Cranberry Township Communication Manager Tina Fedko demonstrates corhole on the boards the township provides in the Cranberry Township Block Party Trailer.

CRANBERRY TWP — The township is bringing back the neighborhood block party with a unique piece of equipment.

The township purchased and stocked a small utility trailer with everything a neighborhood would need to host a community block party. The trailer has four folding tables, 26 chairs, recycling and trash cans, cornhole boards, bocce, a canopy tent and Yardzee game.

There also are barricades and safety cones to help block off a street for the party. The trailer even comes with garbage bag tags to help out with extra trash leftover from the event.

Jerry Andree, township manager, said in the past when people would host block parties, police might help by providing barriers to block off sections of the road. But otherwise people were on their own if they didn't have enough tables, chairs and extra garbage cans to accommodate guests and sometimes would not host neighborhood get-togethers.

“These are things that we've heard over the years that hinder people from pulling things together,” Andree said. “They don't have this or that, or it's a hassle to pull this out.”