The Multi-Purpose Facility hosted the Youth Craft Day on Friday, Sept. 27, during this event youth ages six-17 learned to make jerky, utilizing a dehydrator and later learning to turn dry meat into powder for cooking purposes. Parents and grandparents were invited to the event, learning to make jerky alongside their children.

Kellis Wilbourn works to fill trays of meat with the help of Terry Box on Friday, Sept. 27 during the Multi-Purpose Facility Youth Craft Day. Attendees used sauces and dried spices to season deer meat ahead of the drying process during the jerky making class.

Attendees of the Multi-Purpose Facility used salt, pepper, barbeque sauce, and soy sauce to season slices of fresh deer meat to make dried jerky, dehydrator trays are then filled with pieces of meat.

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