VERMONTVILLE â His name is Franklin, he stands 20 feet tall, and you canât miss him driving through town on Route 3.
Franklin is a giant snowman, built every year since 2016 by Pat and Amy McCormick with their children: Holly, 10, and Elliott, 6.
Heâs grown up over the years. The first year he stood 8 feet tall, still a respectable height for a snowperson, but at this point Pat considers 8 feet âlittle.â
âWe try to go bigger every year,â he said.
The McCormicksâ vision was big from the start. Pat explained how Franklin was first brought into this world.
âThe kids and I just decided to go build a snowman, and if youâre going to build it, you might as well build it big,â he said.
Matt McGowan spent hours of his Sunday attempting to schedule a COVID-19 vaccine on Kroger’s company website.
After logging online at 8:45 a.m. Sunday, McGowan, a financial literacy teacher at Bishop Watterson High School, said that half the time he couldn t get to the website at all. The other half, he said, the furthest he’s gotten is the step to schedule a date for his vaccination before he runs into an error message and is asked to try again.
From the looks of it, McGowan is far from the only teacher in central Ohio who has had difficulty using Kroger’s website to schedule a vaccine. Across social media, teachers are expressing frustration with site crashes, error messages and general slowness when attempting to register for an appointment.
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Franklin the snowman has become a seasonal resident of Vermontville, staying with the McCormick family each winter since 2016.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) VERMONTVILLE His name is Franklin, he stands 20 feet tall, and you can’t miss him driving through town on state Route 3. Franklin is a giant snowman, built every year since 2016 by Pat and Amy McCormick with their children: Holly, 10, and Elliott, 6. He’s grown up over the years. The first year he stood 8 feet tall, still a respectable height for a snow person, but at this point Pat considers 8 feet “little.” “We try to go bigger every year,” he said.