The Peru Gazette

The Peru Central School Class of 65 is having a (51st!) class reunion July 29, 30, 31. We are hoping to bring most of our 160+ classmates back to the North Country for a memorable and fun-filled reunion. 

We have not had a full-scale reunion in 31 years and as a result are struggling to find everyone! We are looking for  classmates who both graduated with us or were with us for most of our high school years. 

If you were (or know someone who was) in Peru’s class of 1965, and have not yet heard from us, we would like to send you reunion information.  Please contact me by either email or phone.

Carlene Allen Wood

Peru Central School Class of 65

cmawood@gmail.com

107 Jabez Allen Road

Peru, NY 12972

513-509-8755(call or text)

Beginning May 4th, Town of Peru Historian Ron Allen will be in his office at the Town Hall every Wednesday from 1 to 4 p.m. Other hours are available by appointment by calling Ron at 561-0038.

LAKE PLACID — The new Marshalls store here is expected to add about 60 full- and part-time jobs.

Source: Marshalls department store to open in Lake Placid | News | pressrepublican.com

The Annual Meeting will be held on April 26 at 6:00 PM at the Peru Community Church.  The following items will be on the agenda: 

1)  Fiscal report for the year January 1 to December 31, 2015

2)  Nomination and election of officers, 3 slots are open. 

3) Discussion of the following free programs will be presented: 

    a)  JJ…a  program for children with developmental issues or challenges. 

    b.  Grieving children. 

    c.  Nursing home, assisted living, hospital visitation with animals, mostly miniature donkeys. 

On-site programs are held on the Butternut Ridge Farm located at 648 Calkins Road, Peru, NY 12972

The Peru Gazette apologizes for missing this announcement in our email. It was received on April 16th. 

By John T. Ryan

A date and time have been set and volunteers are needed to plant trees in Heyworth/Mason Park. Anyone willing to help should report to the park this coming Saturday, April 30^th at 9 a.m. Over 200 trees will be planted near or on the banks of the Little Ausable River. The goal is to prevent or reduce riverbank erosion. All necessary tools will be provided.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is providing the trees at no charge to the Town of Peru. The Clinton County Soil Conservation District is coordinating the program. If you have questions, please call Adele Douglas at 643-7863.

The Town of Peru Water and Sewer Department will be flushing hydrants from May 2 to May 6th. Users may experience low water pressure and cloudy water during this process.

L-R Bernie Jakobetz, Melissa & David Goodrich, Jane Gage, Ann Wilke

By John T. Ryan

Peru – Are you a person age 60 or older or do you know anyone 60 or over who would appreciate a good meal, a few laughs and interesting conversation? If the answer is “yes,” you’ll find all of this and more at 11:45 a.m. Monday through Friday at the Peru Community Church Fellowship Center. The Peru Gazette stopped by the Fellowship Center this past Thursday. We sampled the food, talked to everyone and we loved it!

Thursday’s menu featured a delicious salad, michigans, tasty potatoes, green beans, fruit-filled jello and unforgettable banana cake – all this for a suggested donation of $3.00 for folks 60 and over and $8 for anyone under 60. Reservations are requested. Just call 561-8320. A Peru phone (420-4184) will be activated in the near future. The Senior Citizens Council of Clinton County and the New York State and Clinton County Offices of the Aging sponsor the meal program. The sponsors recently responded to participant requests to return the program to the Fellowship Center in the center of Peru hamlet.  Meals had been served at the Peru VFW for several years.

The ladies and gentlemen enjoying Thursday’s meal had a diverse background. They included Bernie Jakobetz, a retired member of the U.S. Air Force; David Goodrich, a retired corrections officer and race horse trainer; Melissa Goodrich, a homemaker who earned a teaching degree in special education after her children left home; Jane Gage, a nurse who later became a nursing home administrator; Ann Wilke, a longtime medical office administrator and active community member; and a Korea native (who departed before we could get her name) who immigrated to the United States and ultimately became a missionary in Africa.

The meal program is designed to get seniors (irregardless of income) out of their homes to socialize and enjoy healthful, good tasting meals. Video bowling is also offered each Monday and Wednesday. Dave Goodrich remarked, “We love to play cards and would if we had a few more people coming.” Bingo is another option if enough people show interest.

Menus April and May

 1. Call Meeting To Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call

4. MOTION: Approval of Minutes of the March 28, 2016 Regular Board Meeting.

5. Community Input

6. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: New Cover for Highway Salt Shed 

7. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: First Niagara Leasing Agreement. 

8. DISCUSSION: CHIPs Update. 

9. DISCUSSION: Code Enforcement Officer Interviews. 

10. DISCUSSION: Code Office Update. 

11. DISCUSSION: Subdivision Regulations Committee. 

12. DISCUSSION: Dunkin Doughnuts Sidewalk.

13. DISCUSSION: Pickle Ball Court Update.

14. DISCUSSION: Main Street Committee Update 

15. DISCUSSION: Change in Town Historian Office Hours.

16. DISCUSSION: Peru International Festival III.

17. DISCUSSION/MOTION: Adjourn to Executive Session. 

18. DISCUSSION/MOTION: Return to Regular Session.

19. DISCUSSION: Other Business. 

20. DISCUSSION: Public Comments on Agenda Items Only.

21. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Approve/Pay Bills. 

MOTION:    Adjourn

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Source: List of Sears, Kmart stores closing across the U.S.

Spring should be arriving soon, and many people will be thinking about their flower gardens! Why not purchase your plants from the Peru Community Church Ladies Guild who will be selling geraniums, begonias and marigolds, by order only, in May. There will be three colors of geraniums (red, white and pink), and the cost will be $1.50 per plant. The begonias will be mixed colors in a six pack, and the cost will be $1.75 per six pack. The marigolds will be mixed colors in a six pack, and the cost will be $1.75 per six pack.

Flowers can be ordered until May 15^th. Pick up date is May 20^th from 12:00 to 6:00 pm. Orders can be made by calling the church office, 643-8641. Every person who orders will be eligible to win a door prize of a wooden plant stand/bench made by Steve Dennie.

“After Midnight” – a Patsy Cline experience with Courtney Shayne – is Saturday, April 23, at 6 pm at the Peru Community Church Fellowship Center, 13 Elm Street, Peru. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door; children 12 and under are free.

Hailing from the Albany area, Courtney Shayne as Patsy Cline wowed the crowd when last here in 2014. Enjoy great music and interesting stories about the life this country music icon, lost too soon. With audience participation, this will be a fun evening for young and old alike. Come kick up your heels – there’s also space for dancing!

Advance tickets are available through 3 pm, Friday, April 22 at the church office, 13 Elm Street, or by contacting the organizers, Howard and Debbie Bell at 518-643-2261, or Jane Way at 518-569-4514. Doors open at 5:15pm, tickets will be sold at the door, but space is limited. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the show.

Proceeds benefit the Capital Fund for building upgrades at the church, including the new roof installed last year at the Fellowship Center.

PLATTSBURGH, NY – The Strand Center for the Arts is excited to host another installment of its lunchtime music series in its Gallery in April, 2016 featuring music performed by students from SUNY Plattsburgh. In this performance Rachel Hurtt, Ricardo Burgos-Mendez, and Elidia Lopez, along with flautist Trevor White and soprano Dana Bowers will demonstrate their amazing musical talents. Dr. Karen Becker, chair of the Department of Music at SUNY Plattsburgh, will accompany the musicians. This upcoming free event will take place in The Strand Center Gallery on Friday, April 29 from 1:00-2:00 PM. Read more »

Assemblywoman Janet Duprey cuts the celebratory ribbon and School Superintendent Dr. Patrick Brimstein looks on.

By John T. Ryan

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 was a historic day for staff and students at Peru elementary School. The school’s long-awaited elevator was put into service. Assemblywoman Janet Duprey, who expedited funding for the project, cut the ribbon to celebrate the elevator’s being put into service.

Many Peru Elementary School assemblies, concerts and other activities take place in the “Crackerbox” gym at the southern end of the very long school. Prior to Tuesday, students confined to a wheelchair or having mobility challenges had to leave the building and travel down a long sidewalk to the Crackerbox. Being outdoors may have been pleasant during the springtime, but it wasn’t so enjoyable during Peru’s cold winter months.

Peru Central Superintendent Dr. Patrick Brimstein praised Assemblywoman Janet Duprey for her support of the elevator project. He explained. “We wanted to get the project completed, but it was going very slowly. Janet Duprey called the State Education Department and she was able to get the project moving.”

3rd grader Jay Wood and teacher Courtney Rock were some of the first elevator riders.

Peru Central School District’s Board of Education will have a brief, special meeting on the morning of Thursday, April 21^st at 7:15 AM in the Jr/Sr High School Community Room.

Thursday morning’s brief special meeting will focus exclusively on consideration of the BOCES administrative budget for the 2016‐2017 school year and consideration of candidates running for seats on this region’s BOCES.

No other school board or school district business is slated for Thursday morning. The full agenda is available at www.perucsd.org.

All are welcome.

How much money a school can spend on its students still depends, in large part, on local property taxes. And many states aren’t doing much to level the field for poor kids.

Source: How School Funding’s Reliance On Property Taxes Fails Children : NPR

Town of Peru 2016 Presidential Primary Election Results
Not including 43 Affidavit Ballots and 14 Emergency Ballots

Republican Party
Donald Trump 299
John Kasich 159
Ben Carson 6
Ted Cruz 94

Registered Republicans and Democrats were lined up at noon to vote in the Presidential Primary when polls opened at the St. Augustine’s Parish Center. Voting continues until 9 p.m. The Peru Gazette will be there when the votes are counted. We’ll post the Peru results as soon as possible.

For the past several days Peru Highway personnel have been picking up winter sand and salt along hamlet roadsides. Now they’re moving into Peru’s several subdivisions. Today they’re in Quaker Springs. Ormsby Circle and Quaker Highlands are next.

The good weather is expediting this year’s cleanup, which is expected to last three to four weeks. Highway paving is next.

• Code Enforcement Hiring Progresses
• Park Vandalism Continues
• Trees to be Planted Along River 
• Mower Purchased From Local Business
• And More 

By John T. Ryan

Peru – The building season is beginning; however, Peru doesn’t have a full-time Code Enforcement Officer (CEO). Frank Slycord, the previous CEO, left his job in early March. Commenting at the Monday, April 11, 2016 Town Board meeting Town Supervisor Peter Glushko stated, “We will be advertising for a new Code Enforcement Officer.” Glushko went to say that applications for the position would be available at the Peru Town Hall. All applicants must pass a civil service examination, although someone may be hired pending successful completion of the civil service examination.

Steve Imhoff, a Peru resident and the Town of Plattsburgh’s full-time CEO, has been assisting Peru during his off-time hours. His time is more limited as Plattsburgh’s building activity picks up. Glushko said, “Steve is doing a good cleanup job. Things should be caught up in about two weeks. Kayla Martin, the CEO’s secretary, is also doing a great job.”

Thanks to an alert resident a mini van driver faces malicious mischief charges in Peru Town Court. On April 8^th, the driver allegedly drove on the grass at Heyworth/Mason Park. Turf was torn up near the river and picnic tables. The alert resident took down the vehicle’s license number and notified NY State Police. Supervisor Glushko signed the legal complaint against the alleged perpetrator.

Approximately 250 trees will be available for planting in Heyworth/Mason Park later this month or in early May. Dave Wilfore, a Clinton County Soil and Conservation District Technician, told the Board that the NYS Department of Environment Conservation has made the trees available at no charge and he would like to plant them with the Board’s approval. Wilfore said the trees should reduce erosion along the banks of the Little Ausable River that traverses the park. All the Town Board members were enthusiastic about the idea. Adele Douglas will coordinate the program and seek volunteers to assist with the planting. The Soil and Conservation Service will provide all stakes, tubes and necessary tools.

The new owners of the Peru Farm Center submitted the lowest price for a 2016 Ferris Model 3200 lawn mower. Thanks to a $3,000 trade-in and a $2,000 NYS Contract discount, the 72-inch mower will cost the Town $6,348. The Town’s Water/Sewer Department personnel use their mowers to maintain: Heyworth/Mason Park, Little Ausable River Park, Sullivan Park, Laphams Mills Park, cemeteries on the Blake Road, the Signor Road and the Bear Swamp Road, lawns adjacent to the water and sewer plants and the reservoir and several small scattered areas throughout the town.

The Highway Department’s sand-salt storage shed is on its way to being repaired. The Board approved purchasing 20 hoop stands to replace the deteriorating stands. A new fabric top will be purchased; prices were not available in time for Monday’s meeting. Jeffords Steel of Plattsburgh will provide the hoops at a cost of $12,981.

The transformation of the Jenkins Street tennis courts into pickle ball courts will probably not be completed in time for play this year. Repairing the existing sinkhole, modifying and equipping the courts are expected to take several months. The Highway Department, which would perform the sinkhole repairs, is entering its busy season. The courts are currently closed.

Wedding receptions will not be approved in Heyworth/Mason Park in the foreseeable future. Town Board members have no objections to weddings being performed at the beautiful park; however, they do not want the town exposed to the potential liability associated with wedding receptions. Alcoholic beverages are not permitted in any town park.

Editor’s Note: On 4/15/16 at 3:30 p.m. the price of the Town’s new Ferris mower was corrected to $6,348. It price was overstated when first posted.

See Sample Ballots Below

Registered New York State Republican and Democratic Party voters are the only people eligible to vote in the Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Presidential Primary elections.  Registered Independence Party, Working Families, Conservative and other third-party voters are not eligible. The primary is for Republicans and Democrats only.

Peru voters will vote in Memorial Hall at the St. Augustine’s Parish Center, 3030 Main St. in Peru. The polls are open from Noon to 9 p.m.

Sample Republican Ballot

Sample Democrat Ballot

Tickets are available for Donald Trump’s Friday, 3.p.m. appearance at the Crete Civic Center.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/sched…/register/plattsburgh-ny/

Hello Everyone,

We need your help!!  The Olympic Center in Lake Placid is one of the top 10 finalist in the Kraft Hockeyville USA competition. Voting to move to Phase 2 as a top 4 Finalist begins today thru Thursday. And then a final Phase starting on April 25!!

If we win the Kraft Hockeyville USA title we will win:

• A feature on NBC television
• $150,000 in arena upgrades
• An opportunity to host an NHL Pre-Season game!!

HOW YOU CAN HELP!!

1. Share this link on your Facebook (and any other social channels) https://www.facebook.com/LakePlacidAdk/?fref=ts

1. VOTE as much as you can between today and Thursday ( 4/12 – 4/14)
   1. Click here to vote – https://www.krafthockeyville.com/

1. Vote by texting:  LAKEPLACID to 35350     (text rates may apply)

1. Tell all your friends, family, and hockey fans  that we believe in our community and now is the chance to show everyone!  Let’s do it!! Please VOTE!! You Can Vote Up to 50 Times Daily! 

The workers, members of two unions — the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers — represent installers, customer service employees, repairmen and other service workers in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., for Verizon’s wireline business, which provides fixed-line phone services and FiOS Internet service. Between 300 and 400 union members walked a picket line outside the company’s office in downtown Albany, where workers set up an inflatable “greedy pig” and rat, said Mike Panzerino, treasurer of CWA Local 1118. The unions say Verizon wants to freeze pensions, make layoffs easier and rely more on contract workers. The telecom giant has said there are health care issues that need to be addressed for retirees and current workers because medical costs have grown and the company also wants “greater flexibility” to manage its workers. Verizon said in a statement Wednesday that it “has activated its business continuity plans as customer service remains the company’s top priority.”

Source: Verizon workers go on strike amid contract dispute – Times Union

Peru – St. Augustine’s Knights of Columbus Council 7273 will host a spaghetti dinner on Saturday, April 16^th at the St. Augustine’s Parish Center. “ALL YOU CAN EAT” spaghetti, salad, Italian bread and a delicious dessert will be served from 4:30 to 6:30 PM for only $7.50 per person, $2.50 for children 6 to 12, free for children 5 and under. Take-outs are available.

All proceeds will assist Bill McBride Jr., a Knight of Columbus, with his cancer treatments. The Knights will also purchase ferry tickets for his travel to and from Burlington.