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Show Lindon City's "Night Out Against Crime" lights and join us from 7 to 9 p.m. that Tuesday to help make the crime prevention statement "Not in Our Town!" and to be part of a whole city-wide party with your neighbors and friends! You can learn more about America's Night Out Against Crime and the national event at www.nationaltownwatch.org. by Cody Cullimore Lindon City Police Chief It's time again for the National Night Out Against Crime! Over the past two years over 1,000 of you have come out to celebrate with the police department, to see neighbors and friends and to learn how to make our city just a little safer! "' ! This year we'd love to see i even more of you as we will : hold the event on Tuesday, Au- gust 3, 2010 as an early part of our Lindon Days Celebration. On this special night, communities com-munities across America come together to make a statement that as a united community and nation, we will all commit to work together to identify issues that affect our public safety. Our theme this year is "Not in Our Town!" We hope that could mean No Drugs, No Crime, and No Criminals. Not in Lindon City! On that night there will be block parties and community events with city officials and officers of-ficers from the police and fire services in your neighborhood park to meet with you and discuss dis-cuss what concerns YOU about safety and crime prevention in your neighborhood. Following the neighborhood gatherings, we hope that you will join us in "Flashlight Walks" throughout the city to identify potential issues is-sues and to point out crime prevention pre-vention tips. Join us as together we demonstrate our love for this community and our dedication to protecting it. The National Night Out is designed de-signed with several goals in mind: To heighten crime and drug prevention pre-vention awareness and to generate greater support and participation from the community in local crime prevention efforts, to strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community police-community partnerships, and to send a message to potential criminals crimi-nals that Lindon City is organized, unified and ready to fight back! Check out the city website, www.lindoncity.org for information informa-tion on this event. Information on your neighborhood neigh-borhood location is listed below. Plan to gather the family, lock your doors, turn on your porch |