CRANBERRY TWP — The township’s Community Response Team is partnering with the group Cranberry Sews It Flat to protect township employees.

Volunteers are sewing about 700 masks for township personnel and other essential businesses in the region.

The group is in need of donations, including:

n 100 percent quilting fabric made of cotton or a poly/cotton blend

n new cotton sheets

n ¼-inch flat braided elastic, double-fold bias tape or ribbon ¼- to ½-inch wide

n Fiskars 45 mm blades for rotary cutters

n laundry detergent, preferably unscented

n cotton or poly/cotton spools of thread for sewing machines and cones for serger machines

Items can be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday at the township Public Safety Training Center.

To volunteer as a seamstress, fill out a form at CranberryTownship.org/CRT.