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Fronk retiring as Miami Township administrator By Cindy Schroeder cschroeder@enquirer.com
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Larry Fronk, who was hired as the administrator in Clermont County’s Miami Township in 2009, is retiring next May after 36 years in public service. Miami Township Trustees are expected to advertise for his successor by the end of the month.
MIAMI TOWNSHIP — – After 36 years in public service, including the last five as administrator of Miami Township in Clermont County, Larry Fronk has announced his retirement, effective May 31, 2015. “I have been lucky to pursue a career that I have truly enjoyed,” Fronk said. When asked about his retirement plans, the 60-year-old Union Township resident said: “I am not sure yet, but I have eight months to write Act II.” Fronk, who recently in-
formed township staff of his retirement plans, said that he’s making the announcement now so that his successor can spend several months working alongside him for a smooth transition. Mary Makley Wolff, vice chair of the Miami Township Board of Trustees, said she expects trustees will approve a job description for Fronk’s successor at their Sept. 16 business meeting so they can advertise for the position by the end of the month. “While we’re sad to see Larry go, we also knew a while ago that he had quite a number of
years in and that he eventually would be retiring,” Wolff said. She added Fronk has done an excellent job for the township in a demanding position that requires a unique skill set. Wolff said the ideal candidate for administrator “will continue to make Miami Township the great place that it is to live and (to) manage resources when (revenues) have been kind of status quo because of the economy and state cuts.” Fronk, who earns $111,000 a year, oversees the day-to-day operations in a township that has 115 full-time and 80 parttime employees. He said his
greatest accomplishments include maintaining financial stability during a time of declining revenues and helping realize construction of five or six major road projects totaling $10 million to $15 million that had been planned during his predecessor’s administration. After receiving his master’s degree in public administration from Indiana State University in 1979, Fronk began his career working at a four-county regional planning and development commission in southern Illinois. See FRONK , Page A2
New swimming facility opening next year By Cindy Schroeder cschroeder@enquirer.com
MILFORD — On what would have been her late father’s 75th birthday, Lori Wilson Weber held a bittersweet groundbreaking for her new Miami Township swimming facility that her father had supported. “He was an angel,” a tearful Weber said of her father, retired educator Loren “Pete” Wilson, who was a superintendent in several school districts, including Milford. “I feel so lucky to have had him as my father.” Largely because of money her civic-minded father left her when he died in June 2013, Weber, a certified water safety instructor who swam competitively at Milford High School and the University of Kentucky, was able to realize her longtime dream of building a swimming facility to teach people of all ages and abilities how to swim. “It took a little longer than we had hoped, but we are finally moving forward,” Weber said at the Aug. 29 groundbreaking attended by about 50. The ceremony was held on what would have been the 75th birthday of Loren “Pete” Wilson, a wellknown educator in Northern Kentucky and southwestern Ohio whose passion for NASCAR and UK basketball was exceeded only by his love for his family. “Dad may not have enjoyed swimming as much as me, but he understood the passion I had for it,” said Weber, who traveled to Brisbane, Australia in 2007 to study swimming under Aquatics Achievers, one of the biggest swim schools in the world. “He saw my gift and he gave me the courage to go forth and the
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Certified water safety instructor Lori Weber offers swim lessons to Matt Falconieri at the Beechmont Racquet and Fitness Club. Next March, Weber plans to open Lori’s H2O Skills LLC, a Miami Township swimming facility where she and other instructors will teach swimming to all ages.
determination to succeed.” When it opens next March, Lori’s H2O Skills LLC will offer private swim lessons, water aerobics and classes to help ease the pain of arthritis, as well as water therapy for children with special needs. Visitors also will be able to pose for underwater portraits, get their picture taken with mascot Petey the shark, and enjoy themed birthday parties. Swimmers will be able to purchase virtually everything they need, including towels, goggles and swim caps, at a gift shop in the facility. As designed by Russell Moody at REM Architects LTD., the one-story, 4,200-square-foot facility on Wolfpen-Pleasant Hill Road will have an L-shaped natatorium connected to an existing building that once housed an orthodontist’s office. At 45 feet long and 30 feet wide, the See SWIM, Page A2
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Kyle Weber, Lori Weber and Lori’s mother, Sue Wilson, take part in the Aug. 29 groundbreaking for Lori’s H2O Skills LLC.
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