East Ridge Observes Memorial Day with Annual Ceremony

On Monday, May 27, beginning at 1:30 p.m., the Annual East Ridge Memorial Day Ceremony will be held at Pioneer Frontier Park, located beside East Ridge City Hall.

This annual tradition honors those that have served in any branch of the military who died while on active duty. The William E. Blair Post 95 of the American Legion will spearhead this event along with city personnel and the Crestwood Garden Club.

City offices and non-essential services, which include the City Library, will be closed in observance of Memorial Day. For those that have Sanitation trash pickup on Monday, your trash will be picked up on Tuesday, May 28^th. Please make sure your trash carts are to the curb by Monday evening to ensure pickup. There will be no brush or bulk item pickups for the week of May 27^th.

For a location map and calendar of Sanitation services, please visit our website at www.eastridgetn.gov or this direct link to the Sanitation homepage: http://eastridgetn.gov/Government/Departments/Sanitation.aspx

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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