The Central Hotel Eugowra has seen a change recently with the arrival of the Hodge family last month.
Peter and Michelle, who were originally from Forbes, along with family members Shannon and Shania, have now taken up residence and son Mitchell, who lives at Cowra, travels over each week to help out Friday night and casually.
Peter and Michelle have previously had experience with hotels when they were in the Gooloogong Hotel for two years 2006-2008.
They have had boarding kennels at Gooloogong for the past eight years and previous to that operated courtesy buses on the Central Coast from the Bowling Club and Tennis Club, and also a school bus run when they lived at Gwandalan. During that period Michelle also
transported the elderly people on shopping trips each fortnight.
Michelle will also be known to many Eugowra residents from the time she was employed in the kitchen of the Eugowra Hospital in 2005.
Shannon is a qualified chef having worked for a time with Peter Ashcroft at Forbes and in restaurants in Sydney and the suburbs and at Y4 Restaurant at Yeppoon in Queensland.
Peter said, “I hope to better the business and get it up and running for the kids to take over in three years”.