ERPD Assisting in 'Life Choices' Exercise with Teens

Through a grant from the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, the East Ridge Police Department will be assisting 1N3, the Hamilton County Health Department, Chattanooga Police, and other agencies in the “Choices Matter Teen Maze” held at Chattanooga State on March 8-11.

A Teen Maze has been described as a life-size game board to help teens see firsthand the consequence of life choices. Volunteers interact with teen participants in a fun and creative way to convey important and vital information about a variety of health and educational issues.

A Teen Maze educates teens about the consequences of life choices before they have to make those choices! It is a fun life-size interactive event. Topics include:

drinking & driving
legal consequence
media myths and dangers
education & career opportunities
distracted driving

This will be made available to the sophomore students in Hamilton County and surrounding areas and will have over 1,000 students participating this year. 1N3 is getting the community agencies, businesses, and organizations involved to collaborate and impact these students.

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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