Skip the seasonal decorations of red, green and blue this year and follow the rosy lead of Woodland Park’s upcoming “Lighter Side of Christmas” parade, where they’re thinking pink. The 2007 parade theme is “Dreaming of a Pink Christmas,” which is meant to create breast cancer awareness rather than John Waters movies and lawn flamingos.
“We’ve already bought everything pink in Woodland Park that you can imagine,” said Kathy Norman, a co-owner of The Edge Salon & Spa, which won the grand marshals’ award for its entry in the 2006 “Blizzard of Oz” themed parade.
Gayle Gross, who handles relationship development for another grand marshals’ favorite, Park State Bank & Trust, already has commissioned the local high school madrigal choir to record an altered version of a classic Christmas carol.
This year’s float, Gross said, hews to the evocative rather than the comical. For the 2005 Disney theme, a convertible car carried a bank employee dressed as Cruella de Vil, followed by other staffers in costume as her henchmen, pulling a kennel of puppies representing the kidnapped doglets from “101 Dalmations.”
Without disclosing what The Edge has planned, Norman hinted that it would be more whimsical.
“It has to do with the beauty industry,” she allowed. “We think pink is a great color. We’re girly girls.”
The parade begins at 6 p.m. Saturday on Highway 24 in Woodland Park, following a day of “Paint the Town Pink” events.
