Photo Gallery: Glendale Rose Parade float volunteers in full swing

Volunteer and Glendale High School senior Michaela Rivera, 18, works on Meatball the bear's fur on the Glendale float at Phoenix Decorating in Pasadena on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.

Volunteer and Glendale High School senior Michaela Rivera, 18, works on Meatball the bear’s fur on the Glendale float at Phoenix Decorating in Pasadena on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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Glendale’s 35-foot-long float design, which features animals living in Glendale’s hillsides, was inspired by Meatball, the famous black bear that was caught in foothill neighborhoods three times last year before being captured by state wildlife officials and transported to an animal sanctuary in San Diego County.

Photo Gallery: Glendale float volunteers in full swing

Volunteer and Glendale resident Karla Martinez works on a coyote’s fur on the Glendale float at Phoenix Decorating in Pasadena on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.  (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Glendale float volunteers in full swing

Volunteer Clark Magnet High School student Joseph Colosimo works on a sign on the Glendale float at Phoenix Decorating in Pasadena on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.  (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Glendale float volunteers in full swing

Volunteer and Clark Magnet student Melodie Khanjian works on a deer’s fur on the Glendale float at Phoenix Decorating in Pasadena on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Glendale float volunteers in full swing

Volunteers and Glendale High School students Michaela Rivera, 18, left, and Esmeralda Winland, 17, right, work on Meatball the bear’s fur for the Glendale float at Phoenix Decorating in Pasadena on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Glendale float volunteers in full swing

Volunteer and Glendale resident Laura Lee worked on this lady bug for the Glendale float at Phoenix Decorating in Pasadena on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)