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National Night Out
2022 National Night Out!
Every first Tuesday of August, millions of people celebrate National Night Out (NNO) in neighborhoods across the country to celebrate community and law enforcement partnerships.
NNO brings together individuals from communities in all 50 states, United States territories, and military bases worldwide. This includes:
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Over 38 million people from 16,790 communities celebrated NNO in 2018.
Mission of National Night Out
The mission of National Night Out is to:
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2022 Will Be VHPD's 25th Annual NNO Event
The 2022 National Night Out event was held on Tuesday, August 2, in Hartmann Park on Oakwood Rd. It was our 25th year of participating in National Night Out. (Yes, 2018 did get rained out, but we are counting it anyway.) We had free food and ice cream, several inflatables to jump on, face painting, a water spray and enough music to get everyone moving. The bookmobile from the Cook Memorial Library was also on hand as was representatives from the Vernon Hills Park District and Hawthorn School District 73.
The Numbers
As is always the case, we had plenty of food to go around. The crowd seemed slightly larger than in past years. We cooked up 500 hot dogs, 400 hamburgers and Chik-fil-A provided 500 chicken sandwiches. By the time the event ended we had also gone through 996 bottles of water, over 1,098 cans of pop, 160 fruit juices, 1,350 bags of snacks and 720 ice cream bars!As always, NNO is completely free and is meant for our residents to come out and get to know their neighbors, meet the police and (most of all) have fun!
Annual Volleyball Matches
Teams from the Vernon Hills Summer Celebration Committee, the Vernon Hills Park District, Vernon Hills High School and the Depke Juvenile Complex took part in some (friendly) volleyball matches.Our Fabulous Sponsors
Our local sponsors for NNO 2019 were A-Z Entertainment, Record-A-Hit, Tricoci University of Beauty Culture, the Vernon Hills Chick-fil-A, the Vernon Hills Park District, Countryside Fire Protection District and Hawthorn District 73. The entire event would not have been possible without the cooperation of the Vernon Hills Public Works Department. Thank you also to Chick-fil-A, Inc. for their involvement and cooperation. It should be noted that all of the above were also involved in past NNO events.
The 2022 national sponsors of NNO are Starbucks, Renewal by Anderson, Academy Sports + Outdoors and AT&T.