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PNA Monthly Meeting – Saturday July 20th – 10:00 am – Lawrence Memorial Hosptial

Greetings! Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July with family and friends. Summer is slipping away so quickly now – let’s make the most of it. This Saturday is the next Pinckney Neighborhood Association Meeting – 10:00 am at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in one of the lower level meeting rooms (look for the PNA sign). Our agenda includes: a quick review of June’s Pinckney Picnic – what worked well and what to fix for next year; planning for Fall activities – neighborhood parks clean-up and Trunk-or-Treat & Food Drive; and a discussion about community gardens and/or sharing gardening tips, expertise and overflow.

Please join us if you can. If you can’t make it to the meeting, but you have thoughts on these issues or have other questions or concerns, please post a message on PNA’s Facebook page or send an email to Pinckney.Neighborhood@gmail.com

 

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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.