Community Days kicks off township fundraising
When Haley Clancy showed up last year with her typewriter to write and sell poetry at Cranberry's Community Days, the township's annual summer fair, she said the event's staff kicked her out since she didn't have a permit to solicit money. This year, she paid $350 for one of the 250 kiosks set up in the Community Park during the three-day township fundraiser.
“It's crazy what people will tell you,” Clancy, a Cranberry native, said. “I just wrote a poem for a woman who was married for 45 minutes before her husband left her.”
Clancy was one of several hundred vendors who helped turn the Cranberry park into a fairground between Thursday and Saturday. The event kicks off fundraising efforts for the township's Community Chest, according to Pete Geis, the township's director of parks and recreation.
Last year, the township used the Community Days event to raise money to renovate a library. This year, the township wants to renovate the amphitheater in the park.
This is an excerpt from a story in Monday's Butler Eagle.
