Christmas came early to Peters Township as State Representative Natalie Mihalek (R-40) stopped by the final council meeting for 2021. In her hand was a grant from the Redevelopment Capital Assistance Program that is worth $2 million. The express use of this grant will be for the development of the aquatic facility that is proposed for Rolling Hills Park. Mihalek states that she has been working on obtaining this grant for the last 18 months. Council Chairman Dave Ball indicates that it is not a blank check, but a reimbursement grant that will take a lot of work to make sure all monies spent can be reimbursed up to that $2 million mark. Council voted unanimously to accept the grant. The aquatic center has not been approved. That step will be taken by the next council that will be sworn in on January 3, 2022. In other council action, a sharpshooter program was narrowly approved by a 4-3 margin. This is part of a deer culling program that will help with the deer population that is causing nearly 100 car accidents annually on state roads in the township. Some of the state roads that will be in the program are E. McMurray Rd., Valleybrook Rd. and Route 19. This is a one year pilot to see if the program will be successful in significantly decreasing the deer population along those roads.