Williams’ Meet and Greet on Aug. 27

Brian Williams, a candidate for East Ridge City Council, will have a “meet and greet” this coming Saturday.

The event will be held at East Ridge Motors on Ringgold Road from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be free hot dogs, chips and drinks.

“I would like to invite everyone to come out to meet me and they can also tour East Ridge Motors, which has many classic cars,” Williams said.

Williams is one of seven candidates running for two seats on the City Council. The others are Jim Bethune, Matthew DeGlopper, Esther Helton, Doris Rogers, Gregg Shipley and Robert Stahl.

The municipal election is Nov. 8,

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.