National Night Out (NNO) is the most successful activity of all our neighborhood events.
NNO is an annual event held on the first Tuesday in August to heighten awareness of the importance of neighborly collaboration with each other and Public Safety to report suspicious activity.
This activity has the largest participation of SNAIL residents, and we want to continue to increase the interest of the residents in our neighborhood association activities and city events. Over the years we have had up to 400 people attending.
SNAIL’s NNO is known by neighboring communities, elected officials and city staff as being:
“the largest and most successful neighborhood event”.
“the most organized with the largest attendance”
Over the years, we hosted our NNO at the Columbia Park, but we found that location to be less optimum requiring many volunteers to prepare the park for a safe event, e.g. it takes us a full day of six volunteers to clean up the park and the BBQ area prior hosting our event, removing broken glass bottles, emptying the trash cans, pulling staples off the picnic tables, and bottle caps scattered all over the area.
Because of this, we decided to shift our event to a more optimal location: the 400 block of East Arbor. We know that registered attendees have come from as far as District 6, District 2 and District 4.
NNO provides an added opportunity for communication among the residents to promote familiarity with and concern for fellow SNAIL residents and with Public Safety in Sunnyvale.
This community event has been instrumental in enhancing the foundation of a strong neighborhood association and community. The NNO event promotes neighborhood connection. It helps bring together neighbors from diverse cultures. It enhances neighborhood pride and identity. The SNAIL National Night Out event is known across the city as one of the best and we work hard to make it a momentous event that all of SNAIL can be proud of.
During this event and over the years, SNAIL has continued to support the diversity of our community.