On Saturday, Debra Meier, her significant other Lauren Wagner, their miniature silky chicken named Chica (pictured in image five) and a couple thousand Portland-area parade enthusiasts ventured to the city’s central eastside to watch the Portland Rose Festival’s 2023 Grand Floral Parade. Meier loves adventure and serving her community, so she often looks for places where those interests intersect. Alongside the usual floats featuring larger-than-life characters made entirely of natural materials, the community and high-school marching bands and sailors stopping by for Fleet Week, this year’s Grand Floral Parade featured more than a dozen World War II era Rosie the Riveters who served as the grand marshals. The women, all between the ages of 94 and 101, rode on a float adorned with red roses and a 20 foot tall silhouette of their iconic namesake. Click our bio to see over a hundred more photos from the parade and real the full report. --Reporting by Nick Gibson --Photos by mark_w_...