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Cranberry Kids Spend the Day At Work With Parents
Patch tags along when Cranberry-area children and millions of others around the country join their parents on the job.
On Thursday, many Cranberry moms and dads received a little extra help at work from their children courtesy of national Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work day.
According to the Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work organization, the nearly 20-year-old movement aims "to create a successful day that strengthens the connection between education and work and relationships between parents and their children."
The annual event takes place on the last Thursday of April. This year, Lori Coon, coordinator of the event for , worked with the parks and recreation, engineering, water treatment, finance, and police departments to create a schedule that would allow children to see various aspects of how the township is managed.
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The schedule included guided tours and lunch, courtesy of the township. During the visit to the engineering department, director Jason Kratsas talked about the township recycling programs and showed the kids how to recycle at home.
At the water treatment plant, Larissa Hoover explained how a knowledge of chemistry is necessary to treat the township's waste water. Dave Barber, superintendent of Cranberry Highlands Golf Course, took the children on a nature walk through the Autobahn trail. The children also had a chance to look at turf under a microscope.
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While touring the police station with Sgt. Chuck Mascellino, the children observed the police control center and the holding cells.
In the finance department, Coon used a spirograph and a race car spreadsheet to demonstrate how spreadsheets work. Younger kids also worked with crafts to learn about amounts and measurements.
"I think this was a great way to show the kids everything we do here," Coon said. "I know we had fun working with the kids."
Her children, Tresa and Brady, both said that "they liked going to the different departments."
Kratsas's 5-year-old daughter, Sydney, was particularly happy to show all the finance people how to work with the crafts.
All together, 27 kids ages 4 to 17 attended the event.
