Go-Motel Update; Governor's Walley Cup Tournament Filled (First Time In Eight Years To Fill)

The Dickinson Press is reporting:

WILLISTON — Louisiana native Dex Comardelle brings Southern hospitality to North Dakota workforce housing.

The 23-year-old was working toward a degree in hospitality management at the University of Louisiana when he started to hear about North Dakota’s oil boom.

Comardelle and his father, Ricky, who has provided living quarters for offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico for 25 years, decided to team up. They formed a company called Go-Motel and opened a workforce housing lodge north of Williston as their first step.

The lodge, which houses about 150 oilfield workers, aims to provide a more hotel-like atmosphere with larger rooms and more privacy rather than some camps that require workers to have roommates or share bathrooms.

And winning some awards:

Go-Motel catered for the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s Bakken Rocks CookFest last week and won judges’ favorite in Parshall.

By the way, I think the linked Dickinson Press article above answers the question asked in this Bismarck Tribune article:

Lake Sakakawea's "big two" walleye tournaments are coming up the next two weekends.
And, for the first time in a number of years, both have filled.

The 38th North Dakota Governor’s Walleye Cup Tournament takes to the water Friday and Saturday out of Fort Stevenson State Park.

For the first time in eight years, the tournament has a full field of 252 teams with a few to spare on a waiting list.

In past years, high gas prices, a sagging economy, flooding and low water levels were pointed at as reasons the tournament did not fill.

Tournament officials say they are not sure why it filled this year, although there could be a number of reasons including good fishing and a strong state economy.