Library Hosting Event

The East Ridge Library in conjunction with the Chattanooga Zoo is hosting “Movin’ and Groovin’Animals” on August 22.

According to information from the library, the free event will be held at 11 am. featuring live animals.

According to a flyer from the library, the event will explore animals’ bodies and how they move.

No registration is required.

The East Ridge Library is open Monday and Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Hours of operation on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

For more information about this program and the library in general phone 423-867-7323 or visit this link.

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.