On most weekends, Liberty Street operated on a skeleton crew. The kitchen staff cooked the weekend"s meals on Friday and refrigerated them for reheating on Saturday and Sunday. Nurses filled hundreds of tiny paper cups with the necessary pills for two days and stacked them on cookie sheets at their stations. The handful of orderlies unlucky enough to draw the weekend shift struggled through a stressful weekend of cleaning up after the residents. But this Saturday was different.
Nurses bustled about, filling orders, cleaning stations, helping residents in and out of their rooms. Orderlies scrubbed walls and baseboards. Several candy-striper volunteers wandered from room to room redistributing dog-eared magazines. And from her post near the entrance, Camille Roberts commanded her army for t
