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A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF PINCKNEY’S WOODY PARK

Do you use Woody Park? Would you like changes to be made to the park or would you like it to stay the same?

TOMORROW, 10 AM at the PNA monthly meeting, Lawrence Memorial Hospital and the City of Lawrence/Douglas County will discuss potential plans for the park.

The CEO of LMH, Russ Johnson will present. Rebecca Smith, Dir. of LMH Foundation, Derrick Rogers, Dir. Lawrence Parks and Rec., Sarah Plinsky, Douglas County Administrator are also attending.

The meeting is tomorrow at 10 am, LMH, meeting room D-South. The meeting will also live-stream on YouTube and on our PNA Facebook Page.

PLEASE JOIN US to discuss the future of Woody Park. Lend your voice to this conversation.

 

 

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• Changing our Neighborhood Name

  Our neighborhood name of “Pinckney” was recently changed to “Pinkney.” This change occurred because Pinckney with a ‘c’ was associated with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a Revolutionary War general who signed the Constitution and who also was a slaveholder who believed slavery was fundamental to the American way of life (he owned a large plantation in South Carolina). Given this problematic history, neighborhood residents voted to change our neighborhood name. To learn more about the year-long process, go to our dedicated webpage. The final round of voting ultimately landed on the name of “Pinkney” in honor of William Pinkney, who gave a famous anti-slavery speech in 1789.