This years National Night Out 2009 Poster Contest was a great success.  With this years' theme "Street Safe Boston" we recieved over 400 posters and we had 15 schools participating.  We also incorporated an essay component to this years contest and those who submitted were asked to articulate what Street Safe Boston meant to them.  The essays were thoughfully written and demonstrated how important safety and security is to young people.  The winning posters will be displayed at City Hall throughout the next two months and the winners will be invited to an award reception at Boston Police Headquarters on July 31st from 10am-noon.  Winners will be contacted soon.  We thank all participants!