{"id":29127,"date":"2016-04-29T10:39:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T14:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=29127"},"modified":"2016-04-29T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:42:24","slug":"damico-named-honorary-chair-of-mushroom-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=29127","title":{"rendered":"D&#8217;Amico named honorary chair of Mushroom Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_225\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-image-225 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/31-mush-fest-honoray-chair-louise-damico-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"31-mush-fest-honoray-chair-louise-damico\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise D\u2019Amico is congratulated by Tommy Lafferty when she was announced as the 31st Annual Mushroom Festival\u2019s Honorary Chairman.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Louise D\u2019Amico\u2019s support for the Mushroom Festival is undeniable over the past 30 years. Her enthusiasm is contagious. For all that she does to support and promote the Mushroom Festival, D\u2019Amico was named the 31<span class=\"s1\">st <\/span>Mushroom Festival\u2019s Honorary Chair.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">D\u2019Amico\u2019s name appears throughout the early records of the Mushroom Festival taking on committee chair roles. In the recent years she\u2019s led the effort to organize the staffing of the Mushroom Sales Booths and Mushroom Pick-up Trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She was the first to bring Fun Gus, the Festival\u2019s mascot, to life. She could be found walking the streets of town during the Festival sweating inside the furry, 8-foot tall and wide costume or holding on for dear life on a float or in the back of a car for a parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Her family\u2019s business, ToJo Mushrooms, is a strong supporter of the Mushroom Festival. Their trucks can be found throughout the Festival filled with all the area growers\u2019 mushrooms ready for guests to take home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">D\u2019Amico was completely surprised and speechless (a rarity) when her name was announced at the Grant Recipients\u2019 Reception in April as this year\u2019s Honorary Chair. She recovered quickly and asked, \u201cSo what do I need to do as the Honorary Chair?\u201d The answer: Be yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Louise D\u2019Amico\u2019s support for the Mushroom Festival is undeniable over the past 30 years. Her enthusiasm is contagious. For all that she does to support and promote the Mushroom Festival, D\u2019Amico was named the 31st Mushroom Festival\u2019s Honorary Chair. &nbsp;&nbsp; Send article as PDF &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,192],"class_list":["post-29127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kennett-square","tag-mushroom-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29128,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127\/revisions\/29128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}