By Amanda Laytonalayton@perryvillenews.com

The Perryville Area Chamber of Com-merce welcomed some new members on Tuesday night as the group gathered at the Elks Lodge in Perryville for the Fall Quar-terly Membership Meeting, where those in attendance were asked to cast ballots to

elect individuals to serve on the Chamber of Commerce board.

Of the eight candidates submitted for se-lection, four new chamber board members were chosen, and will take their seat on the board in 2013. Winners include: Nicole Moore, of Modern Woodmen of America;

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The Perryville Walmart was a va-cant vessel Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat scribbled on a bathroom stall caused an evacuation of the entire building.

Monday afternoon the Perryville

Police Department was notified of a bomb threat written on a men’s bath-room stall that stated a bomb would detonate at 4:30 p.m. the following day, Tuesday.

Around 1 p.m., Tuesday, officers did an extensive search of the building, but found nothing.

By 4 p.m. Tuesday, only a half hour

before the bomb was said to go off, Walmart employees and customers were evacuated. Customers were asked to leave the premises.

For more than an hour, employees stood at the far end of the parking lot in a cluster as police vehicles blocked off

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Walmart employees and customers stand outside the store for more than an hour after a bomb threat caused an evacu-ation of the building Tuesday afternoon. Police officials searched the building and found the call was a hoax, and police had identified two suspects Wednesday.

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Surplus to be sold to the public

By Amanda Laytonalayton@perryvillenews.com

Preparations are currently under-way at Perry County School District 32 to round up unwanted or outdated items to be sold at a public auction.

“The district conducts a surplus property auction every two years,” school Superintendent Kevin Dunn said. “This year, due to the amount and type of property, the administra-tion is recommending taking sealed bids on the property that is for sale.”

The measure was discussed when the board met for a regular session meeting last week. Board President Tina Littge, along with board mem-bers, Jeff Weibrecht, Nancy Voelker, Mark Gremaud and Scott Hotop were present, while school board vice

Auction will raise money for Perry County’s schools.

Chamber gets new board members

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The Perryville Area Chamber of Commerce held their fall quarterly meeting on Tuesday at the Perryville Elks Lodge, where four individuals were selected from a field of 8 to serve as chamber board members beginning in 2013. Those elected in-clude Nicole Moore, John Staggs, Erika Worley and Stephanie Richardet.

Council sits in new chambers

Concrete or asphalt? That is the question

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Tuesday’s Perryville city council meet-ing saw, for the first time, the city board utilizing the new chamber room after four weeks of renovations. Mayor Debbie Gahan was particularly pleased with it.

“It looks good, it smells good and may it serve our purposes that we discussed when we set out to do this,” she said.

Once the excitement settled down, coun-cil got down to business.

On the agenda Tuesday, the seven names of the newly formed Airport Advisory Committee were released.

Alderman Gary Schumer asked to know a bit more background on the members se-lected.

A handful of the members are Sabreliner employees, and one member in particular, James Buck (one-year term), is Sabrelin-er’s chief pilot. Members Raymond Monier (one-year term) and Michael Hagan (two-year term) are both involved in FFA, and have a serious amount of aviation experi-ence under their belts, said City Adminis-trator Brent Buerck.

Alderman Curt Buerck, also a member of the committee, will represent the city for a two-year term. Other members include Rick Schemel, Jr. (one-year term), Bernie Grebe (three-year term) and Tim Buchheit (three-year term).

The committee members were approved by council, 6-0. As part of the city’s consent agenda, those who voted included Larry Riney, Tom Guth, Curt Buerck, Randy Leible, Gary Schumer and Prince Hudson.

In other action:n Also Tuesday, Police Chief Keith

Tarrillion presented to the board the final list of new police vehicles the department would like to purchase, including: three

Construction work takes less time than predicted; city council members appear to like re-worked chamber.

City council members debate the issue for soccer parking lot.

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Perryville City Council had a spirited dis-cussion at its Tuesday meeting concerning the details of bid specifications for the Bank of Missouri Soccer Complex parking lot.

At the last council meeting, when the project was first presented, a few alder-men had issues with using asphalt versus concrete, and asked that Perryville City Administrator Brent Buerck and City En-gineer Tim Baer do a bit more research on costs and function of both.

Though research was done and present-ed Tuesday, there were still plenty of ques-tions and concerns.

“Though concrete requires a lot less maintenance and asphalt requires more frequent sealing and treatment, we think asphalt is the best way to go,” said Buerck.

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Expressions, the gift shop located inside Perry County Memorial Hospital recently expanded their product line. The shop is entirely manned by the hospital’s extensive volunteer staff, like Kay Robins and Melva Rauss . A portion of the sales is used to support the PCMH Auxiliary projects.

PCMH gift shop expands hours for holiday seasonBy Amanda Laytonalayton@perryvillenews.com

Though tiny, Expres-sions gift shop, located near the entrance of the newly renovated Perry County Memorial Hospital, packs a big punch. And to let the community know just how proud they are, they are expanding their Saturday hours beginning this week-end. The Saturday Oct. 20 celebration will include drawings and discounted items.

Expressions gift shop, which offers a wide variety of items to be given for any occasion, was moved from its former location in the basement as part of the hos-pital’s recent reconstruction.

“I don’t think people know everything we have here,” volunteer coordinator Shearry Kridelbaugh said. “We have many unique gift options, from hand bags to stone statues and angels.”

The shelves of the shop are packed full with stuffed animals fit to celebrate the birth of a newborn to stone plaques, often given in mem-ory of the deceased. Those visiting hospital patients can stop in for a cappuccino, or another light snack.

Expressions is the only

local distributor of the Da-Vinci Jewelry line, which is a collection of bracelets, necklaces and key chains that can be customized with colorful decorative beads. The shop also carries brands like Willow Tree and Foun-dation Angels.

“To keep up with the holiday shopping season that is just around the cor-ner, Expressions has ex-panded their hours to now be open on Saturdays. Be-ginning October 20, we will be open every Saturday,” Kridelbaugh said. “We will also offer free gift wrap-ping.”

A previously little known fact is that Expres-sions has the capability to deliver monuments or keep-sakes to either of the local funeral homes.

“If we receive the order by 2 p.m., we can deliver to either funeral home in Perryville for a $3 delivery fee,” Kridelbaugh said. “If you cannot make it in to the store, but would like to send a gift, orders can be placed over the phone by calling (573) 547-2530, extension 3755, during normal gift shop hours.”

Expressions gift shop has undergone many chang-

es since the medical cen-ter’s dedication last winter, but as always the store is manned by a fleet of volun-teers who keep the shelves stocked with one-of-a-kind gifts and trinkets, custom fit for every gift giving occas-sion.

“We welcome new vol-unteers all the time,” she said. “They are the heart and soul here.” For volunteer opportu-nities, contact Kridelbaugh at (573) 768-3488.

In addition to the Sat-urday hours, Kridelbaugh said the hospital is currently looking into adding evening hours as well, one night a week. “We will release more information about that when it becomes available,” she said.

The gift shop is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.-4 p.m., and has added the holiday hours on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Gifts are delivered by volunteers weekdays from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. to inpatients and hospital employees.

According to the PCMH Website, all sales at Expres-sions are tax free, and pro-ceeds from each sale benefit PCMH Auxiliary projects helping support PCMH and the people they serve.

Downtown businesses to say ‘thanks’ Oct. 25By Amanda Laytonalayton@perryvillenews.com

For five straight years, the merchants along the downtown square have opened their doors in a debt of thanks to the many who have made it their mission to support small, local businesses, and next Thurs-day they will do so again.

On Oct. 25, the fifth annual Business on the Square Customer Appreciation event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Farm Bureau agent Rebecca Franklin has participated in the appreciation day for two years. “Walking around the square on that day, visiting with the other business owners and all of our customers makes me proud to be a part of this community,” she said. “And let’s face it, you get smiles and free food! What a great day.”

The yearly event centers around food and fellowship, as vendors spend a lunch hour saying “thank you” to their custom-ers and clients.

“We’ve always gotten a lot of posi-tive feed back from the public, and the businesses are all ready to this again this year,” Kirk Buehler of Main Street Signs said. “We look forward to the people com-ing out for the afternoon.”

Last year, the lunch hour appreciation expanded, allowing businesses who aren’t necessarily located on the downtown square to get in on the action by setting up independent booths along the sidewalks.

Nearly 20 businesses will be partici-pating in the giveaways.

Farm Bureau will serve beef stew, while their neighbor J and N Finance dishes up chili. The Bank of Missouri and Reliable Community Title will offer cara-mel apple-bites, hot cocoa and sponsor a small prize give away.

PCMH will once again serve s’mores cooked over a portable fire pit and Main Street Signs is sticking to hot dogs and chips.

Eagle Bank is firing up the grill to serve pork burgers, while JoAnn’s Beauty Shop, The Printing Co. and Body Treats all cater to the sweet tooth with candy, cookies or

other treats. Hallmark will serve walking tacos,

while the Chamber of Commerce dishes up meatballs.

Apple cider will be available at Layton and Southard LLC., and 15 West will serve chili.

The Republic-Monitor will offer sub-scription giveaways and meat and cheese from Stonies.

K &L Sports and Zahner and Associ-ates will serve Sloppy Joes, to go along with Webb Law Firm and City Tavern’s chips and soda.

Elder’s Barber Shop will have cold drinks, as will the Perryville County Club. The Willow House Bed and Breakfast will once again serve the crowd-pleasing choc-olate bread pudding.

Photo by AmAndA LAyton

Customer Paul Collins and employee Kirk Buehler congregate in front of Main Street Signs during last year’s Business on the Square Customer Ap-preciation. Main Street along with close to 20 other downtown shops will say “thanks” again next Thursday when they open up their doors to serve treats over the lunch hour.

off all entrances to the store so no customers could come through.

At 5 p.m., the police department conducted an-other search, and again, nothing was found.

“We searched every-thing,” said Police Chief Keith Tarrillion. “We looked through all areas of the building, and nothing was located.”

As of 5:15 Tuesday, Tarrillion said the depart-ment had interviewed one suspect, and was in the process of locating a sec-ond. Walmart reopened at 5:15 Tuesday.

The investigation is still ongoing.

Eleven different Mis-souri Walmart stores re-ceived bomb threats dur-ing the summer, including

locations in Jefferson City, Nixa, Ozark, Raytown, Gladstone, Fredericktown and Kansas City, accord-ing to reports from Kansas City and Columbia, Mo., television stations in July and August.

Tarrillion, however, said

these bomb threats are not related to the bomb threat Tuesday in Perryville.

“No, it’s not related,” he said. “We have two very good suspects at this point. We’re confident it is not related to any other inci-dents in Missouri.”

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president Kevin Bachmann and Scott Cooper were not in attendance.

For sale to the highest bidder include some wood decking, short pieces of tin, 17 folding cafeteria tables, a 1985 Chevy two-wheel drive pick up truck, a 1982 Chevy van and a 1972 double-wide trailer that was once used as a classroom.

Sealed bids for the items will be accepted until noon on Nov. 5 in the Board of Education Office. All indi-viduals interested in viewing the items for sale are asked to schedule an appointment with the maintenance de-partment between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday though Friday. The board gave ap-proval to declare the pro-posed list as surplus and take bids with the intent to sell at the Nov. 14 board of educa-tion meeting.

Board members were in-troduced to new teachers at the elementary school dur-ing the recognition portion of the meeting. The new ed-ucators were recognized for all the extra time and effort they put forth in preparing their classrooms for the be-ginning of the school year.

Art projects from the elementary school were on display in the board meet-ing room this month.

In other news:n The board viewed the

monthly Missouri School Boards’ Association video. This month’s video talked about the annual MSBA Conference that was held the end of September. They also reviewed some of the topics planned for the up-coming Fall Regional Meet-ings.n Jennifer Streiler, El-

ementary Principal, and Mike Wortmann, Assis-tant Elementary Principal, talked about the tremen-dous parent participation in their building. Through the efforts of their parents and donations from local busi-nesses, they were able to totally revamp the elemen-tary multipurpose room. It is now a vision of Pirate Pride. The pair also dis-cussed plans to revise the elementary school’s mis-sion and vision statements, and the many programs they are working on to enhance student learning in the el-ementary.n Cheryl Ray-Layton

reported on the increased numbers of members in the Missouri State Teachers Association and local Perry County Teachers Associa-tion, reporting that more than 100 educators in the district are active members of the associations. Ray-Layton also reported on the success of the recent Pirate Palooza, the school-wide assembly held the week of PHS homecoming. n Dr. Linda Buerck,

District 32 director of cur-

riculum, reported on the program evaluation for Curriculum/Instruction/Assessment. In addition to that report, Buerck, along with Lee Gattis, Tammie Lukefahr and Adam Apple-ton, gave a presentation on the abbreviated version of the high school’s Ar-ticulated ACT Action Plan. The board approved this program evaluation as pre-sented.n Recent MSBA confer-

ence attendees reported on a particular workshop session they attended. Russell Leek, assistant superintendent, re-ported on the Title IX ses-sion, and Dunn reported on the breakfast in the class-room session.n Dunn reviewed fiscal

year budget amendments needed to reflect the chang-es in state/federal revenue projections, which have oc-curred since the budget was finalized in June. The board gave approval to these amendments.n In closed session, the

board voted to employ Don-ald Goodson and Richard Conaway as assistant base-ball coaches for the 2012-13 school year, equally splitting the salary between them.n The board set a special

board meeting for Nov. 7, at 7 p.m., to review the super-intendent search process. Dunn recently announced his resignation/retirement, effective June 30, 2013.

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Stephanie Richardet, of Paycheck Payroll Servic-es; John Staggs, owner of Perryville and Crystal City Sears stores; and Erika Worley, manager of the Perryville branch of Re-gions Bank.

“We want to congratu-late all our winners,” chamber director Melissa Hemmann said. “We look forward to working with them next year.”

Chamber president Cindy Buchheit updated the crowd of roughly 200 business owners and their spouses on the current hap-penings of the chamber, in-cluding a new ambassador program that the chamber will launch in 2013 to en-courage higher attendance at chamber functions.

“Chamber ambassadors will help the Perryville Area Chamber of Com-merce’s new members and businesses by assisting in ribbon cuttings, major events and other general promotions of the Cham-ber,” Buchheit said. “As an ambassador, you get the chance to meet new busi-

ness leaders in the commu-nity, while promoting your own business.”

Buchheit also touched on upcoming chamber events that include next week’s Moonlight Mad-ness, Poker Walk and Chili Cook-off. Buchheit encouraged those in the crowd to consider register-ing a team to participate in the cook-off, informing that the future of the chili cook off was in jeopardy due to a lack of participa-tion.

Those who participated in Leadership Perryville, including 11 graduates, were recognized.

Prior to the meal, Fr. Ralph Milton delivered the prayer.

Guest speaker for the evening was past president of the Perryville Develop-ment Corporation John Rauh, who with the help of his wife Carline, and fel-low board members Mike and Vikki Lundy, delivered a presentation on behalf of the newly formed Perry County Military History Museum. Rauh serves as the organization’s sergeant of arms.

A Navy veteran dur-ing the Vietnam conflict

and an active military his-tory preservationist, Rauh gave a brief history of the formation of the military museum, stating that it has found a temporary home on the second floor of the Perryville Higher Educa-tion Center.

“We have a lot of heroes in our community, and we owe them respect and honor,” he said.

The presentation in-cluded a Power Point pre-sentation that displayed several historical photo-graphs of Perry County’s military men and women dating back to the Civil War era, as well as displays that have been prepared at the museum.

Rauh said the newly located museum would be hosting a grand opening on Nov. 11, which is Veter-ans’ Day.

Rauh said that a signup is currently underway for anyone who wanted to become a member of the museum. The cost is $15 annually. Currently the museum has 61 members.

“Perry County has a rich tradition of supporting local veterans, and it is our intention to continue that tradition,” Rauh said.

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