PHOTOS COURTESY CITY OF PORTLAND.
Night Owls:
Go meet your neighbors,
plus local emergency
responders, at parks and
schools all over the metro
area. It’s National Night
Out, when kids and their
grown-ups make like
Mr. Rogers and mingle
with the people in their neighborhood, be it the family next door, the local
police officer or the fire chief. SE Portland’s Piccolo Park does this one in style,
with the members of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood association
scooping up free ice cream, plus a bubble machine, chalk for kids to draw to
their heart’s content and police motorcycles to clamber on (stationary ones, of
course). Or head to Beaverton City Park Fountain, where you can watch the
police K-9s in action. Check your local police department web page for
NNO events in your backyard. Tuesday, August 5. FREE.
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