If you would like to contact me personally with suggestions, etc….you can do so at sue@wheatgrowershotel.com

Last Friday, October 17, we gave a tour to Charmayne Cesal who contacted us about the Hotel. She is a member of the National Association of Wheat Weavers (NAWW) and wanted to do an article for their national magazine!! What a perfect fit for the Hotel.  I can just imagine the Suites decorated with wheat weavings, as well as, the restuarant and lobby.

For those of you who have not seen any wheat weavings, take a look at their website at  nawwstraw.org

Charmayne suggested we start offering wheat weavings in the Hotel’s Boutique right now!  What a great idea!

A great BIG THANKS to Fisher Roofing!! We have no more in-door waterfalls in the Hotel!! Just went over and took a look on all the floors (since it rained pretty hard last night). What a wonderful site it was….ALL DRY FLOORS!! Fisher Roofing has been patching the old roof until we can raise the $30,000 (actually $29,900 we have had a few donations from the tours of the Hotel during Farmer’s Day last weekend) for a brand new roof and gutters. We could use all the help you can give in this “Raise the Roof” fund. Every dollar counts!

We had just about 300 people tour the Hotel last weekend for Kimball’s Farmers’ Day event. The guests were excited about the Hotel and it is ALWAYS a motivation for us to keep at it. Thanks to good weather that day for bringing out the crowd! What is really inspiring is seeing the youth have such an interest in it. They will be the generation that will really benefit from this restoration project.

Kent and I will be attending a “Perserving Historic Buildings in Your Community” conference in Lincoln next weekend. It is presented by the National Trust and National Parks Service. Hopefully we will come back with helpful, financing ideas! We will keep you posted.

Cheers,

Sue