Needy Child Fund Having Volunteer Meeting at Local Coffee

The East Ridge Needy Child Fund is having a volunteer meeting on Thursday, April 18 at Local Coffee on Ringgold Road.

The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Officials with the organization said the focus of the meeting will be a discussion of “exciting opportunities” for those who volunteer with the organization, that among other things, provides gifts and essential to those less fortunate in East Ridge during the Christmas season.

The East Ridge Needy Child Fund is a non-profit 501-c-3 organization whose mission is to help children and families in need in the East Ridge community.

Some of the ERNCF events are: East Ridge PioneerFest, Christmas parade, shopping for gifts, Santa Party, and the Mission Oaks candle lighting.

Officials with the organization are encouraging anyone who’s interested in volunteering to bring a friend to the meeting.

For more information contact volunteer coordinators Gail Phillips (423) 488-2591 or email – [email protected] or Stephanie Moschkau (423) 509-2534 or email- [email protected].

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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