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Photos: 2019 National Night Out
Gazette Visual
Aug. 7, 2019 12:03 pm
National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes neighborhood camaraderie and police-community partnerships to make neighborhoods safer, better places to live.
Two-year-old Zeddie Niyonizigiye of Cedar Rapids shakes hands with Sgt. Laura Faircloth of the Cedar Rapids Police Department during the Eastern Iowa African Diaspora's National Neighborhood Night Out celebration at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, August 6, 2019. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
Sgt. Laura Faircloth of the Cedar Rapids Police Department chats with attendees of the Eastern Iowa African Diaspora's National Neighborhood Night Out celebration at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, August 6, 2019. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
Aaron Green of Cedar Rapids plays a game of 'No Stress Chess,' where each player draws a card indication which type of piece the must move that turn, against fifteen-year-old India Cratton of Cedar Rapids during the Eastern Iowa African Diaspora's National Neighborhood Night Out celebration at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, August 6, 2019. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
Aaron Green of Cedar Rapids plays a game of 'No Stress Chess,' where each player draws a card indication which type of piece the must move that turn, against fifteen-year-old India Cratton of Cedar Rapids during the Eastern Iowa African Diaspora's National Neighborhood Night Out celebration at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, August 6, 2019. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
Irishura Gidioni of Cedar Rapids sets out table decorations from Rwanda during the Eastern Iowa African Diaspora's National Neighborhood Night Out celebration at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, August 6, 2019. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
Robert Habiyaremye of Cedar Rapids cooks chicken drumsticks for the Eastern Iowa African Diaspora's National Neighborhood Night Out celebration at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, August 6, 2019. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
Attendees hit a volleyball during the Eastern Iowa African Diaspora's National Neighborhood Night Out celebration at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, August 6, 2019. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
Christine Bwanakweri of Cedar Rapids sits in the driver's seat of a Cedar Rapids Police Department patrol car during the Eastern Iowa African Diaspora's National Neighborhood Night Out celebration at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, August 6, 2019. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)