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Staff Report on July 10, 2024

PHOTO BY BRITTANY KELLEY Community members watch as a lineworker throws down mini figures attached to parachutes for children to catch at the Kyle Public Library.

PHOTO BY BRITTANY KELLEY Wade Goines, whose father is a lineworker for Pedernales Electric Cooperative, poses with Wattson the Raccoon for PEC’s Meet a Lineworker event on July 3.

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