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Pope: ‘Change Can Be Good’

August 15, 2018 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article Leave a Comment

I readily admit I am old, set in my ways and not too keen on change. I like the theory ” if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.”

Recently my washer broke! Time to go washer shopping. My head was spinning … Bells, whistles, knobs, lights and what… No agitator!! I know some of you are thinking, where has this woman been? Well I’ve been doing laundry with my faithful old washer for years. Turn knobs to load size, cycle and start.

Moral of this story is change can be good! I absolutely love my new washer that has NO agitator, sets it own water level and has lights everywhere.

What more could an old woman wish for than to not have to unwind clothes from that menacing agitator.

Have a great day and remember …. Don’t Agitate!

_ Frances Pope

Filed Under: Opinion

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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