Hundreds of participants are lining up for the launch of Cranberry CUP’s 16th season August 7-9, founder Cathy Cortazzo told Cranberry’s Board of Supervisors on July 30. Along with her own organization’s board, Cortazzo, a local resident who enlisted seven neighborhood Home Owners Associations in a friendly softball competition to raise money for charity back in 2000, has since expanded the event to include multiple softball divisions, a golf tournament, a 5K, a Kickoff party and more, raising one and a quarter million dollars for local families who have experienced severe financial stress due to medical or other hardships through no fault of their own.