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Del Monte Foods plans to shut down its Modesto cannery — which will cost about 600 year-round jobs and another 1,200 seasonal jobs during harvest season.
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Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Ryan and Mahoney’s team took over a vacant former cannery — at least one wall of which remains on the grounds of the Solar Turbines plant — and completed the build within Lindbergh’s 60-day timeline.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
There, Rauff worked as the manager of a crab cannery in Patagonia, and apparently as an interrogator in one of Pinochet’s torture centers.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025
Fish canning was once the primary industry in Astoria, Oregon, until the last cannery closed in the 1980s.
—Hannah Norman, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2025
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Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Ryan and Mahoney’s team took over a vacant former cannery — at least one wall of which remains on the grounds of the Solar Turbines plant — and completed the build within Lindbergh’s 60-day timeline.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
There, Rauff worked as the manager of a crab cannery in Patagonia, and apparently as an interrogator in one of Pinochet’s torture centers.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025
Fish canning was once the primary industry in Astoria, Oregon, until the last cannery closed in the 1980s.
—Hannah Norman, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2025
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“Cannery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cannery. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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