Alumni Association Holding Golf Tourney, BBQ Party

The East Ridge Alumni and Supporters Association is holding a golf tournament and a party next week to raise money for much-needed amenities at the newly refurbished Raymond James Stadium/Shanks Field.

Brown Acres Golf Club will host the Pioneer Classic Golf Tournament on August 4. The flighted tournament will have shotgun starts at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.

An All Alumni BBQ Party will be held on Saturday, Aug. 5, at East Ridge Motors on Ringgold Road at 6 pm.. The band “Hit Town,” led by 1982 ERHS graduate David Lee, will be playing at the barbecue. Tickets to the event are $10 and you can pay by credit card at www.eralumni.com or at the door the evening of the event.

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.