Campus Beautification at ERHS

East Ridge High School will conduct its annual campus beautification day on Saturday, May 4, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.

Officials with the school are asking community members and community organizations to assist in a campus-wide enhancement day. Painters, landscapers, laborers and anyone looking to help are encouraged to participate.

Below is a list of a few projects to be completed.

Painting of classroom 607; pressure washing of the front entrance to the school; clearing of the bank around the track; painting the trim on the ticket booth at the football field; painting the front curb; window washing; general clean-up around campus.

Paintbrushes, rollers and one pressure washer will be provided. Officials are asking for volunteers to bring chainsaws, lopping shears, blowers, weedeaters, shovels and brooms.

For more information call Coach Tim James at 423-240-2832

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.