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PNA Monthly Meeting – August 18 @ 10:00 am – LMH Room D-South

Our next monthly meeting is Saturday August 18th.  In addition to the general business meeting, we will begin planning for the October Trunk-or-Treat and food drive event. Last year was our first attempt at trunk-or-treat, and all who participated thought it was a great success and a wonderful neighborhood building opportunity.  We also raised 130 lbs of food for the Douglas County food bank!

Another item on the agenda include our annual Pinckney Parks clean up day.  We have been offered an opportunity to combine our annual clean up with post-concert roadway clean-up activities in early October and earn funding for PNA activities.

Please join us for the August meeting.  If you have any additional issues to raise, please do so at the meeting or submit n email with your question or concern to Pinckney.Neighborhood@gmail.com.

Hope to see you on Saturday!

 

August 16, 2012 · 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.