| Annually, the Huntingtown VFD, along with departments across the country, partcipate in National Night Out. This year it was held on the evening of Tuesday August 5th. Huntingtown's location was at the Saint Nicholas Lutheran Church on Plum Point Road. Engine 61, Squad 6, Ambulance 69, and Jeep 6 stood-by for 2 hours.
Excert from: www.nationaltownwatch.org---
"The National Association of Town Watch (NATW) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and promotion of organized, law enforcement-affiliated crime and drug prevention programs. Members include: Neighborhood, Crime, Community, Town and Block Watch Groups; law enforcement agencies; state and regional crime prevention associations; and a variety of businesses, civic groups and concerned individuals working to make their communities safer places in which to live and work.
Since 1981, NATW's network of information, assistance and affiliation has been serving hundreds of member groups from throughout North America. As a national group member of the Crime Prevention Coalition, NATW supports the "McGruff-Take a Bite Out of Crime" campaign. NATW's center of information, programs and technical assistance works with law enforcement and civilian leaders to keep volunteers interested, involved and motivated.
NATW's annual "National Night Out" (NNO) program which is held on the first Tuesday each August, has been extraordinarily successful in promoting involvement in crime and drug prevention activities, strengthening police-community relations, and encouraging neighborhood camaraderie as part of the fight for safer streets. Since 1984, "National Night Out-America's Night Out Against Crime" has grown to involve over 34 million people from more than 10,000 communities." |
