{"id":427275,"date":"2026-10-14T04:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427275\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T04:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:24:09","slug":"eatonville-police-meet-community-in-national-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427275\/","title":{"rendered":"Eatonville police meet community in National Night Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gail<\/a>EATONVILLE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

Stronger together, safer together. That’s the mission behind National Night Out in historic Eatonville. <\/p>\n

“A huge thank you and huge shout out to none other than the illustrious Eatonville Police Department. Thank you and welcome,\u201d said Eatonville Mayor Ruth \u201cRuthi\u201d Critton. <\/p>\n

It’s about getting to know the officers who serve the community. <\/p>\n

“So the kids won’t be scared of the police, growing up to let kids know police are our friends. They’re here for us,” Eatonville Resident Donest Brimmer said. <\/p>\n

There was fun for the whole family, including a portable video game station, face painting, food and, oh yes, the incredible bounce house. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s an opportunity just to say ‘thank you’ for all that we did in a year, and then at the same time if they just want to talk to me informally about concerns, now they can kind of catch me a little bit more in an atmosphere we just kind of relate. I’m just excited,\u201d said Eatonville Police Chief Stanley Murray. <\/p>\n

How about dunking an officer? <\/p>\n

Cpl. Robert Jones sure took the plunge, with a helping hand from WESH 2’s Gail Paschall-Brown. <\/p>\n

“Juliah got it the first time and I’m going to try it this time. Let’s see what happens,” Paschall-Brown said before tossing a ball at Jones’ dunk tank, missing, and then pressing the button instead. <\/p>\n

“Forget about it!\u201d she said, and splash goes Cpl. Jones! <\/p>\n

This is also an opportunity for Eatonville to come together. <\/p>\n

There’s an upcoming health fair on Nov. 7. <\/p>\n

Melisa Wilson of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. explained, \u201cWe’ll have food, we’ll have health seminars on hypertension, stress, menopause and weight loss.” <\/p>\n

There’s also Polo Mentoring available for youth ages 8 to 18 in Apopka. <\/p>\n

“The purpose is to help them find their selves, to stay on the right path and make the right choices in life,\u201d Mel Bolden explained. <\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Orlando, summed it all up. <\/p>\n

“You know, everybody’s out here \u2014 first responders, city council members, candidates, organizations \u2014 and it just shows all the amazing services,” he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EATONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Stronger together, safer together. That’s the mission behind National Night Out in historic Eatonville. “A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[502,168010,168009,9100,575,168011,168012,1175,62702,1224,196,139,141,140,168008,15048,20792,918],"class_list":["post-427275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-community","tag-cpl","tag-eatonville-police","tag-first-time","tag-food","tag-gail-paschall-brown","tag-hypertension","tag-kid","tag-national-night-out","tag-officer","tag-opportunity","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-robert-jones","tag-stress","tag-weight-loss","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}