Neighbour’s Night Out 2004
 Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
Time:  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Rain date:  June 17th, 2004

 

This Year’s Theme:  “Crime doesn’t thrive in a healthy, involved community”.

One of the best and easiest ways to build a safe community is to have a fun night with the people in your area, on your street, on your block or in your apartment building.  Since 1985, Neighbours Night Out events have been held annually in communities as a great way for neighbours to get to know each other and build community spirit.  On June 15, 2004 , Mayor Susan Fennell and the Brampton Safe City Association are encouraging Brampton ’s neighbourhoods to get involved in Neighbours’ Night Out.
We invite you to organize a small and simple party where you and your neighbours can meet and get to know each other better.  Since large parties may require insurance, city permits etc. we encourage you to keep it simple.  Please remember to register your event with us so we can keep provide you with event planning information and invite police and elected representatives to your event, if you wish.  Free NNO stickers, NNO ideas, coloured ribbons and “Know Your Neighbours” cards are available at our office.  For more information or to register your event, please contact the Brampton Safe City Association at:  (905) 793-5484 or email us at safecity@city.brampton.on.ca
                                
                           

Brampton Safe City is located at 150 Central Park Drive, Suite 019, (Basement Level).
                
                
                  
     

1.    Keep it simple. (It can be as basic as having Iced Tea and Cookies with your neighbours).
    Your imagination is   your only limit.

2.  Set up a small group to plan your event.  Consider the different languages that people on your street may speak
     and get volunteers to help translate your event materials.  Safe City
     can help you to photocopy some of these translated materials.
3.     Call the Brampton Safe City office to register your event and pick up a Neighbours Night Out Kit, (the kit
     includes: NNO ideas/suggestions, Know Your Neighbours Cards, invitations, and NNO stickers). The kit is also
     available in your local community police station and at City Hall Brampton.  You can register your event and pick
     up the kit from either of these sites.
4.     Invite your local storeowners to participate in your event.  Perhaps they can donate a prize or some food to your
     event.
5.    Ask your local school, or other local groups to participate. Your neighbourhood seniors are a tremendous resource
    and may have some extra time to help with organizing during the day.
6.    Refreshments, clowns, pipers, prizes are always a great idea for an event.
7.    Set up a display of pamphlets and information from local community groups and neighbourhood services. You
    would be surprised at how many people aren’t aware of the free and valuable services available in your
    neighbourhood. Safe City can help with getting you copies of these materials.
8.   Put up signs and deliver invitation notices to everyone in the neighbourhood. Use the coloured ribbons provided in
    the NNO kit to decorate your street and to show everyone where your party is.
9.  You might consider organizing a makeshift parade along your sidewalk with ribbons and noisemakers to get more
    people out to your event.
10.  FOOD is always important when getting people out to an event. Why not set-up some BBQs in driveways, or on
      lawns?  You can either get some food donated (our office can do a letter to present at the store) or invite people to
      bring their own food to cook.  Encourage people to bring foods that are specific to their cultures.  If that’s too
      complicated, you can just set-up a table with juice and cookies.
11.   Music will attract people to an event.  However, be respectful and sensitive to noise restrictions and by-laws.
12.   Think about organizing a bicycle-decorating contest.  Recognize everyone with a ribbon, and then have them
      parade their decorated bikes down your street or in your local park.
13.   Create a quiz about safety features in your area, (i.e. where’s the closest police or fire station? What’s the local
      speed limit? Where’s the safest place for kids to cross the street?)
14     Organize a baseball, volleyball, or soccer game.
15.   Organize fun competitions for all ages; not just running races. See the list enclosed for ideas.
16.    Prepare nametags to help everyone get acquainted more quickly.
17.   Set out boxes for donations to your local food bank or used clothing charity.
18.   Use the invitation enclosed, and modify it to add information about where people should meet and whether they
      should bring anything specific to the event, (e.g. bring a lawn chair, your own CD’s, food).
  

This evening can bring a new life to your whole community!

  


Please let us know what you are planning and where you are meeting. We will be
sending information on your event to your City and Regional Councillors and Peel Regional Police Officers inviting them to drop by.
  
 
1.   Scavenger Hunts in groups – to find things in your Local Park or ravine, or to answer questions about
    the neighbourhood e.g. what is the speed limit on your street?
2.     Shaving competition using whipped cream and a tongue depressor.
3       Grasshopper for children.  Arrange 8-10 children around a sturdy blanket. Place a (grasshopper) 
    beach ball in the center.  Bounce the ball to make the grasshopper jump.  This takes a collective
    effort to keep to ball up and not let it fall off the blanket.
4.    Duck, duck, goose.  Children sit on the floor with their hands and feet well tucked in, and “it”
    runs outside the circle.  “It” touches the children on the head as he passes saying Duck, duck or
    goose.  The one he/she touches when he says “Goose” jumps and chases “it”.  They each try to get
    back to the vacated spot. The last one back is “it”.
5.   Water cup pass.  Players stand in a circle with an empty paper cup in their teeth.  One player’s cup
    is filled with water.  This person begins by pouring his/her water into the next cup without using
    his/her hands.  He/she then pours it into the next person’s cup.  This continues all around the circle.
6.    Frisbee baseball.  Baseball with no pitcher.  The batter stands adjacent to home plate.  Use the
    cross-chest throw into the playing field, then run the bases as usual.  Two foul throws by a batter
    will constitute an out.
7.    Stand up (a good ice breaker).  Partners are sitting on the ground back-to-back. Hook elbows with
    your partner, bend your knees and try to stand up. Too easy? Add more people, 3,5, or the whole
    group.
8.      Discus throw.  Players are given paper plates or Frisbees and line up.  Contest – either in how far
     you can throw the plate, or have a large circle to hit.

9.  Javelin throw. Player turns around two or three times then heave a toothpick toward a line about
     ten feet away. The toothpick will not go far. Each player gets three turns.

   

                                 

 

Brampton Neighbours Night Out 2004
 Tuesday June 15th, 2004
 7:00 pm – 9:00 p.m.

  

Our Theme: Crime doesn’t thrive in a healthy, involved community.

 

Neighbourhoods are safer and friendlier places to live when neighbours know each other and their families.

  
You are invited to meet at:
  

*      Come out and meet your neighbours.  

*      Pickup up a “Know Your Neighbours” card and exchange phone numbers in case of an emergency.  

*      Brampton is a city of growing and diverse neighbourhoods.  Help us to celebrate what makes our area special.