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Phoenicopterus parmensis

I have mentioned this before [click], Parma has been associated with flamingos.  People under sixty have shook off the defensiveness, and many have embraced it as the municipal mascot.  A Parma sign had been rather recently put in place.  A local politico, and former history teacher, wanted a sculpture of one by the sign.  Since flamingos are pink, (pink is also the color of the breast cancer health campaign), a man who has been touched by the loss of a wife and daughter to breast cancer gave $2,000 to pay for a statue.  An aluminum seven footer has made it to Parma from California. The feet are cast with words "made in Mexico".  Along with the statue, a stand with a slot to hold phone cameras has been placed in front of the sign.  A second bird is promised to appear somewhere else in the city.

Now, if the edges of the letters were a matching pink...