This year’s National Night Out event in Green River will be celebrated on August 16
th and the Green River Police Department (GRPD) along with the several neighborhoods hosting a block party this year, hope to come together for a tradition of great food, music, activities, and most of all, anti-crime efforts. Implemented nationally in 1984, and going on for twelve years locally in Green River, the National Night Out
(NNO) event has, and continues, to be a community-police awareness-raising event, held the first Tuesday of August and designed to strengthen neighborhood spirit and police community partnerships, among other things. Communities celebrate NNO through a variety of activities and events such as cookouts, parades, block parties,
exhibits, flashlight walks, contest, and youth programs. In Green River, block parties tend to be the activity of choice in celebrating NNO. Green River Police Detective Fred Moczulski explains that though NNO nation-wide is celebrated on the first Tuesday of August that there is a reason behind why it’s celebrated on a different date and week beginning at this year’s celebration. “Local area events make it difficult for residents to plan and host a block party on the 1 st Tuesday of August,” says Moczulski. “Because of that, our department decided it’d make better sense to have the event held this year
on a week where citizens could have ample time to prepare for a block party of their own.”
The date change seems to be working well as reservations for this year’s event have already surpassed the number of block parties that were implemented last year.
“So far we have seven block parties schedule for the August 16 th event,” says Moczulski.
th and the Green River Police Department (GRPD) along with the several neighborhoods hosting a block party this year, hope to come together for a tradition of great food, music, activities, and most of all, anti-crime efforts. Implemented nationally in 1984, and going on for twelve years locally in Green River, the National Night Out
(NNO) event has, and continues, to be a community-police awareness-raising event, held the first Tuesday of August and designed to strengthen neighborhood spirit and police community partnerships, among other things. Communities celebrate NNO through a variety of activities and events such as cookouts, parades, block parties,
exhibits, flashlight walks, contest, and youth programs. In Green River, block parties tend to be the activity of choice in celebrating NNO. Green River Police Detective Fred Moczulski explains that though NNO nation-wide is celebrated on the first Tuesday of August that there is a reason behind why it’s celebrated on a different date and week beginning at this year’s celebration. “Local area events make it difficult for residents to plan and host a block party on the 1 st Tuesday of August,” says Moczulski. “Because of that, our department decided it’d make better sense to have the event held this year
on a week where citizens could have ample time to prepare for a block party of their own.”
The date change seems to be working well as reservations for this year’s event have already surpassed the number of block parties that were implemented last year.
“So far we have seven block parties schedule for the August 16 th event,” says Moczulski.
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