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Crazy Days still a go for July 9-11, offers chance for free lunch
McCOOK, Neb. -- Crazy Days is still a go, and early bird shoppers could score a free lunch on the chamber.
The annual retail shopping event will be held July 9 to 11, and Chamber President Dawson Brunswick said that close to 30 merchants have expressed interest in being involved. This year, the chamber is giving each participating merchant ten lunch vouchers worth $5 each to award to their customers. Each merchant will decide his or her own criteria for giving away the lunch vouchers, which can be used at any of six chamber-member restaurants: Mac’s Drive-In, Sehnert’s, Subway, Pizza Hut, Braxton’s Brisket BarbiQue, or Citta’ Deli.
The Gazette will again sponsor the Crazy Days costume contest on Thursday morning, July 9. The theme for Crazy Days is “Roarin’ 20’s” so Brunswick is encouraging merchants to recycle costumes that they wore to the chamber banquet earlier this year.
The 4th annual Cruisin’ on the Bricks, sponsored by Wagner Auto Group, has also been given the green light. Drivers’ meet-and-greet will take place Friday, July 10th starting at 6:30 p.m, with the free cruise beginning at 7:30 p.m. The car show will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 11. All makes and models are welcome: cars, trucks, motorcycles, off-road, and 4x4. Preregistration for the car show is $15 before June 30 and $20 after. Registration forms are available at www.drivewagner.com.
Brunswick had high praise for Andrew Eschliman, who has been doing a lot of the legwork to organize Crazy Days this year. Eschliman is the summer intern for the chamber, and is a 2017 McCook High School graduate and then attended McCook Community College for two years. He will be a senior at University of Nebraska Lincoln in the fall, majoring in marketing.
He started working for the chamber June 1st and will work through early August. Eschliman said he has enjoyed making professional connections in McCook. He said that he has met a lot of people, “I had six meetings yesterday, and that is kind of a normal day”. Eschliman said that once he graduates from college, he wants to do “marketing things”, further explaining that he would like to work for a marketing firm so he can determine which marketing industry he would like to be in.
Once Crazy Days is complete, Brunswick and Eschliman will begin some of the Heritage Days planning, which is still on for September 23 to 27. Brunswick said that there may be some differences this year, depending on which directed health measures are still in place, but he’s hopeful that many of the events can still occur. Brunswick said that even though the All Class Reunion has been postponed, he has had many people contact him saying that they are still planning on coming back.
In other business, the chamber board chose Lorri Beebe of Community Hospital to be the chair-elect for the chamber board. Beebe will become chair-woman of the board beginning in July 2021. Kerri Waugh of Charter West has been appointed by the board to serve a one-year term.