Optimist's 'Cars-4-Kids' Show this Saturday at CJ Arena

This from officials with the East Ridge Optimist Club:

This Saturday June 22, 2019 is our 5th annual car show for kids. All proceeds are used to fund our community projects. Please, come out and see some fine cars. Note, this is inside the arena and admission is free.

Also, we are currently promoting our “Just Ask” campaign which is our way of promoting interest in our organization. If you have an interest in working with kids, community projects and civic events, please ask one of our members what Optimism is about.

You do not have to live in East Ridge to be a member of the East Ridge Optimist Club. We are looking for civic-minded individuals that want to become part of a great organization. Now is the Time to get involved and make a difference. Please consider being part of that difference.

“Just Ask” any Optimist member at the car show about joining, or come to one of our regularly scheduled meeting at the East Ridge Community Center every second and fourth Tuesday each month at 6:30 PM.

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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