National Night Out

National Night Out, 2005

National Night Out began 30 years ago and will be observed at 6:30 p.m. tonight in front of City Hall with a basketball contest, a performance by the Plainfield Drill Team and a poetry reading.

Netherwood Heights Neighbors will hold a parade from Netherwood train station to Cook School Park for a neighborhood gathering, a model I hope other groups will be following. All are reminded to turn on porch lights as a way of increasing awareness of crime prevention.

For the rest of the year, I would like to propose a focus on increasing general civility - doing away with those little crimes of littering, defacing buildings with graffiti and riding bikes on the sidewalk. No merch is involved, just a willingness to think of others and how the city comes across to people who might be interested in living here or opening a business in the city.

--Bernice