Corvette Club Makes Donation to Needy Child Fund

Ron Kellogg, left, President of the River City Corvette Club, presents a check to Mike Williams for the Needy Child Fund.

Members of the River City Corvette Club cruised over to City Hall Friday to present a check to the city for its Need Child Fund.

Ron Kellogg, president of the 156-member organization, handed over a check to Interim City Manager Mike Williams in the amount of $2,700. Kellogg said the money was one-third of the proceeds the organization raised in three car shows this year. The River City Corvette Club also made donations to Hospice of Chattanooga and the MaryEllen Locher Foundation.

“We recently received our 501 (c) (3) status,” he said. “Next year any donations the club receives will be tax deductible.”

The donation was made possible, in part, by the River City Corvette Club’s car show at Camp Jordan Arena on August 1 of this year. Kellogg said there were 150 registered cars at the first-time event in the city. He said the show at the arena was so successful that 50 of the cars at the show had to be viewed in the parking lot outside the facility.

“Hopefully, next year there will be even more,” Kellogg said.

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.