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San Antonio Celebrates 'Tim Duncan Day'

Mayor Ivy Taylor has declared July 21, Tim Duncan Day, and San Antonio businesses and organizations have jumped aboard.

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Grouchy Mama's Food Truck was offering "The Timmy" today on its menu.

Teka Molino served 21-cent breakfast tacos. At Grouchy Mama’s Food Truck, today’s feature BBQ sandwich was “The Timmy.” Animal Care Services offered the first 21 dog adoptions at $21. Bethany Colonnese is the Live Release Manager. "We just thought it would be a fun way to commemorate his service to the city, his love of the city. We know he’s a pet lover at the same time, and it’s just a great way to get the word out about the great animals that we have down here as well," Colonnese says. Duncan spent his entire 19-year career with the San Antonio Spurs and his jersey number '21' is a popular fixture in the community. He announced his retirement earlier this month. And several businesses have special Tim Duncan messages displayed on their marquees including the Majestic Theatre. Fans are also having fun thanking Tim Duncan and celebrating the day on social media. Here's a selection from Facebook and Twitter:

Tricia Schwennesen is the Web Producer/News Editor for Texas Public Radio where she manages the station’s web site and social media accounts.
Louisa Jonas is an independent public radio producer, environmental writer, and radio production teacher based in Baltimore. She is thrilled to have been a PRX STEM Story Project recipient for which she produced a piece about periodical cicadas. Her work includes documentaries about spawning horseshoe crabs and migratory shorebirds aired on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. Louisa previously worked as the podcast producer at WYPR 88.1FM in Baltimore. There she created and produced two documentary podcast series: Natural Maryland and Ascending: Baltimore School for the Arts. The Nature Conservancy selected her documentaries for their podcast Nature Stories. She has also produced for the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s Distillations Podcast. Louisa is editor of the book Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her training also includes journalism fellowships from the Science Literacy Project and the Knight Digital Media Center, both in Berkeley, CA. Most recently she received a journalism fellowship through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she traveled to Toolik Field Station in Arctic Alaska to study climate change. In addition to her work as an independent producer, she teaches radio production classes at Howard Community College to a great group of budding journalists. She has worked as an environmental educator and canoe instructor but has yet to convince a great blue heron to squawk for her microphone…she remains undeterred.