Photos: Volunteers put final touches on 2024 Rose Parade floats
1 year ago

Photos: Volunteers put final touches on 2024 Rose Parade floats

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The race is on. Brittany Smith works on the Kaiser float for the 2024 Rose Parade at Fiesta Parade Floats in Irwindale. A donor family, Valerie Caparino, center, with her two daughters Rachel Caparino, left, and Melissa Suttipreechanun, works on Donate Life float “One Legacy” at Fiesta Parade Floats in Irwindale. Cynthia Willie, left, and her 13-year-old daughter, Jocelyn Carino, chop straw flowers to little pieces, to be applied to a Rose Parade float at Fiesta Parade Floats in Irwindale. Volunteers Andy Greene, left, and Judy Perlman cut flowers for Rose Parade floats at Phoenix Decorating Co. in Irwindale.

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Photos: Float decoration shifts into high gear ahead of the 2025 Rose Parade
2 weeks ago

Photos: Float decoration shifts into high gear ahead of the 2025 Rose Parade

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An army of volunteers has shifted into high gear to prepare 39 floral-covered floats for the 2025 Rose Parade on New Year’s Day in Pasadena. Volunteers Val Peacock, left, and Heath Swan work on the Love 2 Yeu float as employees and volunteers at Artistic Entertainment Services get floats ready for the Rose Parade. A volunteer meticulously glues split peas …

Award-winning parade float company will close after being dropped by Tournament of Roses
6 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning parade float company will close after being dropped by Tournament of Roses

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Antonio de Jesus Lopez made his way across the Fiesta Parade Floats warehouse in Irwindale, pushing a red dolly with two large signs from his first Rose Parade float in 2020. Now, he said, “it just seems bleak.” Brittany Smith works on a Kaiser float for the Rose Parade at Fiesta Parade Floats on Dec. 26, 2023, in Irwindale. Tim …

Petal meets mettle: The volunteers who fly in every year to decorate Rose Parade floats
1 year ago

Petal meets mettle: The volunteers who fly in every year to decorate Rose Parade floats

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Just as the trees have begun to lose their leaves in Granite City, Ill., and fall begins to take on the early shades of winter, Victoria Boyd feels the pull of California. Victoria Boyd, left, and David Becherer, who’s also from Illinois, work on a float at Fiesta Parade Floats in Irwindale. “We’re part of a cult that comes out …

Photos: After the rain: 2023 Rose Parade in full bloom
2 years ago

Photos: After the rain: 2023 Rose Parade in full bloom

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As most of us rose into the new year filled with all that life so seamlessly blends — hope and caution, joy and sadness, love and longing — Pasadena played host to the 134th Rose Parade after a strong rainfall washed over its streets to cap 2022. Donate Life’s “Lifting Each Other Up” float won the Sweepstakes award for most …

Photos: After canceling last year, the Rose Parade is back, in full bloom
3 years ago

Photos: After canceling last year, the Rose Parade is back, in full bloom

LA Times  

The Rose Parade is back. Believe.” The Wetzel’s Pretzels float, “California Crusin’.” The Rotary float, “Changing Lives Through Education.” While the return of the Rose Parade is seen by many as a cheerful respite from two painful pandemic years, it is clouded by a dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly contagious Omicron variant. Cal Poly University’s float, …

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