Friends & Family for Peru Pool

01/17/2026

A friend sent this to me. I don’t know who posted this originally , but I ❤️ it! That’ll be me one day!

12/31/2025

The News Tribune says Washington Park is the heart of the city! That’s why the Peru pool needs to go back where it originally was.

12/26/2025

The Peru pool is one of the top 10 stories in the Illinois Valley for 2025 It’s not over yet. Count on 2026 being another big story about the pool. I’m not done yet!

12/24/2025

12/24/2025

I fight authority at city hall and it always wins! But it ain’t over til the fat lady sings, and I’m not singing yet! Look out ‘cause I have a new idea of how to get a swimming pool for Peru! 🏊‍♂️ Stay tuned and have a Merry Christmas!
Sherry Mayszak

12/19/2025

I’ve seen the new Peru city calendar. It’s a nostalgic review of Peru in pictures. Of course my first thought went to where’s the pool? The swimming pool was part of Peru’s history for 80 years! Instead of double photos of these boats on the June page, why wasn’t there a throwback photo of the pool? Sad.

10/21/2025

I’m guessing he is referring to me. I posted this after the source of the “vote no to the pool memo” came out.

I’m still waiting for answers. This is, IMO, not attacking a city employee. It’s me, the person who took 2 years of my life to get the referendum to the ballot and to a vote of the aldermen, asking why a city attorney would get involved in something that doesn’t fall under anything legal.

Other than my post, I’d like to see examples where city employees are being “attacked” on social media.

10/21/2025

Alderman Payton is troubled by social media attacks on city employees stemming from the pool vote.

Is he upset that the pool “memo” was anonymously released to the press?

Is he upset that a citizen’s email was anonymously released to WLPO?

Is he upset that 68% of Peru voters were ignored?

10/13/2025

How true is this?

10/12/2025

At one of the city meetings, Marty Rue brought up the fact that the old Peru pool was dedicated to Peru veterans. Mayor Ken said there is still a memorial at Washington Park that includes the sign from the old pool. I didn’t remember ever seeing it, so I took a walk over there and found it. Unfortunately it doesn’t say pool on it, so future generations will never know there was a beautiful swimming pool dedicated to our veterans that once stood where the memorial is now. It’s a beautiful memorial showing the pool was dedicated in 1927 and rededicated 60 years later in 1987. I had so hoped a new swimming pool would go right back in that location in 2026, but maybe as fate would have it, it’s meant to be dedicated in 2027, 100 years after the original Peru pool.