A local group of family and friends plan to dust off their platform shoes, bell-bottomed pants and polyester jumpsuits Saturday as they recreate the 1970s while honoring a local cancer victim.
The contingent will participate in Saturday’s Farm-City Days parade with their float, themed “Groovy Chicks Get Mammograms.”
Disco music will play while several youngsters will dance aboard a float.
The centerpiece — a giant, pink ribbon — was created using a segment of chicken wire, pink spray paint and 4,500 paper napkins.
Pink ribbons are the universal symbol of support for those who have been afflicted with breast cancer.
Once the napkins were stuffed into the chicken wire, several cans of spray paint were used to turn their contraption bright pink.
The effort took a few weeks worth of planning, said Dana Endicott, one of the family members on hand for the float project.
A special guest will be a part of the float. Patty Patterson of Gas, who is battling cancer, will likely be aboard the lead vehicle, Endicott said.
“It should be fun,” she said.
STEVE ORCUTT, meanwhile, has his sights set on another scourge for children everywhere: bullying.
Orcutt, a retired art instructor for USD 257, has created a float honoring those of all ages who have been bullied.
His float features “world champion featherweights” Milo “Drumstick” Combs and Narley “Badboy” Fowler.
The boxing roosters will don full gear on a colorful haywagon sporting a mock boxing ring.
“They are the ‘Bless the Beasts and the Children’ gang,” Orcutt said.
