Happy New Year - Rotary Rose Parade Float

 

The float theme was "Working Together for Peace".  One of Rotary International's main goals is attaining world peace and the float sought to remind viewers that the road to world peace is an adventure.  Rotary is actively involved in helping create world peace through establishing more than 138 peace parks such as  Waterton-Glacier National Peace Park which was established through a partnership between Canadian Waterton Lakes National Park and Glacier National Park.  I addition small parks are important to peace efforts as  more that 2000 graduates from the Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution have established small gardens through their service.  Several of these peace ambassadors and Rotarians rode on the float to remind viewers that world peace is a never-ending adventure.