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PNA Monthly Meeting – Saturday Aug. 17 @ 10:00 am – LMH Meeting Room D-South

Our next monthly PNA meeting will be this Saturday, August 17^th in Lawrence Memorial Hospital meeting room D-South (lower level). The meeting will start at 10:00 am. Light refreshments will be served.

Phillip Ciesielski of the City of Lawrence Department of Utilities will join us to discuss upcoming work to be done at the Kaw Water Treatment Plant located in Pinckney Neighborhood near Burcham Park. The work will begin later this fall and will require closure of Burcham Park for a limited time during the winter months. Please join us to learn more about the project from the City and to discuss steps that can be taken to minimize the impact on the neighborhood.

We will also spend some time discussing other topics, such as the upcoming parks clean-up day scheduled for October 12^th, the Trunk-or-Treat and Food Drive scheduled for October 26^th and our budding Pinckney Neighborhood Gardening Group.

We look forward to seeing you. Please pass on information about the meeting to your neighbors.

 

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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.