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Zelie-opoly game players can pass go, help children

Emily Budney, who serves as co-president for the Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization, stands beside her passion project Zelie-opoly, which highlights local businesses around Zelienople. Chris Kopacz/Butler Eagle

ZELIENOPLE — When parent Emily Budney first hatched plans for a Monopoly-themed board game chronicling the borough’s landscape, everyone’s world had shrunk.

COVID-19 had swept the globe. People stuck at home could send each other Monopoly-inspired cards online with just a handful of properties like the fridge, the living room sofa and public spaces closed for lockdown.

But Budney found the fuel to craft an intricate recreation of the borough’s cherished landmarks: General Shu’s Chinese Restaurant, the Little Green Bookstore, Zelienople Children’s Library. She serves now as co-president for Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization.

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