A Couple Of Shifts: Crowder retires after many more...

What started out as picking up "a couple shifts" back in 1979, turned out to be a career that would keep Darl Crowder busy and on the floors for longer than she anticipated. Just short of forty-three years as a CNA at what is now known as the Hi-Line Retirement Center, she said she has been there "through more administrators than I can count." She has seen changes through the four-plus decades, and undoubtedly one of the toughest things she had to do in that span of time just came on July 31st.

"It was tough to go in and visit each resident and tell them this was my last shift there. It was...