Cranberry Area School Board member Kyle Melat, during the panel’s meeting Monday night, provided the directors with an information sheet on the proposed Cranberry Regional Recreational Center project, estimated to cost $4.5 million
The informational sheet stated the complex is needed to provide badly needed gymnasium space. The facility would also provide a venue for tournaments and STEM competitions.
The center could provide facilities where students and residents could utilize indoor and outdoors spaces for walking, pickleball and fitness.
The 40,000-square-foot facility would have three basketball courts, a weight room, indoor track, pole vault, long jump, high jump, pitching and hitting cages, restrooms, storage spaces, spectator seating, a coaching classroom and paved parking.
The fact sheet stated there currently is no plan to use taxpayer money for the project. Funding would be through grants.
According to the fact sheet, the ideal location for the complex would be on property owned by the district near the existing track.
Other business
Two teachers were honored Monday by the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees for their willingness to help students.
Diana Fesenmyer, the Region 9 Director for PASR, awarded $250 grants to Lori Corbett and Kerri Sutch.
Corbett, a Cranberry counselor, asked for a grant to purchase novels in a variety of genres for each member of the Cranberry Area High School Book Club for grades 9 through 12.
Club members will meet in small groups of their peers to discuss the books. The club members will be able to keep the books and develop their own libraries.
Sutch, an eighth-grade science teacher, will use her grant to develop a classroom set of metric measurement tools, such as metal metric rulers, a digital metric converter and clear metric rulers to use with measuring items.
“Thank you for having such a great staff willing to write grants to help the students … succeed,” Fesenmyer said.
Cranberry Elementary School will honor veterans at 2 p.m. Nov. 8, which is ahead of Veterans Day on Nov. 11. Lunch will follow the program. Cranberry Area Senior High School will conduct a Veterans Day service at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 9. Lunch will follow.
