Shania's Sunflower of Hope Float

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It's a new year and we have so much to look forward to in 2009. Edward Chiu our website specialist has kindly offered to design a fresh website to match up with all of our other graphics for Shania's Sunflower of Hope Fund, so thank you for that Edward, we can't wait to see it. Last year at Shania's Fun Fair a fine man by name of Jim Sandford from the Markham Rotary Club asked us if we would be interested in having a float in the 2008 Santa Claus Parade ( they organize it every year and do an outstanding job of it if I may add ). We had no idea where we would be able to get a flat bed truck for the parade, but Jim mentioned that he might be able to check into it for us. He e-mailed us back that he indeed had someone. A company named Fairgreen Sod Farm owned by the Fairty family, said they would donate a 40 foot flat bed and truck for us to use in the parade and also a driver. We asked them if we could use there building the day before to decorate it in and Cam Fairty kindly said no problem. So now we set to figuring out how to decorate this huge 40 foot flat bed. A co-worker at my work does the Santa Claus float in Bradford and was of great help in giving us some ideas of how to go about designing a float, Wow I had no idea how much goes into designing a float, but it was fun, we knew how much Shania would of loved doing this. The only difference is that we wouldn't have been planning it out, she would of gotten out her home made clip board and have had it all figured out in no time flat, that was Shania, she had such a creative mind. She would have been bouncing around the house all excited about the Santa Claus Parade Float. I've got to go play hockey in our beer league right now, our team is named the Ice Pirates, I know Shania would have loved the teams name because her favorite movies were the pirates of the Caribbean. I will continue tonight or tomorrow about the parade, with pictures and much more!!! Wish us luck, we can use all the help we can get.
Shayne,Karen & Shannon