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Meet Cristi Shindler, Diamond

When Cristi Shindler was 13 and living in Waha, south of Lewiston, her grandfather had cancer. The family often drove to Spokane via Colfax and Cristi vowed some day she would be a nurse in this town.

“It just seemed really nice,” she said.

She has been a nurse at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center since 1998.

“I always wanted to be a nurse,” she recalled. As a girl she dressed up as a nurse for Halloween. Growing up on the farm she was accustomed to caring for animals; she just wanted to focus that same caring on people.

Cristi studied nursing at Lewis-Clark Sta...