Our LCF Tournament of Roses build site has been active and busy building not only the 2024 “Flower Power” Rose Parade Float, but also building a future.
As we form our LCF Innovation Center within our Float Site, we have welcomed a number of terrific new families and young volunteers with curious minds and great hidden skills and talents.
I herewith extend a hearty “thank you” and “welcome” to all of those that have come by to help, learn, teach and even just to come by to watch and chat. But a special thanks goes out to the younger crew that have taken so well to the opportunity to learn and apply new skills and machine operation.
Your enthusiasm and curiosity are what keeps us all going, and in the end, creating this unique opportunity for you and our community is what it’s all about.
A worldwide parade broadcast of our collective efforts as an apogee to the annual story arc certainly adds a solid punctuation to the accomplishment!
As a side note, we will be driving the float out on Hampton Road this Saturday, Sept. 23, at around 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. as we go through our Tech Inspection 1 (T1) by tournament officials.
This is a safety and progress test, and involves one of the two times before judging and the parade that the float is freed from its berth at the build site and gets out into the wild.
It’s not completed of course, so if you have not come out to see the build, this is a great time to come out and see the skeleton progress out on the street.
To see the completed rendering of what it “will ultimately” look like, visit our website at: http://lcftra.org.
Again, thank you to all the families and volunteers who have been coming by to build the float and community.
All are invited to come out and see “Flower Power” in a rare public dress rehearsal; and maybe get the bug to come DREAM with us. See you Saturday!
Ernest Koeppen
President, La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses
First published in the September 21 print issue of the Outlook Valley Sun.
