Mission Oaks Candle Lighting Postponed until Tuesday

Residents of the Mission Oaks subdivision will continue a long tradition in East Ridge on December 10 with its holiday candle lighting.

The event which was scheduled for Monday has been postponed until Tuesday, Dec. 11, due to inclement weather, officials with the Mission Oaks Community Club said.

Members of the East Ridge Needy Child Fund will be accepting donations at the main entrance to the subdivision at the West end of Patton Drive.

Officials with the community club are inviting the community to come and view the neighborhood’s festive decorations and join them in caroling at the Mission Oaks sign and help celebrate the holiday season.

In the event of inclement weather, the candle lighting will be held on Tuesday or as soon as the weather permits.

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.