‘Cookout with the Candidates’ Today

If you are looking for a one-on-one with candidates running in the November 6 Municipal Election in East Ridge, you will have an opportunity.

A “Cookout with the Candidates” is scheduled for Saturday, October 6 at the city’s newest coffee shop, Local Coffee of East Ridge. The event is scheduled rain or shine from noon to 3 p.m. at the shops address at 5330 Ringgold Road. Hot dogs will be provided for your culinary enjoyment.

Organizers of the event emphasize that this is not a debate or forum, just a great way to find out where candidates stand on the issues and what their vision is for our city. The event is not sponsored by any organization and all candidates for mayor, council and court clerk have been invited to attend and make themselves available to to voters of East Ridge.

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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