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Annual Pinckney Neighborhood Potluck Picnic & Food Drive

Calling all Pinckney Neighbors: it’s time again for the Annual Pinckney Neighborhood Potluck Picnic!
Saturday June 21st in Clinton Park (5th and Maine Streets) from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm.
Please come and bring your neighbors.
Fun things this year include: Popcorn Machine, Face Painting, Arts & Crafts, Hula Hoops, and other fun activities and games
Music by the John Lomus & Bill Crahan guitar duo

FOOD DRIVE for Just Food Douglas County:
Please bring donations of nonperishable food items and/or cash contributions for Just Food – a Douglas County based food bank.
Just Food will collect the donated items immediately following the picnic. The kids and families who rely on free and reduced lunch programs during the
school year are in greater need of other forms of food assistance over the summer. Kids and families who rely on food assistance are in great need during
this period. The most needed items include:
● Lunch items for kids such as cereal, canned pastas, peanut butter and jelly
● Other basic food items such as canned fruit and tomato products
● Cash! Every dollar you donate helps distribute vital, nutritious food for hungry people in Douglas County

 

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  • Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center
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  • Pinckney Elementary School

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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.