Friday’s Census Kickoff Cancelled

UPDATE: This from the City of East Ridge on Wednesday morning … Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts and other circumstances, the Census Kickoff event scheduled for Friday, February 21 at East Ridge Community Center has been cancelled. The need for the upcoming Census and its related impact has been highly visible for the last couple of months, thanks to the efforts focused on Hamilton County and the City of East Ridge. Please keep checking the City’s website www.eastridgetn.gov<http://www.eastridgetn.gov> for future Census related events.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett will be the featured guest speaker at an area “Census Kickoff,” Friday at 6 pm. at the Community Center.

The event is being hosted by East Ridge Mayor Brian Williams, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke, and Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger.

The event will provide information about the 2020 Census which begins on April 1.

Other guest speakers include June Iljana of the U.S. Census Bureau, Tim Kuhn, of the Tennessee Data Center, and LaTisha Turner, Partnership Specialist with the U.S. Census.

The East Ridge Community Center is at 1515 Tombras Ave. The public is invited.

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.