Rebekah Lodge, Bolton to appear on parade float

Bolton's touch will be felt in the famous Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California on New Year's Day, 2008.

Bolton's Humberdale Rebekah Lodge 163 has been chosen to decorate a large post card that's part of the Odd fellow and Rebekah float.

Entitled Special Delivery, the float depicts a large, threewheeled postal delivery motorcycle, driven by a bear wearing a helmet, goggles and scarf, flying back in the wind. A large mail sack is on the back, loaded with mail being delivered from all countries across the world.

The motorcycle is depicted as moving very fast, so individual postcards are flying out of the sack, encircling the cycle.

The float is roughly 30 feet long and each individual postcard is estimated as three to four feet in length. Bolton will be displayed on one of these postcards. Members of Humberdale Lodge have chosen a picture of the Rebekah Rose Garden at the Bolton Community Centre as the picture on the postcard. On the back will be the name of the Lodge, Bolton, and a Canadian stamp.

The Rebekah Rose in the rose garden was propagated in 1990 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Rebekahs in Ontario. This garden, donated by the Rebekahs, is cared for the Bolton & District Horticultural Society with rose bushes being replenished by the Rebekahs as needed.

Members of Humberdale Rebekah Lodge in Bolton are pleased with this honour, as one of two Ontario lodges chosen to promote their home towns.

For football fans, watch for the float during the Jan. 1 parade and look for greetings from Bolton.