Toast of Fiest Creek

Audrey Woznick has worked 64 years in the food service business.

At age 78, she isn’t about to give it up.

“I love working,” said Woznick, who has been employed at Feist Creek for 11 years. “I’d like to hang in there until I’m at least 80. I’m in no hurry to retire.”

Feist Creek owner Cliff Kramer values his hard working employee.

“She is special,” Kramer said about Woznick. “She is very talented and professional. Everyone just loves her and she makes the best homemade cheesecake in the world. People come just to have a piece.”

The mother of three has retired many times. Woznick managed the Eagles Club in Caldwell for eight years and worked as a catering manager for Hilton Hotel in Juneau, Alaska.

Woznick moved to Boundary County after her brother, who she was taking care of, died from cancer.

“My brother and sister bought property and I came up to visit,” she said. “I saw a real estate boy and told him if he ever had a house for sale on the river to call me. He did”

Shortly after moving to the Feist Creek area, Kramer asked Woznick to help in his restaurant.

“Cliff heard that I used to be a bartender and he asked if I would show the girls he had working how to bartend when he first got his liquor license,” she said. “I’ve been here ever since.”

Woznick always comes to work dressed impeccably.

“It has to do with the era I grew up in,” she said. “My momma lived to be 89 and I never did see her wear a pair of pants. I like getting dressed up.”

For Woznick, bartending is not only a job but a great way to socialize.

“People are interesting, they all have a story,” she said. “They come to the bar and you get to know them. I’ve made some great friends over the years.”