Monadnock Community Hospital, in partnership with local law enforcement and first-responders, hosted a National Night Out community celebration Tuesday on the MCH grounds.

Tricia Zahn looks on as her niece, Harper Wadleigh, practices CPR on a dummy. Credit: JESSECA TIMMONS/Ledger-Transcript / Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
The staff of Monadnock Hospital and their families enjoyed the hospital’s first National Night Out on Tuesday, August 5. Credit: JESSECA TIMMONS/Ledger-Transcript / Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Children if MCH staff flocked to the Teddy Bear Clinic. Credit: JESSECA TIMMONS/Ledger-Transcript / Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Hazy skies over the Monadnock Community Hospital National Night Out event. Credit: JESSECA TIMMONS/Ledger-Transcript / Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Volunteers Kayla Cashman, left, and Elysia Evans of Jaffrey-Rindge Memorial Ambulance center, helped Lucas Dostaler pick out stickers. Credit: JESSECA TIMMONS/Ledger-Transcript / Monadnock Ledger-Transcript

MCH staff and their families were invited to attend the community celebration, which included a touch-a-truck with the region’s fire and ambulance departments , a police K-9 demonstration, a teddy bear clinic, a dunk-a-cop tank, a Jaws of Life demonstration, a doughnut-eating contest between the fire and police departments, hamburgers and hot dogs and ice cream from Jaffrey’s Station 16.

Spencer and Austin Anair at the Forest Protection Bureau fire truck.
The event included a Jaws of Life demonstration.
Attendees check out the New Hampshire Fish and Game boat.
Officer Derek Bell of the Peterborough Police Department with daughters Sklyer, left, and Emma.
Police vehicles from around the region.
Police vehicles and ambulances at the event.
People line up to enter the National Night Out event.
Fire trucks at the touch-a-truck.
Peterborough’s ladder truck. Credit: JESSECA TIMMONS/Staff photo

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