Community Album: National Night Out

Today is all about socializing with the community, and Patch wants to invite College Park-ians to send in pics from your evening on the town.

It's National Night Out, which encourages communities to be proactive in crime and drug prevention and awareness. See the list of events in College Park here.

Whether you're hanging out with city officials or public safety representatives, checking out emergency equipment or exhibits at the Aviation Museum, eating ice cream in Berwyn, or taking part in a flashlight walk, we want to see your pictures.

Patch will be on the scene, and we'll publish our own photos Wednesday, but please, add your pictures, too. It'll be like a community album of sorts.

Be sure to share the link to the album with your friends and family members so that they can see themselves on Patch and add their own photos, too.

Here's how:

• Log in to College Park Patch by clicking "log in" at the top right-hand corner of the screen. If you don't have an account already, you'll have to register with Patch using your email address.
• Wednesday, watch for the National Night Out photo gallery to be published on Patch. We might publish several albums for each celebration going on around the city, or one big gallery.
• Go to the National Night Out gallery for your neighborhood.
• Scroll to the bottom of the post and click "add photos and videos."
• A box should pop up. Click the green button that reads "Choose files to upload" and select your photos.
• Click "Start uploading."
• Choose "Edit your new photo" and add a caption. Tell us what was going on in the photo. Be sure to include the correct credit information for who took the photo.
• Don't forget to share the album link with your friends and family members, so they can see themselves on Patch and add their own photos, too.