Miss Odessa missing out?

The final discussion at Tuesday’s Chamber of Commerce meeting was about the current condition s of the float and the representatives needed to ride it.

“I would pay to have my kid not ride on that float!” was reported as the reaction from many parents.

This is not the first time this topic has arisen at Chamber meetings, which has been responsible for funding the float for the past few years.

In previous years, young women of the junior class were encouraged to visit downtown businesses to help offset not only the cost of the float, but to obtain scholarship funding which was intended to make...