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ThemassiveDisneyentry featured a Star Wars theme complete with stormtroop- ers on one end and char- acters from the animated hit "Frozen" on the other. It won the Extraordinaire Trophy for most spectac- ular float — one of several awards given to the massive works of art that thrilled spectators along Colorado Boulevard. "The Bachelor" television series float depicting a ro- mantic date on an exotic beach also drew big cheers from the crowd and won the President's Award for most effective use of flowers. The India Punjab float got people moving to its Bollywood beat. It was fol- lowed by whooping and hol- lering by a mounted unit from the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division. Overhead, a squadron of sky-writing planes scrawled anti-Donald Trump mes- sages but few people seemed to be looking away from the floats. A gentle Santa Ana wind carried the aroma of sizzling bacon-wrapped hot dogs down the boulevard. Enthusiastic fans began lining the parade route Thursday. Many sipped hot cocoa and were equipped with portable heaters, blankets and sleeping bags to stay warm as overnight temperatures dipped to the mid-30s. Their numbers were ex- pected to swell to more than 700,000 for the annual pa- rade that served as a kick- off to the 102nd Rose Bowl football game between Iowa and Stanford. It was the final parade broadcast for longtime TV hosts Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards, who have described the color- ful floats and parade par- ticipants for more than 30 years. Eubanks, 77, and Ed- wards, 72, thanked fans and their broadcast crews as they signed off for the last time and passed the torch to Leeza Gibbons and Mark Steines, who will take over next year. Authorities said the event was held under unprece- dented security, although there were no known threats. Geoffrey Hayton, an at- torney from Redlands, near the site of the recent San Bernardino attack, said his father began attending the parade in the 1950s and his family has attended ever since. For the first time this year though, he had a con- versation with his wife about the potential dan- gers of going to the parade. Ultimately, they decided fear wouldn't stop them. "Statistically, I feel like we're pretty safe," Hayton said. The massive influx of people into the city, the length of the parade route, and numerous venues ranging from float deco- rating pavilions to Tour- nament of Roses head- quarters and the Rose Bowl stadium have always required a huge deploy- ment of law enforcement, but officials said the 2016 security effort was bigger than ever. Mark Selby, deputy spe- cial agent in charge of Homeland Security Investi- gations in Los Angeles and the federal coordinator for the Rose Parade and secu- rity, said the plan involved unprecedented resources and technologies. Federal authorities in- tended to use a variety of explosives-detection meth- ods ranging from bomb- sniffing dogs to devices that register even minute amounts of radiation, Selby said. Officials warned Rose Bowl game spectators that a number of items would not be allowed inside the stadium, including ban- ners, large beverage con- tainers and drones. AssociatedPresswriters Christopher Weber and Christine Armario contributed from Los Angeles. Parade FROMPAGE9 The project consists of installing data cable, in- dustry approved hangers, hardware and the removal and disposal of old net- work cabling. The cabling that would be replaced is located throughout city hall and in administra- tion offices, police depart- ment offices, records and dispatch offices and the fire department offices which are all located at 555 Washington St. Installation of the ca- bling is projected to costs $24,640 and the removal and disposal of old net- work cabling $3,360. On the consent agenda is an item to reduce the Parks Commission, which has been operating with five members and two va- cancies for several years, to just five seats due to a lack of interest on the part of the public in join- ing the commission. Two public hearings will be held at the meet- ing, one regarding the fiscal year 2016 assess- ments for the Downtown Red Bluff Business Asso- ciation and another on an ordinance imposing an express ban on mar- ijuana activities within the city of Red Bluff. The marijuana ban would prohibit the cul- tivation, processing and delivery of marijuana in the city and ban medical marijuana dispensaries. Council FROM PAGE 1 By Sandy Cohen and Mesfin Fekadu The Associated Press LOSANGELES Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, who carved out her own success with R&B hits like "Our Love" and "This Will Be" before triumphantly intertwining their legacies to make his "Unforgettable" their sig- nature hit through techno- logical wizardry, has died. She was 65. While Cole was a Grammy winner in her own right, she had her greatest success in 1991 when she re-recorded her father's classic hits — with him on the track — for the album "Unforgettable ... With Love." It became a multiplatinum smash and garnered her multiple Grammy Awards, including album of the year. Cole died Thursday eve- ning at Cedars-Sinai Med- ical Center in Los Angeles due to complications from ongoing health issues, her family said in a statement. "Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived ... with dig- nity, strength and honor. Our beloved Mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGET- TABLE in our hearts for- ever," read the statement from her son Robert Yancy and sisters Timolin and Casey Cole. "I had to hold back the tears. I know how hard she fought," said Aretha Frank- lin in a statement. "She fought for so long. She was one of the greatest singers of our time." Others honored Cole on social media. In a tweet, actress Marlee Matlin called Cole a lovely song- bird and a great actress, writing "she is now sing- ing in heaven." Patti La- Belle tweeted, "She will be truly missed but her light will shine forever!" Natalie Cole had battled drug problems and hepa- titis that forced her to un- dergo a kidney transplant in May 2009. Cole's older sister, Carol "Cookie" Cole, died the day she received the transplant. Their brother, Nat Kelly Cole, died in 1995. Natalie Cole was in- spired by her dad at an early age and auditioned to sing with him when she was just 11 years old. She was 15 when he died of lung cancer, in 1965. She began as an R&B singer but later gravitated toward the smooth pop and jazz standards that her fa- ther loved. Cole's greatest success came with her 1991 album, "Unforgettable ... With Love," which paid trib- ute to her father with re- worked versions of some of his best-known songs, in- cluding "That Sunday That Summer," "Too Young" and "Mona Lisa." Her voice was spliced with her dad's in the title cut, offering a delicate duet a quarter-century after his death. The album sold some 14 million copies and won six Grammys, including album of the year as well record and song of the year for the title track duet. While making the al- bum, Cole told The Associ- ated Press in 1991, she had to "throw out every R&B lick that I had ever learned and every pop trick I had ever learned. With him, the music was in the back- ground and the voice was in the front." "I didn't shed really any real tears until the album was over," Cole said. "Then I cried a whole lot. When we started the project it was a way of reconnecting with my dad. Then when we did the last song, I had to say goodbye again." She was also nominated for an Emmy award in 1992 for a televised performance of her father's songs. "That was really my thank you," she told People magazine in 2006. "I owed that to him." Another father-daughter duet, "When I Fall in Love," won a 1996 Grammy for best pop collaboration with vocals, and a follow-up al- bum, "Still Unforgettable," won for best traditional pop vocal album of 2008. Cole made her recording debut in 1975 with "Insep- arable." The music indus- try welcomed her with two Grammy awards in 1976 — one for best new artist and one for best female R&B vocal performance for her buoyant hit "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)." She also worked as an actress, with appearances on TV's "Touched by an An- gel" and "Grey's Anatomy." But she was happiest touring and performing live. "I still love recording and still love the stage," she said on her website in 2008, "but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band." Cole was born in 1950 to Nat "King" Cole and his wife, Maria Ellington Cole, a onetime vocalist with Duke Ellington who was no relation to the great bandleader. Her father was already a recording star, and he rose to greater heights in the 1950s and early '60s. He toured worldwide, and in 1956 he became the first black entertainer to host a national TV variety show, though poor ratings and lack of sponsors killed it off the following year. He also appeared in a few movies and spoke out in favor of civil rights. Natalie Cole grew up in Los Angeles' posh Hancock Park neighborhood, where her parents had settled in 1948 despite animosity from some white residents about having the black singer as a neighbor. When told by residents who said they didn't want "undesir- able people" in the area, the singer said, "Neither do I, and if I see (any), I'll be the first to complain." The family eventually in- cluded five children. Natalie Cole started singing seriously in college, performing in small clubs. But in her 2000 auto- biography, "Angel on My Shoulder," Cole discussed how she had battled her- oin, crack cocaine and al- cohol addiction for many years. She spent six months in rehab in 1983. When she announced in 2008 that she had been di- agnosed with hepatitis C, a liver disease spread through contact with infected blood, she blamed her past intra- venous drug use. She criticized the Re- cording Academy for giv- ing five Grammys to drug user Amy Winehouse in 2008. "I'm an ex-drug ad- dict and I don't take that kind of stuff lightly," Cole explained at the 2009 Grammy Awards. Hepatitis C "stayed in my body for 25 years and it could still hap- pen to this young woman or other addicts who are fooling around with drugs, especially needles." Cole received chemo- therapy to treat the hep- atitis and "within four months, I had kidney fail- ure," she told CNN's Larry King in 2009. She needed dialysis three times a week until she received a donor kidney on May 18, 2009. The organ procurement agency One Legacy facili- tated the donation from a family that had requested that their donor's organ go to Cole if it was a match. Cole toured through much of her illness, often receiving dialysis at hospi- tals around the globe. "I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars," she told People magazine. "You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life." Fekadu reported from New York. OBITUARY Gr am my w in ni ng s in ge r Na ta li e Co le d ie s MATTSAYLES—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Natalie Cole is seen at the 51st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The Associated Press ONTARIO Four adults and one child were killed Thursday night when two vehicles collided near a freeway off ramp, author- ities said. The crash occurred about 7 p.m. when a sil- ver Toyota Yaris with four people veered off a ramp from eastbound Interstate 10 and struck a red Toyota sedan, also carrying four people, California High- way Patrol Officer Chris- tina Wood told the Los An- geles Times. All four of the people in the sedan — a 30-year-old man, a 29-year-old man, a 37-year-old woman and and another man — died on the scene, Wood told the Times. The highway patrol gave no further in- formation on them. Witness Orlando Erives told KCBS TV that he saw the silver car pull out of the gas station when the red vehicle plowed into it. "I saw the firefighters trying to cut the car so that they could get the people out. One was ejected from the car. I was able to see them on the floor. After that I just saw them put- ting tarps on each of the bodies," Erives said. Wood tells the Times that the Yaris was driven by a 51-year-old woman and car- ried a girl, 12, and two boys, ages 16 and 6. They were all from Van Nuys, but it was unknownwhethertheywere related. The four were taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where the 6-year-old boy died. The Highway Patrol says the cause of the crash is unknown. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 5 people killed when 2 vehicles collide PHOTOS BY MICHAEL OWEN BAKER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Disneyland Resort "Diamond Celebration" float, winner of the Extraordinaire Trophy, appears in the 127th Rose Parade in Pasadena on Friday. Law enforcement personnel monitor the route at the end of the 127th Rose Parade in Pasadena on Friday. 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