Belvoir Christian Academy to Host Annual Fall Festival

Belvoir Christian Academy, located at 800 Belvoir Ave. in East Ridge, invites the community to the annual fall festival on Sat., Oct. 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This event, sponsored by the school’s Parent-Teacher League, has been an annual tradition for over 60 years. Festival events will include a petting zoo, train rides, inflatables, face-painting, live music and a variety of food, craft and service vendors.

A rummage sale also will be held in conjunction with the festivities. The sale will be located in the school gymnasium, open to the public from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Donations (except clothes) are being accepted for the event. Contact BCA at 423.622.3755 for donation information.

Admission is $5 per person, with a maximum of $20 per family. Children under one are admitted free. Proceeds will benefit BCA’s Parent-Teacher League in purchasing classroom items for the school’s “Teacher Wish Lists” and technology updates.

The school wishes to thank festival sponsors Michael Luffman, Allstate Insurance; Denise Lineman, Bay View Riding Academy; Dr. Michael Tew, Lifestyle Orthopedics; Greg Callaham Graphic Design; Ken Hall, Hall Outdoor Advertising; Wagner Trailer Rental; First Lutheran Church and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

Belvoir Christian Academy was established in 1887 and serves infants through 8th grade.

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.