4/7/2021
Jolicoeur: Autumnfest grand marshal honor is ‘a dream come true’
Jennifer Jolicoeur will be honored as the grand marshal of this year’s Autumnfest parade. (Breeze photo by Lauren Clem)
WOONSOCKET – Jennifer Jolicoeur, founder of Athena’s Home Novelties, was busy celebrating the company’s 23rd anniversary at its headquarters on Winter Street last Thursday, April 1, when she was interrupted by a knock on the door.
What she thought at first was a hired marching band in orange turned out to be the entire Autumnfest Steering Committee arriving with the news she’d been selected as the grand marshal of this year’s Autumnfest parade.