National Night Out Returns To Perry Hall In 2021

PERRY HALL, MD — National Night Out 2021 events around Perry Hall on Aug. 3 are part of a nationwide push to strengthen police and community relations.

The nationwide event “promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer,” according to the National Association of Town Watch, the organization that founded the annual early August event in 1984.

Here are some of the events happening nearby:

• Neighborhood party coordinated by Seven Courts Citizens on Patrol
  • 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3
  • Seven Oaks Senior Center, 9210 Seven Courts Drive, Perry Hall, MD 21236.
• Cookout and picnic sponsored by the White Marsh-Cowenton Community Association
  • 6 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3
  • White Marsh Volunteer Fire Department , 10331 Philadelphia Rd., White Marsh, MD 21162
  • Face painting and child identification services will be offered.
  • Del. Kathy Szeliga and Sen. J.B. Jennings will be in attendance along with Maryland State Police, White Marsh firefighters and Transit and Amtrak Police.

See the full list of National Night Out activities in Baltimore County for 2021.

Many National Night Out events are back in 2021 after widespread cancellations last summer due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2020, the Baltimore County Police Department moved its National Night Out events to October due to the virus.

Since 1984, communities across the country have held National Night Out events on the first Tuesday of August. Block parties, festivals, parades, cookouts and other community events have been popular ways to celebrate the outreach-focused event.

More than 2 million Americans took part in the first National Night Out. Now, the event is celebrated in more than 16,000 communities across all 50 states, according to the National Association of Town Watch.