Helton: 'Overwhelmed by the Outpouring of Support'

Thank you to the voters of East Ridge and District 30. I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of support I received from voters on Tuesday.

Four years ago I decided to run for East Ridge City Council. I was blessed to win my Council race in 2016. Two years later I won the race for the Tennessee House of Representatives – District 30. The voters of East Ridge and TN House District 30 honored me with their votes again on Election Day 2020.

Words cannot express how much it means to me to represent my home town and House District 30.

My passion is and will continue to be “Growing our communities together.”

You have my heartfelt thanks for entrusting me with your vote. It is an honor to serve you.

_ Esther Helton, East Ridge City Council, TN House of Representatives (District 30)

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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