SEPTEMBER 2022

NOTEWORTHY
Dbusiness
Powered by
Women 2022
Annette Tomina, co-owner of an Aqua-
Tots Swim Schools franchise, was recognized
by Dbusiness as one of the
“Powered by Women” class of 2022. It’s a
family business, and since they opened
their first school in Troy, the family has
added outlets in Farmington Hills, Sterling
Heights, Novi, Auburn Hills, Canton
Township, Woodhaven, and Dearborn.
An Aqua-Tots opened in Berkley in August
and is scheduled to open in Grand
Rapids late this year or early next year.
Tomina and her family also have five
schools in California and one in Florida.
Tomina came across the Aqua-Tots
franchise while on a trip to Arizona.
She filled out the franchisee form online
and one of the owners called her
within 20 minutes. A lunch meeting followed,
and Michigan’s first Aqua-Tots
Swim School opened in Troy in 2011.
“I came home (from Arizona) and
Annette Tomina
told my siblings, this is what we’re
opening,” says Tomina, who owns the
local franchise with her brothers Patrick,
Brian, and Faraj Tomina, and a
cousin, Chris Jaboro.
Aqua-Tots is a swim school for
children ages 6 months to 12 years.
It’s based in Arizona and has more
than 130 locations across the United
States and around the world. The pool
at Aqua-Tots is always a comfortable
90 degrees, and instructors have 40
hours of classroom and in-pool training
based on a proven curriculum.
Although Tomina says the Grand
Rapids school likely will be her last
Aqua-Tots in Michigan, she expects to
expand further in California and Florida.
She also has Waxing the City hair
removal franchises in Canton Township
and West Bloomfield Township,
and is opening a Vio Med Spa franchise
concept, where customers can
get Botox and other appearance treatments,
in West Bloomfield Township.
Michigan Board
of Pharmacy
Appointment
Rony Foumia of Commerce Township,
the Michigan pharmacy area director
for Ascension Health, was appointed to
represent pharmacists for a term commencing
August 11, 2022, and expiring
June 30, 2026. He succeeds Charles Mollien,
whose term expired June 30, 2022.
The Michigan Board of Pharmacy
was enacted as part of the Public Health
Rony Foumina
Code to oversee the practice of pharmacy
as a health service, the clinical application
of which includes the encouragement
of safety and efficacy in the
prescribing, dispensing, administering
and use of drugs and related articles for
the prevention of illness and the maintenance
and management of health. The
Public Health Code mandates certain
responsibilities and duties for a health
professional licensing board including
promoting and protecting the public’s
health, safety, and welfare.
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that happen here, and inspired
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10 CHALDEAN NEWS SEPTEMBER 2022