Roosa remembers 33 years with city

One of Green River's first parks and recreation employees bids adieu to the city, retiring after 33 years of service to the city.

Brenda Roosa, a longtime supervisor at the Green River Recreation Center, originally started with the city in 1981, years before ground was broken for the recreation center. Roosa said at that time, the department had just been formulated and initially consisted of two people, the director and herself, the department's secretary.

"It was started from just nothing," she said.

Large sums of money still came in as a result of the economic boom that started in Sweetwate...