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Meeting a friendly face in public safety was a walk in the park Tuesday night, as kids and families poured into Rengstorff Park for Mountain View’s annual National Night Out celebration.

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Andrea Gemmet is the editor of the Mountain View Voice, 2017's winner of Online General Excellence at CNPA's Better Newspapers Contest and winner of General Excellence in 2016 and 2018 at CNPA's renamed...