Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. is proud to host National Night Out (NNO) a free, annual
community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood
camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer places to live.
“We look forward to welcoming friends, neighbors, and first responders,” said Jim Dewey Brown, Prescott Frontier Days General Manager. “The Prescott Rodeo Grounds is a great place for our communities to gather and get to know each other better.”
The event will be 4:00 to 6:00 PM on Aug. 6 at the Prescott Rodeo Grounds, 840 Rodeo Dr.
National Night Out enhances the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement while encouraging a true sense of community. Furthermore, it provides a great opportunity to bring our local police, other first responders and neighbors together.
So far, 38 million neighbors in 41 years have taken part in NNO on the first Tuesday in August. The event will include safety demonstrations, seminars, youth events, visits from emergency personnel, exhibits and much more.
For more information on National Night Out go to www.natw.org.
How it started
From the NewSpirit, an official publication of the National Association of Town Watch, Inc.:
It began in the western suburbs of Philadelphia in 1970. During Matt Peskin’s volunteer work for the community watch program, he patrolled his neighborhood, assisted in patrol dispatch and then introduced the program’s newsletter to illustrate the success that took place within the organization.
Matt started to contact surrounding communities to help gather newsletter content, noticing that hundreds of these local groups existed with no shared platform to connect.
National Association of Town Watch was founded a few years later to provide community watch groups the necessary information, resources and assets to stay informed, interested, involved and motivated within the community. Neighbors and local law enforcement nationwide supported the association as it steadily grew for the next three years.
National Night Out was introduced in August 1984 through an established network of law enforcement agencies, neighborhood watch groups, civic groups, state and regional crime prevention associations and
volunteers across the nation.
NNO became a celebration among neighbors to send a message of neighborhood camaraderie. Neighborhoods across the nation began to host block parties, festivals, parades, cookouts and various other community events with safety demonstrations, seminars, youth events, visits from emergency personnel, exhibits and more.
