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Severe Weather Safety & Preparedness Presentation – Saturday March 15th at 11 a.m. – LMH Auditorium

As Spring starts to make a welcome return with warmer temperatures, sunshine, and signs of life in our plants and yards; it also means the return of severe weather season. Severe weather can abruptly change the course of your day. Will you be ready?

Representatives from the Douglas County Emergency Management Department have been invited by the Pinckney Neighborhood Association to provide information you need to be prepared. Their presentation will start at 11:00 a.m. in the Auditorium at Lawrence Memorial Hospital (lower level just to the left of the cafeteria). Everyone is welcome to attend. Please feel free to invite your family, friends and neighbors to join you.

A brief PNA monthly business meeting starting at 10:00 a.m. will precede the emergency preparedness presentation. Topic to be covered at the PNA monthly business meeting include planning for activities and fundraising ideas for the coming year.

Please join your neighbors this Saturday at the PNA meeting starting at 10:00 a.m. and/or the Severe Weather Safety & Preparedness presentation starting at 11:00 am – both are in the Auditorium on the lower level of Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

We hope to see you there!

 

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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.