Schrader's Host Dinner for NCF Volunteers

Contributed photo – From left, Larry Lee, Mimi Lowrey, Herman Schrader, Ora Citty and Mary Schrader.

On Saturday evening, Herman and Mary Schrader hosted a dinner to show appreciation for the volunteers who helped on Helton Hill during the Christmas lights.

In addition he presented the East Ridge Needy Child Fund a check in the amount of $37,550 that was donated from giving people who came to see the light display. Also pictured Larry Lee who gave so much of his time for us, and ER Needy Child Fund board members Mimi Lowery and Ora Citty. Thank you again to all the volunteers and Mary, Herman and Larry for allowing us to spend Christmas with them.

We are always looking for volunteers, contact us if you would like to help.

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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