Calendar of Events
All of our meetings are open to the pubic and everyone is encouraged to attend.
Watch Captains, if you want your local Watch Group meetings announced on this page, please email Rick with the meeting information to have it posted here, in our private Facebook Group, and on our public Facebook page (that is, if you want it on Facebook). It can also be announced over the Everbridge notification system if you want.
Upcoming Events
September 14th Meeting
Our regular Neighborhood Watch meeting will be at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 14th, in the Parkersburg Council Chambers, on the second floor of the City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP]. Please enter through the back door. We are allowed to park in the City Building’s rear parking lot for this meeting. As always, our meetings are open to the public. Please invite your friends and neighbors.
Watch Captains, please remind your Watch Group, and if you cannot attend, please send a representative for your group.
Our special guest for this
meeting will
be Don Lindsey, Parkersburg’s Homeless Coordinator, who is also the
newly-elected president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 79. The
National Fraternal Order of Police is the world’s largest organization
of sworn law enforcement officers, with more than 364,000 members
in more than 2,200 lodges. They are the voice of those who dedicate
their lives to protecting and serving our communities. They are
committed to improving the working conditions of law enforcement
officers and the safety of those we serve through education,
legislation, information, community involvement and employee
representation. No one knows the dangers and the difficulties faced
by today’s police officers better than another officer, and no one
knows police officers better than the NFOP.
Earlier Events
Neighborhood Night Out
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July 13th Meeting
The July meeting will be at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 13, in the Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square. [MAP] Park in the lot at the rear of the building and enter through the back door. The door will be unlocked about 15 minutes before the meeting.
At this meeting, our very special guests will be members of the West Virginia House of Delegates to talk about what’s happening now in our county and in the state, and, of course, they will answer questions. Our state Delegates make a big impact on our lives in Wood County and we need to support them as well as ask questions and let them know how we feel. Delegate Vernon Criss • Delegate Scot Heckert
As always, our meetings are open to the public. Please remember to invite your friends and neighbors!
May 11th Meeting
The meeting will be at 6:00 pm on Thursday, May 11, in the Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square. [MAP]
Our
special guest for this meeting will be Detective D. W. Miller
and his one-year-old yellow Labrador Retriever, Nyland. Don’t
let Nyland’s loveable face fool you. When it’s time to work
Nyland gets serious. Nyland’s skills in sniffing out Electronic
Storage Devices (ESD) that are used in a wide variety of cases
including child sexual abuse, child exploitation, child pornography,
and human trafficking just to name a few. And Nyland takes his
job seriously. Nyland has already assisted with executing search
warrants, not only for the Parkersburg Police Department, but
also for other departments in West Virginia where his skills can
be put to good use. We wish Nyland and Detective Miller much
success in sniffing out the bad guys. As always, members of the
general public are encouraged to attend, so tell your friends
and neighbors.
Regular Bi-Monthly Meeting
The regularly-scheduled Co-op meeting is at 6:00 pm on the second Thursday of every other month, usually in the Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP], but the location changes from time to time. The Wood County Sheriff’s Department and Parkersburg City Police attend our Co-op meetings to answer any questions you may have for your area. The Co-op will be available to assist in you in the establishment of a local Watch Group or to record issues of crime in your area to be passed onto the appropriate law enforcement agency. If you are a concerned citizen and your neighborhood is experiencing crime, then we hope you are able to attend our meetings to record and share your crime issues with the appropriate law enforcement agencies. If you have any questions concerning our meetings or our activities, please feel free to contact Co-op President Cindy Ware at (304) 483-4423 (cell/text) or email her.
Regular and special meeting specifics will be posted here, on our public Facebook page, and in our private Facebook Group a week or so before each meeting, and notices will also be sent via the Everbridge notification system. We currently have 394 members on our roster, but only about 45 members are indicating that they are receiving our Everbridge notifications.
| DATE | TIME | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, September 14, 2023 | 6:00 pm | Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP] |
| Thursday, November 9, 2023 | 6:00 pm | Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP] |
| Thursday, January 11, 2024 | 6:00 pm | Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP] |
| Thursday, M1rch 14, 2024 | 6:00 pm | Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP] |
| Thursday, May 9, 2024 | 6:00 pm | Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP] |
| Thursday, July 11, 2024 | 6:00 pm | Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP] |
| Thursday, September 12, 2024 | 6:00 pm | Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP] |
| Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 6:00 pm | Parkersburg City Building, 1 Government Square [MAP] |
Local Watch Group Meetings
Meeting information for individual local Watch Groups will be posted here at the discretion of the individual Watch Group Captain. If you are a Group Captain and want your meeting published, email Rick with the information and text him to let him know about the email you just sent.