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South Pasadena Arts and Music Academy | $10 Music Lesson Week

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PHOTO: Bill Glazier | The South Pasadenan | South Pasadena Tournament of Roses 2024 parade float: winner of the 'Founder Award'.
Rose Parade & Rose Bowl 2025

2025 Rose Parade | Deadline Nears for City’s Float Design Concepts

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PHOTO: Saalika Khan | The South Pasadenan | SPAMA students Lindsay Zhu and Marcus Neely play at Boston Court Pasadena.
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South Pasadena Arts & Music Academy | $10 Lesson Event and...

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PHOTO: Samantha Shiroishi | The South Pasadenan | Members of the Sylvers group gathered with volunteers who built and decorated South Pasadena’s float outside the South Pasadena City Council chambers.
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl 2024

South Pasadena Rose Float Builders Recognized by City Council

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PHOTO: provided by South Pasadena Pack 7 Cub Scouts | The South Pasadenan | Pack 7 Cub Scouts ready to serve up some delicious pancakes.
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Cub Scout Pack 7 Pancake Breakfast February 3

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PHOTO: provided by SPARC | The South Pasadenan | The work of Max Yust.
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LANDLINES | Works by Artist Max Yust at SPARC Gallery

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Lunar New Year Luncheon to be Held for Seniors at War...

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PHOTO: Bill Glazier | The South Pasadenan | South Pasadena Tournament of Roses 2024 parade float: winner of the 'Founder Award'.
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Rose Parade Float | 2025 Design Concepts Due January 26

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PHOTO: Bill Glazier | The South Pasadenan | The 345-member West Chester ‘Incomparable’ Golden Rams Marching Band, from West Chester, Pennsylvania provided lively sounds and color to the parade. artist Jordan Sparks closed out the two-hour parade with a three-song perfomance.
Rose Parade & Rose Bowl Special Features

Pasadena Rose Parade Rings in New Year | 800,000 People Line...

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PHOTO: Bill Glazier | The South Pasadenan | South Pasadena Tournament of Roses 2024 parade float: winner of the 'Founder Award'.
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl 2024

WINNER: South Pasadena Rose Parade Float Wins the ‘Founder Award’ (updated)

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PHOTO: Bill Glazier | The South Pasadenan | Ed  Donnelly, chair of the South Pasadena Tournament of Roses, points to an area behind the War Memorial Building where a permanent building is projected to someday house the city’s float. Over the years, the float has been constructed in a giant circus-like tent at the site.
SPTOR

SPTOR Hopes for Permanent Building in City to House Float

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PHOTO: Bill Glazier | The South Pasadenan | South Pasadena Tournament of Roses 2024 float at the Tournament of Roses final judging on December 31, 2023.
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl 2024

Final Judgment | The South Pasadena Rose Parade Float 2024

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New Mayor of South Pasadena: Evelyn Zneimer PHOTO: Henk Friezer | The South Pasadenan | Outgoing mayor Jon Primuth welcomes new mayor, Evelyn Zniemer for the city of South Pasadena.
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New Mayor of South Pasadena: Evelyn Zneimer

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PHOTO: Henk Friezer | The South Pasadenan | Ed Donnelly with Sam Hernandez at the 2023 Crunch Time Party.
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CRUNCH TIME PARTY 2023 Held for South Pasadena Rose Float

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PHOTO: provided by Tournament of Roses | The South Pasadenan | 2024 Rose Court – left to right: Trinity Dela Cruz, Olivia Bohanec, Emmerson Tucker, Jessica Powell, Naomi Stillitano, Mia Moore-Walker, Phoebe Ho.
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PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES® Announces 2024 Rose Queen® NAOMI STILLITANO

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PHOTO: Bill Glazier | The South Pasadenan | A core group of workers put in long hours constructing and decorating South Pasadena’s Rose Parade float throughout the year before hundreds more help down the stretch with the finishing touches ahead of the traditional New Year’s Day event in Pasadena.
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl 2024

Volunteers Make the Difference on South Pasadena’s Rose Float

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PHOTO: Tina Kistinger | The South Pasadenan | Volunteers are working day and night to finish the South Pasadena Rose Float for the Tournament of Roses 2024 Parade.
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It’s Crunch Time! Volunteers Making Our 2024 Float Happen

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PHOTO: Bill Glazier | The South Pasadenan | The Tournament of Roses Queen and Court gather in front of flowers that arrived this week before being placed on South Pasadena’s float – “Boogie Fever” – in time for Monday’s Rose Parade in Pasadena.
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl 2024

2024 Queen and Rose Court Visit South Pasadena Float Site

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PHOTO: Sally Kilby | The South Pasadenan | One of the auction items featured in the Crunch Time Online Auction is a Blackstone 28" propane griddle donated to SPTOR by Westlake ACE South Pasadena. ACE manager Linda Rodriguez (left) and Manager Oscar Diaz (right) are pictured with Sam Hernandez, Tournament of Roses Association President, next to the BBQ.
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SPTOR Online Auction | Scope it out NOW!

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South Pasadena Rose Parade Float Crunch Time Party 2023
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CRUNCH TIME PARTY SOUTH PASADENA DECEMBER 29th | Get Your Tickets...

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PHOTO: David Lohr | The South Pasadenan | South Pasadenan businesswoman, Ellen Daigle, receives Senator Anthony J. Portantino's Women in Business Award
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Four South Pasadena Women Receive Women in Business Awards from Senator...

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PHOTO: Sally Kilby | The South Pasadenan | PHOTO: Sally Kilby | SPTOR Decoration Chair, Janet Benjamin, with KTLA's Gayle Anderson paying a visit to the South Pasadena Tournament of Roses float site on December 11, 2023.
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl 2024

We’re on TV! KTLA Pays Visit to South Pasadena Rose Parade...

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Hanukkah Festival Sunday December 10 in South Pasadena

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PHOTO: Sally Kilby | The South Pasadenan | Brant Dunlap, Mary Jane Juranek and Anita Scott take a break from working on the float to enjoy a taco salad lunch from Hi-Life.
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl 2024

Hi-Life Burgers Serves Lunch to our Grateful Float Crew

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PHOTO: Sally Kilby | The South Pasadenan | South Pasadena’s float is under construction behind the War Memorial Building, 435 Fair Oaks Avenue, in the city. Volunteers looking to lend a hand to help finish it are welcome. Members of the float’s construction crew are working weeknights and weekends in order to complete the task of finishing the float in time for the January 1 Tournament of Roses Parade down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena.
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl 2024

Clock Ticking to Finish City Float on Time

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Historical Walking Tour Event | South Pas Active Streets & South...

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PHOTO: provided by SPARC | The South Pasadenan | Art by Shauneen Bell
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Give The Gift of Art | SPARC Holiday Art Show and...

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PHOTO: provided by FSPPL | The South Pasadenan | Roxanne Garcia (left) and Angela Watson love books and decided they had to attend the Friends of the Library Holiday Book Sale.
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Holiday Book Sale at South Pasadena Library | December 1-3

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Sip & Shop Soirée | Holiday Shopping Event of the Year!

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Crunch Time Party Set for December 29

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