[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hanks to Beth and Everett Smith for hosting last Tuesday’s National Night Out, providing frozen treats, water, and jump houses for “who knows how many” kids. Monday evening, as the city alderpersons discussed reimbursing a portion of the cost of the inflated jump houses, someone estimated twenty kids played in them. Back home, I counted nine youngsters in a photo as we were gathered in a big circle listening the Mayor Taylor and others.  At that moment, mos...