Dirk Draper, right,
will retire at year’s end after more than six years as president and CEO of the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC. Draper, who turns 62 in November, said his retirement is a personal choice and an amicable one made in conjunction with the Chamber & EDC’s board of directors.
JERILEE BENNETT, THE GAZETTE file
Gazette staff My mind was just full of chaos, Megyeri said. Everyone, all of our employees were super scared. We were scared. We didn t know what doing business during a pandemic looked like. We literally took it day by day. And everyday we were just trying to solve a series of dilemmas. It was rough. It was super rough. I had the feeling of the unknown. And being super scared.
As a successful restaurant owner for 40 years, Megyeri said she missed the people the loyal customers who dined daily at their businesses. That was the hardest part, is not having customers sit at our tables, she said. I just remembered putting the chairs up on the tables, going, oh my gosh, this is so ugly. How can we make this work better? What are we going to do with all these tables and chairs? I missed our customers being able to sit in our dining room.
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Lt. Col. ML Cavanaugh, PhD, is a nonresident fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point. This essay is an unofficial expression of opinion; the views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of West Point, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or any agency of the U.S. government.
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