ER Christmas Parade this Saturday

The East Ridge Christmas Parade will be this Saturday, Nov. 23.

The parade, the first municipal holiday parade of the season, will begin at 6:30 p.m. The route will be as it has in years’ past, along Ringgold Road from Germantown Road to Tombras Avenue.

City officials said that in preparation of the event, Ringgold Road will close at 6 p.m. between South Seminole and Moore Road. In addition, only one northbound lane will be open on Germantown Road due to the participants in the parade lining up along the thoroughfare. Participants’ lineup will begin at 4 p.m.

If cancelled due to extreme weather/storms, the makeup day will be the following day, Sunday, November 24 at 3:00 p.m., with Germantown Road and Ringgold Road shutting down to traffic beginning at 2:00 p.m. for Germantown Road and 3:00 p.m. for Ringgold Road. The parade route and road closures are the same as the normal parade route and areas.

Please obey all traffic rules and officials in this area. East Ridge Police will be at each intersection to direct traffic on the north-bound lane of Germantown Road and will also monitor the parade route via motorcycle units. Thank you for your cooperation!

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.