New Program at ER Community Center

The East Ridge Community Center is offering a new program for our young people.

The city’s Parks and Recreation Department is now hosting open gym at the community center. This program will be offered between 3 and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. A membership fee costs $15 per month. That’s 50 cents a day to get in some quality hoops time.

For questions regarding the community center or to sponsor a membership, please contact Community Center Coordinator Hannah Spear, at 423/486-2034. Or, you can email her at [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.