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PNA Monthly Meeting – Saturday July 21st at 10:00 a.m.

Our next monthly PNA meeting will be Saturday July 17th – 10:00 a.m. in meeting room D at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.  In addition to regular business and planning items, we’ll have a guest speaker.  Deron Belt will be visiting our meeting to discuss a concert that will be in Burcham Park in October – he works for the promoter of the event. He will explain how PNA can use it as a revenue opportunity.

Deron previously served as president of East Lawrence Neighborhood Association and is now on the Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC), which decides neighborhood grant funding. He has been really impressed with the positive changes in PNA and wants to help us succeed! Please pick his brain about this opportunity!

Let us know if you have any additional topics you want to discuss. As an enticement, light refreshments will be provided!

Please join us.

 

July 18, 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.