Rabies Clinics to be Held

There will be a rabies clinic in the first two weeks of April to get your dogs and cats vaccinated.

On Saturday, April 6, the clinic will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. at Spring Creek Elementary School at 1100 Spring Creek Rd.

On Friday, April 12, the clinic will be conducted at East Ridge City Hall at 1517 Tombras Ave. The hours are from 4 to 6 p.m.

Cost of the vaccination is $12, officials said.

As a reminder to all East Ridge residents, East Ridge Animal Services will be on site to allow citizens to renew their city licenses. The cost for spay/neutered pets is $10. Non-spay/neutered pets is $25. The license is good for one year.

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.