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Zoom Recording of April 2021 PNA Meeting Now Available on Our YouTube Channel

 Did you miss the April PNA meeting and special election?  You can now watch the full Zoom meeting here: link.

We are very excited to announce that Shane Heiman is our new neighborhood association President, Joshua William Spence is our new Vice President, and Kim Heck is our new (interim) Secretary! Pat Gillispie Miller will continue being our awesome Treasurer.

We wish to send our heartfelt thanks to Bart Littlejohn for doing a fantastic job serving as PNA President for the past 4 years and previously as Vice President, and to Nick and Kate Kuzmyak for serving us well as Vice President and Secretary respectively for the past year+. Nick and Kate just moved to East Lawrence and we will miss them but hope to still see them around!

April 19, 2021 · Eleanor Gardner · 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.