Yoga, painting, gardening and storytime await home-schooled youngsters at a new program in Vandergrift. The Homeschool Co-op class meets every Friday in the lower level hall at The Center on Franklin Avenue in Vandergrift. It’s two hours of creative and nontechnology focused activities for children who are home-schooled. It’s taught by The Center owner, educator and coordinator Chloe Kruse. Kruse said the concept was born out of covid-19 conditions last fall. Her children previously were enrolled in the Kiski Area School District, but when the pandemic hit, she sought educational options. “I was trying to gather other like-minded families, ones that are young in age and wanting to do a lot of hands-on, noncomputer/nontechnology learning,” Kruse said. “That’s what brought us all together. The public school system switched to virtual learning, and we didn’t want our children learning on computers.”