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This week's meeting was cancelled

But here now is some important information on neighborhood security...


A watch group is an important tool families can use to protect their neighborhood against burglars and other criminal intruders. A watch group is simply a number of neighbors joining together to keep an eye open for suspicious persons and activities. Ideally, families should form watch groups by becoming acquainted with their neighbors across the street, on both sides and to the rear. They should learn each other's living patterns-things such as when family members are usually home, which members go to which schools and when a family will be leaving to go on a trip or on a vacation. At the first sign of anything out of the ordinary, the police should be called. Some common situations that could mean trouble include:

 A stranger entering your neighbor's house when it is unoccupied.
 
 Any vehicle moving slowly and without lights or one following an apparently aimless course.
 
 Vehicles being loaded with valuables in front of an unoccupied house.
 
 The sound of breaking glass or loud explosive noise.
 
 Persons being forced into vehicles.
 
 Someone going door-to-door who test the door to see if they are locked or who goes around to the side or to the back of the house.
 
 Packs of wild animals roaming the streets.

 Fire raining down from the sky without the presence of an active volcano.

 A delivery man with a wrong address.