{"id":690,"date":"2008-09-09T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2008-09-09T09:34:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T13:34:59","slug":"coordinator-of-the-lowell-ribs-n-brew-dies-unexpectedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/coordinator-of-the-lowell-ribs-n-brew-dies-unexpectedly\/","title":{"rendered":"Coordinator of the Lowell Ribs n Brew dies unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is rather depressing to start a day off like this, but I wanted to share this local news story. Andrew St. Onge worked for the city of Lowell as the special events coordinator. He&#8217;s helped organize most of the events that have occurred within the City for many years, including the very popular folk festival and a co-coordinator for the Ribs n Brew festival. He will be missed by many.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean<br \/>\n2Beerguys.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Raise a Pint to Andy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/ribsnbrew.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lowell special-events coordinator Andrew St. Onge dies unexpectedly<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Lowell Sun<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>LOWELL<\/strong> &#8212; Andrew St. Onge, Lowell&#8217;s longtime special-events coordinator, died suddenly late last night of what is believed to be a brain aneurysm.<\/p>\n<p>While the details of his death were unavailable last night, Mayor Edward &#8220;Bud&#8221; Caulfield said St. Onge died suddenly at around 10 p.m., in his home on Andover Street in Lowell.<\/p>\n<p>As word circulates of St. Onge&#8217;s death today, Caulfield said he expects City Hall and the community will be shocked and saddened by the loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our hearts and prayers go out to his family,&#8221; Caulfield said last night.<\/p>\n<p>As the special-events coordinator for the past decade, St. Onge has had a hand in every major event in Lowell, from the Folk Festival to Riverfest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every major function, Andy was there,&#8221; Caulfield said. &#8220;He did an incredible job for the city. He was such a hands-on kind of guy. If there was something going on in the city, he was involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Caulfield said he bumped into St. Onge earlier in the week and he seemed fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was upbeat, and everything was great,&#8221; Caulfield said.<\/p>\n<p>St. Onge was as much of a fixture at the local YMCA as he was at City Hall, Caulfield said.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning, Caulfield said he had gone on the local radio station and thanked St. Onge for the work he has done for the upcoming Mayor&#8217;s Harvest Ball. &#8220;There is such a void left by Andy&#8217;s passing,&#8221; Caulfield said<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.lowellsun.com\/ci_10333944');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/ci_10333944\">Link to article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is rather depressing to start a day off like this, but I wanted to share this local news story. Andrew St. Onge worked for the city of Lowell as the special events coordinator. He&#8217;s helped organize most of the events that have occurred within the City for many years, including the very popular folk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,28,20],"tags":[336,291,337],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ribsnbrew.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}