Anyone planning an outdoor event during these stormy winter weather months in Pleasanton should give Michelle Stearns a call to "will away" the rain. As the coordinator of last Saturday's Hometown Holiday Parade on Main Street, that's what she did during the downpours of Friday and even on the morning of the parade. Sitting by the parade hotline, which she'd have to use to call off the parade, Stearns just kept insisting that it's not going to rain, not during the parade, and she wouldn't let it.

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