PINKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

Nurturing and preserving our beautiful corner of Lawrence, Kansas!

• Home
• Reconsidering Our Neighborhood Name
• About PNA
  • Bylaws
  • Projects & Activities
• The Neighborhood
  • Pinkney History & Voices of Pinkney
  • Neighborhood Plans
• Photo Gallery
• Documents: Minutes, Newsletters, & More
• Calendar
• Contact PNA

Pinckney Neighborhood Parks Clean-up – Saturday, Oct. 12th at 9:30 am

Plan on spending a few hours on the morning of Saturday October 12 helping to clean up our neighborhood parks. The Pinckney neighborhood is very fortunate to have several wonderful parks to enjoy. Please join your neighbors at Constant Park (5th & Tennessee), Clinton Park (5th & Maine), Woody Park (3rd & Maine) or the Hugh Cameron Memorial Ravine (5th & Indiana) starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday October 12th to do a little tidying up. We usually also clean up Burcham Park, but this year the city will be doing some construction in and near the park. At about 10:45, we’ll meet back at Clinton Park for refreshments.

The city furnishes us trash bags. All you need are gloves and good walking shoes and maybe a water bottle. Help us keep our parks user-friendly by participating in this clean-up. You can also help year-around by picking up trash as you walk through the neighborhood or take your dogs for a walk.

 

October 8, 2013 · pgmiller · No Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized

• « Previous post
• Next post »

• Helpful Lawrence Area Links

  • Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center
  • City of Lawrence, Kansas
  • Heartland Community Health Center
  • Just Food Douglas County
  • Lawrence – Douglas County Health Department
  • Lawrence Memorial Hospital
  • Lawrence See-Click-Fix Reporting for Potholes, Parks Issues, Etc.
  • Pinckney Elementary School

• Other Neighborhood Associations

  • Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods
  • Brook Creek
  • Delaware Street Commons
  • East Lawrence
  • North Lawrence
  • Old West Lawrence
  • Oread
  • Sunset Hills
  • University Place
  • Schwegler

• 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.