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Congratulations to Bill and Carol Cotter of
Granada Hills, CA
and Stacia Martin of Brea, CA on their fourth time winning the Burbank
Rose Float Design Contest with their entry titled "It Takes A Jungle
Village" about a group of jungle volunteer fire fighters putting
out a birdhouse fire.
Their previous floats were 2005's Founders'
Trophy award-winning float "Dinner's on...FIRE!", 2008's Founders'
Trophy award-winning float "Oktoberfest" and 2013's Fantasy Trophy
award-winning float "Lights...Camera...Action!"
Their design will be representing the City of Burbank in the 126th annual
Pasadena Tournament of Roses
Parade themed "Inspiring Stories" on January 1, 2015.
This will be the City of Burbank's 83rd entry in this historic parade. |
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The Design Committee started on March 1, 2014 with a brainstorming
session followed by several meetings to help figure out how to turn the
concept drawing into a float. To the right is an early proposal
drawing to start the conversation. |
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On March 29, 2014 another drawing was released to continue the
fine-tuning. |
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Along the way, one member proposed this pumper for the front of the
float. |
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The Design Committee has been working very hard at creating models
and sketches trying to determine how to take the concept drawing, which
doesn't any base ideas, and turning it into a float.
On the right is
one of many draft sketches. This draft was create on April 4,
2014. |
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On the left is our final black and white line drawing. This
will be the drawing used by our Decorations Committee to start
determining the color and materials that will be used on the float.
This drawing was created on April 8, 2014. |
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Now that the overall line drawing is complete, we will
start working on scale and detail drawings. Below are some
proposed detail drawings |
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| On Thursday, April 17 during the monthly General Meeting
the membership suggested several float title names and through a series
of votes, the general membership voted to changed the float title from
"It Takes A Jungle Village" to "To The Rescue!". |
| Shortly after the General Meeting, we discovered that
the float title "To The Rescue!" was already registered by La Canada
Flintridge Rose Float Association and they plan on using that name for
their float entry.
Our second place title was “Jungle 911”, however, there was a lot
discussion and concern that this was a very American term (911) and that
most Americans associate the term 911 with the police and not
firefighters.
A Board of Director’s suggestion was to combine our first and second
place titles to create: “Jungle Rescue”.
An online vote was taken to pick a new float title. 85% voted for
"Jungle Rescue" on April 28, 2014
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After much tweaking and testing, we came up with the
above as our final color rendering |
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Photo Day at Tournament
House.
November 8, 2014
Top Row: Queen and her
Royal Court
Second Row: Janet Diel,
Bill Cotter, Victor Luster, Erik Andersen, Bob Symons, Ron Hughes
Third Row: Audrey Prest,
Robin Hanna, John Hames and Steven Edward
Front Row: Carol
Cotter, Ginny Barnett, Richard Chinen, Linda Cozakos |
| As seen on January 1st, 2015. The Past Presidents' Trophy
Award-Winning float |
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Flower Fields Tour |
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Construction Photos |
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2015 Parade Line-up (pdf) |
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Judging Schedule (pdf) |
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Deco Week
Photos |
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Float Heat Sensor and Carbon Monoxide
readings from Tournament (pdf) |
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2015 Float Trophy Winners (pdf) |
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126th Rose Parade Photos |
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Parade Day Photos |
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