Contest opens for 2018 Rose Parade float concepts

By Carol Cormaci

Dec. 6, 2016 3:11 PM PT

With “Backyard Rocketeer,” this year’s float entry in the Rose Parade still being readied for its Jan. 2 debut before a global audience, the La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Assn. has announced its contest for a float concept that will represent this city in 2018.

The person whose idea best captures the judges’ imagination will win two grandstand tickets to the 2018 Rose Parade, according to the LCFTRA’s online announcement of the contest.

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Entries are to be simple and easily understood, include suggestions for animation that have an element of surprise to them, be of a whimsical/humorous nature and should represent the 2018 Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade theme, which will celebrate the power of kindness.

All entries are due by Jan. 18 and must be submitted using the form found at lcftra.org.

Carol Cormaci, carol.cormaci@latimes.com

Twitter: @CarolCormaci

Carol Cormaci

Carol Cormaci is executive editor of Times Community News’ Daily Pilot in Orange County and pens the TimesOC newsletter. She is a native Southern Californian and a proud UCLA Bruin. She previously served as managing editor of three former Times Community News publications: the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader and La Cañada Valley Sun.