Spring Sports Sign-Ups Underway

If you are looking to sign up your children for spring sports at Camp Jordan Park, now is the time.

According to officials from the city’s Parks & Recreation Department, registration for youth baseball, softball (ages 4 to 12) is currently underway at the Community Center on Tombras Avenue. Registration if being held each Saturday in February from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Soccer sign-ups (ages 3-18) are on February 19 at Camp Jordan Arena from 2 to 5 p.m.. For more information you can call 423-260-9190.

If you don’t have time to stop by and enroll your children in person, visit the parks and recreation Website at http://www.eastridgeparksandrec.com/ for easy enrollment.

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.