Helton Thanks the Citizens of East Ridge

Thank you to the citizens of East Ridge for putting your trust in me to serve the next four years on the City Council. It is an honor and a privilege.

I would like to thank everyone who worked, supported, voted and prayed for me. I especially would like to thank my mother, Louise Young, my stepfather David Young and my children, Lee Helton, Lisa Lewis and Kip Helton. It would also not have been possible without God’s guidance through this process.

I’m looking forward to working with Councilman-elect Brian Williams and other members of the City Council. It was an awesome experience getting to meet and know so many new friends and neighbors as I went door to door campaigning. I am looking forward to working for the people of East Ridge.

Thank you,
Esther Helton

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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