Celebrating National Night Out With Our Residents
As a continuation of our Community Connection Events, this month we celebrated National Night Out (NNO) with residents at three of our properties: Beacon Ridge, Glenbrook Crossing, and The Village at Washington Terrace. Originally started in 1984, NNO was created to promote police-community partnerships and is celebrated in cities across the country on the first Tuesday of August. Here’s a closer look at how we celebrated with our residents this year and helped to promote better community relations between law enforcement and residents, an issue that we recognize deserves immediate attention.
Beacon Ridge
On August 6, around 150 Beacon Ridge residents came out to our NNO event, which we co-sponsored with Southeast Raleigh Promise. During the event, we enjoyed eating delicious food, interacting with the Raleigh Police Department, who brought their K-9 unit out for the event, and getting to spend time with our community in person. We also used this time to introduce the residents to a local artist we’ve hired to create a beautiful mounted mural on the property. The residents had the opportunity to give their feedback about what they’d like to see in the mural and we look forward to sharing photos of it once it’s complete. By far, the highlight of the event was passing out backpacks filled with school supplies, donated by Southeast Raleigh Promise, to the children in attendance. WAKE Up and Read also generously donated books throughout the event, helping to foster a love of reading for the youth in our community.Thanks to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, which handed out food boxes to residents, no one left empty-handed, and all had a good time. One resident summed it up best: "Watching the kids receive their backpacks and talking to my neighbors really made me feel part of a community.”We’d like to give a special thanks to our other community partners who helped make this event possible:
- Enterprise Community Partners, which funded the event
- Marbles Kids Museum
- Southeast Raleigh Elementary School
