Cheri Kemp Retires by Jeff Meiners
Just before Christmas nearly thirty-three years ago Cheri Kemp walked through the doors of Crest to start a new job. The position of benefits administrator was just a concept when Cheri started, in fact, we didn’t even have a job description for it… we just knew we had an area that we needed lots of attention and Cheri was our person to do the job. More than three decades later, we can undoubtedly say that it was our lucky day when she decided to take that undefined position at Crest. Cheri was the perfect fit for her role as benefits administrator. She built her job from the ground up and developed just the right touch for translating the often confusing details of health and workers compensation insurance to our employees. Most important, she fulfilled her job responsibilities with genuine empathy and car- ing for people who were often dealing with difficult moments in their lives. There is no doubt that Cheri has held more hands and cried more tears with all of us than anyone in the history of Crest.
We will always be thankful for everything that Cheri has done for Crest and wish her happiness in her well-earned retirement and hope she gets to spend countless hours hugging on her grandkids. Since she totally couldn’t cut ties with all of us still working every day, we are happy to say that you might hear Cheri’s voice on an occasional page when she is filling in at the receptionist position.
Tom Saunders Retires by Tom Balch
It all started June 1st, 1989. Tom was hired to work in the Ingredient Division Production Plant. His job task was shipping finished products to customers and receiving raw ingredients from our suppliers. He was responsible for stocking the upstairs with our raw ingredients for production. At this time most of the ingredi- ents were stored in the production plant, as well as all finished product. Only a few select ingredients were storied at the warehouse. In time we outgrew the storage of materials as well as finished products at the pro- duction plant. Tom moved to the west warehouse, were all the finished and many of the raw ingredients were storied at the back of the building. During his thirty years with us, Tom lived through three warehouse additions and the building of the latest construction of the current Ingredient Warehouse, Building #1.
Tom recently retired, July 31st. 2019. We thank Tom for his years of dedication to his job and to the people he worked with. He was very instrumental in making our operations successful. All of us at Crest wish him the best with his retirement.
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