Help Build It!

The East Ridge Alumni & Supporters Association is offering a great way for people to help support the school.

Look for these cool wristbands at Friday night’s playoff game between the mighty Pioneers and Smith County. The $5 price will go towards building new facilities for next year’s Pioneers.

Candace Bell, an officer with ERASA, said t-shirts are also ready for those who have paid their dues for the year and have become members of the alumni group.

Wear your pride on your wrist. Help Build It!

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.