Crestwood Garden Club Spruces Up City Planters

Last week, several members of the Crestwood Garden Club helped spruce up planters in front of the East Ridge Fire and Police Services Center.

Maggi Burns, President of the Crestwood Garden Club, said that last year’s drought claimed holly bushes that had been installed by the club in the spring of 2016. The effort to revive the plantings in the containers was deemed the “Thriller, Filler and Spiller” container project.

Kathryn Knapp, the “Thriller” container chairman, selected nandinas as the “thriller,” colorful coleus plants as the “filler” and sweet potato vines as the “spiller,” Burns said.

The City of East Ridge is funding the replanting of these containers plus the containers at Camp Jordan Park, Burns said.

“We will be working on the containers at Camp Jordan Park in mid-May with the same kinds of plants,” she said. “Crestwood works to beautify the City of East Ridge. We hope the general public will enjoy seeing these containers with Thriller, Filler and Spiller plants!”

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.