Pictured from left to right are: Kirk Mancer, Chamber President; Mike Walker, Walker Discount Building Supply; Jimmy Hamrick, contractor; Clovis Hamrick, secretary; Betty Dover, Chamber’s Hanceville Business Development Committee; Harry Patel, owner; Rita Patel, wife of owner; Pete Rice, Cullman Savings Bank; Mayor Bobby Brown, City of Hanceville; John Riley, Cullman Savings Bank; Greg Clark, Cullman Savings Bank; Penny Keck, Wallace State Community College; Rich Partain, Cullman County Economic Development; Craig Mustard, Choice Hotels International; Paul Patel, Subway Sandwiches; and Ashley Lamar, Chamber Manager of Tourism.

The Cullman Area Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting for the new Comfort Inn in Hanceville, Ala. during their Grand Opening celebration. The new Comfort Inn is located on Alabama Highway 31 across from Wallace State Community College and features 42 rooms, an exterior heated pool, exercise room and offers free high-speed internet and a deluxe Continental breakfast. For more information or to make reservations, contact the hotel at (256) 352-0151.

(Photo and story by Lindsey Dossey, Cullman Chamber of Commerce)

- April 16, 2004