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<div>[[Image:PresstonPelican-PNJ.jpg|thumb|200px|"Press"ton Pelican in front of the Pensacola News Journal building on [[Romana Street]]]]<br />
[[Pelicans in Paradise]] is a public art project organized by the [[Pensacola News Journal]] in which pelican statues of reinforced fiberglass are decorated by various artists, selected by the statues' sponsors, and placed at various outdoor locations around the [[downtown Pensacola]] area.<br />
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Pelicans in Paradise was inspired by the similar [[Wikipedia:CowParade|CowParade]] project, which Pensacola News Journal president & publisher [[Denise Ivey]] witnessed during a [[2002]] trip to Portland, Oregon. Each fiberglass pelican is nearly 5 feet tall and weighs about 70 pounds; each pelican sits on a 48 inch by 40 inch, 450-pound cement "perch."<br />
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A total of 41 pelicans have been commissioned for the project: the initial project included twenty-one pelicans launched between [[June 23]]-July 2, [[2004]], followed by a "Second Flight" between [[November 15]]-19, and five more in Spring [[2005]]. One remains unfinished. On [[May 9]], 2005, the pelicans began to be removed, cleaned and returned to their owners/sponsors. Many have remained in the same place.<br />
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All pelican designs have been reproduced in the form of scale replicas, which are available for purchase from the Pensacola News Journal. Other Pelicans in Paradise products include T-shirts, posters and magnets. All proceeds from sponsorship and merchandise go to benefit the News Journal's [[Newspapers in Education]] literacy program.<br />
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==Pelican locations==<br />
Initially located in close proximity to each other in the downtown area, the Pelican statues were returned to the original sponsors or sold to the highest bidder after the program's end in 2005. Sadly, some were vandalized or stolen and will never be relocated. The map below is imported from a [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=106183886709132694763.000451557f4d84d8137ce&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=30.436242,-87.252045&spn=0.336268,0.513611&z=11 Google Maps] project by [[User:RenegadeSith]].<br />
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:''Map incomplete. Any user who is interested in contributing to this map is strongly urged to [[Special:EmailUser/RenegadeSith|contact the map author]].''<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/pelicans/ Official Pelicans in Paradise website]<br />
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[[Category:Outdoor art]]<br />
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