On Monday afternoon, Oil City’s Dollar General in Hasson Heights was transformed into a prehistoric playground as the traveling I Heart Cookies Company rolled into town. The Kansas-based business, which tours the country year-round, brought along an impressive lineup of animatronic dinosaurs — including towering tyrannosaurus rexes, a triceratops, raptors, and even baby dinos — along with interactive attractions like a raptor enclosure and fossil dig pit. Visitors could meet, play with, and snap photos of the creatures, all for the price of a cookie, making for a sweet and memorable afternoon.
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