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Update on Bulk Brush Pick-up

We received a call from the City of Lawrence today apologizing for the delay in picking up some of the bulk brush in the neighborhood and promising to try to finish up their round this week. The City has worked valiantly to get all the Pinckney brush picked up despite having equipment problems and dealing with the massive annual KU end of semester move-out aftermath. If your brush has not been picked up yet, please send a message to Pinckney.Neighborhood@gmail.com with “brush pickup” in the subject line and list your address. We’ll do our best to make sure the City gets the information.

Next year we would like to work closer with the City in setting up and planning the bulk brush pickup. Please let us know if you love this service so much that you would be willing to contribute just a few minutes of their time next March to help set it up the service with the City.

Thanks!

 

May 29, 2013 · 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.