Tuesday night is National Night Out, the crime-fighting holiday when neighbors get to know each other a little better and everyone is reminded to keep an eye out for crime.
Redding has participated in National Night Out for 21 of the program’s 26 years, and the Redding Police Department and other city agencies are big supporters, encouraging the block parties and get-togethers and sometimes sending officers to provide crime-prevention info. This year, police representatives will visit 20 neighborhoods.
If there’s no block party in your neighborhood, you can still participate. Get outdoors, walk around the neighborhood, say hello to folks. It’s important to know familiar faces (and to be a familiar face) in your neighborhood.
National Night Out also encourages people nationwide to leave their porch lights on all night as a show of support for keeping neighborhoods crime-free.
- If you want to get to know the wider community, we’ve got two big people-watching events later this week. From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, outrageous folk musician Joe Craven provides the entertainment at MarketFest, the weekly farmers market and beer gathering in downtown’s Library Park. And Saturday is ArtHop! Read all about it here. There’s something extra this week: After ArtHop, Enjoy magazine is sponsoring a classic movie outdoors at the Market Street Green in the downtown mall. Bring a chair or blanket for the 9:30 p.m. showing of “Casablanca.”
- The National Alliance on Mental Illness has announced its fall schedule of classes for individuals and families learning to live with mental illness. Classes start in September. For more information, click here.
- It’s World Breastfeeding Week and Shasta County’s Breastfeeding Support Center has surveyed child care providers about how they work with mothers to feed babies who are still nursing. Ten child care centers were singled out as being exemplary. You can read all about it here.
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