Mac Mackin, of Post Falls, takes a suture needle and thread and prepares to practice suturing on a pig’s foot during a class on emergency wound care Sunday at the Sustainable Preparedness Expo at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center. Story below. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley)

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