Since 1998, Todd Johnson of Foothill Flowers in Grass Valley has gone to Pasadena to help decorate Rose Parade floats. I’ve written about this local connection to the world-famous parade previously. Since I was born in Pasadena, I’m proud of it.
This year Todd, whose family owns Foothill Flowers, departed Monday to help decorate floats for the parade — on Jan. 2 this year because of a longstanding “Never on Sunday protocol.” (Details here).
Todd works for Fiesta Parade Floats. One of the floats he’ll be working on will be for Paramount Studios, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The parade float business is year-round. Here’s a video of from this week:
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Tea Party has never had the vision or people power to do this: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/occupys-rose-parade-float-70-foot-octopus-of-corporate-greed.html
BTW I was one of those who called Verizon to switch, which has resulted in the almost instantaneous redaction of the $2 fee proposal. Power to the People!