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Get Your Canner Gauge Checked

Aug 07, 2014

The USDA recommends that home canners have their pressure canner dial gauges checked each year to assure safety in home canning. An inaccurate gauge could mean home canned vegetables; fish and meat would not be safe to eat.

Home canners can have their pressure canner dial gauges checked at:

Lee Franks Mercantile, 324 S. Whitcomb Ave., Tonasket

Tuesday August 19^th, from 10:00a.m. to 12:00

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At the WSU Okanogan County Extension Office, County Courthouse, Room. 101, in Okanogan, Mondays-Thursdays from 8a.m. to 5p.m.

Up-to-date food preservation publications and information will be available for purchase. There is a $5 suggested donation for each gauge tested.