Summary: A Local Blanchard

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A local Blanchard family took the song lyrics “anything you can do I can do better” to heart and created their own business.
After tasting a homemade salsa, a natural competitiveness caused Lori Redmon, her husband Bill Redmon and her mother Diane Cooper to create Killin Time Canning.

“My mother works at a nursing home and she brought some salsa home that a resident’s family member had made. Just out of the competitiveness of our family, we said we could do better and that’s where it started out right there with the salsas“said Lori Redmon.

Having no prior canning experience or even formal cooking skills, the family started tinkering with salsa recipes until they made a product they were satisfied with.

“We started playing around with

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