‘Meet the Mayor’ Set for Wally’s on Saturday

January 24, 2020 By Dick Cook Leave a Comment

The first “Meet the Mayor” event of 2020 is scheduled for Saturday at Wally’s Restaurant.

The series of events hosted by Mayor Brian Williams is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.. Police Chief Stan Allen will be Mayor Williams’ special guest.

If you have questions about how the East Ridge Police Department works, this would be an excellent opportunity to ask the city’s “Top Cop.”

Wally’s is at 6521 Ringgold Road.

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.