Donate Life’s Rose Parade® Float to Honor the Life-Saving Gifts of 72 Organ, Eye and Tissue Donors
Inland Valley News
Los Angeles, CAâ€" Seventy-two organ, eye and tissue donors will be honored with floral memorial “floragraph†portraits that will grace the Donate Life float in the 2013 Rose Parade®. Each of the individuals portrayed in the floragraphs left a positive impact on their family, communities, and those they helped. The 72 floragraphs will line the heart-shaped path rising above 32 riders aboard the float, themed Journeys of the Heart, which dramatizes the ups and downs experienced by donor families, transplant recipients and living donors.
“The donors’ families and dozens of volunteers will decorate the portraits with grains, flowers, seeds, spices and other organic materials,†said Bryan Stewart, chairman of the Donate Life float committee and vice president of communications at OneLegacy, the nonprofit organ and tissue recovery organization serving the greater Los Angeles area. “For many of their families, this is a unique opportunity to see their loved one shine before millions of people worldwide and to gain special recognition for their gifts of life and hope.â€
The floragraphs will be decorated before Christmas in Pasadena, with about a third of the portraits completed by the family members themselves. The remainder of the portraits will be partially decorated in Pasadena so that they can be completed by family members at local finishing events in their hometowns. These events are typically held at locations significant to the honoree’s life: schools, houses of worship, or hospitals where the donation occurred. “These local events bring the Donate Life float experience home to the communities that meant so much to the donor,†Stewart noted.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
Los Angeles, CAâ€" Seventy-two organ, eye and tissue donors will be honored with floral memorial “floragraph†portraits that will grace the Donate Life float in the 2013 Rose Parade®. Each of the individuals portrayed in the floragraphs left a positive impact on their family, communities, and those they helped. The 72 floragraphs will line the heart-shaped path rising above 32 riders aboard the float, themed Journeys of the Heart, which dramatizes the ups and downs experienced by donor families, transplant recipients and living donors.
“The donors’ families and dozens of volunteers will decorate the portraits with grains, flowers, seeds, spices and other organic materials,†said Bryan Stewart, chairman of the Donate Life float committee and vice president of communications at OneLegacy, the nonprofit organ and tissue recovery organization serving the greater Los Angeles area. “For many of their families, this is a unique opportunity to see their loved one shine before millions of people worldwide and to gain special recognition for their gifts of life and hope.â€
The floragraphs will be decorated before Christmas in Pasadena, with about a third of the portraits completed by the family members themselves. The remainder of the portraits will be partially decorated in Pasadena so that they can be completed by family members at local finishing events in their hometowns. These events are typically held at locations significant to the honoree’s life: schools, houses of worship, or hospitals where the donation occurred. “These local events bring the Donate Life float experience home to the communities that meant so much to the donor,†Stewart noted.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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