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You are here: Home / Community / The Crossing Deliver ‘Care Packages’ to ER Police and Fire

The Crossing Deliver ‘Care Packages’ to ER Police and Fire

August 17, 2016 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

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Daniel Beard, far right, delivers care packages to East Ridge Fire and Police on Wednesday. From left are Lisa Goetz, Kelly Henderson and Tyler Henderson.

There are care packages and then there are “Care Packages.”

Wednesday afternoon Daniel Beard the pastor of “The Crossing” in East Ridge along with several members of the church delivered “care packages” to the East Ridge Fire and Police Services Center.

“In this day and age when there are discrepancies and arguments that develop in some communities with the police and firefighters, we wanted to show support and do something positive,” Pastor Beard said. 

Each “care package” contained an energy bar, chapstick, gum, honey buns and so on, Beard said. “It’s something they  can take out in the car with them if they miss lunch,” he added.

The packages are a tangible result of a series of sermons that Beard has been preaching at the church, he said. Last week the sermon was on “social justice.”

The packages are something “hands on that we can accomplish,” Beard noted. “The church sees (firefighters and police officers) service and we want them to know that we care.”

Beard and his crew of Melinda Slaton, Lisa Goetz, Kelly Henderson and Tyler Henderson marched into the break room at fire and police headquarters and plopped down the half dozen packages for the first responders  to enjoy.

Brent Massey, an engineer with the East Ridge Fire Department, shook hands with the folks and thanked them for such a thoughtful gesture.

 

 

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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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