Cranberry Community Park trees are ablaze with autumn colors. Eagle file photo.

Cranberry residents willing and able to rake some leaves can help out a neighbor in need through the township’s Leaf Angels program.

The program, running for the second time this year, is organized through Cranberry Township Public Works. It matches local volunteers with families living in the township who need help clearing leaves from their yards.

Volunteers can sign up via an online form on the Cranberry Township website until Nov. 1. After that, residents can submit a “request for need” form to sign up to be matched with Leaf Angel volunteers. The program runs from Nov. 1 until the end of yard waste collection.

The Leaf Angel program grew out of the larger Snow Angel program, a similar volunteer effort that runs throughout the snowy winter months and assigns volunteers to homes that need help with snow removal.

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