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Sigma Chi Supports East Ridge Needy Child Fund

December 6, 2020 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

The men of the Delta Theta chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga held a toy and gift drive to benefit the East Ridge Needy Child Fund on Saturday at the fraternity house on Siskin Drive.

This marks the fourth year the brothers of Delta Theta have given to the Needy Child Fund. In year’s past, the brothers have hosted a Christmas party at the house and gathered around the tree to share in brotherhood showing an outpouring of generosity benefiting the less fortunate in East Ridge.

Of course, in this strange year of 2020 with the threat of possibly spreading COVID-19, the holiday festivities were curtailed, but not the spirit of giving.

Brothers and alumni were asked to drop their unwrapped gifts by the house where they were greeted on the front porch by officers of the fraternity. 

This year more than 200 separate items were collected and turned over to Debbie Colburn of the Needy Child Fund. Colburn has been the principal contact between the charity and the fraternity through the years. She is usually accompanied by several associates from the charity, and her grandson, Harper.

In year’s  past, the brothers of Sigma Chi have donated nearly a thousand articles to the East Ridge Needy Child Fund, including, toys, sports equipment, bicycles, board games, educational items and clothing.

 

Filed Under: Community, FEATURED POSTS, News, SLIDER

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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