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The Spring City Lions Club is encouraging the community to step out for safety on Tuesday, Aug. 5, for a National Night Out event at the Spring City Pool Complex on Brown Street.
The event is intended to focus on issues that concern public safety, foster police and community partnerships, focus on crime, drug and violence prevention, and develop neighborhood unity.
The Spring City event will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Among the organizations at the event will be the Spring City Police, Liberty Fire Co., West End Ambulance, Chester County K-9 unit, Highway Safety, Chester County Council on Addictive Diseases group, MADD of Delaware and Chester Counties, Spring City Masonic Lodge, Spring City Recruiting Depot, Spring City Revitalization and area Boy and Girl Scout organizations.
Free activities will include child ID kits with professional finger printing, DNA and security video ID kits for children; face painting, wall scaling, military and fire vehicle displays, K9 demonstrations, balloons and lots of give-aways and Spring City police officer trading cards.
Refreshments will be available. Magical Sight and Sound will provide musical entertainment, as will the Rockin’ Rotarians.
Area residents are encouraged to turn on their porch lights, lock their doors and walk to the park at the Spring City Pool Complex at Wall and Brown streets as a deterrent to crime and drug activity. The event is open not only to residents of Spring City borough, but also the surrounding municipalities of Royersford, Limerick, Parker Ford, East Vincent and Phoenixville.
Thousands of communities nationwide will participate in the 25th annual National Night Out. NNO is a production of the National Association of Town Watch. It is sponsored nationally by Target and organized locally by the Spring City Lions Club with the Community Association of Spring City.
On July 7, Spring City Borough Council issued a proclamation declaring Aug. 5 to be “National Night Out in Spring City.” The proclamation also recognized the Lions Club as the local organizer of the event.
More than 11,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases around the world will join in National Night Out. In all, more than 35 million people are expected to participate in the one-night event.
For more information visit the Lions Club website at www.springcitypa.net/lions. Organizations or additional corporate sponsors can register at the website.
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