Williams Thanks Citizens for Support

Thanks to the citizens of East Ridge for their confidence and support to serve as one of the two next council members for our great city.

I especially want to thank all the individuals that worked hard and helped so much with my campaign. I couldn’t have done it without you and is greatly appreciated!!

I am excited to begin working with the the returning Council members, newly elected Esther Helton, Mayor and City Manager.

I congratulate Esther Helton and Mark Gravitt for their wins and wish the best to Denny Manning in his future endeavors.

To my fellow candidates, I thank you for a great race for the East Ridge City Council. I know we all had the best of intentions for our city. It has been a pleasure to get to know each of you better during this campaign and I hope you continue your involvement to help make our city the very best in the future.

Thanks,

Brian Williams

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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