Spring Creek Hosting Skate Party

Spring Creek Elementary School is having a fundraiser to help build a new playground.

The school is hosting a Skate Party at Hamilton Skate Place on Monday, October 23 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5, which includes skate rentals. The skating rink is located at 7414 Goodwin Road just of Gunbarrel Road.

There will be a live disc jockey and great music along with fun games, organizers said.

Any and all students and family from other schools throughout the community are welcome to come and have fun at this event.

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.