{"id":8415,"date":"2013-08-20T19:22:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2013-08-20T19:22:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:22:55","slug":"unionville-school-board-praises-kau-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=8415","title":{"rendered":"Unionville school board praises KAU team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Officials said the group&#8217;s performance represented win for community<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8416\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0785.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8416\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8416  \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"KAU videographer passes out cake during the welcome-home celebration Sunday night, an event praised for its demonstration of community spirit at the Unionville-Chadds Ford school board meeting.\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0785-300x263.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0785-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0785-1024x900.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KAU videographer Chuck Freeman, father of player Jake Freeman, passes out cake during the welcome-home celebration Sunday night, an event praised for its demonstration of community spirit at the Unionville-Chadds Ford school board meeting.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/span><\/strong>, <em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Managing Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Excitement about the upcoming school year \u2013 heightened by the recent second-place finish of the KAU baseball team at the Senior League World Series \u2013 pervaded Monday night\u2019s meeting of the Unionville-Chadds Ford school board.<\/p>\n<p>Unionville High Principal Paula Massanari was one of several speakers who praised the Kennett Kings\u2019 accomplishments. \u201cThey brought all sorts of joy to the community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Board Vice-President Victor Dupuis said he wished that everyone could have attended Sunday night\u2019s welcome-home ceremony for the team. He said it was inspiring to see the unity personified by the team, which is comprised of students from Unionville, Kennett and Avondale.<\/p>\n<p>A resident thanked the board for recognizing the team. &#8220;We should be so proud of everything they did,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials said the group&#8217;s performance represented win for community By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Excitement about the upcoming school year \u2013 heightened by the recent second-place finish of the KAU baseball team at the Senior League World Series \u2013 pervaded Monday night\u2019s meeting of the Unionville-Chadds Ford school board. Unionville High Principal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}