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Mike Hendricks

Mike at Night

Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.

Too many hotel rooms, not enough restaurants

Friday, March 18, 2016

One of the common topics at the golf course is the fact that it's feast or famine a few nights a year in McCook for the hotel industry. This was specifically characterized in a letter to the editor that appeared in the Wednesday edition of the McCook Daily Gazette and was written by the owners of five hotels in McCook. For purposes of full disclosure, one of those owners, Ron Tompkins who recently bought the Cedar Inn, is taking two of my classes at MCC and another, Perry Strombeck, is a personal friend. I have talked to Ron about this situation but have not talked to Perry. The letter cited four events covering a total of eight days where the McCook hotels are full, all the other days of the year they're not. With the addition of 54 rooms at the new Cobblestone Hotel, the occupancy problem should be solved for these eight days in the future.

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