Rose Parade returns amid new COVID-19 surge, bringing anxiety along with joy
LOS ANGELES — New Year’s Day 2021 started with a pang of sadness for Aida Bueno. Her beloved Rose Parade had been canceled for the first time since World War II. And for the first time in more than a decade, she didn’t get to spend a few joyous days decorating floats with volunteers from across the country, her “family from everywhere.” “I didn’t know what to do with myself,” said Bueno, a ...
LOS ANGELES — New Year’s Day 2021 started with a pang of sadness for Aida Bueno.
Her beloved Rose Parade had been canceled for the first time since World War II. And for the first time in more than a decade, she didn’t get to spend a few joyous days decorating floats with volunteers from across the country, her “family from everywhere.”
“I didn’t know what to do with myself,” said Bueno, a nurse from Pico Rivera, California.
The Rose Parade will return Saturday. And this week, Bueno was back in her element: Flitting around a Pasadena warehouse with other decorators, slicing leaves, gluing dried fruit and seeds, blasting Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You” from her phone and belting out the
