Summer 2007                        

   National Night Out Against Crime
Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Join us for Night Out and help
us recognize and honor the hard work of  many from the participating communities

and

Join Us for Free  Brockton ROX Baseball

This years celebration will take place at Campanelli Stadium, Brockton, before the Brockton ROX baseball game on Tuesday August 7, 2007, and is hosted by The Partnership For Safer Communities which is made up of representatives from Abington, Avon, Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Easton, Holbrook, Randolph, Stoughton , West Bridgewater and Whitman.

The event will kicked of with a parade/motorcade down Belmont St to the stadium. The Parade is led off by color guards from the Mass. Department of Corrections. There will be Police Cars, Motorcycles, and bicycles from all the towns as well as from the Mass State Police, Massasoitt Police, Stonehill College Police, and the V.A. Police. There will be a Brockton Fire Truck and response vehicle, an Ambulance from A.M.R. Also in the parade will be vehicles donated by Lynch’s Towing of Brockton, on this truck will be McGruff the Crime Dog and K.O. the Mascot from Down Under representing the Brockton ROX.

The event features booths with crime prevention, health and safety information. Some of them being, W.I.C. (Women, Infants and Children), Habitat for Humanity, The Brockton Police Child Seat Safety  Program, Key Club, Latin American Health Inst, Head Start, Crime Watch, Fire Prevention, V.A. Police, the Weed & Seed Program through the D.A.’s Office, and many others. Ronnie Lippett, formers Defensive Lineman for the N.E. Patriots will be on hand autographing pictures. There is also a pie eating contest and a watermelon seed spitting contest.

The event starts at 3:00pm and anyone that is present before 5:30pm gets to stay and watch the Brockton ROX game for free. After 5:30 check in with the ticket booth for free tickets while they last.

The towns have gotten together for a number of years to celebrate the event together and each town uses the opportunity to give an award to someone from their community who has done something positive and that has had an effect on their individual towns.

Here are the Award Recipients from their respective towns.

T.B.A.