Photo Series PHS Homecoming

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The town will be painted blue and gold this weekend, as St. Vincent High School holds their annual homecoming festivities.

Thursday night will marks the annual lighting of the bonfire on the school’s cam-pus by the student body at 7 p.m., followed by traditional bonfire night activities.

Friday, the alumni and student body will participate in the annual homecoming pa-rade.

“Line up at the city park will begin at 5 p.m.,” said Patricia Hensley, president

of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Schools. “The parade will begin at 6 p.m.”

The SV Indians will face off against the Grandview Eagles on Friday night, with kickoff at 7:30 p.m.


Tomorrow is the deadline for Perry County residents to register to vote in the November election.

Voters are required to be registered by the fourth Wednesday prior to an election in order to vote in that election.

Anyone who is not already a registered voter within Perry County has until 5 p.m. Wednesday, to register for the Nov. 2 Gen-eral Election.

Individuals may register to vote do so at the Perry County clerk’s office, located in the Perry County Administration Building, 321 N. Main St., Perryville.

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Yet another historic Per-ryville building has been sold; one that’s been vacant

for more than a year, and in serious need of some tender loving care.

Commonly known as the Vest Martin property (dubbed after a previous owner), the building has been purchased by Ochs Construction owner Jesse Ochs, who also recently

purchased Twin Halls. The property, located

at the corner of Jackson and Ste. Maries Streets and neighboring the Per-ryville Police Department, originally began as a single building. An extension —

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Perryville Mayor Debbie Gahan has got-ten the opportunity to be apart of Charter Communication’s annual Elected Officials’

Holiday Greetings, where she will deliver a roughly 30-second public service announcement regarding texting and driving, to be aired during the holiday season.

Gahan received a let-ter from Charter in early

September, asking if she’d be interested in appearing in a PSA spot, and was given a list of possible 30-second sample scripts to relay during her designated time slot.

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See Vote/Page 5a

See SVHS/2a

Indian alumni to celebrate

One day left to register, vote in Nov. election

Gahan to record holiday public service announcement warning drivers of the dangers of texting.

St. Vincent homecoming activities begin Thursday with bonfire.

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Perryville was packed over the weekend with graduates from Perryville High School who traveled across the country for the annual homecoming fes-tivities.

The three-day festivities began Thursday evening when roughly 250 students and alumni gathered on the PHS campus to watch the senior class of 2013 participate in the ritual lighting of the bonfire. The high school band, the Marching Buccaneers, per-formed a variety of numbers, including the school’s fight song.

Friday dawned with grey skies and cooler tem-peratures, and the student pep rally, scheduled for the last hour of the school day, had to be moved in-doors due to the slow and steady rain that began fall-ing around noon.

The rain did little to dampen the spirits of the

Photo by amanda Layton

Kristin Triller, daughter of Charlie and Dana Triller, was named the 2012 Perryville High School homecoming queen on Friday night as the court, wearing rain boots under their ball gown, gathered on the soggy football field. Here she receives a kiss of congratulations from each of the other senior candidates, Aleshia Reiss, left, and Lauren Buxton, right. Triller was escorted by Chris Zahner, son of Scott and Melissa Zahner. For more photos of homecoming activities, see pages 6A-8A.

Photo by amanda Layton

Staying warm and mud-free was the priority Friday night for senior court members Lauren Buxton, Aleshia Reiss and Kristin Triller, who hid their long johns and rain boots under their beautiful gowns.

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Triller and Zahner named homecoming king and queen under a steady fall of rain and during chilly temperatures.

Jesse Ochs purchases second downtown TIF building.

Final historic TIF building bought

KISSES FOR A QUEEN

Photo by amanda Keefe

Jesse Ochs purchases second historic downtown building.

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PHS homecoming is a soggy affair

Photo by AmAndA lAyton

The girls of the 2012 PHS homecoming court, lined up in their finest on Friday looked like a rainbow row of colorful candy, despite the muddy field and rainy weather. From left are freshman Katie Roth, sophomore Taylor Cissell, junior Brooke Picou, senior Aleshia Reiss, homecoming queen senior Kristin Triller and senior Lauren Buxton. After spending most of the football game under a tent, the girls shivered in their evening wear as near 40-degree temperatures set in along with light rain during the halftime crowing of queen Triller and king Christopher Zahner.

Above, a newly-crowned Kristin Triller is all smiles with her escort Chris-topher Zahner. At far left, Pirate players stay huddled together on the sidelines. At left, the PHS cheerleaders wear long pants and rain coats to try and beat the elements while cheering on the team Friday night.

- by AmAndA lAyton

At left, diehard pirate fans Barb and Raymond Bohnert dressed in layers on Friday, braving the elements to cheer on the boys in green. Above, students from PHS don’t care about the rain, as they turn out in coats and gloves to support their team. At right, Marching Buc-caneer tuba players had to wrap their instruments in plastic to protect them from the falling rain during the band’s halftime performance.

-by AmAndA lAyton

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students who filled the school gymnasium with cheers, with a variety of skits organized by the stu-dent council, the mothers of the senior football players and the PHS cheerleaders.

While the student body looked on, the football players were blindfolded, and unwittingly dressed in women’s clothing. There was also a peanut butter eat-ing contest, and senior Levi Bachman amazed the crowd by ingesting a near-full two- liter bottle of root beer, to beat out three representa-tives from lower grades.

Shortly before 3 p.m., the decision was made by school administrators to move the homecoming parade, origi-nally slated for Friday eve-ning, to Saturday morning due to the continued rainfall.

The 7:30 p.m. kickoff saw temperatures drop-ping to the low 50s, and a steady drizzle still falling. Die-hard Pirate fans and parents dressed in slickers, braved the elements under umbrellas to show their sup-port for the boys on the field who followed suit of the

NFL players and wore pink socks with their traditional uniforms to show support for October’s breast cancer awareness month.

“They are showing their support,” football mom Nancy Voelker said.

Hot chocolate was a big seller for the game, as fans huddled together to stay warm and dry, and the cheerleaders donned rain-coats over their uniforms.

With less than a minute left in the first quarter, am-bulance crews were called to the field to assist an of-ficial who was complaining of chest pains. The game was delayed as the ref was taken from the game on a stretcher and later trans-ported to the hospital via ambulance.

Half-time saw the Marching Buccaneers doing little in the way of marching in the rain, as the students performed the half-time show in the chilly rain with instruments wrapped in plastic to protect them from the weather.

Athletic Director Jeff Steffens rolled out a tarp for the homecoming court, dressed in their formal fin-

est, so they would be able to step onto the football field without standing in mud, despite the fact that the girls on court traded in their heals for rain boots.

Kristin Triller, daughter of Charlie and Dana Triller and Christopher Zahner, son of Scott and Melissa Zahner, were selected by the student body to serve as the 2012 homecoming king and queen.

“I am so happy and surprised,” Dana Triller, mother of Kristen, said with tears in her eyes. The senti-ment was repeated by Zahn-er’s mother Melissa who worked her way to the front of the crowd to congratulate her son.

The Pirates fell to the Park Hills Central Rebels, 35-0. Saturday morning, the skies cleared and the morning parade drew quite a crowd as class floats and wagons moved along the route tossing out candy.

A number of party ven-ues were booked with alum-ni class reunions on Satur-day night, while the student body gathered at the Perry Park Center for the annual homecoming dance.

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PHS Dis-t i n g u i s h e d alumni Nancy Moore and Dorothy Hem-man were rid-ing in style in a red convertible as they served as grand mar-shals of the annual home-coming pa-rade. Although chilly, the pa-rade was held under bright blue skies, with thousands of Perryville resi-dents turning out to line the streets to wave at the classes who contrib-uted floats and wagons to the parade. Spirits were high de-spite the fact Pirates fell to Park Hills Central.

—photos by AmAndA

LAyton

To the relief of many, the homecoming parade originally set for Friday night was moved to Saturday morning due to rain. After a gloomy Friday, homecomers were happy to welcome the Saturday morning sunshine, as is apparent in Eli Brown’s arms-open stance, above, as he rode in the parade with his Perryville Youth Football teammates. At left, kindergartner Gavin Hemmann gets in on the candy-catching.

—photos by AmAndA LAyton

At right, Perryville High School senior cheerlead-ers Katelyn Hudson and Paige Seabaugh ride with the rest of their squad during the parade. Below, Perryville Alumni Presi-dent Daniel Kiefer holds up a pirate on a stick as he rode with the rest of his classmates from the class of 1972. Several classes participated in the pa-rade, the earliest being 1931. The class of 1992 had some unexpected ex-citement when a classic Camaro they were run-ning through the parade in front of the class wagon overheated, sidelining a few members of the class near the end of the parade route.

— photos by

AmAndA LAyton

Above, Marching Buccaneer Ryan Hoehn brings up the rear of the band with his guitar. The band was dressed in their traditional uniforms after being unable to wear them during Friday night’s rainy game. Below, Janice Schumer is dressed like a lady Pirate for the parade.

— photos by AmAndA LAyton

Above, Brian and Tammy Dreyer show their Pirate Pride during the parade. Below, Ryan Bergman, Kevin Sutterer and Dana Walker from the class of 1992 ride their class wagon along with a couple kids.


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Other senior class candidates Lauren Buxton and Lucas Hotop ride in the parade.


The PHS senior class of 2013 was riding in style on Sat-urday morning as they celebrate their final homecom-ing as students. Below, Matt Terbrak takes a sip while riding with his teammates during the parade.


Above, junior class candidates Brooke Picou and Jonny Pruiett are all smiles. At right, freshman candidates Austin Bachmann and Katie Roth enjoy a homecoming they will never forget. Below, Pirate quaterback Tyler Holligan escorts classmate Taylor Cissell.


Senior candidates Aleshia Reiss and Levi Zook were cool cats in their sun glasses.


With the threat of rain behind them, homecoming queen Kristin Triller rides with her king Christopher Zahner during the Saturday morning parade. The pair were driven by Kristin’s father, Charlie Triller while Chris’s dad Scott Zahner rode in the passenger seat. The pair were crowned by retiring queen Ashley Meyer.


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