberry’s first place finish resulted from several evening events. of its entries coming in first, including its newsletter and social media, as At 7:00 Thursday well as second place in the category of Other Publications. The award will evening, April 21, guests will assemble at be formally presented to Township officials at the association’s statewide the Graham Park Maintenance Building conference in Hershey later this month. where the theme will be stormwater ˜ management. Township engineers Jason Kratsas and Tim Schutzman will be on Give Yourself A Tax Break hand to answer questions. On Tuesday evening, May 24 at 7:00, Seneca Valley You can still get a two percent discount on your School District Superintendent Tracy 2016 Butler County-Cranberry Township real estate Vitale will talk about school-community taxes if they’re paid by April 30. Between May 1 collaboration and the school district’s and June 30, they’ll be payable at face value. This master plan. Then on Tuesday morning year, a new line item, for Butler County Community May 31, Butler County Commissioner and College, resulted in a 3 mil tax increase from the County. There was former Butler County United Way head also a quarter mil increase in the Township’s fire tax. If you still owe last Leslie Osche will be the featured guest year’s real estate tax, you’ll need to contact the Butler County Tax Claim in Council Chambers beginning at 10:00. Bureau, 724-284-5326, to make arrangements. Otherwise, if you had No reservations are required, although any change in your mortgage company or you’re no longer using RSVPs are appreciated at 724-776-4806 an escrow account to pay your property taxes, contact tax collector x1089. ˜ P.J. Lynd at 724-776-1103 or stop in his Municipal Center office. ˜ www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 3 ENGINEERING When Managing Stormwater, Cranberry Goes With The Flow Coordinator Tim Schutzman its provisions. That’s not the case pointed out. “Six months everywhere. Many older communities earlier, we’ll need to submit whose land development pre-dates our Notice of Intent, but you current stormwater regulations, have need to have your Pollution sanitary and stormwater lines which Reduction Plan in place are combined into a single system. before submitting the Notice Today, they’re struggling with stormwater of Intent. Your plan has to go issues. A number of them, including through a public comment Mt. Lebanon, Meadville, Dormont and period so that everybody Whitehall, as well as the entire state has a chance to review the of Maryland, have created stormwater final version and offer their management districts to help retrofit comments before it can be their water handling systems and reduce approved by the Township. the impacts of storm water runoff from sources such as construction sites, “At this point, we’re trying to industrial operations, government Clean water flows downhill in American find out from DEP what, exactly, are we properties, and institutional facilities. politics – but slowly. The 1972 federal going to be required to do? What’s going Clean Water Act eventually trickled to be involved? What are the guidelines? Here in Cranberry, the sweat equity down to the states, then to counties, What are the criteria? And what can we of residents is helping to move the and finally to local municipalities, where community in the right direction. They responsibility for implementing its include Seneca Valley girls in an after- We’re trying to find out provisions and protecting the nation’s school STEM club stenciling dumping waterways now resides. from DEP what, exactly, alerts on catch basins, a growing number of households installing rain A complex act to begin with, its massive are we going to be barrels, people landscaping lawns to body of regulations acquired even required to do? incorporate rain gardens – recessed more detail as it cascaded from one areas that allow water to be re-absorbed level of government down to the next. into the ground. They include the Those provisions continue to grow. For do to meet those criteria? Right now, the steadily expanding use of pavers example, municipalities defined as ball is in DEP’s court.” in place of cement or asphalt – an urbanized areas, including Cranberry approach that allows water to seep Township, are required to secure Among the anticipated changes will be a down between the blocks. They include stormwater permits from their states. A huge increase in the number of outfalls the installation of small earthen berms permit is valid for five years. Cranberry’s – points from which rain flows into where a lawn meets the road so that expires in 2018, and Pennsylvania’s various stormwater handling facilities water is retained long enough to soak Department of Environmental Protection – all of which require inspection by in. And they include marking property has made clear that the requirements Township staff. From the 150 outfalls lines with vegetative swale instead of for its renewal will expand significantly. currently inspected each year for hedges or fences. illicit discharges, the new rules are Problem is, the timeline for securing expected to involve 700 or more – a “DEP’s website has other examples,” permits includes a series of built-in huge expansion of Township staff time Schutzman said. “If someone is going milestones. To meet them, the action required to comply. to do a project anyway, maybe they plans required by the permit application should consider doing it so that it holds will have to be formulated very soon. But Do it yourself water, too. It doesn’t have to be big DEP has yet to provide the necessary Still, the intent of the law – to safeguard projects. Little improvements can go a guidance. It’s a Catch 22. streams from pollution, minimize long way. If everyone does a little bit, Looming deadline flooding, and recharge underground those little things will have a big impact aquifers – is important, and Cranberry downstream.” “By March of 2018 we’ll have to get has made significant strides in satisfying our new permit,” Township Waterworks ˜

PAGE 4 Cranberrytoday PUBLIC SAFETY Hovering Around Cranberry Where can you use a hoverboard? And In February, for example, New York City’s “The fact that they can be operated on just what constitutes a motor vehicle, Metropolitan Transit Authority issued a the roadway doesn’t mean that’s the anyway? Both PennDOT and the state’s complete ban on hoverboards from the safest thing to do. So we’re trying to be municipalities have been pondering the city’s buses, train stations and subways. proactive and get a feel for where this is answers lately. And it hasn’t grown any Passengers are not only prohibited from going. If we see a bunch of people using easier. riding them, they can’t even carry one. them and causing traffic problems, we The agency has posted signs reading might have to re-evaluate the situation.” This past Christmas, one of the most “Hoverboards Not Allowed” at the popular gifts was the hoverboard – Back to the present entrances to all of its commuter rail and a self-balancing, battery-powered subway stations. “You still have to operate in accordance transporter inspired by the 1985 with traffic laws,” Ahlgren noted. “If movie Back to the Future II and Pennsylvania is more forgiving when it you’re going to use it on a roadway, you engineered in much the same way as comes the use of hoverboards, which have to operate as if you were riding a the now-established Segway standup it somewhat awkwardly refers to as bicycle; the same rules apply. You can’t transporter. But hoverboards are only Electric Personal Assisted Mobility go against traffic and you’ve got to the most recent in a growing list of Devices. According to state law, yield to pedestrians on sidewalks. But motorized conveyances introduced they’re allowed to be operated on both they’re not subject to titling, registration, over the past decade. They range from sidewalks and roadways. The only insurance, inspection or driver licensing single-seat electric cars for young exceptions are limited access highways. laws. children to mobility assistance devices “Unless prohibited by ordinance, for the elderly and disabled, as well as municipalities shall permit their use,” That isn’t true for all of the small everything in between. the Commonwealth code reads. motorized or motor-assisted vehicles now in use. Neighborhood electric For lawmakers, the surge of Cranberry has not enacted any further vehicles – essentially golf carts – are unconventional vehicles poses a restrictions on their use, although if required to have insurance as well as challenge: how should the laws problems arise, that could change. gauges, brakes, and windshield wipers, regarding motor vehicles, roadway use, “We’ve got to see how it’s going to but they’re only allowed on residential and operator safety apply to this new impact our area and what the safety streets. Scooters – one- or two-person generation of conveyances? Where concerns are here,” Cranberry Police electric vehicles used as personal should the lines be drawn defining Sergeant Bill Ahlgren pointed out. mobility aids – have been who is eligible to operate exempted from some of those the vehicle, where they can requirements. Battery powered operate it, and how the vehicle We’re trying to be proactive and Barbie cars and miniature itself should be equipped? get a feel for where this is going. motorcycles are prohibited from Up in the air streets and sidewalks. And motorized pedicycles – bikes PennDOT, like the or tricycles with electric assist transportation departments motors – have their own set of of other states struggling to rules. keep up with advances in technology, has offered only Confused? That’s limited guidance, treating understandable. For guidance hoverboards as vehicles, on how state law and local but not as motor vehicles. ordinances apply to a novel That leaves municipalities vehicle you are considering, call with the responsibility for the Township police department making the rules for their at 724-776-5180 and ask. own communities. Some have ˜ stepped in vigorously.

www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 5 PUBLIC SAFETY Life Can Be Messy, But The Alternative Is Worse Poor Sim. The guy has gaping wounds, of trainees’ therapy and help them restoring the woman’s heartbeat before missing limbs, holes in his body refine the pressure and timing of their rushing her to the hospital. and recurring heart problems. But chest compressions as well as the “He took the training and did exactly he’s exactly the sort of fellow that accuracy of their tube insertions. what we would have expected him to Cranberry’s 32 Emergency Medical The three-minute window do on his mother, which saved her Service paramedics and EMTs love to life,” Kelly noted. But training someone keep around. For someone with heart failure, that can in the technique is no guarantee that make all the difference. “One hundred A 2012 gift from Firehouse Subs, Sim the training will be used. “Would you Man, despite his maladies, has proved have the mindset to literally get down, to be a tremendous asset to the agency “One hundred percent get onto somebody’s chest, and start – one of very few EMS organizations of the people who go pushing?” He asked. “That’s what we in the region to have its own $13,000 don’t know. You could teach everybody, into cardiac arrest and simulation mannequin to train on. And but at the time of need, would you that training involves a demanding don’t get CPR die.” recognize it and do it?” set of exercises, including breathing The cultural challenge tube insertions, chest compressions, percent of the people who go into electrical shock, and other jarring Part of the problem is cultural. CPR, cardiac arrest and don’t get CPR die,” emergency procedures. even if done properly, is likely to injure Cranberry EMS Executive Director Jeff a patient in addition to violating their A significant part of that training Kelly points out. privacy. So people often feel reluctant provides technicians with the same But there’s a very short window, typically to step forward, even if they know the sort of muscle learning that people around three minutes, in which CPR technique. “If your fear is that you’re acquire from any repeated practice. can be applied successfully – often going to have to touch a woman’s But the agency also uses sophisticated less than the time it takes an EMS to breasts or break a couple of this guy’s equipment to monitor the effectiveness arrive at the scene. The key is having a ribs, you’re not going to help us, you’re civilian population sufficiently trained to not going to help them,” he said. “If it’s recognize when someone is in cardiac me and you’re breaking a rib versus arrest, to call 9-1-1, and to administer saving my life, I’d rather you break the chest compressions until the ambulance rib.” arrives. Having an AED unit nearby can Pennsylvania’s Good Samaritan Law is also be a tremendous asset, and most designed to shield those offering help are equipped to talk you step-by-step from liability for any injury resulting through their use. Cranberry’s EMS from a good faith effort to resuscitate regularly offers instruction in using someone. But as a practical matter, the those tools and techniques. law is seldom invoked. To drive home the point, Kelly tells the “If you do happen to get a resuscitated story of a woman from Adams who cardiac arrest patient back, if you’re was shopping at Kohl’s last year with able to transport them to the hospital her young son. The woman suddenly from where they were, they’re not going collapsed in cardiac arrest. Her son, who to care about those injuries,” EMS had learned CPR just two weeks earlier Training Director Bill Hume explained. at Boy Scout camp, immediately jumped “I’ve had quite a few resuscitated in and administered compressions. patients that I’ve transported to a cath Fortunately, two of Cranberry’s EMTs lab or some other facility, and they’ve were passing nearby and responded, never said anything about it.” ˜

Hang in there. Cranberry EMS Training Director Bill Hume checks Sim Man’s vital signs on a monitor at the agency’s Rt. 19 base station.

PAGE 6 Cranberrytoday PUBLIC SAFETY Cranberry EMS Aspires To The Head Of Its Class Ambulance services in Western system could change dramatically with community Pennsylvania haven’t changed much in the outcome of November’s election. actually the last 30 years, but the environment want? “We might be sitting here two years in which they operate has. To Cranberry Does the from now with everything scaled way Emergency Medical Service Executive community back because we may not be in the Director Jeff Kelly, those same changes want more AED same financial situation we’re in now,” present new opportunities, and he is training? Let’s say Kelly observed. “We were hoping to guiding the agency’s efforts to seize we recognize that there’s a fall problem. make some long-term investments to them. Or we see a problem with hoverboards. weather a storm, should a storm occur. Or we see an increase in pediatric Cranberry EMS works closely with But we really can’t. From an income head injuries because kids aren’t the Township’s Fire Company and perspective, we have to play the cards wearing helmets. Then we make that police department; it is, after all, the we were dealt. ” an initiative and partner with Children’s Township’s officially designated 9-1-1 Refocused mission Hospital or a bike company. We want ambulance service. But unlike fire and to use our knowledge and our data to police, the EMS agency – which employs Even so, the agency is hard at work improve outcomes and increase the 32 full-time paramedics and emergency refocusing its mission from the overall health of our community. medical technicians – is a business, traditional ambulance service model, albeit a 501(c)3 business. Other than which Kelly characterizes as “you call, Community partnerships refueling privileges, it receives no tax we haul,” to becoming a more integral “We’re strengthening our partnership- money from the Township. It is governed part of its community with an emphasis building in and around Cranberry as well by its own Board of Directors. And it has on preserving life through preventive as with other folks we work with on a its own strategic plan. health and safety measures – not just daily or weekly basis, trying to leverage driving people to emergency rooms once Earlier this year, the agency adopted some of our external partnerships. For they become sick or injured. a new five-year plan. Its ultimate aim example, we’re receiving funding from is to create new streams of income That’s not to say that transporting Highmark to do our Safe Landings,” by repackaging some of its current patients will fade away. It will remain a he said, citing his agency’s innovative capabilities to help offset the decline high priority for the EMS whose volume program directed to families bringing in revenue from traditional sources, of service calls actually grew by more home their first baby. particularly health insurance. But than five percent between 2014 and But being more responsive to market looking ahead five years is especially 2015. But engaging the Cranberry demand is only part of the agency’s hard to do in healthcare since the whole community and determining what updated mission. Another is to become other types of health-related services an industry leader in its level of service, residents really want, is becoming a The whole healthcare system its training, its internal organization, bigger aspect of its operation. could change dramatically with and its personnel recruitment. Kelly “Part of our last mission statement is an active advocate for the industry, the outcome of November’s called for us to be an engaged having lobbied and testified several election. participant in the Township,” Kelly said, times on behalf of EMS in Washington. “so we kept that. But what does the He is leading Cranberry EMS to achieve the coveted CAAS license accreditation certifying high service standards. He is taking steps to create a culture of safety within the agency – which is part of the nation’s most injury-prone industry. And he has restructured the EMS internally to include a full-time training coordinator with a goal of becoming the premier off-site training resource for all of Western Pennsylvania. ˜

www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 7 IN BRIEF Ditch Your Car Seat Cranberry EMT Unlike ordinary household furniture, Honored children’s car seats have a finite life. After 10 years, they deteriorate Emergency Medical Technician John in ways that may not be visible, Naleppa, a member of Cranberry’s EMS but which compromise their since 2011, was honored recently by structural integrity and diminish the Pennsylvania Emergency Health their safety. So they should not Services Council as Pennsylvania’s EMT be kept indefinitely, handed down Practitioner of the Year. Described by his co-workers as a hard- from generation to generation like heirlooms. To working, determined, and dedicated professional, Naleppa, who help keep older, unsafe child car seats off the road, recently moved from Millvale to Rochester in Beaver County, Cranberry EMS, together with West Penn AAA, will was presented with a commemorative plaque at a December be holding a Child Seat Takeback, collecting seats ceremony in Harrisburg. “We talk about being in the forefront not which have passed their useful lives, and shredding just of Cranberry or Butler County or even the western region, but them. The old car seat roundup will be held from the entire state,” EMS Executive Director Jeff Kelly observed. “So 4:00 to 6:00 PM on Wednesday May 25 at the EMS having one of your own folks receiving Practitioner of the Year is Base Station on Rt. 19, next to the fire station. pretty special. It was good for the organization.” ˜ There is no charge for the service. ˜ BC3 Throws Open Its Doors Water Safety Day Is HUGE The Cranberry campus of Butler County Community Water Safety Day – a school district-wide effort to College on Executive Drive invites you to stop by for an teach kids about aquatic safety – has received top recognition open house on Thursday evening, May 12, between from a statewide conference of recreation professionals. Now 6:00 and 8:00 PM. The event is open to anyone who in its third year, the program, which was created by Cranberry wants to learn more about the college, but particularly Township Supervisor and Seneca Valley teacher Mike Manipole, for those who may be considering enrolling this fall. takes place at three different community pools including Evans BC3 at Cranberry offers 11 two-year career-focused City, Zelienople, and Cranberry. All 4,500 elementary school Associate degree programs pupils in the district pass through the program. Lessons include with credits transferrable to rules involving pools as well as watching and listening to most four-year institutions. lifeguards. This year’s program will take place at Cranberry’s ˜ Waterpark on the mornings of June 1 and 2. ˜ Human Service Center Alarming News A new office of the Home alarm systems need TLC, too. Most businesses in Cranberry Butler County Center for are equipped with alarm systems and their owners are required Community Resources is to have their systems serviced every year. But homeowners now open in Cranberry’s with similar systems are under no such obligation. The monthly Municipal Center. The monitoring fees that residents pay don’t include maintenance. But agency’s goal is to that doesn’t mean it’s not needed. In fact, according to Cranberry coordinate the delivery Volunteer Fire Company, the useful lifespan of that equipment of supportive services is only about ten years from the date it was manufactured, and for individuals and families seeking information that’s assuming the system has been periodically tested, checked, and referrals for mental health, intellectual maintained and adjusted. Otherwise it could fail to go off in an disabilities, substance abuse, and other human emergency or issue false alarms resulting service needs. The agency provides free and from malfunctions. Every brand of alarm confidential assistance regardless of religion, system is different; to have your system race, age or ability to pay. For more information, serviced, contact the company that call 724-431-3748. ˜ supplies your own home’s service. ˜ PAGE 8 Cranberrytoday FIRE COMPANY The Fire Company’s Talent Search Cranberry’s different support functions. fire company is Elaine Cornell, who moved to Cranberry looking for a few after performing background checks good men and for the Coast Guard in Florida, is women – quite a applying that know-how to Cranberry’s few, actually. membership onboarding function. Jack Its firefighters, to no one’s surprise, will Carney, who retired after 41 years of continue responding to fire calls, auto teaching and 40 years as a firefighter wrecks and other 9-1-1 alarms with in Robinson Township, is combining all the resources at their command. his own talents with law enforcement But just as front line soldiers require veteran Chris DeCree in fire safety extensive support from non-combatants instruction. Jeff Gooch, a crackerjack to be effective on the battlefield, IT professional during the daytime, Got what it takes? Fire Company President firefighters need a support system as has been responsible for setting up Ed Hestin, left, and Fire Chief Todd Rice are well. the company’s website and mobile looking for talented, enthusiastic, volunteers technologies. Engineer Carolyn Nelson to fight fires and a whole lot more. However, while the Fire Company works originally joined to apply her familiarity hard to provide its brigade members with signs of structural collapse as a materials, or keep its street maps up to with the necessary support, staffing Safety Officer at fire sites. Broadcast date – all high-value tasks that benefit those support functions is often a technician Paul Brown maintains the tremendously from real-world experience struggle. Unlike commercial firms company’s radios. And motor enthusiast – would be a huge asset. that can select and hire specialists as Jim Cole spearheaded the restoration of needed, the members of Cranberry’s all- “Our committees exist for a reason, the company’s first fire engine – a 1928 volunteer fire company join at their own however we may not have the right skill Pirsch pumper. convenience, bringing an assortment set in the Fire Company to effectively of backgrounds to the task. Some bring Experience welcome do them all,” Fire Company President only their enthusiasm and willingness to Ed Hestin reflected. “But there really Still, a lot of Fire Company needs remain learn techniques of firefighting. Others isn’t anything that would differentiate a unfilled and people with appropriate come with specialties acquired through woman doing it versus a man doing any experience would be more than their work, their formal education, or of those things. welcome. Someone with a teaching their personal interests. background would be a huge help in “Anyone with an interest like that should Filling the gaps fire safety education and in working contact me or Chief Todd Rice for a with Junior Firefighters. A person with follow-up conversation. We would be As a result there are often gaps communications experience would happy to speak with them and learn a between fire company needs and its be a tremendous asset for both little bit more about what their skills are. members’ talents – despite having internal and external presentations. You don’t have to join just to fight fires. We just need skilled people who can There are often gaps between Graphic designers, videographers, photographers, technical writers and help make us more effective.” fire company needs and its information technology specialists would At the same time, though, aspiring members’ talents. all play valuable roles in fire company firefighters are always welcome. “You operations. don’t have to have specific firefighting two dozen committees tasked with For instance, someone who could skills,” Rice said. “We’ll take guys that providing needed support. But there become a content manager for the want to be in the fire service and put are also cases where the fire company website, or a youth program counselor, them through school; we pay for their has had tremendous luck in its or collect information about classes. We can bring them up to speed recruitment, attracting highly qualified commercial building characteristics, on what they need to know and let them and experienced members to handle or upgrade the fire company’s training contribute to the Fire Company.” ˜ Cranberry welcomes new Fire Company volunteers throughout the year. To learn more, call 724-776-1196.

www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 9 PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT Residential Building Codes Apply In Cranberry, But Only Sparingly So, you’re contemplating a home “If you’ve extended the remodeling project. Updating your footprint out or up, that kitchen. Installing a new front door. throws you into the Finishing your basement. Adding a permitting process and wood-burning stove. Rebuilding a shower the addition is subject to stall. Re-grading your yard. Switching inspection, approval and your wiring around. And adding French eventually a certificate drains. What sorts of permits do you of occupancy,” Musher need to get from Cranberry’s Codes said. But you would only Department? need a permit for that specific portion of your “Well, if the work is being done to a project. Unrelated work townhouse or a one- or two-family elsewhere in the house dwelling, surprisingly enough, not much would not need to be For the most part, residential interior is required,” according to Township included in the permit. Codes Manager Jeff Musher. “The work is excluded from permitting. Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Another exception applies Code, UCC, is very clear: Unless you are to hot tubs, pools and making a structural change to the home spas – although not to conventional what sorts of permits. It is based on or to its existing means of egress, you showers or bathtubs. “Those fall under International Code Council publications, don’t need a permit. And you don’t need permit requirements,” he said. “They are which are revised every three years. But to meet the building code’s minimum specifically called out under the UCC. it is a peculiar amalgam of selections requirements either; that’s excluded That’s especially important in keeping hand-picked from ICC’s 2006, 2009, when it’s residential. But that’s not a toddlers safe. 2012, and 2015 code books. It safe thing to do. almost appears to have been driven “For the most part, however, residential by a series of compromises between interior work is excluded from A homeowner has the option legislators from the Commonwealth’s permitting,” he said. “That means the eastern counties who are big on code and the right to remodel, Township does not require a permit for enforcement, and their counterparts in it. And since we don’t issue a permit, we rebuild, or refurbish – Western Pennsylvania, who see codes don’t go and inspect it. But you should as impinging on private property rights. however they see fit. always hire somebody who’s qualified to do the work and then have any new “Building codes are the minimum you “All construction should follow the electrical work inspected by a third can do,” Musher emphasized. “You can codes, as a minimum. But a homeowner party. It’s just that it doesn’t fall to the always go better. We would recommend has the option and the right to remodel, Township to do that.” having any work you do inspected by a rebuild, or refurbish – however they see Camping in third party. And we would recommend fit for themselves – as long as it doesn’t always contacting us in the Building change the building structurally, such Camps – houses for short-term use Codes department. We can guide you as removing the support post under a in rural areas – are also specifically as to whether or not you need permits. steel beam in the basement, or closing exempt – but in their case, they’re That way you don’t get yourself in off an exit by blocking the front door.” exempt from almost everything. “It can’t trouble. We can explain what bearing If an alteration doesn’t threaten the be a permanent residence and you can’t walls are and what it takes to change building with collapse, or its occupants collect mail there. But, except for a few them. We won’t engineer a job for with entrapment, then no permits or restrictions, it can be declared a camp,” you, but if you need to get competent inspections are required. he said. “Some million dollar buildings contractors, we can help. So you should around ski resorts are considered Permit needed always call.” camps. You can even build a camp in To learn about what permits your project There are, however, a few exceptions. Cranberry.” might require, call the Township’s Codes If you’re expanding the building by Since 2004, Pennsylvania’s UCC Officer at 724-776-4806 ext. 1105. constructing an addition or adding has dictated which projects require ˜ another floor, you will need a permit.

PAGE 10 Cranberrytoday SUPERVISOR’S COMMENTARY Schools And Their Communities: The Bottom Line By Mike Manipole, Vice Chairman, Cranberry Township Board of Supervisors

Do schools really of achievement sharply upward. add value to a As that happened, the district community? Yes, began developing a reputation really. for excellence – one which A friend recently quickly spread among immigrant told me about communities throughout the how his sister, who lives in Fremont, region as well as overseas. in California’s East Bay area, bought a Fremont became a magnet for home there 25 years ago for $160,000. success-oriented new arrivals who But over just the past few years, she would frequently find themselves and her husband have repeatedly in bidding wars over newly listed turned away offers in excess of $2 properties, many of which ended million for their house. up selling for far more than their asking prices, which were often Of course, they made a number of quite high to begin with. improvements over the years and their The relationship between home is well-maintained. But it still In response, the school doubled down schools and their host sits on the same modest-size lot in a on its core approach: providing a neighborhood of single-story homes rigorous, standards-based academic communities is a which were all built back in the ’60s and program, along with a variety of complex one. show it. It doesn’t have a basement. interventions, enrichment activities and And the state’s water shortage, which programs. Today, of its 803 students, remains in effect, still impacts it. So 84 percent are Asian, and its test scores I realize, of course, that the relationship what’s behind the huge spike in its are consistently in the nation’s top between schools and their host value? Several things. decile. communities is a complex one, and that real estate value is only one reflection of One is that the Bay area as a whole has The premium that relationship. There’s also a chicken- become a very hot real estate market. What happened in Silicon Valley is and-egg aspect to it: do good schools Houses there are selling for amounts unlikely to happen in Seneca Valley, at create great communities or is it the that make homes in Cranberry look least not in detail. But the value that other way around? Personally, I think like a steal. That region-wide increase a school district’s reputation brings to it goes both ways – great communities alone accounts for a significant part property in the area it serves applies value education and tend to support of the jump in value. But only about everywhere; school quality remains the schools that provide it. And great half of it. The other half comes from a one of the most important factors in schools give their community’s children peculiar convergence of education and homebuyers’ purchase decisions. better opportunities to advance in their demography. careers as well as the life skills which A 2013 study by the national real Bending the curve lead to better, stronger, more attractive estate brokerage Redfin provided communities. Back when the family bought their some concrete evidence. Using data home, nearby Chadbourne elementary from more than 400,000 home sales For the past 20-plus years, my own school – which is part of the Fremont in 11,000 school districts, the study career has been in education, right here Unified School District – was pretty concluded that on average, buyers pay in the Seneca Valley School System. I good, although not exceptional. But $50 more per square foot for homes in can assure you that our teachers and then the neighborhood demographics top-rated school districts compared with administrators are keenly aware of began to shift. Families from China and homes served by average-rated schools, how important it is to engage with our India began arriving in numbers. Many as determined by student test scores. community. And now, as a Township brought with them an attitude toward That’s a $125,000 premium on a 2,500 Supervisor, I can also tell you that our academic success which bent the curve square foot house. Board feels exactly the same way. ˜ Mike Manipole can be reached at [email protected]

www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 11 COMMUNITY CALENDAR Registration may be required for some programs. For more information, call: * Cranberry Customer Service 724-776-4806 # Cranberry Highlands 724-776-7372 + Cranberry Library 724-776-9100 < Cranberry EMS 724-776-4480 APR ^ Parks and Recreation 724-779-4FUN > ECS&R 1-866-815-0016 FRI Yard Waste SAT Celebrate Butler County! SUN MON Planning Advisory TUES + Tween Art Club Collections Pittsburgh North Marriott, Commission Library, 4pm 1 Resume 2 10am–4pm 3 4 Council Chambers, 5 Cranberry Artists + Excel I Class Library, 9am 6pm Network Open Studio + Teen Read-a-Thon + First Editions Grange Hall, 6pm & Hangout Book Club + G. Washington First Official Library, 11am–3pm Library, 7pm Mission Part 2 Library, 6pm

Adult Discussion Group Excel II Class + 1st–3rd +  Library, 9am WED Grade THURS Library, 10am FRI SAT Sheriff’s Office, Gun Licensing Book Club < EMS Child Car Seat Checks Admin. Room 1401, 9am-2pm 6 Library, 7 10am–4:30pm by Appt. 8 9 CranFest Municipal Ctr, 10am–3pm 7pm + Family Fun Night Library, 6:30pm + Movies, Munch, Mumble CADN Library, Noon Board of Supervisors Mtg Council Chambers, 6:30pm < EMS Free Car Seat Check 10am–2pm Open Gym Basketball (18+) 8–10pm + Infant + ABC + ABC Storytime + Homeschool Friends SUN MON Storytime TUES Storytime WED Library, THURS Crafternoon FRI of the 10 11 Library, 12 Library, 13 10am & 11am 14 Library, 1pm 15 Library 10:30am 10am & + 1st–3rd Grade + Family Playtime Book + Teen Advisory Board 11am Book Club Library, 7pm Library, 6:30pm Sale Library, 4pm + Young at Heart Book + Block Party Club Library, 7pm Library, 6:30pm Open Gym Pickleball > ECS&R Hazardous Friends + Infant Storytime 9–11am SAT Waste Collection SUN of the MON Library, 10:30am TUES + ABC Storytime 16 by Appt. 17 Library 18 + Maker Monday 19 Library, 10am & 11am < Learn CPR 8:30am, Book Library, 4pm < EMS Child Car Seat Checks Learn First Aid 12pm Sale Library Board Mtg Library, 6:30pm 10am–4:30pm by Appt. Friends of the Library Zoning Hearing Board Mtg + Tween Lego Club Library, 4pm Book Sale (as needed) Council Chambers, 7:30pm Open Gym Basketball (18+) 8–10pm EMS Child Car Seat Checks WED + Books and Bagels Book Club THURS <  10am–4:30pm by Appt. FRI Passover Library, 10am + Budding Builders Library, 4pm Earth Day 20 + ABC Storytime 21 + Tail Waggin’ Tutors Library, 6:30pm 22 Library, 10am & 11am * Manager’s Coffee, Stormwater Management + 1st–3rd Grade Book Club Graham Park Maint. Bldg,, 7pm Library, 7pm + Poet Laureate of Pgh, Billy Nardozzi Library 7pm Open Gym Basketball (18+) 8–10pm SAT Free Electronics Recycling SUN MON + Infant Storytime Library, 10:30am TUES + ABC Storytime Public Works, 10am–2pm + Teen Advisory Board Library, 4pm Library, 10am & 11am 23 Let’s Dance, Quick Step 24 25 Planning Advisory Commission 26 Primary Election Day Gym, 7pm Work Session Council Chambers, 6pm

Hoop Shoot + ABC Storytime 4th Thursday Book Club hosted by Cranberry Lions WED THURS +  FRI SAT to benefit Miracle League, Library, Library, 10am Gym, 11am–12:45pm 10am & 11am Meet the Author, J.J. Hensley 27 28 +  29 30 Intro. to Ancestry Library, 9–11am + 1st–3rd Grade Library, 6pm +  Waterpark Membership 3rd Discount Book Club Board of Supervisors Mtg Period Ends Library, 7pm Council Chambers, 6:30pm County & Township Taxes Due

PAGE 12 Cranberrytoday COMMUNITY CALENDAR Registration may be required for some programs. For more information, call: * Cranberry Customer Service 724-776-4806 # Cranberry Highlands 724-776-7372 + Cranberry Library 724-776-9100 < Cranberry EMS 724-776-4480 MAY ^ Parks and Recreation 724-779-4FUN > ECS&R 1-866-815-0016 SUN MON + Infant Storytime TUES + ABC Storytime WED + ABC Storytime Library, 10:30am Library, 10am & 11am Library, 10am & 11am 1 2 Planning Advisory Commission 3 + Tween Art Club 4 Council Chambers, 6pm Library, 4pm + First Editions Book Club Cranberry Artists Network Library, 7pm Open Studio Grange Hall, 6pm

THURS + Adult Discussion Group FRI SAT SUN Mother’s MON + Teen Advisory TUES WED Library, 10am Day Board 5 Board of Supervisors Mtg 6 7 8 9 Library, 4pm 10 11 Council Chambers, 6:30pm

THURS + Homeschool Crafternoon FRI SAT SUN EMS Week MON + Maker Monday Library, 1pm Business Privilege Library, 4pm 12 + Block Party Library, 6:30pm 13 14 15 Taxes Due 16 Library Board Mtg Butler Co. Community College/ Library, 6:30pm Cranberry Campus Zoning Hearing Board Mtg Open House 6–8pm (as needed) Council Chambers, 7:30pm TUES + Tween Lego Club WED + Books and Bagels Book Club THURS + Budding Builders FRI Library, 4pm Library, 10am Library, 4pm 17 + Meet the Author, 18 19 20 Annette Dashofy Library, 6pm

SAT + Movies, Munch, Mumble SUN MON TUES + Monarch Monitoring WED CADN Library, Noon with Succop Conservancy 21 > ECS&R Hazardous 22 23 24 Library, 6pm 25 Waste Collection * Manager’s Coffee, by Appt. Guest: Dr. Tracy Vitale, SVSD Supt. Council Chambers, 7pm

THURS + 4th Thursday Book Club FRI + Meet Elephant & Piggy SAT + Meet Elephant & Piggy Library, 10am Library, 10:30am Library, 10:30am 26 Board of Supervisors Mtg 27 Commencement 28 Cranberry Waterpark Opening Day Council Chambers, 6:30pm SVHS, Class of 2016 11:30am Let’s Dance, Samba Gym, 7pm

SUN Veteran’s Memorial Service MON MEMORIAL DAY TUES * Manager’s Coffee, North Boundary Park, 1pm Township Offices and Guest: Leslie Osche, 29 Library is closed Sundays 30 Library Closed. Waterpark 31 Butler County Commissioner through September 4 and Golf Course Open Council Chambers, 10am Waste Collection Delayed Planning Advisory Commission by one day this week Work Session Council Chambers, 6pm

www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 13 COMMUNITY CALENDAR Registration may be required for some programs. For more information, call: * Cranberry Customer Service 724-776-4806 – Cranberry Senior Center 724-772-6086 + Cranberry Library 724-776-9100 < Cranberry EMS 724-776-4480 JUNE ^ Parks and Recreation 724-779-4FUN > ECS&R 1-866-815-0016 WED THURS + Adult Discussion Group FRI Last Day of School SAT Library Summer Reading SUN Library, 10am for SVSD Students Kickoff Celebration & 1 2 Board of Supervisors Mtg 3 4 Food Truck Round-up 11am 5 Council Chambers, 6:30pm > ECS&R Hazardous Waste Collection by Appt.

MON + Library Summer Reading TUES Cranberry Artists Network Open Studio WED THURS FRI Program Begins Grange Hall, 6pm 6 Planning Advisory Commission 7 – Cranberry Senior Center 8 9 10 Council Chambers, 6pm Mystery Dinner Theater + First Editions Book Club 4–7pm Library, 7pm

SAT Sheriff’s Office, Gun Licensing SUN MON TUES + Family Playtime Library, 11am Council Chambers, 9am-2pm Flag Day Butler County 1000 Veterans March 11 12 13 14 County Courthouse, 6:30pm Waterpark Night Swim 9pm

+ Books and Bagels Book Club THURS FRI Crafty (Hot Dog) Friday SAT < Learn CPR 8:30am, WED Library, 10am Library, 11am–1pm Learn First Aid 12pm + Infant Storytime Library, 10:30am 16 17 18 + Movies, Munch, 15 Mumble CADN Library, Noon Waterpark Celebration Bash 11:30am SUN Father’s MON + Block Party Library, 11am TUES + Block Party WED + Infant Storytime Day Library Board Mtg Library, 6:30pm Library, 11am Library, 10:30am 19 20 Zoning Hearing Board Mtg 21 Waterpark Night 22 (as needed) Council Chambers, 7:30pm Swim 9pm Summer Begins

THURS + 4th Thursday Book FRI Crafty (Hot Dog) Friday SAT > ECS&R Hazardous SUN Club Library, 10am Library, 11am–1pm Waste Collection 23 24 + Teen Movie Night 25 by Appt. 26 Library, 7–9:30pm

MON Planning Advisory TUES + Family Playtime WED + Infant Storytime THURS Board of Supervisors Mtg Commission Library, 11am Library, 10:30am Council Chambers, 6:30pm 27 Work Session 28 Waterpark Night 29 30 Council Chambers, Swim 9pm 6pm

PAGE 14 Cranberrytoday SV Hits All The Right Notes

By Linda Andreassi, Seneca Valley School District Communications Director

When it comes to the musical, vocal and performing arts, it May 17, 2016; SVMS; Spring Choral seems we frequently use the expression “record-breaking” Concert; IHS Auditorium; to describe the latest round of regional, state and national 7:30 – 10:30 p.m. competition results. Seneca Valley has developed quite the May 18, 2016; SHS; Secondary Strings reputation when it comes to being a leader in the arts. Concert; Grades 7 – 12; 7:30 – 10 p.m. Professional competitions aside, it’s also apparent we make May 19, 2016; IHS; Spring Choral Concert; 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. a statement with the public when we receive letters of acclamation from those who honor us with their attendance May 20, 2016; SVAOC; Spring Dance Recital; IHS Auditorium; at events. One recent constituent letter called our jazz 6 – 9 p.m. band “exceptional” and praised the Madrigal Singers as an May 21, 2016; SVAOC; Spring Dance Recital; IHS Auditorium; “extremely accomplished group of young men and women.” 6 – 9 p.m. Another said that the quality of work found within the Seneca Valley Jazz Ensemble rivaled anything you would find in the May 25, 2016; IHS; Show Choir Concert; 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Pittsburgh Cultural District. But don’t take our word for it. We invite you to join us and find out for yourself. We offer a variety of events, including those offered by our beginner groups. You can see where the love of the arts begins and where their progress takes them as they advance through our schools. We’re proud of them – and believe you will be, too. Here are a few performances that are coming up this spring (minimal costs may be associated with some of these events – see more information below on discounts for older adults): May 2, 2016; CVE; Beginner Band Concert; Cafeteria; 7 p.m. May 2, 2016; Rowan and HNM; Beginner Band Concert; HNM; 7 p.m. May 3, 2016; SVMS; Spring Instrumental Concert; IHS Auditorium; 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. If you’re planning ahead: Seneca Valley’s fall/winter events include the annual SV Pie Festival, Veteran Recognition Event May 4, 2016; ECM; Band Concert; Grades 5 & 6; (at the first home football games), Homecoming Parade, IHS Auditorium; 7 – 8:30 p.m. Carnival, the SV Senior Holiday Event, the all-school musical, May 4, 2016; HNM; Band/Chorus Concert; Grade 5; 7 p.m. building musicals, plays, dance recitals, and winter choral, May 5, 2016; IHS; Spring Instrumental Concert; band and jazz concerts. 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Discounts for older adults: We invite Seneca Valley May 9, 2016; ECE and ECM; Strings Concert; residents, 62 years of age or older, to apply and become a Grades 4, 5, & 6; 6:30 – 8 p.m. member of the Seneca Valley School District Gold Card Club. Membership entitles card holders to attend all home athletic May 9, 2016; HNM; Strings Concert; Grades 5 & 6; 7 p.m. events, music, dramatic and other school productions. May 10, 2016; ECM; Choral Concert; Grades 5 & 6; Please note that some events require card members to IHS Auditorium; 7 – 8:30 p.m. reserve seating. To receive a gold card, visit us online at svsd.net and download an application or call our main office May 10, 2016; HNM; Band/Chorus; Grade 6; 7 p.m. at 724-452-6040, ext. 0, and request one be mailed to you. May 11, 2016; SHS; Spring Jazz Concert; 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. See you at the show! May 12, 2016; SHS; Spring Choral Concert; IHS Auditorium; 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.

www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 15 Demand Drives Transformation At Regional Learning Alliance Workers are dangling from dangerous have to manage a whole unit of age. A Kindergarten is also available. heights and getting entrapped just engineers and have no idea how to For many of its students, English is a about every day at the Regional do that. So companies are sending us second language, although for some, Learning Alliance in Cranberry Woods. their employees. That’s why our MBA that second language may be Spanish And the school’s staff is enjoying every programs are so successful.” or another foreign tongue. Yoga trainers moment of it. offer sessions there weekly. Art and It didn’t happen overnight. For years, culture is another important emphasis, MSA’s new Safety Training Center, which Griffith and his board struggled to bring and its faculty members are all state opened in January at the nearby RLA an MBA program to Cranberry. Then, certified in Early Childhood Education. campus, is housed in a space formerly three years ago, Penn State began used as a General Motors training offering its largely online MBA there. Not “Nursing and health programs have center. Its mission is to provide safety long after, Slippery Rock University and exploded here,” Griffith added. “One training and certification to technicians Geneva College followed suit, bringing of the new programs Carlow University from all over the world whose jobs their own MBA programs to RLA. “We is offering is a Master of Nursing as a involve scaling tall structures, entering didn’t have any, and suddenly we had Family Nurse Practitioner. confined spaces, or working in other three,” Griffith reflected. “But they didn’t “And starting this fall, Slippery Rock hazardous environments. want to compete for the same students, University is launching an MPH – Master so they talked about what they could However the new safety training center of Public Health program here,” he each do differently, and what their is only the most recent in an ongoing said. “It will be blended, so if you need specific market segments were.” series of changes which have reshaped specific courses, most of them are RLA’s unique shared campus concept Other new and specialized programs available either online or in-class.” from an educational mall for those have also accelerated RLA’s Those new curricula will join such seeking bachelor’s degrees into a center transformation. Several degree RLA staples as La Roche’s highly- for lifelong learning, driven by the needs completion programs have proven respected MS in Human Resources, of an educational marketplace rather popular on campus, including an Early as well as continuing education than by traditional liberal arts curricula. Childhood Education completion degree classes for professionals in disciplines from Carlow University and an Adult Post-graduate programs including accounting, safety and OSHA Degree Completion Bachelor degree administration. “We started out with more from Geneva College. Both cater to the undergraduate programs,” RLA CEO needs of adults whose frequent work Much of that learning takes place in Dr. Justin Griffith explained. “But that relocations and job assignments have RLA’s Conference Center facility rather wasn’t the demand for this area. This interfered with earning degrees from a than its academic programs. More than single institution. 400 organizations currently use the Center. “We’re up to 50,000 attendees “We started out with more Kids, culture and conferences a year,” Griffith said. “We had over undergraduate programs, Keystone State Musical Theatre 1,500 events in 2015. We had to but that wasn’t the demand Academy has taken up residence on expand our parking lots because we campus in spaces transformed into simply didn’t have enough parking.” for this area.” specialized studios for singing, dance ˜ and acting. is a very well-educated community. HeartPrints Center for Early Education, Most of the working professionals in an independent, nonprofit school, offers Cranberry have degrees; many of them a blended learning approach using have graduate degrees. For example, Montessori, High/Scope and Reggio there are people with Masters degrees Emila styles of teaching. The school in engineering who are enrolled in accepts students from 2 to 8 years of MBA programs because now they

Raising the banner. Regional Learning Alliance CEO Justin Griffith stands by the facility’s display of partner institution flags. The pennant of Waynesburg University will join them this fall as RLA’s newest academic partner.

PAGE 16 Cranberrytoday Getting Online In Cranberry Township Everywhere there’s Internet service, you would negotiate among hear complaints about it. It’s too slow. themselves. In effect, the It’s too expensive. It disconnects. It’s door has always been confusing. And so on. Dissatisfaction open to any new cable TV, with Internet service is the great lament phone, security or Internet of the 21st century. provider that wants to come into the community. Residential subscribers – whose personal and work lives increasingly But starting in the depend on good Internet reception mid-‘90s, the lines – wonder why they’re not getting the differentiating the various amazing levels of service they see wire-based businesses advertised on TV. They want to know started to blur. In 1997, what their alternatives are, and they Armstrong began offering suspect that their local government is Internet service. Not long part of a secret agreement that keeps after, Consolidated began The door has always been them from receiving the service they offering Digital Subscriber Line, or DSL really want. Internet service, to its own customers. open to any new cable TV, By the turn of the century, Consolidated A lot of Cranberry’s Internet subscribers phone, security or Internet was in the TV delivery business, and feel the same way. But Cranberry really in 2005, Armstrong began offering provider that wants to come is different. In most of the Township, telephone service. Today, both there are actually two wired services into the community. companies offer packages that bundle available to deliver Internet: Armstrong all three services to subscribers. and Consolidated Communications. providers already here, the likelihood Parts of Cranberry even include small At the margins of Internet delivery in that a new supplier would siphon off pockets of service from Verizon and Cranberry are various wireless services. enough customers to make it profitable Century Link, although they don‘t offer Satellite Internet, which is considerably is uncertain. internet service. slower than wire-based service, is technically available, but generally On top of that, both the TV and Until about twenty years ago, Armstrong regarded as suitable only for remote telephone components of residential and what was then known as North areas of the country which have no service are now in decline. Just about Pittsburgh Telephone Company, were cable or landline alternatives. Cellular everything on TV is currently available in separate businesses. Armstrong sold service, including hotspot devices which online. And with cell service now TV signals, North Pittsburgh sold phone can connect laptops and tablets to the essentially universal, landline phones service. Both invested heavily in wiring Internet as well as to the smartphones are vanishing, along with phone books most of Cranberry in the expectation themselves, is both slower and far more and phone booths. That puts the that practically every home they passed expensive than the broadband service economics of wiring up a community would choose to become a subscriber. most users have come to expect. even more in doubt. Non-exclusive franchises New competitors? Of course, there’s also free wi-fi, from Cranberry’s government was involved Armstrong in Cranberry’s parks and But what about other cable and phone as well. For their video service, both Municipal Center. That’s a great option companies? Why aren’t Fios, Xfinity, companies required non-exclusive for people on the go. But the footprint U-Verse, Time-Warner and Google franchise agreements from the of its service doesn’t extend into clamoring to come into Cranberry Township allowing them to run their residential neighborhoods. So while and compete for customers with their lines through and across public rights of local web surfers struggle to make the dazzling service offerings? The answer way. Beyond that, federal law requires best of what’s currently available, they is that while they’re certainly welcome, electric and telephone companies should also understand that those same it’s ultimately their business decision. to allow other wire-based services – services are constantly struggling to Building out a hard-wired delivery even competing ones – to use their improve what they offer. network is expensive. And with two poles at rates that the companies ˜

www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 17 1991 Time Capsule Reveals A Fast Growing, Hopeful Cranberry What was Cranberry actually like 25 It goes on to say that the Cranberry noting that one of its residents, Frank years ago? On March 4, more than 100 Church Council, which included a Hess, had been very involved in the past and present community leaders number of denominations, approached acquisition of the new municipal witnessed the formal opening of a time Cranberry’s Board of Supervisors in building. That’s an understatement. capsule which had been assembled to January 1990 to consider enacting what When Cranberry decided to acquire commemorate the 1991 inauguration of they called an “up-to-date obscenity the old Perry Forge factory, Frank Hess Cranberry Township’s Municipal Center. ordinance.” Cranberry later revised and Paul Sweeney actually optioned it its zoning ordinance related to siting in order to take it off the market and 39 organizations submitted sexually oriented businesses. give the Township time to raise enough money to buy the building. entries reflecting the things A packet from Cranberry Assembly of God Church includes a newspaper Baseball Card Castle enclosed a set that mattered most to them article reprint. It is headlined “Area of trading cards featuring the 1990 at that time. pastor says faith healing real.” The Pittsburgh Pirates: Barry Bonds, Bobby pastor was Rev. Richard Rossi. In the Bonilla, and Sid Bream – who is still story, Rossi describes leading the a Cranberry resident – along with all Altogether, 39 organizations submitted exorcism of a troubled young man. “I the rest. That was the Pirates’ 109th entries which included photographs, commanded the demons to leave,” season. The team finished first in directories, letters and artifacts Rossi is quoted as saying. “The man the National League East that year reflecting the things that mattered then projected an orange substance with a record of 95–67. But then the most to them at that time. Two bottles from his mouth, and we saw the Cincinnati Reds beat them four games of water – one from Brush Creek, and demons leaving.” Rossi later achieved to two in the 1990 National League another from the old Municipal Sewer notoriety after savagely attacking his Championship Series. and Water Authority, were also inside, wife – an accusation she later withdrew, The girls and leaders of Girl Scout along with an ashtray sporting an early attributing it instead either to Satan or Troop 510 signed a group Salute to the Township coat of arms. a stranger identical to her husband. Township, packed together with pins Several entries made note of the Baseball, battles, and boards and patches commemorating the move battle going on at that time against a into Cranberry’s new Municipal Center. The capsule contained a Cranberry thoroughbred racing track which was Eagle issue dated January 2, 1991. The late Mark Anderson, who was attempting to locate at what is now Its headline declares “Experts Expect then Chairman of Cranberry’s Board of Cranberry Crossroads and Cranberry Economic Health By Mid-1991.” But it Supervisors, left a letter on Township Springs. Several local churches used included an interesting caveat: “If the letterhead offering a taste of what was capsule entries to advance their ethical United States becomes involved in a happening in Cranberry. It talks about missions. war in the Persian a proposed thoroughbred horse race Bully pulpit Gulf,” the article track, noting that “the entire township said, “the economy is rallying against its development.” For example, New likely will suffer.” And he points out with pride that Beginnings Church Operation Desert the Board had finally selected a new of God enclosed a Storm began two Township Manager, Jerry Andree, saying newspaper clipping weeks later. “I think Jerry has a long future with the entitled: “Cranberry Township.” churches warn Sherwood Oaks, about the evils of which opened in Artifacts from the time capsule are pornography.” In 1982, enclosed available for view in the Municipal it, the pastor, Rev. a letter from its Center’s main lobby display case Charles Yost is Marketing Director through April 22. quoted as saying ˜ “Pornography is not Ashes to ashes. Cranberry Board Chairman Dick Hadley protected by the holds an ashtray with an old Township coat of arms that was First Amendment.” retrieved from the 1991 time capsule.

PAGE 18 Cranberrytoday PUBLIC WORKS Shape Up! Cranberry Takes On Street Trees. Even the trees in Cranberry’s public But some trees rights of way are subject to Township make terrible ordinance: you can’t have branches streetscape lower than 14 feet above a traffic lane plantings. “Pin or less than 9 feet above a sidewalk. If oaks have wiry you do, you could get whacked. branches, and Good tree, bad trees. A good a notoriously It’s not easy being a street tree. Trucks street tree grows in a compact bad shape driving by can smack your boughs. Kids vertical column with deep roots. for a street grab your lower branches to swing over A bad street tree spreads out in tree,” he said. sidewalks, frequently breaking your all directions with shallow roots “They’re very limbs. Pavement on either side restricts that break sidewalks, block thick, and sewer lines and brush against water from soaking into the soil around they grow wild overhead wires. you. Overhead lines get tangled in your quickly. Look at twigs. Your shallower roots can damage some of the old the sidewalk. And your deeper roots can neighborhoods penetrate, and ultimately block sanitary in Beaver. They and storm sewer lines. have these At the same time, however, everyone massive oak trees, right up against loves their street trees. To homeowners, the asphalt. They’re in tiny plots on the they are treasured assets. They improve sidewalks. So 15 feet down the street, the look of a neighborhood and the their roots are popping sidewalk panels. value of its homes. They create shade, You can start to see it on the roads they absorb carbon dioxide, and they too, because that root structure is very support all sorts of wildlife. strong and aggressive. But Davis Pear For a while, ash trees were the preferred roots go down and form more of a root variety and hundreds were planted ball than either silver maples or pin most individuals don’t own. It also along Freshcorn Road when Cranberry oaks, which tend to spread out and up.” requires special know-how; there’s a Highlands opened 15 years ago. But The law of the trees right way and a wrong way to prune an infestation of emerald ash borers back tree branches. If it’s done essentially wiped them out, just as According to Township law, the properly, the branches will grow in the Dutch elm disease had decimated the responsibility for trimming trees to desired direction. Done wrong, they stately elms a generation earlier. their required clearances belongs to the tree’s owner. “That’s a challenge can either grow right back the next Asset or liability? for homeowners associations and for year, expose the tree to blight, or both. So the Township decided to have an “The problem is, if you pick the wrong individual homeowners,” Dailey admits. arborist prune the street trees in a few one, that asset becomes a liability,” “Street trees aren’t always owned by neighborhoods this past winter. Cranberry Public Works Director Jason the individual homeowners. If there’s Dailey explained. Some species make not an HOA, there’s a good chance the “We addressed hundreds of trees tree belongs to the homeowner. But this past winter,” Dailey said. “We Some species make better in an HOA neighborhood, depending started that work in the fall, after the on the covenants, the HOA could have street trees than others. leaves were down. We wrapped it up responsibility for the street trees. And in in February. This preserves the tree, some plans, individual homeowners own makes it healthy. The arborist who did better street trees than others. “We those trees, even though they’re on HOA the work said that when it grows back always try to go with a columnar tree,” common ground property.” out, it will have the look we want – clear he said, referring to the compact vertical It’s also a practical issue. Trimming up to 14 feet above the curb. And it’s a aspect of the tree’s branching. “The trees 14 feet above street level requires long-term solution for these trees; it’s Davis Pear is a great one, and there are special tools – tools that not something we’re going to have to others, too.” re-do every so many years.” ˜

www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 19 PUBLIC WORKS Street Smarts: Cranberry’s New Road Maintenance Strategy Different communities have different is that you take the budget you used something happening to it, something strategies for maintaining their local to have for blacktop and milling, but you could have caught a lot sooner and roads. instead of spending 100 percent on cheaper. Because by that time, it may blacktop, you spend 75 percent, and be too far gone. We could have used The conventional way is to put streets then 50 percent. At the same time, we a lower-cost, more effective solution into a rotation where every 12 years or increase our use of thin overlays – crack earlier in the decline. so, a paving company comes in with sealing, single and double seals, and so a milling machine, strips away the old “We’re hoping to shift some of our on – to 20 or 30 percent of our budget. asphalt, and replaces it with a new layer dollars into preventative maintenance of blacktop, mostly funded by the fuel “In the next year or two, you come back instead of reconstruction – to see a big taxes the state collects. and seal that entire road to form a shift in the allocation of those monies barrier that prevents water from getting so we can address road issues sooner But that source of revenue has been down into it. Then you keep doing that rather than later. So that’s the new in a long-term decline, aggravated by every 3 to 5 years. That’s what our 2016 improved fuel economy, hybrid vehicles, program is beginning to look like. We’re and a political aversion to raising The new strategy we’re trying actually putting $125,000 into thin taxes. So progressive communities, overlays this year and crack sealing; it’s to develop: be more objective including Cranberry Township – whose the most inexpensive, highest value fix elected Board has made high levels of in the way we approach you can do for your roads. road maintenance a matter of policy different road surfaces. – are finding new, more cost-effective “We’re in the process of installing strategies for keeping up their roads. pavement management software to help strategy we’re really trying to develop: us grade and manage our entire road Cranberry is currently responsible for to be more objective in the way we system, every year. Right now we use a maintaining more than 600 roads in the approach different road surfaces. spreadsheet for our road management Township, totaling approximately 130 For example, we have different road system. But we haven’t been looking at lane miles. Some types of preventive classifications, they’re built differently every road, every year.” maintenance cost less than $1 a for different types of traffic and traffic square yard – a real bargain. But if the Keep looking volumes, and that could change our road has deteriorated to the point that preventative maintenance approach. “That’s one of the best management major reconstruction is needed, the practices we found out there,” he “Think of road surface fixes like a cost can easily exceed $20 a yard. So continued. “If you’re only looking at the decision tree matrix. The applications the Township’s goal is to keep its roads road whenever your spreadsheet says need to be very specific for every type from falling into disrepair – stretching it’s 12 years, you could have missed and condition of road.” out the interval between repavings and extending the road foundation’s life- ˜ cycle. Cheaper alternatives With maintenance costs varying so widely depending on what’s involved, Cranberry’s Public Works Department has been focused on identifying the most effective, efficient and least expensive ways to keep its roads in shape. And the traditional 12-year cycle just doesn’t fit that need. “We’re going to look at what’s involved in preventative maintenance on roads once they hit the 5 to 7 year window,” Cranberry Streets Manager Bob Howland explained. “What it means

PAGE 20 Cranberrytoday PUBLIC WORKS How Cranberry Gets To Bill The Power Company Cranberry’s Peak shaving generator behind Cranberry’s Municipal municipally- Center can provide the building with Here’s how it works: when energy use owned facilities enough electricity to get by whenever a hits an unusually high peak, for example use a lot of demand response call comes through. on a hot summer day, organizations electricity, so with demand response contracts agree Big users only the Township has a hefty electric bill – to drop a certain amount of power they about $750,000 last year. At the same However it’s not something that’s done would otherwise draw from the grid. In time, though, thanks to an innovative on the honor system. If an electric return, they get paid – whether they are federal energy conservation program customer decides to enter a demand asked to shed their power use or not. called Demand Response, the power response contract, they’ll need to Last year, Cranberry’s contract was for company now pays Cranberry thousands install a special interval meter that $156,000, but it didn’t get a single call of dollars a year, based on energy the to scale back its power use. If it had, it Township could have used, but didn’t. would have been paid even more. Some power-hungry activities This year, with Cranberry’s original However, things could always go the taking place in the daytime 2013 Demand Response contract set other way; next summer could be a to lapse, Public Works Director Jason would shift over to night. scorcher and the Township would be Dailey is working hard to re-negotiate obliged to stop drawing its normal load the arrangement with the company that of power from the grid every day for as communicates with the power company, generates the power Cranberry buys. His long as necessary. But that wouldn’t showing exactly what that customer is goal: to get a good price for the power mean the Township gets plunged into doing every 15 minutes. But even before we do use, and an even better price for darkness. Instead, it could mean that one is installed, the user – and all users the power we don’t. some power-hungry activities normally in the program are big institutional It’s all a bit wonky, but it grows out of taking place in the daytime would shift customers – the power company has to an arrangement that essentially pits over to night time hours, when overall be convinced that the amount of power 21st century energy conservation and power demand declines. Examples the customer promises to shed when generation strategies against companies might include the time of day that water given 24-hours advance notice, can with a stake in building more 20th gets pumped into Cranberry’s three actually be achieved. century fossil fuel power plants. And storage tanks, or that water is pumped Of course Cranberry, like most other it was an important enough conflict into the irrigation pond at Cranberry electric customers, has been working to have reached all the way up to the Highlands, or the times that its electric to improve its energy efficiency U.S. Supreme Court, which decided golf carts get recharged. all along. The Demand Response in January that the program was The Township also has power generating program is simply another element of constitutionally sound. facilities of its own. Originally built as an the Township’s energy management emergency standby power source, the strategy. ˜ Treatment Plant Bids Rejected When contractors’ bids for a planned upgrade and expansion of Cranberry’s Brush Creek wastewater treatment plant were opened in early February, they were way above initial estimates. Construction of the project, which involves four separate contracts, was expected to have cost around $41 million. But the bids received exceeded those preliminary estimates by more than $15 million. In response, Cranberry’s Board of Supervisors rejected all four sets of bids and authorized staff to revise plans and solicit a new round of bidding. Proposed changes to the design include shifting certain elements of the two-phase project from Phase I into Phase II – which is not expected to start until at least ten years after Phase I is completed – as well as modifications to several other project components. Board action on the new round of bids is anticipated by May. ˜

www.cranberrytownship.org PAGE 21 PUBLIC WORKS Crud In Your Plumbing Is Good For You A huge amount of attention has been you’re down to bare metal. If focused lately on the struggling city of that pipe is made out of copper, Flint, Michigan, whose water is not only it’s going to start dissolving the discolored, evil-smelling, and overpriced, copper. If it’s made out of lead, it also contains lead, which accumulates it’s going to start dissolving the in human users, leading to serious lead. health problems. “When you do a Langelier Index, Can the same thing happen to you look at parameters like pH, Cranberry? We asked Mike Sedon temperature, hardness, and who, in addition to managing the calcium concentration. If you get wastewater treatment at Cranberry’s a negative number, your water Brush Creek Water Pollution Control is going to be aggressive and facility, is also deeply involved in the corrosive and leach out metals. Township’s drinking water distribution If you get a positive number, system. And it turns out that one big it won’t. And if you get a zero, reason water tainted with heavy metals the water is neutral. So water won’t happen in Cranberry results from treatment plants are supposed Friend or foe? Cranberry treatment plant what most people regard as the crud in to routinely perform Langlier manager Mike Sedon holds a section of their pipelines. Think of it instead as a indexes.” pipe with a heavy buildup of scale inside. protective coating. Why not in Flint? “The plant operators The scale – actually calcium deposits – What happened? didn’t pay attention to their chemistry,” creates a barrier between the water and Sedon said. “You can adjust your pH by the pipe metal. Too much buildup can clog “In simple terms, Flint didn’t adjust the the pipe; too little can allow heavy metals adding an acid or base. For whatever pH of the water going out to its people,” to leach into the water. reason, they didn’t do that. And Sedon explained. “Because their water aggressive water caused the lead to was acidic, it leached the lead out of plumbing, its use was terminated. But leach from their distribution pipelines their pipes and then it dissolved into that change occurred before Cranberry’s and residential plumbing.” their water. But it’s more than just pH. system was built, so there simply aren’t There’s a calculation we call a Langelier Why not Cranberry? any pipes here for lead to leach out of. Index that measures five different “Here in Cranberry, we do lead and However there’s another reason, too. chemical factors as well as scaling copper sample testing every three years It’s that the pH of Cranberry’s water is elements in the water; calcium and because we triple-check to make sure not aggressive. The West View Water magnesium are big buffers for pH that that our water isn’t aggressive and Authority, Cranberry’s sole supplier, help make it less acidic. make sure we’re not dissolving lead and constantly checks its water’s Langelier “In the pipeline, that calcium will copper into the drinking water. Those Index at the source. And Cranberry’s precipitate out of the water and form are heavy metals and heavy metals own technicians perform spot checks a protective coating inside house aren’t good for you.” to make sure nothing has changed plumbing. It’s like a barrier. If your between the Authority’s Ohio River plant But there’s another, even more and its arrival here. significant reason why lead Calcium will precipitate out contamination is unlikely to ever “We’ve got a couple different firewalls of the water and form a pro- become a problem in Cranberry. It’s against lead in our water,” Sedon that compared to Flint and many other reflected. “The main one is that we’re tective coating inside house communities, Cranberry’s water system a pretty new system; lead had been plumbing. It’s like a barrier. is relatively new. A hundred or more removed from plumbing by the time years ago, when many of America’s Cranberry’s system was built. And then municipal systems were first built, we balance for acidity.” So think of the water is acidic, that acid will take some lead was frequently used as an alloy scale inside your pipelines as being your of the calcium off and eventually your in plumbing. Decades later, when friend – just as long as it isn’t there in protective layer erodes away. Then health problems were traced to lead in excess. ˜

PAGE 22 Cranberrytoday PUBLIC WORKS 2016 Water Flushing Schedule Cranberry Township’s annual fire hydrant and distribution system flushing program gets underway on Monday, April 11. It is a routine maintenance operation designed to flush sediment from the water system, check fire hydrant operation, and test chlorine levels in the water lines throughout the Township. Flushing is conducted Monday through Friday between 7:00 AM and 4:00 PM. A week-by-week schedule is provided here; for detailed information on the date for your own street, call the Township’s Customer Service Center at 724-776-4806. Here are the water line areas to be flushed during the weeks beginning:

APRIL 11: Dutilh Road between Freeport APRIL 25: Route 19 between Freedom MAY 16: Acer Court , Greenspire Court, Road and Cul-de-Sac at Turnpike, Road and Rochester Road, Cranberry Windsor Court, Cedarbrook , Glenbrook, Candlewood Suites, Route 19 south Shoppes, Walmart, Cranberry Square, Glen Eden Townhouses, Manor Creek, of PA Turnpike to Bravo’s Restaurant, Streets of Cranberry, Route 19 from Smith Freshcorn Road, Glen Eden Road west Hyatt Hotel, Cranberry Springs Complex, Drive north to Goehring Road, Goehring of Powell Road, Briar Creek, Cranberry Pennwood Place, McKinney Warehouse, Road from Route 19 to Marshall Road, Heights, Kingsbrook, Madison Heights, Keystone Drive, Gateway Building, Wisconsin Avenue, Doyle Equipment, Ogle Glen Rape Road & Wakefield Estates. Commonwealth Drive, Residence Inn, Station, Boston Market, Jerry’s Car Wash, MAY 23: Freedom Road from Freedom Road and Old Freedom Road Home Depot, Smith Drive, Walgreens, Commonwealth Drive to Thorn Hill Road from Commonwealth Drive to Route Ogle View Road, Alcoa/TRACO, Progress (RIDC) & WESCO, Rolling Road Regency 19, UPMC Medical Center, Fairfield Avenue, Park Road, Ernie Mashuda Drive, Apartments, Iron Mountain, Freedom Inn, Norberry Court, Dutilh Road Route 19 from Butler Auto Auction north Road, Freedom Square, Freedom Road Car south of Route 228, Lemieux/UPMC to Kenny Ross, Route 19 from Butler Auto Wash, Haine Fire Station, Freedom Road Ice Rink, Marriot Complex, Knockout Auction south to Ron Lewis Used Vehicle from Georgetown Square to Parkwood Development – Longtree Way and Dealership, Enterprise Rent-a-Car Center, Drive, Parkside Place, Carriage Drive, Kira Garden View, Westinghouse, Cranberry Wiegand Drive, Marshall Road, Goehring Circle, Haine School Road, Haine School, Woods – MSA Complex, Cranberry Road, Preserve East and West, North Pine Ridge, Rochester Village, Bellevue Mall, Cranberry Springs, Old Mars Road Boundary Road, Marshall Woods, Marshall Park, Graham Park, Valleybrook, Deer Run, between Cranberry Springs Drive and Heights, Pinebrook Manor & Cranberry Sun Valley, Cranbrook & Kirkwood Drive. Franklin Road, Cranberry Crossroads, Water Park. Cranberry Commons Mall, Grandshire, MAY 31: Woodlands Townhouses, MAY 2: Former McElroy Road, Fox Run, Spring Meadows, Franklin Road between Swift Homes, Woodlands Houses, Canterbury Heights/Buckingham Trail, Old Mars Road and Beacon Drive & Clearbrook, Cranberry Estates, Ashford Rowan Road between Marshall Road and Hazelwood. Manor, Cranberry Pointe, Cranberry West, Old Farm Road, La Grande Drive, Rowan Kimberwicke, Harvest Drive, Holiday Drive, APRIL 18: Thompson Park Drive, School, Rowan Towers, Hope Lutheran Powell Road from Rochester Road to Executive Drive, Costco, Brandt Drive, Church, Leonberg Road, Franklin Road, Blue Ridge Drive, Creekwood Commons, Commerce Park Drive, Cranberry Peace Street, Franklin Ridge, Franklin Creekwood & Freedom Woods. Corporate Center, Rochester Road from Crossing, Shadow Creek, Bristol Creek, Route 19 to Powell Road, Forest Park, Washington Farms, St. Leonard’s Woods, JUNE 6: Forest Park, The Crossings, Hampton Inn, Laurelwood, Sherwood Oaks Timberline, Peters Road between Franklin Mystic Pine Trail, Blue Ridge Estates, & Fernway. Road and Old Farm Road, Redmond Berkley Manor, Hampshire Woods, Autumn Place, Old Towne Apartments, Scenic Hill, Orchard Park & The Glen at Woodside. Ridge, Peters Road between Franklin Road JUNE 13: Powell Road between and Burke Road, Forest Knoll, Lakeview Rochester Road and Glen Eden Road, Estates, Windwood Heights, Crystal Park Place, Chatham Commons, Highland Springs, Walden Pond & Burke Road. Village, Havenwood, Hunters Creek, MAY 9: Pinehurst Estates, Ehrman Road, Stonefield & Farmview, Greenfield Estates, Garvin Road, Grace Estates, Mystic Ridge, Avery’s Field, Woodbine Estates, The Links Foxmoor, Ehrman Farms, Oakview Estates, of Cranberry, Eden Square Apartments, Unionville Road, Springfield Manor, St. Killian’s Parish School, Cardinal Wuerl Cranberry Business Park, Winchester North Catholic High School, The Haven Lakes, Winchester Farms, Old Rt. 19, at Cranberry Woods & The Village at Settlers Village, Glen Eden Road, Glen Cranberry Woods. Eden Phase 1, Settlers Grove, Antler ˜ Ridge.

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Fact, Fiction And Food The Cranberry public library will hold a formal kickoff for its three 2016 Summer Reading programs at 11:00 AM on Saturday, June 4. Last year, 1,200 people registered for the children’s, teen, and adult reading programs, which run throughout the summer and include an assortment of hands-on activities in addition to all sorts of reading material. There is no fee to participate. Again this year, the Reading Program launch will be coupled with a Food Truck Rally in the front parking lot of the Municipal Center, also starting at 11:00. A share of the vendors’ proceeds will be donated to the library. ˜