Optimist Car Show Set for Camp Jordan

The East Ridge Optimist Club will play host to its annual Cars-4-Kids car show at Camp Jordan on Saturday, June 24.

The show will be inside the Camp Jordan Arena from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There is no charge for admission to the car show.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., officials said. The club will charge a registration fee of $20. The back doors to the arena will open at 8 a.m. for people wanting to show their cars.

The show will feature classic cars of all kinds; hot rods, rat rods, antiques as well as motorcycles. T-shirts and goody bags will be handed out by the Optimists for the first 100 entries int he show.

There will be a swap meet, door prizes and a total of 37 awards will be presented. In addition, a DJ will be on hand to provide music throughout the day.

Optimist Club member Ken Davis said this is the third year of the show. All proceeds from the events goes toward the club’s many programs which serve the youth of East Ridge, he said.

Anyone with questions can call Ken at 423-488-3459.

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.