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Friends, family hold parade for retiring SPEC lineman Ira Pickard
Parade for retiring SPEC lineman Ira Pickard
By Andrew Wood | February 26, 2021 at 9:54 PM CST - Updated February 26 at 10:32 PM
BUFFALO SPRINGS LAKE, Texas (KCBD) - After 43 years of working power lines, Ira Pickard is calling it a career.
“Ira spent 43 years with South Plains Electric Co-Op. While we’re home safe in bed, these linemen are getting us electricity back,” Kirkpatrick said. “Firemen get kudos all the time, (along with) police officers, EMS, health care workers. But, people that keep us comfortable in our lives seldom get any recognition.”
For Ira’s friends and family, a simple goodbye wasn’t enough. Instead, his girlfriend reached out to those closest to him to set up a socially-distanced parade that circled around Buffalo Springs Lake. For Pickard, it was a goodbye trip in a fire engine loaned out by his friend, Lubbock Fire Rescue’s Eddi ....

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