ERHS, Parks & Rec Holds Skills Camp

The East Ridge Pioneers football and cheerleading squads looked to the future Tuesday night at Raymond James Stadium.

East Ridge High School football coach Tim James joined his staff, a dozen players and five of the Pioneers cheerleaders to guide kids through free football and cheerleading skills camps.

City of East Ridge Athletics Supervisor Shawnna Skiles said Coach James did a really good job with the kids.

“All the parents just loved him and how he and his staff worked with the kids,” Skiles said. “The players did just as well. They were all class acts.”

The East Ridge Parks and Recreation Department staff plans free sports camps before the start of each season.

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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