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A2 • FORT THOMAS RECORDER • NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Pace no stranger to interim superintendent position Chris Mayhew cmayhew@communitypress.com
ALEXANDRIA — Campbell County Schools Board of Education has picked Donald W. Pace to be interim superintendent for the next eight months. School board members unanimously hired Pace at a special meeting Nov. 2. Pace, a former interim superintendent for two other Kentucky school districts, started work Nov. 4 on a contract ending June 30, 2016. Pace’s salary is $88,550. Former Campbell County Superintendent Glen Miller’s retirement was effective Nov. 1. Miller was arrested by police Sept. 23 on domestic violence charges in Erlanger. Miller, who is accused of striking his wife in the
face and neck, was placed on administrative leave Sept. 25. Miller’s retirement was more than two years prior to his contract ending June 30, 2018. During the 2014-15 school year, Pace was interim superintendent for Mason County Schools. From 2012-13 Pace was interim superintendent at Montgomery County Public Schools. chairwoman Board Janis Winbigler said the board’s goal for this transitional period is to remain focused on building progress seen over the last few years. Pace has proven he can provide leadership Campbell County needs through his successful experiences in Montgomery and Mason counties, Winbigler said. Pace said in a news re-
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lease from Campbell County Schools that he is honored at the opportunity to serve at Campbell County and will be visible at school activities and events. Salary terms were not available Tuesday morning. Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed Pace to a second term as a member of Kentucky’s School Facilities Construction Commission. Now retired, Pace spent 32 years as a teacher, administrator and superintendent. In 2008, after retiring from Clark County Public Schools in central Kentucky as superintendent, Pace became a part-time executive director of the Central Kentucky Educational Cooperative. -Verona Independent Schools. Pace has served as an adjunct professor for graduate educational administrative classes at Eastern Kentucky University while working as superintendent for Clark County. Pace has been an active member of the Kentucky Retired Teachers Association with emphasis on health insurance, according to the Campbell County news release.
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From left, Teresa Holton, of Fort Thomas, McKenzie Fugate, Nina Orem and Karlissa Stepner, of Fort Thomas, at the Aronoff Center for the Arts’ 20th anniversary celebration for volunteers. In conjunction with the Aronoff Center for the Arts’ 20th anniversary, longtime volunteers were treated to a celebration on Oct. 11.
NKY counties keep old adult’s meals rolling Chris Mayhew cmayhew@communitypress.com
Senior Services of Northern Kentucky’s sudden closure Oct. 23 didn’t stop Meals on Wheels dishes from being delivered in Boone, Kenton or Campbell counties. County governments accepted Wesley Community Services’ offer to step in and deliver meals. “Wesley was already providing some meals in Campbell County,� County Administrator Matt Elberfeld said Campbell County Fiscal Court unanimously voted to send $45,000 earmarked for Senior Service’s Meals on Wheels program to Wesley Nov. 4. “We’re spending the same amount of money,� Elberfeld said. Senior Services closed on a Friday, and Wesley started meals delivery the Monday afterward, said Wesley’s executive director, Ericka Dansby. “We dispatched to 155 seniors in Northern Kentucky that day,� Dansby said. “So, nobody has missed a meal or gone hungry.� Wesley’s offer to immediately take over all SSNK Meals on Wheels clients was accepted by Northern Kentucky county governments, Dansby said. Wesley already delivered meals through contracts with Northern Kentucky Fiscal Courts and the Northern Kentucky Area Development District
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Villa Hills Mayor Butch Callery, left, deliver meals with Meals on Wheels driver Eric, whose last named was not provided.
prior to Senior Services’ closing, she said. Campbell County had already earmarked $50,000 for Wesley to deliver all meals SSNK wasn’t contracted to deliver. Wesley delivers both hot and chilled meals to people needing them, including older adults, on a daily and weekly basis. Drivers enter a person’s home and see how they’re doing, sometimes even putting meals in their refrigerator or heating them up on the spot, she said. Dansby said two Senior Services meal delivery drivers have already been hired into Wesley’s staff of 103 people. “We’re able to retain people in employment who were doing it before,� she said. “It’s not their fault Senior Services closed.�
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