ROSE OF LAGUNA: While most watching today’s...

ROSE OF LAGUNA: While most watching today’s Rose Parade will watch from home, 80-year-old Holly Halsted Balthis of South Laguna will have a VIP seat along the parade route. . . . She is senior among the former queens of the Tournament of Roses, having won the title 60 years ago when she was an education major at UCLA. . . . Unfortunately for her, archrival USC is playing Michigan in today’s Rose Bowl game, where Balthis also will be honored. . . . “I’ll root for the Western team, I guess, but I won’t say the name,” she said.