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Despair mounts for families kicked out of condemned East Ridge motel

Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 9/21/15. Jerry Hogan, 35, takes a deep breath after receiving a check from Metropolitan Ministries on September 21, 2015 which will allow him to put a down payment on a rental home after he, his wife and three children were displaced from the condemned Superior Creek Lodge extended-stay motel.
Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 9/21/15. Jerry Hogan, 35, takes a deep breath after receiving a check from Metropolitan Ministries on September 21, 2015 which will allow him to put a down payment on a rental home after he, his wife and three children were displaced from the condemned Superior Creek Lodge extended-stay motel. Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 9/21/15. Jerry Hogan, 35, takes a deep breath after receiving a check from Metropolitan Ministries on September 21, 2015 which will allow him to put a down payment on a rental home after he, his wife and three children were displaced from the condemned Superior Creek Lodge extended-stay motel.

By Joan McClane 11 min read

For almost five months, Mary Thompson has scoured this city and those nearby for a home for her family, a place where she could cook a meal for her son and daughter-in-law that wasn’t prepared in a microwave, a place where her two young grandchildren could play in the road and get a sound night’s sleep.

“I love Brussels sprouts,” she said. “I want to cook Brussels sprouts. I like to cut them down the middle and put butter on the inside and wrap them with bacon.”

But she hasn’t had a kitchen, and she’s starting to wonder if she’ll ever have one again.

To help

If you are a landlord willing to rent to a family from Superior Creek Lodge, please call Anna Katherine Horne at Metropolitan Ministries at 865-235-6646.

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* Cook: Superior Creek Lodge situation is a crisis on top of a crisis * Superior Creek Lodge pets also needed relocating * 1,500 people, 300 families displaced by condemned buildings in East Ridge * All four buildings of East Ridge extended stay hotel condemned