ER Elementary Holding PTA Membership Drive

East Ridge Elementary School is gearing up a drive to build its PTA membership, officials said earlier this week.

This year the organization is trying something new. According to Ken Hall, the President of the school’s PTA, they are asking for volunteers to act as PTA representatives for each class.

PTA representatives will help organize events, assist the teacher, and coordinate with the PTA on projects, fundraisers and special events.

A PTA representative will get a shirt, PTA name badge and lanyard, and be invited to PTA Representative lunches.

Officials said anyone is welcome to join the PTA. The organization is offering four levels of membership: Bronze, basic membership and a school “brag tag” for $6; Silver, all the above plus a school PTA window cling; Gold, all the above plus a pop socket phone stand and ERE metallic tote for $20; Platinum, all the above plus a PTA t-shirt for $30.

And the PTA is not only recruiting individuals but business memberships are available, too.

The business memberships range from $50, which will get your business’s name on the elementary school Facebook page and four Bronze level individual memberships, all the way up to a Platinum level at $600 with numerous incentives.

For more information one may contact the PTA at 423-493-9294, ext. 33272 or the East Ridge Elementary PTA Facebook page.

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.