Hi-Line Retirement Center Provides Update, Welcomes Hanawalt as Interim Administrator

While still heading towards closure by the last week of October, Hi-Line Retirement Center welcomed a new face, Kent Hanawalt as Interim Administrator.

Hanawalt, who had started at HLRC in mid-August, along with HLRC Board Chairman Logan Lund both confirmed that Hanawalt was not there to save HLRC, but to help the facility end things on good terms.

"Doing everything right on the way out is important," Lund said.

The first order of business was to help fix HLRC's deficiencies, as issued by the state.

"They have been declared out of compliance on August 2, and so, I have been writing the pla...