Cranberry police administrator Lori Lowry, fire and emergency service administrator Amy Behun and members of the Cranberry Township Community Response Team hand out bags of school supplies Thursday at the township's public works facility

CRANBERRY TWP — One hundred insulated blue-gray lunch bags lined tables outside of the township's Public Safety Training Center Thursday afternoon.

Filled with school and safety supplies and fire presentation information, members of the Cranberry Township Community Response Team handed them out to local students.

The event was called Operation Lunch Pail Pals.

“It's indicative of the caring community we live in,” said Jerry Andree, township manager. “No matter how big Cranberry gets.”

The response team wanted to pitch in to help families getting ready for school. Using funds donated to the group to purchase school supplies seemed like a good way to help families prepare for that first day back in class.

This is an excerpt from a story that appears in Friday's Butler Eagle.