Cheers to Bella Stefanowicz, the 10-year-old girl who took the wraps off a massive birthday present she’ll share with all of Cranberry Township.

Stella had asked friends and family to contribute to Kids Castle in lieu of buying her gifts.

When the elaborate, $500,000 playground officially opened Thursday afternoon, it was Stella who cut the ribbon. Hundreds of children and their families attended the dedication ceremony.

Contributions for the playground came from residents, businesses, the Cranberry Township Community Chest, the Cranberry Community Uniting People, and the township. And yes, from Stella’s birthday donations.

Kids Castle replaces a 22-year-old wooden playground known as Playtime Palace. The new park includes three themed areas honoring the township’s past, present and future.

Cheers also go to the nearly 5,000 people who helped in one form or another to create Kids Castle. A community built it; a community takes ownership of it; and a community — Stella included — will enjoy the fruit of their labor for decades to come.

Jeer “Never teach a pig to sing,” goes one folk-wisdom expression. “It’s a waste of time, and you annoy the pig.”Here’s another one: Never argue with a police dog. You can’t win, and you annoy the dog.James Andrews did just that at a sobriety checkpoint Sept. 15 in Cranberry Township.Andrews, 26, of Cranberry, had been pulled over and ticketed for drunken driving when he got in a barking match with Chaos, a 7-year-old German shepherd canine officer with the Evans City Police Department taking part in the DUI detail.Now, in addition to misdemeanor charges of DUI and driving without a license, Andrews is charged with a third-degree felony: taunting a police animal.According to the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, it is “unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously taunt, torment, tease, beat, kick or strike a police animal.”It’s also downright stupid.Police dogs are highly trained, but nonetheless they are animals with defensive instincts that take over when they get agitated. And a bite strength exceeding 200 pounds per square inch makes a German shepherd one lethal weapon.Lucky for Andrews that Chaos did not attack. In addition to the criminal charges, he could have been dealing with painful, disfiguring dogbite injuries.

Cheer Too often, news about jobs moving is about jobs leaving the region, the state or the nation. This past week, however, brought news about jobs moving into the area, into Butler County.PPG Industries announced that it is consolidating and expanding its coatings division and as a result will be moving jobs to Cranberry Township.About 200 of those jobs will be shifting from locations in Western Pennsylvania. But 300 workers will be moving to Cranberry from out-of-state facilities in Ohio, Delaware and Kentucky. Those 300 new employees moving to the area had worked for the Dutch paint maker AkzoNobel, which sold its North American operations to PPG. The Pittsburgh-based company is moving those workers closer to its headquarters. The company is also adding 60 jobs at its technology center in Hamar.PPG’s architectural coatings division is headquartered in Cranberry, in a building once occupied by Westinghouse before it consolidated some operations.Eventually, PPG expects about 500 employees to be located in Cranberry Township.That’s good news for Butler County and good news for Western Pennsylvania.The corporate consolidation bringing jobs to Butler County was aided by about $4 million in state incentives.The creation of any new jobs in the area is welcome news, but the PPG jobs moving to Butler County are professional, technical and management positions — and that’s especially good news. Those jobs pay better than the service and retail jobs that have dominated most of the job creation reports in recent years.