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PNA Joint Meeting with Old West Lawrence & Pinckney Elementary School Principal

This Saturday, November 16^th – from 10 to about noon in Meeting Room D-South of Lawrence Memorial Hospital – is a special meeting for the Pinckney Neighborhood Association. We will be joined by members of the Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association to have a meet & greet session with Kirsten Wondra, the new principal at Pinckney Elementary School. That portion of the meeting will start at about 10:45 and we’ll be serving light refreshments.

In addition, we’ll have a quick regular PNA business meeting and talk about a proposal the City Public Works department is preparing to address brick streets in the City, including several streets in the eastern portion of the Pinckney Neighborhood. The City invites comments regarding the proposal, which will be submitted to the City Commission for consideration in about December.

 

November 13, 2013 · pgmiller · No Comments
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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.