'Drug Take Back' Scheduled for Oct. 28

Law enforcement’s National Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, October 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The idea is that if you’ve got unused or unwanted medications in your household you can drop them off to law enforcement at various locations around Hamilton and Bradley County for disposal.

If possible, organizers are asking people to bring the medications in their original container; simply cross out personal information that may be contained on the packaging. Items that are not accepted are needles, IV bags and radioactive medications.

In East Ridge police and organizers will be on hand at Walgreens at 5301 Ringgold Road to collect the unwanted medications.

Other Walgreens which will be drug take back sites include: 2289 Gunbarrel Rd., 3605 Brainerd Rd., 110 North Market St., 9307 Lee Hwy., 3550 Broad St, and 5478 Hwy. 153. One may also bring personal documents for shredding at the Gunbarrel, Rinngold Road and Highway 153 locations, officials said.

Other locations across Hamilton County include Food City at 3901 Dayton Boulevard, Mt. Cannan Baptist Chruch at 4801 Hwy. 58, and the Signal Mountain Police Department at 1111 Ridgeway Avenue. Document shredding will be available at Mt. Cannan Baptist.

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.