The annual Night Out Against Crime block party is coming up on August 2 but it’s time to start planning now.
On Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Wallingford Community Senior Center (4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Suite 140) learn the basics of party planning at the “Block Party 101 – Community Preparedness Workshop.”
From the invitation:
We’ll be discussing block party basics: how to sign up, samples of invitations, activities to include, and piles of preparedness materials that you can share with your neighbors. Hope you can join us to help get this year’s parties started!
It is also good practice to include on-the-spot security measures such as having a sequential walk-about by a participant throughout the evening to make sure homes a bit away from the main action are secure, side and backyards, windows, vehicles. We learned the hard way one year here in east Wallingford. And lock your doors and request that participants stroll home and use their own bathrooms if necessary.