Parks & Recreation Input Meeting Scheduled for April 24

If you have ideas or suggestions about recreation in East Ridge you will have an opportunity to voice them next Monday.

According to a press release, the City of East Ridge is updating its Parks & Recreation Plan and wants your input! Please join us for a community input meeting between 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. on Monday, April 24, 2017, at the East Ridge Community Center located at 1517 Tombras Avenue.

Staff will conduct a variety of interactive exercises and hear from you as to how the city can improve its recreational facilities and programming to better suit the needs of the community. All interested parties are encouraged to attend.

For questions, please contact Amanda Miller at 423-490-7088.

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.