The Rose Parade features three types of entries: floral-decorated floats sponsored by a participating corporation or community organization, equestrian units, and marching bands. According to the Rose Parade website millions of people watch the parade every single year. The parade has 935 active volunteer members 80,000 hours annually contributed and 31 operating committees.
Most people look for something that is special to them like a float that they helped build, a float from their company or city or a band from their town or school that is participating in the parade. A vast majority do watch just to see the amazing floats and listen to great music. Some watch at home, some brave the elements to see it live in person and others will walk through the floats afterwards to get an up close look at the amazing floral decorations.
This year like last year the Inland Empire will be represented in all three categories of the parade. Last year we saw the city of Riverside represented with an amazing float. This year multiple Inland Empire Organizations will be part of the New Years tradition for millions of people.
This Years Floats:
The Big Bear Rose Parade Association has an amazing float in this years Rose Parade. The mission of the Big Bear Parade Association is to inspire interest in and enthusiasm for visiting and preserving our mountain environment. We will do this by generating good will and esprit de corps for the members of our community as we raise funds to represent the beauty and spirit of Big Bear with a Tournament of Roses Parade float and other means compatible with this mission. The float captures what is wonderful about the mountain top gem of the Inland Empire with bears skiing and snow boarding down white slopes and a yellow kayak in a sea of wonderfully colored flowers
This Years Bands:
Henry J. Kaiser High School’s Catamount Pride Band and Color Guard will perform in the opening ceremonies of the 130th annual Rose Parade. “We are very proud of our band and color guard for this monumental accomplishment,” Kaiser High Principal Terry Abernathy said. “We look forward to cheering them on as they represent our school, our district and our city on a world stage.” Kaiser’s band, known in the community for the musical support it provides to Fontana Unified’s elementary and middle schools, is among at least 20 bands from across the United States and around the world that will march in the 2019 Rose Parade.
This Years Equestrian Units:
The Norco Cowgirls Rodeo Drill Team & Little Miss Norco Cowgirls Jr. Drill Team have been a Rose Parade participant since 2013 according tho their Facebook Page. This team of female riders have also participated in rodeos in Norco, San Bernardino, Industry, San Dimas & Hesperia.
On December 29th acts like the Norco Cow Girls and the Kaiser High School marching band will preform pre parade performances in preparation for the big day on New Years Day.
The Norco Cowgirls Rodeo Drill Team performed for the crowds at the 29th annual Equestfest, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank on Saturday, Dec, 29, 2018. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)