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It probably doesn’t help that I’m writing this morose column with the Traveling Wilburys playing “End of the Line” on YouTube as background music to help get my creative juices flowing.

The Texas Association of Telecommunicators and Advisors (TATOA), a professional non-profit association dedicated to educating and training its membership in the development, regulation, and administration of cable television (Public. Education. Government. [P.E.G.]), internal communications networks, and other telecommunications systems in order to more efficiently serve the local government organization and the general public, announced the 2021 winners of its state-wide TATOA Awards Competition during a ceremony at the annual conference held last week in Houston, Texas. The City of McAllen Office of Communications earned a total of 15 total awards for various video production work. A total of 314 entries, from 30 different municipalities in Texas, in two different budget categories, were submitted for the 34 categories in this year’s competition.

James Bond is a big, dashing gray-and-white “ladies man” of a cat, weighing in at a sturdy 11 pounds, and Shawna is a charming “golden girl” of the Shepherd mix persuasion, who is even bigger (about four times) than JB.