Watch our Garden Grow
 We have been blessed with a generous gift of spring bulbs for our church gardens. We all enjoyed the colorful tulips during the Easter season. Click here to see photos.
RESERVING ROOMS
St. Peter’s has many events taking place throughout each week. If you have an event or meeting planned and need some space in which to hold it, please contact Susan Davis to check for the availability of a room and reserve it. Using a central booking system will avoid conflicts.
BELL TOWER RESTORATION
After much fundraising, the Bell Tower Restoration began this spring
Click here to view the progress
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MAJOR BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS
"And some rin up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi' hammers, like sae mony road-makers run daft -- they say it is to see how the warld was made!"
We have needed for years to make several major improvements/repairs here at St. Peter’s, which have been put off primarily because we lacked funds to carry them out. However, because the Church had a house given to it last year from Freddy Burrall, and because we were able to sell that house last summer and put the money into the endowment fund, the Vestry has approved using money from the endowment fund to carry out these needed repairs/improvements as soon as practicable.
First to be done will be the replacement and upgrading of the windows and window frames in the Education Wing. These windows were installed in the 1950s, and over time their steel frames have begun to rot out. Additionally, we recognize that this huge expanse of glass is a major source of heat loss. Charlie Waggoner has been working with Ed Saad, who had designed plans to replace these windows and frames with extruded aluminum frames, and heat-efficient double panes, and to cover the badly stained cement areas between the windows with metallic covers. We have a contractor to do the job and are waiting only for permission from the Historic Commission before starting the work.
Second is the Bell Tower. Two things are necessary here: masonry work, including complete repointing of the mortar and brick replacement on the exterior and structural reinforcement of the supports for the bell itself so that we can ring the bell again. We are able to fund the exterior repairs, but we will be seeking additional funds, either through grants or through an appeal to the parish [or both] to do the bell support and restoration.
Another longstanding problem has been the side door to the Narthex, which has become warped and is pulling its supports out of the masonry to which it is attached. Through a very generous donation from a parishioner we have contracted to replace this door and frame with a custom-made wooden door which is expected to last the next 100 years. The door has been built and I hope to see it installed by the middle of January.
Charles Wm. Dimmick,
Junior Warden
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