The police are throwing us a party!\u00a0 Next Tuesday, August 5, MPD will hold their third annual National Night Out at the South Main Substation, at the corner of Main and GE Patterson.\u00a0 There will be a live DJ, food, games and fun.\u00a0 MPD Director Larry Godwin will provide opening remarks, and we will also hear from Deputy Director Janice Pilot, Deputy Chief Steve Cole, Colonel Johnny Currin and Lt. Colonel Voretta Mhoon.<\/p>\n
This is the 25th anniversary of National Night Out<\/a> around the country.\u00a0 NNO is designed to generate support for crime prevention, heighten crime and drug prevention awareness, strengthen police\/community relations and neighborhood spirit, and send criminals a message letting them know that neighborhoods are fighting back.\u00a0 Across the US there will be block parties, police presentations, cookouts, and other neighborhood-organized events.<\/p>\n Everyone is encouraged to turn on their porch light on Tuesday, August 5 in support of National Night Out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The police are throwing us a party!\u00a0 Next Tuesday, August 5, MPD will hold their third annual National Night Out at the South Main Substation, at the corner of Main and GE Patterson.\u00a0 There will be a live DJ, food, games and fun.\u00a0 MPD Director Larry Godwin will provide opening remarks, and we will also … Continue reading “National Night Out, Tuesday, August 5, 5:30-8:00”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}