It’s a sweet job any way you slice it.
Kelly Petrella, 36, of Vandergrift, heads the bakery team of five at Sprankle’s Market in Leechburg.
The Alle-Kiski Valley native and Kiski Area High School alumnus is typically the first employee to arrive, beginning her shift at 5 a.m.
“Customers comment on the fresh smell of baking bread when they enter the store,” Petrella said.
Petrella bakes 72, 12-inch buns in 18 minutes in a large, state-of-the-art interior rotating industrial oven.
“We offer a hoagie fundraiser and use our freshly baked bread, instead of bought bread,” Petrella said.
Customers can choose from about 20 dozen freshly baked breads including kaiser, hoagie and hamburger buns.
Tyler McCandless is a teen shutterbug.
Photography is his go-to hobby, trekking solo locally and regionally hiking and photographing small historic towns and natural landscapes.
McCandless, 18, lives in the Markle section of Allegheny Township and is a freshman studying environmental engineering at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
He was born in Maine and lived in Ohio but has called Western Pennsylvania home since moving here in the second grade.
He said the photography bug hit when he was about 12.
“I’ve always liked taking pictures, and my mom put me in photography lessons when I was little,” McCandless said. “But I’m really self-taught. I like to challenge myself creatively and randomly just by going outside anytime of the day and trying to get something good out of it.”