Snip, snip went the scissors, pieces of the yellow flower falling on the table; those pieces eventually being put in a blender to make paint.
Four days before the Tournament of Roses Parade, Lompoc resident Dorine Fabing was in Pasadena working with her husband Mark and two others to put together a float
titled “... One More Day,” which will be paraded down Colorado Avenue in Pasadena on Monday.
Carnations, silver leaf, roses, chrysanthemums, corn husks, are just a few of the organic items that will be applied to the foreboding clock tower which climbs to 33 feet tall and the six enormous clock faces that cover the 55-foot-long float.
Then there was Dorine Fabing and her husband in the bustle to get the float ready for the parade. In Pasadena, she again got a chance to meet the man who is alive because of her son’s passing.
The float, which was put together by 100 sponsors in support of raising awareness on the benefits of organ donation, challenges people to think about an extra day. If she had an “extra day,” Fabing said, she would spend it talking to her 17-year-old son, Brice, who was killed in a car crash in Lompoc in 2005.
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