27 25 1555 https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/f2b1832af27db1c5a28b067dcee84c22.jpg ffdca3e10346e334fe31898348340cfb https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/da52478d40ff2e14ce3708ea25a432f5.jpg f64cddae7026b7868e16abc3f2d594c6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fitzpatrick-Postma Postcards Subject The topic of the resource Postcards Lawrence (Kan.) -- History Description An account of the resource This collection is comprised of postcards collected by Lawrence, Kansas, residents Charline Fitzpatrick and her daughter Sally Postma. The collection focuses on resources related to the history of Lawrence, Kansas, including scenes of buildings, events, and people in Lawrence, as well as commercial advertisements for businesses located in Lawrence. The collection was loaned to the Lawrence Public Library for scanning and inclusion in the Digital Douglas County History project by Rosalea and Peter Carttar. Scanning and metadata creation for much of the collection was completed by Kylie Hewitt during the summer of 2016. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Postcard Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 5 3/8" x 3 3/8" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcard of the Manual Training School Subject The topic of the resource Public schools -- Kansas -- Lawrence Description An account of the resource Postcard with a colored image of the Manual Training School on the front. Image is a black and white photograph of the school with the sky colored in by hand. Image shows the front and the side of the building that faces the street. At the top of the right side "Manual Training School Lawrence, Kans. Pub. by Hoadley's China Store. 3765" is printed in black ink. On the back is a note to Katie Phariss in Butt[e], Montana from Belle Pearce at 1145 Delaware Street, Lawrence, Kansas (Residence is listed under Ralph and Naomi Smock). Postmarked August 9, 1909. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pearce, Belle Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fitzpatrick-Postma Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hoadley's China Store, publisher Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/9/1909 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource We believe that this item has no known US copyright restrictions. The item may be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. We encourage anyone who may have more information about our items to contact us at custserv@lawrencepubliclibrary.org. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Still Image Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Postcard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 4_Windmill_to_RR_Depot(cp_140a) 4_Windmill_to_RR_Depot(cp_140b) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Manual Training School 847 Kentucky Street (Lawrence, Kan.) 8/9/1909 Acquisition date unknown Abstract A summary of the resource. Postcard with a colored image of the Manual Training School on the front. Manufacturing information on the front. Note on the back. Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 8/9/1909 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Album 4: Windmill to RR Depot Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Photograph Print Drawing Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Acquired by Charline Fitzpatrick or Sally Postma. https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/442c16a792182ef3178ffb4c270082b8.jpg 097db2c4cd66b452d8c836db6661e94e https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/23f1970db8e02d7bc8af23a94230a2dc.jpg 02ad59e7d84df62ba922c77bb60924ea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fitzpatrick-Postma Postcards Subject The topic of the resource Postcards Lawrence (Kan.) -- History Description An account of the resource This collection is comprised of postcards collected by Lawrence, Kansas, residents Charline Fitzpatrick and her daughter Sally Postma. The collection focuses on resources related to the history of Lawrence, Kansas, including scenes of buildings, events, and people in Lawrence, as well as commercial advertisements for businesses located in Lawrence. The collection was loaned to the Lawrence Public Library for scanning and inclusion in the Digital Douglas County History project by Rosalea and Peter Carttar. Scanning and metadata creation for much of the collection was completed by Kylie Hewitt during the summer of 2016. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Postcard Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcard of the Y.M.C.A. Building Subject The topic of the resource YMCA of the USA -- Kansas -- Lawrence Description An account of the resource Postcard with a black and white photograph of the Y.M.C.A. building on the front. Photograph shows the building from the side on a street corner. A note is written on the front in the sky area signed by Lissa Peard. On the back the postcard is addressed to Mrs. F.W. Burthrey in Enid, Oklahoma. Postmarked January 31, 1906. On the back is information on when the postcard was acquired,10/19/1989. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peard, Lissa Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fitzpatrick-Postma Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Publisher unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1/31/1906 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource We believe that this item has no known US copyright restrictions. The item may be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. We encourage anyone who may have more information about our items to contact us at custserv@lawrencepubliclibrary.org. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Still Image Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Postcard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 4_Windmill_to_RR_Depot(cp_12a) 4_Windmill_to_RR_Depot(cp_12b) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Y.M.C.A. 16 West 8th Street (Lawrence, Kan.) 1/31/1906 10/19/1989 Abstract A summary of the resource. Postcard with a black and white photograph of the Y.M.C.A. building on the front. Note on the front. Acquisition information on the back. Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 1/31/1906 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Album 4: Windmill to RR Depot Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Photograph Print Drawing Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Acquired by Sally Postma on October 19, 1989. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Johnston, Pattie Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Pendleton, William Location The location of the interview Lawrence (Kan.) Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/214669">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/214669</a> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:42:58 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 127 kbit/s (audio) 1626 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource William Pendleton World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pendleton, William Description An account of the resource William Pendleton served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946. He also served in the Reserve Corps from 1946 to 1953. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on March 3, 2006, Pendleton talked about his military experiences during the Second World War. Pendleton was attending the University of Kansas when he joined the Army. He was first sent to New Guinea in 1944 and served as an engineer boat and shore officer. He also worked as the postmaster. Pendleton then took part in the invasion of Borneo with the Australian Army. He had many roles, including the finance manager. After Borneo, he spent several weeks in the Philippines until the war ended. He was discharged in March 1946. He then went back to KU and received a degree in economics in 1947. In 1954, Pendleton started law school at KU and graduated in 1957. That same year, he started his own law firm in Lawrence, Kansas. He also worked as a municipal court judge. He passed away on May 15, 2015. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Johnston, Pattie Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New Guinea Borneo 1941 - 1946 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-03-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Pendleton_William WWII Interview Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/pendleton-william-wwii-interview">https://archive.org/details/pendleton-william-wwii-interview</a> Obituary: <a href="https://obituaries.ljworld.com/obituaries/ljworld/obituary.aspx?n=william-biklen-pendleton&amp;pid=174881386&amp;fhid=24989">https://obituaries.ljworld.com/obituaries/ljworld/obituary.aspx?n=william-biklen-pendleton&amp;pid=174881386&amp;fhid=24989</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Transcripts for this project are available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/214669">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/214669</a> Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource United States -- History, Military. World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews. Lawrence (Kan.) -- Oral history. United States. Army. Lawrence (Kan.) -- History. World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area. World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Johnston, Pattie Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Percy, Eugene Location The location of the interview Douglas County (Kan.) Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:52:42 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 127 kbit/s (audio) 1627 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eugene Percy World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy, Eugene Description An account of the resource Eugene Mack Percy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1942. He served in the 13th Armored Regiment, First Armored Division, Company H, 3rd battalion. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on November 6, 2007, Percy talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Percy was born on November 11, 1923, in Carlyle, Kansas. He graduated high school in 1942. After joining the Army, he went to basic training at Fort Riley in Kansas. Throughout his service, he was a troop bugler. He served in North Africa and Italy. He received a Presidential Unit Citation and a Purple Heart. After the war, he received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Washburn University, a master’s degree from Emporia University, and a Ph.D. He worked as a teacher and for the state of Kansas. Percy passed away on February 12, 2011. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Johnston, Pattie Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant North Africa Italy 1942 - 1945 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-11-06 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Percy_Eugene WWII Interview Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/percy-eugene-wwii-interview">https://archive.org/details/percy-eugene-wwii-interview</a> Obituary: <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cjonline/obituary.aspx?n=eugene-mack-percy&amp;pid=148653955">https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cjonline/obituary.aspx?n=eugene-mack-percy&amp;pid=148653955</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. United States -- History, Military. World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews. Lawrence (Kan.) -- Oral history. United States. Army. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/40dea2833b1244c148081ae4f60060e1.jpg 86345313ab595292cc54b1bbfbdec16c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Watkins Museum of History - Lawrence Disaster Images Description An account of the resource Collective images of natural disasters that have struck Douglas County and the City of Lawrence. Displaying images of a century of floods, tornadoes, and other weather damage. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Watkins Museum of History/Douglas County Historical Society Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1951 Flood Subject The topic of the resource Lawrence Disasters Description An account of the resource 1978.165.033 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photograph of the Lawrence mills, elevators & water power plant during the 1951 flood. Taken from the north end of the bridge. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Donated by: Robert Green Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1951 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Douglas County Historical Society Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Copy of Original Photograph 4" x 3" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Grubbs, Brian Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Piller, Robert J. “Bob” Location The location of the interview Douglas County (Kan.) Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211746">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211746</a> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:46:35 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 127 kbit/s (audio) 1623 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert "Bob" J. Piller World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Piller, Robert J. “Bob” Description An account of the resource Robert J. “Bob” Piller was drafted into the United States Army (395th Infantry Regiment) in 1943. He was discharged in 1945. Interviewed by Brian Grubbs on October 5, 2006, Piller talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Piller was born on November 19, 1924, in Great Bend, Kansas. Following high school graduation in 1942, he went to Notre Dame before transferring to the University of Kansas. Upon being drafted into the Army in 1943, he went to basic training at Camp Maxey in Paris, Texas. After basics, he went to Europe. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium and the German attack at the Danube River on April 27, 1945. Piller received two Bronze Stars for his service. After the war, Piller went back to KU to complete his degree. He passed away on October 7, 2010. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grubbs, Brian Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Belgium 1943 - 1945 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Piller_Robert WWII Interview Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/piller-robert-wwii-interview">https://archive.org/details/piller-robert-wwii-interview</a> Obituary: <a href="https://www2.ljworld.com/life-events/obituaries/2010/nov/15/robert-piller/">https://www2.ljworld.com/life-events/obituaries/2010/nov/15/robert-piller/</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Transcripts for this project are available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211746">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211746</a> Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. United States -- History, Military. World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews. United States. Army. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Belgium -- Bastogne. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/ca0482d481260ef342cdc2791a5b65ec.pdf 6c334c7834f69b09ac4b51726c51a3da PDF Text Text ������ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association Subject The topic of the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association (Lawrence, Kan.) Description An account of the resource Bylaws, correspondence, newsletters and minutes from the Pinckney Neighborhood Association in Lawrence, Kansas. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Pinckney Neighborhood Association Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1987-2000 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hoch, Tony Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource BMP Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Pinckney Neighborhood (Lawrence, Kan.) 1987-2000 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association Bylaws, undated Subject The topic of the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association (Lawrence, Kan.) Description An account of the resource Bylaws for the Pinckney Neighborhood Association in Lawrence, Kansas. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association (Lawrence, Kan.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Pinckney Neighborhood Association (Lawrence, Kan.) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hoch, Tony Community Development Division, City of Lawrence (Kan.) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Pinckney Neighborhood Association. Please contact the copyright holder for permission to use this item. The item may also be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lawrence (Kan.) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Pinckney_Bylaws.pdf https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/616ccc4a0a3e459346ce549f98b6f7ca.pdf faefb789880817b077991a5564f29ff1 PDF Text Text ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association Subject The topic of the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association (Lawrence, Kan.) Description An account of the resource Bylaws, correspondence, newsletters and minutes from the Pinckney Neighborhood Association in Lawrence, Kansas. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Pinckney Neighborhood Association Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1987-2000 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hoch, Tony Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource BMP Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Pinckney Neighborhood (Lawrence, Kan.) 1987-2000 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association Correspondence, 1987-2002 Subject The topic of the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association (Lawrence, Kan.) Description An account of the resource Correspondence between the presidents and coordinators of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association and the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association (Lawrence, Kan.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Pinckney Neighborhood Association (Lawrence, Kan.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1987-2003 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hoch, Tony Community Development Division, City of Lawrence (Kan.) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Pinckney Neighborhood Association. Please contact the copyright holder for permission to use this item. The item may also be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. 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Sandra Brandt gave reasons for the possible need to study this issue further. She pointed out the low attendance by residents from the West end at recent neighborhood meetings (1 came to the Dec. 7, 1987 meeting and 9 out of 52 at tonight's meeting lived west of Michigan). Rhonda Neugebaur suggested low attendance might be in part due to an imperfect mailing list which does not always reach people early enough for them to plan to attend. Sandra also mentioned that the re-evaluation of income levels during the 1990 federal census will determine whether Pinckney remains eligible for CD money. It could therefore be to the benefit of both halves of the neighborhood to reflect a lower income. Sandra stressed that she is not advocating one side of this issue or the other but feels that it needs further examination since the neighborhood is quite diverse with brand new housing in the West end and older housing in the East end and perhaps each group might have very different interests. Terry Summers said he would like to see those present fill out the "position paper" regarding this issue and pass it on to new officers. Merle Jackson, seconded by Carol Renzulli, moved that this issue be deferred for deliberation by the new officers. Sandra Brandt, seconded by Suzanne Perry, amended the motion to add that a poll by letter of all Pinckney residents be taken on this issue. Motion passed unanimously 46-0. Terry announced that anyone wishing to submit addresses of blighted structures in Pinckney Neighborhood give them to the new President who will forward them to the CD office and request that owners of the properties be notified that CD money is available for demolition. Tollie Smith, seconded by Kendall Simmons, moved that the new President write to the City about repa1r1ng the stone retaining wall at 5th St. and Tennessee and also ask that signs be put up to prevent future collisions. Motion passed 46-0. Suzanne Perry, seconded by Arvilla Vickers, moved that a committee be formed to determine the advisability of rejecting or retaining the Executive Board. In the ensuing discussion Steve Smith mentioned that in the past very few if any of the 5 Directors on the Executive Board ~v-ould attend the officers 1 meetings. Meanwhile, the Directors are empowered by the By-Laws to speak for the neighborhood on issues and in the past have done so without consulting any of the officers·. He suggested that Director positions be retained but become advisory in nature and that the 4 elected officers be the only ones authorized to handle neighborhood business. Motion passed 33-3 with one abstention. Terry ruled that this motion was new business and it will be taken care of by new officers. Sue Hewitt gave the Treasurer's report. Current balance is $64.60 which reflects dues paid at the December meeting. She asked that those present pay their l9B9 dues which are $1 per person and $2 per household. Other money available to the PNA comes from the 1986 CD account, with balances being: $267.00 for administration, $348 for clean-up. No CD money was requested for 1987. 1988 CD funding will be available August 1988. Terry Summers reported that 2 years ago when he was Treasurer he and Merle Jackson opened an account at Columbia Savings with a balance of $498.00. He stated that that account had been decimated with his name remaining on the account. Finally, �MINUTES The meeting convened in the Pinckney School gymnasium at 7:32 p.m. Agenda I tern No. 1. The minutes of the May 1988 meeting were read and approved. Agenda Item No. 2 Susanne Perry, PNA President, advised that Susanf Hewitt, Treasurer, would be unable to attend the meeting due to illness. In her absence, Ms. Perry reported that there is $119.30 in the PNA treasury. She stated that during the last three months there were some expenditures for xeroxing for the Burcham Park Task Force and By-Laws Committees in the amount of $15.00, and the Community Development Block Grant <CDBG> was received: $1,300 for administration; $1,200 for 2 clean-ups; Burcham Park Gate and for landscaping of the park in the amount of $2,540. Ms. Berry also stated that the renewal for our Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods <LAN> membership is due soon in the amount of $25.00. Thet"·e trJas a c:·oncensus those dues should be paid as soon as possible. Ms.Berry ghen gave a brief description of the function of LAN. Some discussion ensued. Ms. Perry also asked that is anyone had net pa1d their PNA dues it would be appreciated if they would do so after the meeting which would mean paid membership until the annual meeting in May '89 - $1 for an individual membership, $2 for a household. Agenda Item No. 3 Announcements 1. Ms. Berry received a letter from Fred DeVictor of the Parks and Recreation Department of the City of Lawrence regarding the Burcham Park gate installation at the end of October 1988. The letter stated that fences would also be installed by each side of the gate so that persons could not drive around it. The letter also said the City Commission had approved slightly different hours for the park: close - 10:30 p.m., open - 5:00 a.m. 2. City Commission approved signs to be installed by the recently repaired wall at the curve of 5th and Tenn. "Sharpe Turn" - "20 MF·H" ··- and a sign designating the angle of the turn. Some discussion ensued. 3. Merle Jackson of PNA was appointed tof the CDBG Grant Review Board. 4. Letter to PNA from The Salvation Army asking for volunteers to help at their agency so that their shelter for the homeless could continue to opperate. Pinckney Neighborhood Association • Lawrence, Kansas �into afterburners as it rose steeply above Burcham Park. There was a concensus that the next PNA meeting would take place on November 30, 1988. Meeting adjourned. �THE PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION BY-LAWS The residents and property owners within the area of the City of Lawrence known as the Pinckney area and defined as the area bounded by Sixth Street en the South, West Interchange Read of Turnpike en the west, the Kansas Turnpike and the Kansas River on the north and Massachusetts Street on the east; have formed an organization to be known as the Pinckney Neighborhood Association. I~RTI Cl_E I Name Section 1. Name. The name of this association shall be the Pinckney Neighborhood Association. F'ur-pose Section l. Purpose. The purpose of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association shall be to promote understanding with the City of Lawrence; to improve property, living conditions, and to improve communication within the Pinckney Neighborhood; and to promote good public relaqtions with the businesses within the neighborhood. t':'tFniCL.E I I I Section 1. Eligibility. Any person who resides or owns property in the Pinckney Neighborhood or who subscribes to the purposes of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association shall be eligible for membership in the Pinckney Neighborhood Association. Section :2. Types of Membership. The membership of the Pinckney �annual meeting, by a majority vote of the remaining members of the Executive Board. Section 5. Powers and Duties. It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Executive Board to organi2e the business before the Association to insure maximum participation of Association members and to insure maximum utilization of Association business. Towards these objectives the Officers may assign projects~ designate committee, make preliminary decisions on Association business, provided, however, that all final decisions on Association business be made by the membership at large. Section 6. There shall be at least one regular meeting Meetings. of the Executive Board and shall call a special meeting upon the request of any member of the Board. At any meeting any business may be transacted whether notice of the purpose of the meeting was given or not, or whether the item of business in question was referred to or not. Section 7. Quorum. A majority (three) of the Executive Board shall constitute a quorum. Section. 8. Disqualifications. Any officer missing three con- secutive meetings may be asked to resign. ARTICLE V Officers Section 1. Enumeration and Election of Officers. The officers of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association shall be a President, a Vice President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer who shall be elected for terms of two years by the general membership at an Annual Meeting and take office immediately. They shall be elected in even numbered �ARTICLE VI The Advisory Council Section 1. Purpose. The purpose of the Advisory Council shall be to advise and assist the officers in their duties. (See Article IVj Section 5.). Section 2. Number and Term of Office. The Advisory Council shall consist of five members of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association. The five members shall be appointed for two-year terms in odd-numbered years. All appointments shall be made at the Annual Meeting. Section 3. Qualifications. No person shall be appointed or shall continue to serve as an Advisory Council member of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association unless he/she is a votinq member of the Association. Section 4. Vacancies. Any vacancy in the Advisory Council by reason of resignation, death, or disqualification may be filled, until the next Annual Meetinq. by a majority vote of the Executive Board. Section 5. Duties. The duties of the Advisory Coucil shall be to advise and assist the officers in their duties. Section 5.) (See Article IV, Advisory Council members shall be present at meetings of the Executive Board. Section 6. Meetings. See Article IV, Section 6. ARTICLE VII Meetinqs Section 1. Membership Meetings. The number of general membership meetings to be held during the year shall be left to the discretion of the Executive Board, but shall be no fewer than one per calendar �of the Annual Meeting. Immediately following the presentation of this report, nominations may be made from the floor by any voting member provided the consent of the nominee shall have been secured. Section 3. Election. The election shall be by ballot~ provided that when there is but one nominee for each position, the secretary may be instructed to cast the ballot for every nominee. A majority vote of those qualified to vote and voting shall constitute an election. Absentee or proxy voting shall not be permitted. ARTICLE IX Committees Section 1. Appointment. The president of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association shall be entitled to appoint the membership to such committees as the Board deems necessary. Such committees shall be established and appointed to carry out the purposes enumerated by the Board. ARTICLE X Action Section 1. Executive Board Action. The Executive Board may make public statements and take any other actions that it deems necessary in the performance of its duties. Decisions made by the Executive Board are subject to membership review. Section 2. Member Action. Members may act in the name of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association only when authorized to do so by the property Executive Board. ARTICLE XI Amendments Section 1. Amendments. These By-Laws may be amended by a �Minutes PNA Meeting- November JO, 1988 NEIGHBORHOOD The minutes of the September 21, 1988 meeting were read by Suzanne Perry and approved as written. Sue Hewitt, Treasurer, reported that $102.]0 was in the treasury. President Suzanne Perry noted that dues are still being accepted. Suzanne Perry reported thi'l.t she had received an a.nsv1er to PNA 1 s letter to the Independence Days committee regarding the B1 Bomber incident last July. The response indicated that they appreciated the input and that plans for 1989 included the involvement of the directly related neighborhood associations. Ms. Perry stated that this was the first time there'd been any contact with the neighborhood association in any way regarding the celebration and that perhaps it would be a good beginning of communication with the groups that has been holding the celebration in our neighborhood for five years. Suzanne Perry demonstrated a sample of the PNA tee shirts which could be now ordered. She stated that as noted in the newsletter, any size was $?.00 and they came in Tropical Pink and White.and that interested parties could submit their order at the end of the meeting. Suzanne Perry announced that PNA had obtained $6,500 in contingency CD funds. $2,000 for bou).ders to be placed beside the new gate at Burcham Park and $4,500 for the re-grading of the drainage ditch at 5th and Indiana. She also stated that three members of the neighborhood association, Sandra Brandt, Mike Nelson and Sue Hewitt had volunteered Surcham Park. to form a liaison committee regarding the beautification of It was stated by one of the committee members that Mike Nelson twuld put the general plans in writing, that upon meeting with a "city official" about the plans that t~r.:.:;~·e was resistence to planting anything that would require maintenance, Pinck~ey Neighborhood Association • Lawrence, Kansas �that the park was to be kept 11 natunl." There was also an indication that doing anything would not be appreciated because people in the PN did not take care of their own houses. Marguerite Risley reminded the members of the time when ooncerned persons in the neighborhood rejuvinated the Pinckney Schood landscaping and volunteers kept the plantings al~ve through a very harsh summer and that they exist today. She stated perhaps this information might be given to the city official as a reminder that there are, in fact, persons in the neighborhood who care about such things. It was also stated by Sandra Brandt that even though there was the resistance on the part of the city, that the Independence Days celebration brings thousands of citizens to the park and if for no other reason, the park should be beautiful whether the style was natural or not. Some other brief ediscussion ensued. SUzanne Perry reported that the demolituon requests submitted last May (about 10 addresses) were finally acted upon by the City in August 1988. of the properties were given citations. The owners Xhe approach was different than the neighborhood had thought it would be and it was discovered that there had been a staffing change plus a delay in demolition monies being made available. Ultimately, the outcome was that if the o•Nners do not do something about their properties. the City will pursue demolition. Perry pointed out that it would be helpful if members of the neighborhood would track these goings on and appear at the commission meeting involved to add their testimoney as to the state of the property, how long it had been that way, etc. If she knew of such meeting dates, Perry said she would notify neighbors and others. Tolly Smith began the discussion regarding proposed CD requests. by those present that they would be submitted in the l. 2. 3· 4. 5· Pinckney Tunnel Lighting Drainage Ditch Beautification Clinton Park Landscaping Burcham Park Play Equipment Paving of 3-400 Block Indiana followin~ It was agreed order of preference: $ 2,300 4,000 J, 100 4,500 14.000 $:27,900 Suzanne Perry stated that there would also be the regular qrequest for operating costs (two clean-ups) and the newsletter which would bring the total request of $)0,700. �.. Next, the LAN noiae ordinance was discussed. and proceeded to explain certain aspects. She ~tated Suzanne Perry read it that LAN wanted all the neighborhood associations to vote on the proposed ordinance, forward the results to them and if it passed, LAN would take it to the City Commission. moved to pass the proposed ordinance. There was a second to the motion and it passed with 10 yes, 1 abstention. The meeting then adjourned. Submitted by: Merle Jackson Arvilla B. Vickers, Secretary Pin~eY. Ne~~hb~rhood Association \\~.\)~ �MINUTES OF PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING December 7, 1988 The meeting was held in the Pinckney Grade School Library and was attended by 20 people. $18 in association dues were collected by the Treasurer, Sue Hewitt. Susan Pogany presented a petition opposing the School Board's proposal of school pairing which she planned to give to Valerie Murphy. Many of those present signed the petition. President Terry Summers summarized a letter he and other officers and concerned residents had written in November to the City Commissioners regarding the car-train accident at the entrance of Burcham Park that month. The letter requested more surveillance of the park by police and the installation by Santa Fe Railroad of a crossgate at the railroad crossing. He also read responses from Buford Watson (for the City) and Ron Olin (for the police dept.) to the neighborhood's requests. Mr. Watson wrote that Mike Wildgen had sent a letter on behalf of the City expressing concern about the dangerous crossing and requesting action. Police Chief Olin assured the neighborhood that enforcement was adquate. It was decided by those present to haye Terry Summers and Marguerite Risley write another letter on behalf of the neighborhood to Olin and Fre DeVictor about the park. A concerned resident asked what the neighborhood could do about removing an abandoned bus from property on the east side of Clinton Park below Pinckney Grade School. She said it was unsightly and a hazard to children. Since it was determined that the bus is probably privately owned and parked on private property, it seems little can be done to demand its removal. President Terry Summers requested suggestions for CDBG requests for the coming year. The following items were mentioned: 1. Lockable bar and pole gate for entrance of Burcham Park to close park daily to vehicular traffic during hours of closing (11:30 p.m. to 6 a.m.), 2. Additional plantings of trees and shrubs in Burcham Park 3. Rechipping of trails in Burcham Park 4. Environmental Impact Study of Erosion along Kansas River Banks in Burcham Park 5. Gravel access road in Burcham Park Secretary Suzanne Perry agreed to discuss these items with Fred DeVictor and then submit those deemed appropriate to the CDBF office. Terry Summers and Pete Whitenight, ambassadors from DIC, concluded the meeting with a debate/discussion of the Downtown Improvement Committee's proposal for development of the downtown retail district. Meeting adjourned at 9 p.m. Pinckney Neighborhood Association • Lawrence, Kansas �Pinckney Neiqhborhood Association ?)nnuel Meet.i ng M.:'\y 25, 1989 MINUTES Present: Chris Haber Sue Hewitt, Tresurer Joe Hewitt David Morgan Suzanne Perry, President Robert Irving Guests: Dean Burger Steve Hanna Linda Hi:.~ on Minutes of the March Susan F'oqany Marguerite Risley Eleanor Symons Arvilla B. Vickers, Secret.=H-y (4ndrea t Jel born 1 Patricia Marvin Sandy F'rager Judv Wriqht 30~ 1989 meeting were read and approved. Sue Hewitt reported a PNA treasury balance of $83.64. Susan Pogany and Kendall Simmons were nominated for PNA Vice President. Susan Pogny was unanimously elected, replacing Carol Renzuli. Joe Hewitt volunteered to sit on the Advisory Council. more members are needed. Four Any change in the PNA western bounr ·y was deferred until the results of the 1990 census. A ~~ange will be considered at that time if said results indicates that CDBG funding for PNA would be lost. Judy Wright and Sandy Prager spoke regarding the plans to decorate certain streets along the parade route for the Independence Days celebration. A limited supply of bunting will be available free of charge along with flags, at a very reasonable price. Discussion ensued regarding forms of housing decorations, etc. Linda Hixon spoke regarding Model Block and a left a sample petition for same. It was unanimously approved to put out a PNA mailing in August about model block and how to apply. Discussion ensued. Steve Hanna and Dean Burger from KPS spoke about the upcoming gas line replacements in Lawrence and approwimately when and r·1m•J i t ~.oJoul d bE· ac:comrnpl i. ~s!H:-:!d i. n P·i. nckne·y' nei (;jhbor . rwod. Discussion ensued. Pine kney Neighborhood. Association • Lawrence, Kansas �A basic policy for bands that wish to play in Burcham Park was discussed and set. It was stipulated that the applicant would have to sign a request form and would be screened by the Parks and Recreation Department of the City, they would have to adhere to existing noise ordinance and only acoustic instruments would be allowed. Meeting adjourned Respectfully submitted, Arvilla B. Vickers, Secretary Pinckney Neighborhood Association �MINUTES Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting September 25 1 1989 Present: Mark Creamer, Cristi Hansen, Kris Vervaecke Hayden, Joe Hewitt, Sue Hewitt, Robert Irving, Suzanne Perry, Susan Pogany, Marguerite Risley, Suzanne Stroup Eleanor S. Speakers: Daniel Bledorn, Fred DeVictor, Patricia Marvin Meeting convened at 7:35 p.m. Minutes of May 25, 1989 meeting were read and approved. Daniel Bledorn of Sigma Chi Fraternity at the University of Kansas, spoke about service project by their group to assist Pinchney neighborhood with yard clean up and house maintenance. The Model Block petitions were discussed. Though not represented at the meeting, it was noted that the 500 Block Tennessee, the 400 Block Illinois and the 500 Block LoGisiana were interested. Each petition must have signatures representing approximatly 80% of the block and it was unknown if there will be more than one block chosen this year. The deadline for CDBG requests is December 1 1 1989. F'atri cia Marvin spoke about having a "chipper party" instead of the convention fall cleanup. A machine will be available to turn fallen limbs, etc. into wood chips and then neighbors may take quantities for use in their gardens, etc. It was decided unanimously to set the date as 10/21/89 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. with 10/28/89 as a raindate. There would also be a picnic after the chipping. It was also noted $30.00 had been earned from re-cycling. Treasurer, Susan Hewitt reported that the PNA treasury contained $113. 88. Suzanne Stroup, Mark Creamer and Joe Hewitt volunteered to serve as members of the PNA Executive Board. Fred DeVictor, Director of the Parks and Recreation Department for the City of Lawrence spoke about the Burcham Park play equipment being considered. The current equipment is outdated and the City is concerned about liability. Discussion followed. The City will augment the PNA CDBG allotment with some additional funds. A committee made up of Mark Creamer, Susan Pogany and Kris Hayden Pinckney Neighborhood AsSociation • Lawrence, Kansas �...·' MINUTES Pinckney Neighborhood Association Gener·al 1'1eeting 1'-~ovember ~>'.. ' . 1989 NEIGHBORHOOD Present: M. Creamer, K. Erb, R. Irving, K. Hayden, S. Hewitt, S. Perry, S. Pogany, D. Morgan, M. Ri~ley, A. Vickers, P•• Welbm-n. Meeting convened at approximately "7, : .::.-.~ p.m. -~t::' Minutes of May 25, 1989 meeting were read and approved. Suzanne Perry updated some items mentioned in the minutes: llThe landscaping proposal was to improve the entrance to Burcham Par~ on both sides of the entrance. There IS a water source and in the Spring the City will set in $2,000 worth of low maintenance plants including native grasses. 2l8ids are still being taken something less than $9,200 3lPlay equipment for Burcham ordered and bids are going unit. on the Clinton Park masonry job is being sought. Park-the arch swing set has been out on the arch climber and component 6th Street Traffic Problems - Sherry Kay from the Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association and Pinckney Crossing Guard, and Bill Baker, president of the Pinckney PTO were in attendance to report and participate in the discussion on this subject. Extensive discussion took place and suggestions to achieve a slowing of traffic and greater safety included t~affic lights, barriers, stop signs, school zone signs with flashing lights, lowering speed limit, middle turn lane, no left turn signs. Various examples of personally viewed severely dangerous situations were recounted, the fact'additional traffic will be caused by the riverfront mall opening soon were mention~d and discussed. It was decided that the options discussed will appear in the next newsletter be part of the agenda at the next meeting so that, hopefully, the PNA members will attend and give additional ideas to help solve the problem. It was mentioned that the City must ask the Kansas Department of Transportation to do a study on the problem and until that happens nothing can actually be done. Commun1ty Development Block Grant (CDBG> Requests- It was decided the CDBG requests would be prioritized as follows. Some comment/information was given as each item was considered. $ $ 1,425 PNA Operating Expense 1,200- Two Cleanups Pinckney Neighborhood Association • Lawrence, Kansas �:.t 28,000 :t 25' 000 :t: :::! 325 :t 5' 980 .l J.8, 750 Model Block Project (500 blk. Tennessee) Tennis Court - Clinton Park Two drinking fountains for Bircham Park Toddler Play Equipment for Clinton Park Soccer Field for Clinton Park A children's neighborhood task force was discussed. Possible activities mentioned included recycling, cleanups, Adopt a Grandmother. Changes in recycling companies also were talked about during this discussion. Treasury Deficit - It was stated that there was only :.t55 in the PNA treasury. A $500 legal fee is still owed and :.t25 LAN dues must be paid to continue membership in that neighborhood association coalition. Suzanne Perry stated that there are $115 in pledges for donations toward the legal fee and that she was going to pay the difference of $385 until more funds could be raised. Some discussion/ explanation of LAN ensued. It was then decided to renew the PNA membership in LAN and Kelly Hayden volunteered to be the new PNA representative to LAN. It was then decided to have a yard sale sometime in April 1990 to raise funds for the PNA treasury. It was also decided that after the LAN dues were paid, the small treasury· balance would go to S. Perry to help pay back the legal fee paid for PNA. It was asked that everyone start getting together donations for the yard sale. Meeting adjourned. Respectfully Submitted, ~ . B. v·,cke.R.~ Arvilla B. V1ckers f.iec r· et ,i:\r '/ Pinckney Neiqhborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association • Lawrence, Kansas �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Minutes of the Meeting - Sept. 24, 1992 (meeting at 7 p.m., Pinckney School teacher's room) Meeting was called to order by Vice President Joe Hewitt. It was explai~ed that future meetings may be attended by some architectural students from KU who may make recommendations to our association concerning environmental, historical, and recreational aspects of the neighborhood. Next, election of new officers was held. The name of Joe Hewitt was nominated and seconded for the office of president. Mr. Hewitt explained his reasons for wishing to become president, and a vote was held which resulted in his being named new president. Similarly, the names of Steve Smith for vice president, Susan Pogany for secretary, and Carol Klinknett for treasurer were nominated, seconded, and voted upon. All were elected. Elected to the Advisory Board were Madeline Finch, Sue Hewitt, Steve Hamburg, and David Morgan. Dues from PNA membership were collected and recorded. The upcoming Fall Clean-up was discussed. PNA may investigate asking KU fraternities to participate as part of community service projects. Whether or not a city truck should be used was discussed. If money were saved (using KU students and non-city truck), perhaps this savings could be used toward bigger Spring Clean-up. Date for Fall Clean-up is still to be named. Representatives to the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods (LAN) were named. They are Carol Jones, David Morgan, and Madeline Finch. David Morgan agreed to represent PNA on the CDBG Advisory Board if no one else can take this position. Our other representative on this board is Allen Reed, who explained he is serving as chairman of the board this year. Susan Pogany reported on progress toward the selection of playground equipment funded thru CD funds for Clinton Park. She said the PNA has been told this $3,000 allotment from last year's requests cannot �Pinckney Neighborhood Association I Minutes of the Meeting/ 9-24-92/ Page 2 be held over and combined with next year's hoped-for playground allotment. She has been to the Park Dept., has spoken with director Fred DeVictor, and is working with him to spend the money on equipment suitable for older children. (The most recent equipment installed was for toddlers.) DeVictor is leaning toward installation of a large slide. Possible projects that may be requested thru CDBG include: --Researching the possibility of having Pinckney Neighborhood declared a historical district (similar to Old West Lawrence). Funds would be necessary for such research. It was mentioned that perhaps the architectural students mentioned at the beginning of the meeting might be asked to look into this. i~ Coordinator Tolly Smith said she would see if Karen Erb interested in overseeing such a project. --Sidewalks on Michigan Street. Joe Hewitt said he will look into this. --Seed money for a Pinckney historic homes tour. --Resurfacing/asphalting the alley between Ohio St. and Louisiana St., since the present uneven surface is dangerous for children. --Funding of some project (to be determined) relating to the ongoing KPL/Sth Street powerline controversy. Susan Pogany volunteered to explore the possibility of renaming Clinton ParK. Those present thought Langston Hughes Park would be a more appropriate name. Tolly Smith and Steve Smith gave an update on PNA activities to re-locate the proposed 5th Street power line project to the alternate railroad route. PNA has received letters of support from Oread Neighborhood Association and LAN. A study session concerning PNA's proposed ordinance (dealing with po'ver line siting and the need for public input) was held with Lawrence City Commissioners Sept. 21. The commission is having the city attorney investigate whether or not the city can legally regulate a utility such as KPL. Commissioners agreed to write letters on PNA's behelf to the Kansas Corporation Commission, and KPL CEO John Hayes. Tolly, Steve, Susan Pogany, and �PNA Meeting Minutes Page 3 Steve Hamburg have met twice with KPL administrators in recent weeks (and have another meeting scheduled Oct. 1) to discuss the PNA's proposed railroad route for the planned 115,000 volt power line. Jim Von Rohr, an electrical engineer formerly with KPL, is~6rking closely with PNA. Efforts are focusing on finding ways to reduce the cost of the proposed railroad route. Meeting adjourned at about 8:30 p.m. Respectfully submitted, ~~~~ Susan Pogany PNA Secretary �... Pinckney Neighbor11ood Association Minutes of the Meeting - November 19, 1992 (meeting at 7 p.m., Pinckney School teachers' room) Meeting was called to order by Vice President Steve Smith (in absence due to surgery/illness of President). A short discussion of the proposed KPL power line and how to fight the line most effectively followed. Steve Smith discussed the follow-ing possible projects for which the neighborhood might request CDBG funds: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Pave alley between La. and Ohio Streets. Sidewalks. Historic district designation. Clinton Park playground equipment. KPL capital improvement asset money. As regards possible CDBG fund application of the above projects, the following discussion took place: SIDEWALKS: Various sidewalk problems were mentioned. Bill March said Pinckney School should be notified about the drainage problem on the sidewalk on the school side of Miss. St. (a low spot on the sidewalk). He felt a drain is needed in the parking lot. Members mentioned thefis no sidewalk on 4th St. from Illinois St. to Maine St. on the south side. Another possible area of need is Indiana St. ~tween 5th and 4th on the west side. It was mentioned that the existing sidewalk on 4th St. has missing parts. Steve Hamburg said he will make a list of other needed areas. HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION: Karen Erb said that fewer than 40% of houses would qualify for historic district designation ~ccording to a study done by David Benjamin, 40 %are needed in order to qualify. There was a discussion of how and which homes qualify. It was mentioned that Paul Caveness charges $400 to research houses and prepare nominations. Katie Armitage also provides this service. Members discussed how having homes on the National Historic Register could help in the fight against the 5th Street power line. Steve Hamburg discussed the problem of "open lots" in Pinckney; felt historic designation would give neighborhood more control over these buildable lots. Those present felt that CD money could be used to hire someone to research whether or not its worthwhile to try to get Pinckney designated historic. Karen Erb will consult Old West Lawrence Assn. on the amount of money necessary for such research. HOME TOUR SEED MONEY: was not appropriate. After short discussion, members decided a fund request KPL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ASSET MONEY: Members discussed requesting CD money for easement beautification, cutting and clearing of trees, demolition, purchase of property in the woods along possible route of power line. Members decided it is not feasible to ask for government money to buy land for use by a public utility. �Pinckney Neighborhood Association 11-19-92/ Page 2 CLINTON PARK PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT: Susan Pogany has been in contact with Fred DeVictor, director of Parlm, concerning the expenditure of $3,000 "I'Thich PNA was allotted last year in CD funds for Clinton Park equipment. She said PNA could either spend this money on a new slide which would be attached to the existing equipment or could spend the money on the first phase of a three or four-phase project totalling $12,257. Phase one would be the slide. Karen Erb said she would prefer an open slide as compared to an enclosed slide. Pogany will look into this. Hamburg motioned that PNA buy a slide now as part of the multi-phase project. The motion was seconded and carried. The following additonal possible CDBG fund requests/projects were discussed: PNA OPERATING EXPENSES: Last year's submission was $1,650. PNA COORDINATOR: Last year PNA asked for $4,780 for coordinator's job and was granted $3,410. It was motioned , seconded, and passed that PNA ask this year for a "reasonable amount" for coordinator. CLEAN-UPS: Members decided not to apply for clean-up funds this year because existing and new city clean-up programs are taking care of this need. It was suggested that PNA ask the city to clean up the area between the entrance to Burcham Park and the Shaw house, also knoiin as the Castle on the Kaw. Steve Smith suggested that PNA should continue clean up funding of some kind. Coordinator Tolly Smith suggested housing rehabilitation as another possible CDBG funding request. She suggested that the neighborhood apply for funds to be spent as needed by the elderly for painting or other housing rehab. During discussion, members said the CD Board probably wouldn't allow PNA funds to spend on unspecified addresses. Instead, it was suggested that PNA apply for extra funds for the coordinator so the coordinator could go door to door notifying residents of CD money available for rehab or help residents with forms necessary to apply. Steve Smith asked treasurer carol Klinknett to find out from Margene Schwartz about what CDBG money was granted last year and what amount has been allocated and spent. The subject of PNA's non-profit status was discussed. Tolly Smith if PNA has 501C3 non-profit status. Steve Hamburg asked He stated that PNA needs such status in order for contributions to be tax deductible. This question will be explored. Final topic of the meeting ivas an update on the effort to have KPL re-route the proposed 5th Street power line: Tolly Smith explained that questions which PNA had put before KPL the previous week will delay the Kansas Corporation Commission's final decision. It is hoped that the Legislature will have hearings on the topic of power line siting/ �Pinckney NeighborhooA Association 11-19-92/ Page 3 EMFs in January. TI1e KCC staff will make its recommendations to the Commisioners within a short time, but it is unknown how long after this the Commission itself will make its decision as to where the line is to built. Legal options were discussed. Tile role which the City of Lawrence could play was said to be uncertain. Members agreed to have a vote on whether or not to retain a lawyer to represent PNA in the power line siting issue. Carol Klinknett said four people had sent in ~~ra contributions for membership recently. All said their primary concern was that the neighborhood association should support the power line fight. Steve Smith asked if PNA should ask · members making extra contributions if they want this money to go to PNA generally or if they want to specify that it go to a PNA bank account set up specially for the PNA fight against the 5th St . po1'ler line. Carol said she felt this should be a neighborhood decision. Steve Smith motioned tlKtPNA establish a bank account for the purpose of funding the fight against the 5th St. power line. Tile motion was seconded and passed. Steve Hamburg motioned that PNA engage a lawyer to ~~lore legal avenues beyond those which C.U.R.B. can handle. The motion 1'laS seconded and passed. Shellie Bender suggested raising money by sending a letter to all Pinckney residents requesting funds. The Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association could be asked to put an item in their newsletter concerning PNA's need for contributions. Hamburg motioned to call PNA's new bank account the Pinckney Neighborhood Defense Fund for use for any KPLfight-related expenses. The motion 1'laS discussed, senconded and passed. Tile four names on the account will be Susan Pogany, Secretary; Steve Smith, Vice President; Carol Klinknett, Treasurer; and Tolly Smith, PNA Coordinator. Fund raising was discussed. Steve Hamburg reiterated his assertion that PNA must be certain whether it has 501C3 non-profit status. The meeting adjourned about 9:15 p.m. �rNA Pttt-~.J?dQa_s t )~ (01,-1 ?---S?o Lo\_ ct ( ,i.-l y r fr.t a- '3 J~-<i ~ c) / .... t . / I / �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Minutes of the Meeting-February 3, 1993 Meeting at 7 p.m., Pinckney School Meeting was convened 1 and minutes of the meeting of November 19, 1992, were read and accepted with one correction. Steve Smith said it had been decided that PNA would ask for CDBG funding for a clean-up. The treasurer's report was given by Carol Klinknett: As of December 10 1 1992 1 CDBG operating funds totaled $1245.38. After paying Kinko's bill of $171.49, $1073.89 remained. Of this, $226 will go to pay for the recent newsletter, leaving $847.89. As of December 10, 1992, remaining coordinator's funds were $1737.50. Of this 1 $210 will be paid to coordinator for January, leaving $1317.50. Unspent clean-up funds total $700. Unspent sidewalk funds total $10,800. (This project for sidewalks on Tenn. st. has already been bid out by the city.) Still available for play equipment is $3,000. The grand total in PNA's checking account is $274. The amount in The Pinckney Defense Fund was $40 today, with $63.13 being added tonight from additonal contributions 1 for an estimated total of $103.13. It was agreed that any dues sent to PNA must be deposited in the checking account, not in the Defense Fund. Guidelines for dues for CDBG-funded neighborhoods are $1 per person maximum. Joe Hewitt questioned who the statement from Douglas County Bank/Pinckney Defense Fund will go to. He directed Tolly Smith to find out and have statements sent to Carol Klinknett, who should keep a tally on this. Carol will handle making all deposits to the Defense Fund. Carol reported on the question of 501C3 non-profit status for PNA. It would cost $300 for PNA to apply to the federal government for such status. She is concerned about PNA's responsibilities for paying FICA for our coordinator. Dave Morgan motioned that PNA set up an appointment with an accountant to get an answer to this question, with the $50 charge to be paid from PNA's CDBG account. Allen Reed seconded the motion, and it passed. Carol and Tolly and other interested members will attend this appointment. Steve Smith will set up this appointment. Tolly Smith reported on what happened at the recent Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods (LAN) meeting. She also explained that PNA had not paid last year's $30 dues and that we also now owe this year's dues ($25 plus $5 for our attendee at the meetings.) Dave Morgan stressed that this is a very worthwhile expenditure and motioned that we pay our LAN dues and that it be paid, if possible, out of our CDBG account, not the PNA checking account. Susan Pogany seconded the motion, and it passed. Tolly is to submit this cost to Margene Swarts. �As regards LAN news, Tolly reported that Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association and all neighborhoods can get a chance to look over their neighborhood plans with City Planner Dean Palos and Neighborhood Activist Barbara Waggoner the morning of saturday, Feb. 13 at the city Library. It was advised that these plans be brought up to date and be made part of Horizon 2020. Tolly said that Barbara Waggoner will have a coffee Sunday, Feb. 7, from 4-6 p.m. for City Commission Candidate Jolene Anderson. This could give PNA a chance to air our concerns. There will be a forum Feb. 25 at the City Library from 7-8:30 for all Commission candidates set up by LAN to discuss campaign issues. Tolly reported on the concerns which had been noted by neighborhood residents who had responded to PNA's recent newsletter. Concerns included crime, parking by discourteous neighbors, and traffic. A Mr. Wagley is concerned about zoning of an empty lot at 3rd and Michigan and about work being done to fill in this land. Tolly will follow up on these concerns by contacting these neighbors and reporting back to the membership. Susan Pogany was asked to respond to the comment of resident Clark Coan that Clinton Park should be renamed Langston Hughes Park. Tolly reported on preliminary plans for a neighborhood bazaar/garage sale. May 1 was selected for the date. Steve Smith asked Tolly to get a copy of PNA newsletter mailing list to see which residents have P.O. boxes. These people are not receiving the newsletter. Dave Morgan will review it and add street addresses. Tolly will put other neighborhoods on mailing list for our newsletter and will ask them to put PNA on their mailing lists. It was decided that Tolly will be PNA's LAN representative with alternates being Dave Morgan, carol Jones, and Madeline Finch. Joe and Sue Hewitt agreed to look into getting a speaker from Lawrence Memorial Hospital who will address the topic of LMH's real estate expansion goals and also explain what the hospital burns in its new incinerator. They will try to get this speaker for the March 31 meeting. PNA has received a letter from Horizon 2020 asking "What conerns do you have for your Neighborhood?." Dave Morgan suggested that our concerns are the expansion of downtown, traffic corridors, and parks. Richard Peyton, 255 Michigan and City Commission cadidate, said he is on the Horizon 2020 Transportation Taskforce Committee, which meets every other Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the KPL building. Next meeting is Feb 16. Tolly Smith is on the Horizon 2020 Neighborhood Committee. �Tolly is exploring other fund-raising ideas. Joe Hewitt asked her to get details on whether or not Pinckney could be part of Old West Lawrence Home Tour. Joe reported that he and steve Smith recently explained PNA's CDBG project funding requests before the CDBG Advisory Board. Steve sent a follow-up letter answering additional questions posed by board members. Dave Morgan, who has been sitting in on the CDBG meetings for PNA, said priority is given to projects which benefit low-income persons, and that PNA's CDBG requests should address this point in detail. Dave agreed to turn in his 11 suggestions 11 for how PNA could design future funding submissions more wisely. Joe said the city is asking for input for its Capital Improvement Plan for Lawrence. PNA could submit project proposals, e.g., land acquisition for parks, or public water lines and sewers. Tolly said the new sewer along the railraod tracks should help solve some of Pinckney's drainage problems. Joe said interested persons could attend the Developers' Information Forum Feb.l7 from 3-6 p.m. in the City Commission Room. Steve Smith said the Advisory Council for PNA has only 4 members and needs one more. Allen Reed volunteered to serve. The question of who will serve as PNA' s CDBG Advisory Board representative was discussed. Dave Morgan has been attending for PNA until a represe t iv · ormally designated. Two persons, Brett McFadden an rvilla Vickers who had phoned to express an interst in serving in ls capaclty and who had been invited to attend this evening's meeting, did not attend. Steve Smith will phone them to see if they are still interested. If they are not, Susan Pogany, secretary, will be asked to draft a letter to Margene Swarts, recommending that Dave Morgan be designated our representative. Power line battle report: steve Smith said we needed to decide whether we wanted to ask our legislators to assist us by introducing legislation or a moratorium. After discussion, members decided it was best not to complicate the action being taken by the City Commission. Merle Jackson said it would be helpful if a form letter of sorts could be drafted that people could submit to City Commisssioners to encourage them to draft and pass an ordinance concerning power lines. Susan Pogany will do this. city Commissioners' addresses will be included in the next PNA newsletter with suggestions of what powerline-related subjects might be addressed in letters. The coordinator will send information about the Pinckney Defense Fund to other neighborhood �association newsletter in hopes of attracting contributions. Merle Jackson explained that he is chairman of the CDBG Grant Review Board, which allocates up to $17,000 per home for rehabilitation projects designed to bring homes up to code. Homes must be owner-occupied, and there are income restrictions. He was asked to furnish information and guidelines on this program for inclusion in the next PNA newsletter. He also said there are grants available for up to $7,000 for rehabilitation of rental properties to be rented by Section 8 tenants. These grants are used to match the owner's money. Richard Peyton, City Commission candidate, discussed his positions on campaign and neighborhood issues. The meeting adjourned at 9:05 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Susan Pogany, Secretary �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Minutes of the meeting of March 31, 1993 Speaker for this evening's meeting was Robert Owens, director of. Lawrence Memorial Hospital, who addressed expansion plans for LMH over the next 10-12 years. Mr. Owens said that "campus expansion" between now and 1995 will include a new medical office building as part of the LMH complex, as well as a Western Expansion of _.the complex. In 1995-96, there will be major renovation of the existing structure. Construction will be completed by the end of this summer on a new parking lot on 4th st. between Missouri and Arkansas streets. This will include 100 physician parking spaces and patient parking. There are presently 123 doctors on the medical staff, and Mr. Owens expects there to be an additional 5 physicians per year. Paving could begin as early as 1995 on a new parking lot encompassing the block between Maine and Alabama Streets and 2nd and 3rd Streets. LMH owns the ball park north of the hospital. Mr. Owens feels that drainage problems make this land unsuitable for construction. PNA member Sue Hewitt voiced concern that the new parking lot on 4th Street was not designed with sufficient green space and foliage. Mr. owens said too much foliage might make it too easy for criminals to conceal themselves at night. Sue Hewitt also was concerned about bright lights being on in the parking lot all night and shining into neighbors' windows. Mr. owens said the problem of too many cars parked in front of neighbors' homes is in the hands of the City Commission. He believes the agencies close to the hospital, such as the health center and the Visiting Nurses' Assn., are responsible for this street parking. A city-county workshop will deal with this problem. Mr. owens said the hospital would be interested in purchasing land on the west side of Arkansas Street. Some of the land is presently vacant, but most of the l<i\nd has homes on~ittt He said the hospital would b\ly the homes as they come up for.sale and maintain them as renta~~~~e said.he sees this are~ as having,value mainly as green space. -. ·1'1.'te hosp1 tal board has d1scussed th1s, and purchasing of the land ·could begin at any time--or later. (The above notes are respectfully submitted by Secretary Susan Pogany. Pogany had to leave before the end of the meeting. Remainder of the minutes were taken by Coordinator Tolly Smith. These notes appear on the following page[s]:) .• �We discussed the hospital's ilrpact on the neighborhood and felt we needed to study the linpact of traffic and parking on neighborhood. Joe Hewitt agreed to call the city to get PNA invited and infomed of next workshops on hospital issue. Landscaping even would help conceal parking lot. linpact, etc. We took several business votes on various issues : ;..*: .• Authorized paym:mt to Steve mith and Susy Pogany of their expenses on nower line issue from Pinckney Defense fund (Susy ($81. 65) and Steve Smith $148. 20) That payrrent leaves a balance of n6. 48. We discussed need to raise trore m:mey' made tentative plans for a garage sale. Agreed to pay taxes for coordinator Treasurer will deduct 6. Z% from paycheck tronthly (social security payrrent) and 1.45/o for rredicare. A total of 7. 65% deducted rronthly; PNA matches that am::n.mt. All voted unanim:msly to pay these taxes L'< : ·_ in April 1993 Voted unanimously to incorporate PNA. Voted to have a 50/50 share of garage sale 50% to PNA, 50% to Pinckney Defense Fund, but all agreed that power line issue could use PNA funds and have access to those as well. Treasurer, Carol Klinknett gave her report: Balance in PNA Accmmt ,[299. 21 There was a trotirm and agreerrent to get a new SSN 1f from the IRS. Meeting adjourned, -.• ..... �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Minutes of the meeting August 16, 1993 Joe Hewitt, President, opened the meeting. Steve Smith gave an update on the power line battle. He said neighbors were needed to deliver flyers about the public hearing August 24. He discussed what may happen at the public hearing. He provided an update on recent meetings between PNA representatives and KPL officials. Merle Jackson told the group that his county property valuation was recently lowered by 12 per cent when he told appraisers his home was by the proposed power line. Joe Hewitt discussed the new parking lot to be built by Lawrence Memorial Hospital at the northeast comer of 4th and Arkansas. LMH has decided not to construct a parking garage opposite the parking lot. PNA would prefer that the garage be built. This would help with area parking problems. The proposed lot containing 50 spaces will be too small to make a dent in the parking problem in the neighborhood around LMH. Members discussed various approaches to solving the LMH parking problem. At the City Commission meeting August 17, parking at LMH will be discussed. Joe Hewitt will represent PNA at the meeting. PNA members decided that PNA should: 1) encourage better screening and green space for the lot at 4th and Ark. 2) encourage use of poorly utilized spaces at the northwest comer of LMH campus. 3) encourage eliminating parking on streets on perimeter of LMH campus. 4) oppose development on Arkansas St. west of Hospital grounds. Because of its concern about hospital encroachment into the neighborhood, PNA believes the hospital should develop on nearby land to the east. 5) express concern about traffic flow onto Arkansas St. 6) express concern that flagstones removed for new lot were carried off by private persons unknown. Will LMH replace these sidewalks? �7) encourage city to build a lot to handle parking for ancillary services. 8) oppose LMH' s effort to get Use Permitted Upon Review in connection with their 5-year expansion plan. The meeting was adjourned. �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Minutes of the Meeting November 11, 1993 President Joe Hewitt called the meeting to order. Coordinator Tolly Smith introduced guests addressing the subject of Northwest Relief Sanitary Sewer Project which runs by Pinckney along the Santa Fe Railroad. Guests were Debbie Vansaun, assistant director of utilities; Phil Spitzer, Black and Veatch, principle engineer for the project; and Chad Lovett, of local firm EBH, which co-engineered the project with Black and Veatch. They were invited to the meeting because some neighbors have been concerned about digging in front of their homes. Ms. VanSaun said the project is designed to provide relief to the sanitary sewer system during significant rain storm events, to prevent overflow in other areas. She said Pinckney neighbors won't have their service disconnected during construction. She described the project as beginning at 6th and Kentucky Streets and going in a northwesterly direction to Peterson and Kasold. Residents commented on the bad smell at 5th and Tennessee Streets. This resulted from the renovation of the Lift Station nearby, which was the first phase of the present project. Evidently, the City has not installed the smell-control equipment necessary to control the stink, Ms. Vansaun said. Neighbors complained about the smell and asked VanSaun to relay their concerns to the city. Mr. Spitzer said the new 30" pipeline should relieve some of the excess water problems in Pinckney by diverting storm water in distant areas that would eventually have come into Pinckney. The project, which began October 15, should take about 9 months. Ms. Vansaun said she would notify PNA if rock from the old wall at the end of 4th and Ohio Streets can be saved to reface the new retaining wall. Community Development Block Grants were discussed: 1) Clinton Park playground equipment. �2) Sidewalks on the south side of 5th St. between Michigan and Wisconsin Streets. 3) Funds to replace missing or deteriorated segments of existing sidewalks. 4) Lighting for Constant Park. This project will be proposed jointly by PNA and the Parks Dept. The area in Pinckney which is east of Indiana is now considered "too rich" to be in the CDBG benefit district. The Treasurer's Report was given by Carol Klinknett. PNA has $228.60 in the Credit Union and $103.49 in the Pinckney Defense Fund (power line battle) . The Defense Fund will be kept open in case funds are needed to fight future aspects of KPL tariff. The meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted by Susan Pogany, PNA Secretary �MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OCTOBER 6, 1994 Meeting was called to order by President Steve Smith at 7:00 pm. The meeting began with an attendance sheet passed around and a discussion of future meetings. It was decided that future meetings held after the December would be scheduled for Tuesday nights at 7:30pm. A reminder to everyone in attendance that a CDBG advisory board position was available to anyone in Pinckney who wished to be nominated. At that point, Linda Anderson expressed her interest in filling the position. Her name is now being forwarded to the city for approval. An announcement was made to all interested persons that a CDBG meeting would be held on October 13 at Lawrence City Hall. The meeting starts at 7:OOpm and would address issues regarding the application process of CDBG funding. Steve Smith reminded everyone that the current President and Treasures terms would expire soon and that nominations for replacements had not been found at the time. Additionally, the Vice President and Secretary positions were currently vacant and needed to be filled as well. CDBG funding was discussed and ideas for the use of the funding were suggested. The ideas included were better lighting, street and curb repair, possible picnic, and continuation of administration of PNA. Other sources of suggestion were also discussed. It was then decided by Steve Smith that the current coordinator should mail out informational cards requesting input from the individuals who participated in the canvassing survey. The next order of business was a proposal by the current Treasurer, Carol Klinknett, that the next PNA newsletter incorporate several changes. These changes were to be more specific infonnation given about the neighborhood crime watch, a message to the neighborhood about the benefits of lighting in deterring crime, and final approval of the draft copy of the newsletter be given by several members before it is printed. Specific ideas on which projects should be applied for to receive CDBG funds were discussed. A motion on the floor by Merle Jackson was brought up to approve the applications of funding for three ideas. These ideas were cost administration (newsletter, copy and material fees, coordinator salary, etc.), lighting for streets and parks, and general infrastructure repair. Which areas of the infrastructure to repair would be decided by the information provided by the canvassing project and request by Pinckney residents. The motion was seconded by David Morgan and approved at 8:05 October 6, 1994. During the meeting it was also decided that David Morgan would head up the neighborhood crime watch program. Minutes submitted by John L. Peppperdine, PNA Coordinator �June 29, 1995 Pinckney Neighborhood Assoc. meeting of Executive Board and Advisory Council Attending: Carol Klinknett, Treasurer George Osborne, Vice-President Merle Jackson, Advisory Board Gayle Chausee Tolly Smith Wildcat, Advisory Council Those attending decided: Tolly would be the coordinator A newsletter would be composed by Tolly (or she could ask Brett McCabe) The newsletter would contain: 1. CDBG availability of funds to inform membership 2. Possible clean up by City (Tolly will call City) 3. Pinckney Neighborhood gararge sale August 12, 1995 (Tolly wi 11 uJ y.,te a.Y'i-rc..Je ) 4. General Meeting- think of possibilities and pick a datedecide on something and put in newsletter. 5. Board and Advisory Board names and phone numbers 6. LAN report - Tolly No required membership fees 1995 ? Ye $ev"l ::t-, Article on need for President ? 8. 7. 9. 10. a~ \"e e d tJ n b'l -+'-' t> s. €.. Possible Crime Watch Article ~ CDBG 95-96 Grant amounts and items /{. ltt>cla.._i-e 1'2.. o-\-he r DV\.. yowe.'\ \ OU..."\'ieo!>~eeol Ill)'€.. ~l"~~c..Je.s. - lo \\ y A meeting will be called July lOth, Monday, 7:00pm, 500 Indiana, to review newsletter. Tolly will call Brett and ask about writing newsletter. Carol will call Linda Anderson and try to find the postage stamp for newsletter and the box of PNA stuff that Steve Smith gave to Linda Anderson. Carol will go to CDBG office for 95=~6 grant amounts and CDBG funding for individuals and call Brett about P.O. Box~~ )'le \).)~ \e_\t·e o,j M. "'-' \I N "j l-1 ::S T • Submitted by Carol Klinknett and given to CDBG and officers and advisors. ��Storm water concerns 3rd & Michigan area of Pinckney- 3rd & Arkansas 3rd & Michigan. southwest corner (vacant lot) considerable filling in of natural drainage ditch has been done/allowed here. Neighbors have over the years expressed concern that this occured. and that homes might be built here. This is especially in need of consideration since the city i now purchasing land directly across the street from this to re-create the drainage ditch that once occured there. That will be the location of the large pipes, home there at 3rd & Michigan (on north east corner) will be purchase by city to re-create what once was the natural drainage channel. It seems appropriate at this time to also look across the street (3rd&Michigan, southwest corner) and re-open that part of channel. or ensure that no development occur there because it is on top of anatural drainage ditch. Building on top of natural drainage streams is what caused the homes to be in trouble in this area in the beginning. Hopefully we won't let that problem re-occur. Also Pinckney Neighborhood Association would like to once again re-iterate our concerns that the land adjacent to the stream that handles the entire storm water drainage for the entire Country Club drainage basin (at 3rd & Arkansas to the river) is being used as a landfill. Whole streets or sidewalks or parking lots of concrete are regularly being dumped here. Is a landfill allowed in this location? This extensive filling in of landfill and building trailers on flood land, and since this stream is in flood plain. seems bad planning that will only result in future flooding problems for the trailers built on it. for the Pinckney residents who will have slower drainage of their water out of their area because of this extensive landfill that restricts the stream passage to the river. It seems odd that the city would spend over a million dollars on this area to improve storm water drainage, and then not care about the size or nature of stream that this water exits to get out of neighborhood into river. Also,to allowo building on top of flood land, land adjacent to flood plain (open channel natural ddrainage stream) designated flood plain on flood plain map, seems to repeat the errors already made in this area years ago. Pinckney neighbors would appreciate if city and engineers would re-look at this area. copies to city Linda Finger. Evans Bierly Hutchson �Building on top of natural drainage streams is what caused the homes to be in trouble in this area in the beginning. Hopefully we won't let that problem re-occur. Also Pinckney Neighborhood Association would like to once again re-iterate our concerns that the land adjacent to the stream that handles the entire storm water drainage for the entire Country Club drainage basin (at 3rd & Arkansas to the river) is being used as a landfill. Whole streets or sidewalks or parking lots of concrete are regularly being dumped here. Is a landfill allowed in this location? This extensive filling in of landfill and building trailers on flood land. and since this stream is in flood plain. seems bad planning that will only result in future flooding problems for the trailers built on it. for the Pinckney residents who will have slower drainage of their water out of their area because of this extensive landfill that restricts the stream passage to the river. 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MAKE 2ND STREET WIDER? HOW IS IT GOING TO EFFECT YOU? MEETING AT THE LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WITH GOULD EVANS -- ARCHITECTS SUITE G THURSDAY JULY 25, 1996 7:00P.M. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!! PINKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD IS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE!!! ·. ,' ·~: �. ,/! l /()y / -~ !~ �Mimi.-" of the Pinckney Neighborhood Assoc, Saturday, February 14, 1998 m The meeting was called to order in Suite G of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital at 3:15p.m. 23 present (see back) After everyone had introduced themselves, Tolly Smith Wildcat gave a brief description of duties of officers, as election of officers was on the agenda. Carol Klinknett also voiced the need to follow the association's bylaws and for those serving as officers to follow through on the commitment to that office or to notifY the Board if they are unable to do so. A very interesting presentation was given by Katie Annitage on the rich history of our neighborhood and the fact that so many of the first homes and businesses in Lawrence were located here. Diversity has always been a characteristic of the area, and there are existing homes and businesses and remains of such that are noteworthy. She concluded with a suggestion for the PNA to complete a project that has been in process for about 1 1;2 yearsthat of installing signage noting the historicity of the area. We have been given a grant from the city for this. Contact has been made with a Cincinnati company for aluminum printed signs as well as a local company for installing the posts for displaying them. Her suggestion is to place one large sign including our portion of Holland Wheeler's early Lawrence map with individual sites perhaps designated in a brochure or with smaller signs posted on the right-of-way near them. Shellie Bender suggested a committee to oversee this project be fotmed. Charles Jones moved Katie Armitage be given clear authority to proceed and complete this project, drawing in any other interested members to assist her. The motion was seconded and passed. Tolly moved retention of existing contracts for the signs and posts. It was seconded and carried. Charles suggested trying to broaden the representation on the neighborhood beyond the streets of Ohio, Louisiana, Tennessee and Indiana. Given the addresses of those at this meeting, that may be difficult. He asked about the possibility of an otlice shared by a couple. Carol said it seemed the bylaws would allow that. Nominations were made as follows: President William Tienken Vice-President Andrea Knickerbocker Secretary Madeline Finch Treasurer Karen Noll Eleanor Symons moved the vote be taken as a total ticket. The officers were elected unanimously. Merle Jackson moved we un-incorporate. Motion was seconded and canied. Tolly mentioned the skate boarding area at Burcham Park. As the city seems to be pursuing locating more petmanent equipment for that activity in either Centennial or Broken Arrow Park, PNA will wait for their action before making any decision on our part. The President-elect atmounced a meeting of the Executive Boat·d on Wednesday, Aptill, 7:00p.m. in Suite G of UvfH. He invited past officers to attend. There was motion for adjournment. Motion passed. Respectfully submitted~ Lori Lange secretary, pro-tem �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board of Directors Meeting Date: Present: Aprill, 1998 William Tienken, President; Andrea Knickerbocker, V.P.; Karen Noll, Treasurer, Madeline Finch, Secretary; Tolly Smith Wildcat, Coordinator, Steve Smith, former officer The meeting was convened at 6:30p.m. at Madeline Finch's house, 520 Louisiana. An agenda was handed out; introductions were made. Andrea read a report submitted by Charles Benjamin that discussed his understanding of the current status of CDBG funds and grants. Status and priorities of current grants were discussed in general, and then Tolly addressed the board with her understanding of the status of current grants and projects. Steve Smith commented on the advisory board's role in smoothing the way for the incoming board. He suggested ways to help projects toward completion, accessing the history box for understanding PNA, and shared ideas for increasing membership. A meeting of the executive board was scheduled for April 13 to discuss the following items: 1. CDBG monies (after getting precise info from Marjene); 2. discussing the possibility of establishing board contacts for current projects; 3. newsletter plans (i.e., junk pick-up Saturday, social general meeting at Park, trash clean-up); 4. General Meeting plans. �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board of Directors Meeting Date: Present: Aprill3, 1998 William Tienken, President; Andrea Knickerbocker, V.P.; Karen Noll, Treasurer, Madeline Finch, Secretary The meeting was convened at 7:00p.m. at the home of Andrea Knickerbocker, 408 Indiana Street. The board discussed asking Tolly to submit a job description and to sign a contract. A tentative date of May 4 was set to meet with Tolly on these matters. Madeline agreed to contact Tolly. The CDBG Historical Marker Project was discussed. William suggested that it would be a good idea to meet with Katie Armitage and ask her to summarize for the board the work that she has done to date on the project, as well as to get her recommendations for how to proceed with the rest of the project. William indicated that he would contact Katie to set up a meeting. William likewise indicated that he would be willing to work with Katie as a board liaison/contact person for this project. It was agreed that, for the present time, plans for a General Meeting as well as for the newsletter would be put on hold until current matters of a job description and contract for the coordinator had been settled, and progress had been made on the Historical Markers Project. �To: Margene Swarts, Community Development Manager FROM: Madeline Finch, Pinckney Neighborhood Association Secretary RE: Minutes DATE: May 4, 1998 nw,.r2 ;,"- ~ Enclosed are minutes from two recent meetings held by the PNA Board of Directors. You can reach me by phone at 843-1350 or e-mail at madfinch@sunflower.com if you have questions. Thank you! �Pinckney Neighborhood Association-Board Meeting Minutes October 1, 1998 The meeting began at 7:15PM with William Tienken, Andrea Knickerbocker, Karen Noll, and Sara Taliaferro in attendance. Andrea brought to our attention that we need to write a Community Development Block Grant(CDGB) and submit it, but she was not sure when. She explained that Pinckney is eligible because it fits a certain demographic profile. She says that block stands for a portion of money. The neighborhood has had two reps to that board, Charles Jones and Phyllis Wolf. William has tried to reach Phyllis Wolf but has never had a reply from her. Andy told us that monies go for a variety of purposes such as benches, grilles, sidewalks, and also for families in emergency, battered women's shelters, soup kitchens-all compete for this money. Another item of new business is that we need to write up a coordinator job description and advertise for the position. Possible qualifications were discussed, and it was agreed that we would come to the next meeting prepared to write the description. Andrea discussed some of the history of the Pinckney neighborhood and explained how the by-laws have changed to aid against certain conflicts between the board and the coordinator. The meeting was adjourned at 8:00PM. Respectfully submitted, Sara Taliaferro, Secretary �Pinckney Neighborhood Association-Board Meeting Minutes November 9, 1998 The meeting was brought to order at 7:05PM with William Tienken, Andrea Knickerbocker, Karen Noll, and Sara Taliaferro in attendance. We discussed the Coordinator position advertising, Andrea wants to work on that. We decided to table it for a brainstorming session later this month. Andrea needs to call Margene Swarts at the city because she thinks we have to turn in the CDBG grant, maybe in January. Sara asked if the coordinator needs to live in the neighborhood or if they can be from anywhere in Lawrence. Andy said that one of the coordinators covers two areas and does not live in both, so she thinks it does not matter. A neighbor would be preferred. We need to update our mailing list. Andrea says there are about 1,005 addresses on the list, but there are probably a lot of places being missed, especially in the apartment complexes. We want to be more comprehensive. We can get the water bill list from the city and cross reference it with our mailing list. Andrea wonders if we should send out a mailing asking for ideas and needs in the neighborhood? Karen thought perhaps wait until we get the coordinator hired and work that out. Tolly Smith-Wildcat submitted a bill for her hours. William will take the bill to Margene. Andrea wondered whether or not there would be a problem submitting the bill. lfthere is a problem, we will pay Tolly out of petty cash just to have things settled. Andrea wondered whether we should set a monthly meeting time. It was agreed to wait because we will have extra meetings while we figure out hiring and grants. We have some items of correspondance from the city. Andrea read the following and submitted them for records. (1) The old brewery will not be torn down after all. It is a stone barnlike structure, a bit decrepit. (2) Minutes from Law Board of Zoning Appeals. Want to tear down the Medical Building. (3) There is a meeting on the needs of Centennial Park. (4) Demolition permit for residence on Elm-a garage. In our neighborhood? (5) Community Health Improvement Project is holding a public forum on alcohol during pregnancy, discussing interventions. (6) Bicycle advisory meeting-6th street. The meeting was adjourned at 8:30PM. Respectfully submitted, Sara Taliaferro, Secretary �Pinckney Neighborhood Association-Board Meeting Minutes November 16, 1998 The meeting was called to order at 7:30PM with Andrea Knickerbocker, Karen Noll, and Sara Taliaferro present. Andrea informed us that she tried to get in contact with Rosalie McMaster who was elected Treasurer in September. She has not yet reached her or heard back, but if she does reach her, she will tell Rosalie about our meeting December 151 . Andrea talked to Margene Swarts about the Community Development Block Grant and hiring a coordinator. Margene explained the subgranting process for us to employ a coordinator. We should contact in-town agencies and organizations so that they can advertise the position. Margene supplied us with a list. The ad ran Saturday and will run Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday. As for the grant, we have the form, and a representative needs to deliver the form by the first of December. We reviewed the form. Andrea explained that technically we do not have to verify the income of the beneficiaries. We discussed the grant. We feel that this next year or granting period will be a reorganization year, so our goals should be to improve the mailing list, get newsletters out and just get active again. It was agreed that Andrea will formalize our ideas and give a copy to everyone to review, and then Sara will type up the form and get it ready to submit. Sara can use word at work after hours. Andrea will get a copy of the grant on disc for Sara to use. The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 PM. Respectfully submitted, Sara Taliaferro, Secretary �Pinckney Neighborhood Association-Board Meeting Minutes December 1, 1998 The meeting was called to order a 7: 10 PM with William Tienken, Andrea Knickerbocker, Karen Noll, Rosalie McMaster, and Sara Taliaferro in attendance. We received the following correspondence: ( 1) a memorandum from Mar gene stating that all reimbursements needed to be turned in by December 9111 • (2) The Metropolitan Planning Commission Agenda from Nov. 18 111 • We received a response from someone wanting to apply for the coordinator's position. Andrea thinks we need more applicants. Sara announced that after some soulsearching, she would like to apply for the position. Andrea thought that Sara should resign as secretary if she wants to apply, and we all agreed. Andrea thought that we should shorten the ad and rerun it. Rosalie suggested that we put it in two locations in the paper because she never reads the classified ads in help wanted but looks for estate sales. It was agreed that the two locations may increase visibility since some applicants may take the job for its service aspects and not really the income. Andrea will send the one applicant a letter thanking her for her interest and send her an application to fill out. We will extend the search to Dec. 31. We will let the one applicant know that we will call her after that date to schedule interviews. Karen thought that the candidate should get an interview and all agreed. Rosalie asked if we should send out postcards to the neighborhood, and we decided against the expense. Karen suggested we put a line in the shortened ad that says 'call for full job description' so that no one is misled into thinking our full requirements are listed. Everyone agreed. Everyone will meet on January 9111 to discuss the applicants. Andrea brought up the idea of a post office box. She has had complaints from former officers because they still get mail from the city and other NA related mail. If we had a post office box, there would be continuity for the neighborhood. Everyone agreed. Andrea will ask Margene if this could be an operating expense. Karen handed over the books to Rosalie. She explained that there ae two accounts. One is a power line defense fund. The other is the neighborhood association account at Free State Credit Union. Should we create a new account? It was agreed that we would combine the two accounts and announce this move at the next meeting or newsletter. With all other business discussed, Sara formally handed in her resignation as secretary. Everyone wished her luck, and the meeting was adjourned at 8:30PM. Respectfully submitted, Sara Taliaferro, Secretary �PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES FOR: Pickney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Date: February 13, 1999 Attendees: President Vice President Treasurer Secretary Neighborhood Coordinator William Tienken (WT) Andrea Knickerbocker (AK) Rosalie McMaster (RM) Jody Brown (JB) Sara Taliaferro (ST) The following issues were discussed and conclusions reached: AK reported that Katie Armitage had contacted her to say she is working on the brochure for the walking tour to be placed at the new Pickney Neighborhood sign. • RM reported that Nancy Shontz passed away recently. She was a strong advocate for the Pickney neighborhood and her efforts and passion will be greatly missed. The fate of the old brewery was discussed briefly. The board is uncertain as to the status of the possible demolition of this structure. • ST suggested writing a letter to Tolly Wildcat (the former Pickney Neighborhood Coordinator) as a means to make amends for the trouble in the past and to assure Tolly that her passions and efforts have been appreciated and we welcome her input in the future. After discussion it was decided that the letter should be a personal letter from ST instead of an official PNA letter at this time. ST to bring a draft copy for the Board to take a look at before it is mailed. 11 The L.A.N. meeting will be Wed. 1i • JB & ST will attend to show a strong PNA envolvment. PNA still owes it' L.A.N. dues from last year and this year ($50 total). ST to contact LAN. (who?) to confirm how much we owe and how to handle back dues. ST to get check from treasury to take to this Wednesday's meeting. ST reported she had gotten the update list of neighborhood addresses. ST to compare this list and the Water Company list to maximize the number of residents that receive the newsletter. The board discussed adding info to the newsletter explaining our attempts to correct the mailing problem. Unknown residents will be referred to as "Pickney Neighbors· and they will be given the opportunity to contact ST to enter their names into our database. PNA needs to schedule a general meeting. It was suggested that this take place in the spring possibly in April. AK mentioned that PNA may be required to have quarterly general meetings to qualify for CDBG funding. We need to confirm this. ST suggested sending out a letter asking for input from neighbors to help define the PNA agenda for our spring general meeting. This could be included as part of the newsletter in the form of a "what issues are you concerned with" questionnaire The board discussed various possible agenda items for the spring general meeting: Reschedule the Tenants to Home Owner talk that fell through at the last meeting Discussion of the new addition to Pickney Elementary School WT reported that a stone house on Pennsylvania street which dates to 1862 survived Quantrill's raid will be moved to Constant Park soon. Katie Armitage might be able to give a talk about it. ST to talk to Katie Armitage to get more info �PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION The Board discussed goals for the upcoming year. These include: General reorganization of the PNA board Improved distribution of Newsletter Get more involvement from neighbors West of Michigan Street and improve the overall sense of belonging to the Pickney Neighborhood Increase neighborhood input and attendance of general meetings Organization of a Neighborhood clean-up project Organization of a Social event (picnic, pot-luck, bar-b-que, etc.) The possibility of coming up with a PNA mission statement was discussed. ST read the mission statement for LAN. as an example. This would help to inform the neighbors the value of a neighborhood association. It could include such things as PNA acts as an information resource, referring people to the appropriate city office for their particular concerns. • Next Meeting was scheduled for Sunday, March 7th, 1999 at 3:00pm. ST will call the board members to confirm and to establish where the meeting will happen. �PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES FOR: Pickney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Date: March 7, 1999 3:00pm Attendees: President Treasurer Secretary Neighborhood Coordinator William Tienken (WT) Rosalie McMaster (RM) Jody Brown (JB) Sara Taliaferro (ST) The following Issues were discussed and conclusions reached: Letter to Tolly Wildcat: ST presented the letter she had drafted to Tolly Wildcat. The letter met with general approval and ST is to send it out ASAP. WT and RM feel PNA should send an official letter to follow up thanking Tolly for her years of service. • Minutes: Minutes from the last PNA board meeting were reviewed and approved. ST mentioned that we might need to send a copy of the minutes to Margene at CBDG. JB requested that she confirm this and let him know where to send them. JB suggested that future minutes could be emailed and/or snail mailed to the board members for review, so we would not have to wait until the next board meeting to see them. Stone house relocation: ST spoke to Katie Armitage about the stone house in East Lawrence which is slated to be moved. The current plan is to relocate it to Hobbs Park not into Constant Park as WT had previously thought. They are currently trying to raise funds which could be as high as $100,000 111 • The L.A.N. meeting will be Wed. 17 • JB & ST will attend. PNA has paid the L.A.N. dues. • Futures Conference: ST and JB briefly reported on the School Board's "Futures Conference• discussion that took place at the last L.A.N. meeting. JB underscored the concept of "Neighborhood" Schools and "Comprehensive· Schools that were strongly advocated by the conference attendees. As seen in this light, Pickney Elementary School should and could be the center of the Pickney Neighborhood. Meeting such as the PNA board meetings and general meetings could take place there. As the Pickney School under goes a renovation, we should analyze the plans to see if they improve the image of the school as the center of our neighborhood. Meeting about the proposed LMH parking lot: PNA needs to schedule a general meeting with Robert Tripinski the administrator in charge of the project. ST will set this up for April18111 at 2:00pm at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. ST will announce this meeting in the newsletter. A house on Arkansas will be moved as a result of this lot. JB suggested we try to contact Beau March to see is he would be interested in the house since he has recently moved a house he purchased from Plymouth church into the Pickney Neighborhood. JB will try to get in touch with him. Pickney School Community Dance: Mary Beth Bialek has informed PNA that Pickney School will be having a community dance on May 22nd. The plan is for a dance open to the Neighborhood as well as parents and kids who attend the school. This should be a great event for Pickney. It was agreed that PNA should be involved. We could offer to do a refreshment stand, bake cookies, etc. At the very least we should take the opportunity to hand out our brochures and/or newsletter. ST will talk to Mary Beth to see what she thinks we should do. The dance will be noted in the newsletter. • Spring Cleanup: PNA needs to set a date for the spring cleanup. It's too late for March or April. RM suggested later in the spring, perhaps June. We will tentatively plan for the cleanup on June 6. ST to add a blurb to the newsletter to get people thinking about it. �PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION • Mailing list and Newsletter. ST has added over 600 names to the database for the newsletter mailing. A rough draft of the first newsletter was reviewed and met with general approval. It could be ready to mail in about a week. ST will mail a proof to the board members for our final review before it's mailed. This first newsletter should be sent out ASAP. ST plans to do 6 newsletters a year. JB suggested that future newsletters contain "useful" information such as a flyer announdng the Pickney SchooU Community Dance, a copy of the walking tour brochure, etc. JB also, suggested that we add a plug for people to ~et out and vote this April. (since the chamber of commerce/ business endorsed candidates finished 1 and tl<l in the primaries and the "neighborhood" candidates are lagging behind) PNA should not endorse any particular candidate but we could do our part to increase voter tum out in Pickney. • Walking tour brochures: Katie Armitage has said the walking tour brochures will be finished in May. • Nancy Shontz: RM relayed a suggestion made by Tolly Wildcat to make a donation in Nancy Shontz's memory to the Lawrence Preservation Sodety. The board unanimously voted to donate $100. RM is to draft a letter to go along with our donation. JB mentioned that L.A.N. was putting off the publication of their newsletter to allow time to for people to submit memories and praise for Nancy Shontz. It was agreed that PNA should submit an official statement expressing our gratitude for Nancy Shontz's years of service to Lawrence Neighborhoods. RM is to draft a few sentences and give it to JB to email to Steve Lopes (the L.A.N. newsletter editor) Mission statement: RM suggested we aim for April to include a mission statement in our newsletter. • Next meeting: Next board meeting will be after the meeting on the parking lot at Lawrence Memorial 111 Hospital- April 18 @ 3:00pm. �PNA MEETING MINUTES: MAY 8, 1999 William Tienken, Rosalie McMaster, and Sara Taliaferro were present. Neighborhood Survey Sara talked to Margene Swarts about past surveys. Margene said an intern had interviewed the various neighborhood groups, but she thought Pinckney was not organized at that time and was not really represented. She said that she would provide funds to pay for the return postage on the questionnaire and that we would not have to pay postage. She felt that it was more just in the neighborhood's interest to have the survey. Sara will send out the survey in the next newsletter. Community Dance PNA is in charge of desserts. Do we want to stick to our original idea of cookies? How many should we make? Should we buy some? Rosalie suggested that we each just make a couple dozen cookies and when they sell out, they sell out. Neighborhood Blight S<\ra reported that a couple of houses were brought to her attention as abandoned houses that were being neglected. The addresses were 214 Alabama St. and 432 Mississippi. She reported them to Julie Wyatt, the environmental inspector for the city. The owners will be served notice if the houses are in violation, and if the issues are not addressed, there will be a public hearing on the houses. Rosalie mentioned another house that is being rented but is in poor shape. It is owned by AI Hack, Jr., and it is located at 210 Michigan. Bill reported a house at 414 Michigan. It is vacant, and the owner is storing old batteries on the back porch. There is also broken glass, etc. on the ground. Neighborhood kids play there. Sara will report these and keep an eye on them. Storm Drain Maintenance Victor Carr had called Sara to report that the banks along the new storm drain between Michigan and Alabama in 200 block were not being maintained. Rosalie confirmed this and said that the neighbors had agreed to maintain the banks, which technically still belong to the individual homeowners, but that the banks were much steeper than what neighbors had been told in the original meeting. It would be dangerous for neighbors to mow these banks. Sara will call city and follow up on this; Victor Can was planning to write the city a letter. Neighborhood Cleanup What do we need to do to organize the cleanup? Sara wants to put something in the next newsletter, but wonders how to organize crews in time, etc. Rosalie suggested we just simply organize a cleanup of individual homes/properties and inform neighbors there will be an organized neighborhood cleanup that will include crews of volunteers cleaning parks and other targeted areas. All present agreed. Misc. Business Bill wondered what ordinances govern noise? Sara will check. We should push idea of block representatives. Rosalie mentioned an issue coming up concerning adding a fifth lane to 6th street. It would be a turning lane extending east further than current one ... to Tennessee? It is a Pinckney and an OWL issue. Will they take more of the land? City Commission vote has been postponed. We should schedule a Y2K speaker for the July/August general meeting. Rosalie reported on the Chamber of Commerce speaker she had heard and said that he was commonsense and not alarmist. Sara will pursue. Respectfully submitted by Sara L. Taliaferro �PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES FOR: Pickney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Date: June 20, 1999 Attendees: Secretary Neighborhood Coordinator Jody Brown (JB) Sara Taliaferro (ST) The following issues were discussed and conclusions reached: ST has received about 69 responses to the PNA questionnaire that was sent out with the last newsletter. She will tally the results and put together a report in the next week to help determine what some major neighborhood concerns are. PNA mission statement. ST has reviewed the LAN and Tenants to Home Owners mission statements and would like the board members to come up with some possibilities for a PNA mission statement. The results of the questionnaire should also be used as a guide for this. PNA Walking brochure. ST has spoken with Katie Armitage again and has volunteered to take on some of the work in order to get the brochure finished as quickly as possible. JB suggested using the Kansas Collection in the Spencer Library at KU as a resource for any research needed. JB will also look into borrowing a digital camera from work so photo can go directly into the computer. JB suggested that PNA contact all the owners of the houses listed on the walking tour to make sure they want to be on the tour. ST will work up a draft for the board to review and later send it out to the neighborhood for comment. ST to check into how often we are required to have a General meeting. General meeting was ~entatively set for 7/17/99. STwill reserve a room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Possible topics for discussion include practical preparation for Y2K, Landlord licensing, Big clean-up. Since other board members could not attend this meeting, another Board Meeting was tentatively scheduled for 6/26/99 at 11 :OOam. ST will call the board members to confirm and to establish where the meeting will happen. �PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSO.CIATION MEETING MINUTES FOR: Pickney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Date: July 17, 1999 Attendees: Vice President Treasurer Secretary Neighborhood Coordinator Andrea Knickerbocker (AK) Rosalie McMaster (RM) Jody Brown (JB) Sara Taliaferro (ST) The following issues were discussed and conclusions reached: State of PNA Board: ST reported that William is having health problems and has expressed concern in his ability to serve as President. AK is willing to serve as acting President until Board terms are up in February. If William wants to officially step down, PNA will need to get a letter for our records. The Board would like to express our appreciation for William's service to the Neighborhood and we wish him well in the future. His efforts will be greatly missed. Budget: PN~ has used all of the available funds for the fiscal year ending in July 1998. ST has drafted a letter to Margene Swarts to request a transfer of $820 from the Coordinators Salary fund to the general operating fund. This will be used to cover the upcoming newsletter mailing. ST has provided a breakdown of projected expenses for the upcoming fiscal year ending in 1999 (see attached Agenda). Our CDGB/HOME grant was about $260 less than we will need. It is costing about $90 more that expected to send out newsletters due to the addition of almost 600 new mailing addresses. Also, we had planned to send out 6 newsletters next year since we are "getting our act together". STand RM suggested we send out only 4 or 5 newsletters since we are short on money. PNA is only required to send out quarterly newsletters. Questionnaire Results: ST has received 74 responses to the questionnaire sent out with the last newsletter. A summary of these results is included in the attached Agenda. These concerns should be used as a guide for general meeting topics and as a guideline it drafting a PNA mission Statement. ST relayed some of the comments included in the questionnaire results, Such as: concern with drug sales at Clinton Park, Difficulty crossing 6th street, concern for abandoned or neglected houses. The city has been very responsive to our concern for blighted housing. They have promptly inspected and served notice to the owners of the few homes we have called to their attention. ST is considering drafting letters to the owners of neglected houses to let them know the neighborhood is worried and see if they would consider selling the property to the Tenants to Home Owners Association. �PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION Pickney Walking Tour Brochure: ST provided a draft of the walking tour brochure for the board to review. RM suggested contacting Tolly Wildcat for assistance with the historical research. ST said Tolly had expressed interest in this project in the questionnaire she had returned. AK advised approaching Tolly with caution; get her input on the history of the houses on the tour and do not discuss layout, format, or content. ST will send a draft to Tolly for comment. After discussion it was decided it would be acceptable to have a rough draft of the walking brochure available for comment at the general meeting. RM mentioned that it would be a good idea to complete the brochure in time for "Civil War Days" which is in August. This would also, get it finished under this years budget instead of next year's. RM suggested that ST contact Steve Jenson at the Watkins Museum for additional help in her Historical research. Also, JB had suggested she go to the Kansas Collection in the Spencer Library at KU. RM suggested ST "run with" the brochure and print up a small amount, solicit comments, and then print a revision. PNA Mission Statement: RM suggested that the Board all sit down to hash out ideas for our mission statement. JB suggested that the next board meeting be solely dedicated to this topic. Other Business: • • • Y2K speaker- ST will contact Jerry R. to set up a time in August to have him speak for PNA. Jerry gives a very practical, down-to-earth, talk about preparing for the year 2000. The newsletter is at the printer now to notify the neighborhood of the general meeting next weekend. RM expressed concern that people were getting the newsletters after the fact and cited the neighborhood clean-up as an example. ST assures us there were special circumstances then and the printer has stated that this newsletter will be finished and mailed in time for the general meeting. RM suggested that in the future we postpone events to a later date if we cannot guarantee prompt notification. Big Clean-up will be discussed at the general meeting. LAN has been discussing licensing Landlords. ST will attend the next LAN meeting to keep us informed on this issue. OWL has recently opposed a city plan to install asphalt accessible curb cuts in various places. Some of these locations were in Pickney. OWL drafted a letter to the city requesting that these curb cuts be concrete at concrete sidewalks and concrete with brick inlay at brick sidewalk. ST told the OWL representatives that PNA agrees with that position. 218 Maine- current plans for this house are for the city to buy the lot and HOOT to purchase the house and sell it well below market cost. RM shared a letter PNA received from the Lawrence Preservation Alliance thanking PNA for our donation in Nancy Shontz's name. RM reported that PNA's efforts regarding the storm drainage maintenance behind Arkansas St. has paid off. The city was there with a crew within days of our complaint. Future Meetings: General Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, July 24, 1999 at 2:00PM at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Next Board Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, August 21 5 \ 1999 at 1O:OOam. ST will reserve a conference room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. �PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES FOR: Pickney Neighborhood Association General Meeting Date: July 24, 1999 Attendees: Vice President Secretary Neighborhood Coordinator Mike Holtz Victor Carr Michael Noll Steve Braswell Charles Jones Andrea Knickerbocker Jody Brown Sara Taliaferro The following issues were discussed and conclusions reached: Meeting was called to order at 2:10pm Y2K Speaker: • Jerry Manweiler (Chair of the Douglas County Y2K community compliant preparedness task force) will speak to PNA Sat. Aug. 21 at 11am. Newsletter will announce this to the neighbors and include more information Questionnaire Results: Questionnaires were sent to the 1600 neighbors in Pickney. We received 74 responses (1%-5%) which is good compared to other neighborhoods. The top concerns were: 1. Traffic, 2. Neighborhood Safety, and 3. Environmental Issues. Traffic: concerns included speeding, construction around Memorial Hospital and the Bert Nash Center, Pedestrian safety. Crossing 6th street is a major concern. Since 61h is a state highway, there are only a few places to cross (Michigan, Maine, the tunnel at Pickney Elementary, and Kentucky). The main crossing point to downtown is Kentucky; there is a problem crossing here because of the number of cars turning right on red. They often do not yield to pedestrians. Also, People "hang out" in the tunnel at Pickney which makes it seem unsafe to pedestrians (especially the children it was constructed to serve). As far as speeding goes, we should have 20mph speed limits in most areas because of the large number of children. How hard would it be to get Children @play signs installed? We need to pursue more law enforcement because of the high rate of speeding and traffic violations such as running stop signs and not yielding to pedestrians. Unfortunately, city trucks are some of the more irresponsible drivers. This is a problem because of the City works building being located behind Pickney Elementary. �.. PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION • Neighborhood Safety: PNA has report 4 blighted houses to the City Environmental Officer. She has inspected these houses and written them up, and the owners have responded to her concerns. PNA will put a request in the newsletter for neighbors to report any additional houses they are concerned about. Environmental Issues: Victor reported on the storm sewer ditch between Arkansas and Michigan. The city responded quickly to the neighbors maintenance concerns. A crew was sent out the day after we contacted the city. PNA should send a letter to the city thanking them for their prompt attention. The drainage ditch seems to be working properly. Spring Cleanup: • Sarah reported on the mix-up with the recent spring clean-up. The date we had selected conflicted with Memorial Day and the weekend when most students move out. This caused some rescheduling. Next year we'll pick another weekend. In spite of the mix-up the clean-up was a success. Steve expressed his appreciation for our efforts on the clean-up and noted that PNA was noticed as a force when he went before the City Commission to express his concerns about brush pick-up. Mike Wildgen went out of his way to inake sure Pickney would have brush pick-up. We should make efforts to maintain this influence and foster it. PNA will begin planning for the next clean-up. Andy suggested October since this would allow for leaves and brush pick-up. Andy also suggested we add a list of days for the various city pick-ups and required procedures (such as bundling of twigs, etc.) in the newsletter. Pickney Walking Tour Brochure: • The Pickney Neighborhood sign is in place at Constant Park. PNA is currently working on a walking tour brochure which will go in the pocket on the sign. A draft was distributed for review and we will include draft in a future newsletter to solicit comments from the neighbors. This brochure will be paid for from funds from PNA's CDBG neighborhood grant. Other Business: • Neighborhood Commission: Charles suggested that Lawrence follow the model of some other cities and establish a "Neighborhood Commission". Currently, neighborhoods are not fully represented by the city staff. The Planning Commission is focused on development, the Historic Resource Commission is focused on preservation of historic properties, and the City Commission's focus varies with each election. Also, Neighborhood Association participation has been dwindling in all NA's (and in Pickney, to be sure). Additionally, CDBG funding has been changing recently to provide more of a focus on the housing market. In short, there is not a permanent branch of the local government which has neighborhood issues as their primary concern. Law·rence needs a unified front that is "neighborhood" oriented in lieu of "development" oriented. (Note: Charles Jones will be presenting these ideas at a future L.A.N. meeting). What is a neighborhood coordinator? Many neighborhoods receiving CDBG funding have a coordinator. CDBG funding comes ultimately from HUD funding which is distributed by the city through CDBG to neighborhood associations. 15% of this funding goes towards public service and the rest goes toward housing related issues. PNA qualifies on both accounts. CDBG funding is available for "Targeted Neighborhoods" which are typically well established and often close to downtown. PNA uses this funding to pay for our coordinator who is in charge of the newsletter, scheduling, hoop jumping, and generally keeps PNA humming along. �PICKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION • • • CDBG funding: Charles suggested that PNA consider following a model in Texas where alliances are encouraged between large corporations and neighborhood associations. In PNA, Lawrence Memorial Hospital would be a good choice for such an alliance. Also, we might consider using some of our CDBG funding to bring in people from other communities to speak about things that have worked for them. Future events: Is the Warped Tour coming back next year? We haven't heard anything yet. LMH had a charity run last week which went through Pickney; it would have been nice to know about this so neighbors could sit out on the porch and cheer them on, and contribute to the cause. Sarah will contact the city to get a "Master" calendar of events so we can publish them in the newsletters. Neighborhood efforts: Charles warned of putting too much on the shoulders of our coordinator. Efforts should be made to distribute work to willing neighbors as wells as PNA board members. Also, Sarah should refer people to the appropriate city office as often as possible instead of doing all the leg-work herself. There used to be an "advisory committee" in Lawrence for such assistance. PNA should do a better job of letting people know what's going on. Ads should be put in the paper about upcoming events. It would also be helpful to get a list of shut-ins so the neighbors could help them out during things such as the clean-up (Meats-on-wheels may have a list of those people) We should make efforts to appoint "block leaders" to coordinated our efforts through-out the neighborhood. E-mai/s: PNA should look into getting neighbors e-mail addresses as a way to encourage more participation. Erosion: Charles Jones reported that the County will be discussing erosion at one of the future County Commissioner meetings. This may impact Burcham Park. Future Meetings: • Next meeting will be Aug 21 51 at the Y2K talk. Time and location to be published in the next newsletter. Meeting adjourned 3:20pm Respectfully submitted, Jody Brown (PNA Secretary) �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES FOR: Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Date: September 26, 1999 Attendees: Vice President Treasurer Secretary Neighborhood Coordinator Andrea Knickerbocker Rosalie McMaster Jody Brown Sara Taliaferro Meeting was called to order at 4:20pm (ish) Garage Demolition: • Andy drafted a letter in support of Madeline Finch's request to demolish a garage behind her historic property in Pinckney. The Historic Resource Commission has already approved the plans, and this letter of support from PNA will help bypass the 30 day waiting period to obtain a demolition permit. H.A.N.D. Advisory Committee Representative: • Phyliss Wolfs term as the Pinckney representative to H.A.N.D. is about to expire. William has tried to call her a few times and has not gotten a response. Also, she has not been to the last 3 meetings. Sarah will try to get a hold of her again to see if she is interested in another 3 year term. If she isn't, or if she doesn't seem like an appropriate representative (we've heard rumors that she may have been encouraged to serve on the committee by a real estate agency) Sarah will call Charles Jones to see if he could recommend a person to take her place. Newsletter: • The Newsletter is still not getting to all addresses. Sarah has given an updated disk to the printer, but it may be that they are still using the old version. Sarah will follow-up to make sure they have the current info. 218 Alabama: • Tenants to Homeowners has purchased the house at 218 Alabama. PNA will be organizing a clean-up and landscaping effort on Oct. gth all day starting at 9am. Fall Clean-up: • 1 PNA will plan for a fall clean-up on Nov. 13 h. The clean-up may include organizing a small group of volunteers to do general clean-up at Clinton, Burcham, and Constant Park Tenants to Homeowners: • Marguetite Risley is stepping down from the Tenants to Homeowner's Board. Sarah has recommended John Pepperdine to the board. John had expressed an interest in volunteering. �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION Tax Return: • Corporations are required to file tax returns; however, the PNA board voted to end our status as a corporation a year and a half ago. PNA May need to file a tax return for 1 or 2 month's of the last tax year that we were incorporated. Rosalie will look into this. Brainstorming session: • The remainder of the meeting was spent discussing the goals, focus, and accomplishments of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association. See attached "idea sheet" drafted by Jody and a summary of neighbor responses to questionnaires. The board will be exploring these topics at a future planning meeting. Future Meetings: • • An end of the year "Neighbor Appreciation" meeting will be scheduled for Sunday November from 2:00pm- 3:00pm. Sarah will contact Pinckney Elementary to see if we could use the gym for this meeting which may not be possible because of the pending construction project there. The public library will be our fall back location. This will be the last public meeting of the year. We are required to have 4 general meetings to qualify for our CDBG funding although this will be our third meeting of the year Margene Swartz has indicated that this will not effect our standing with CDBG because this has been a re-organizing year. The PNA board will have a "Planning Meeting" Friday November 1zlh at Andy's house. We will discuss goals for the upcoming year (and pizza will be served!). th Meeting adjourned 6:20pm (ish) Respectfully submitted, Jody Brown (PNA Secretary) �PICKNEY~ JEIGHBORHO'""D ASSOCIATION General issues for: Pickney Neighborhood Association {PNA} Pickney is one of Lawrence's "established" neighborhoods receiving CDBG funding. As such, issues confronting Pickney involve the community at large. For example: 1 Transportation- 6 h Street runs along the edge of Pickney. This is a major arterial road feeding downtown as well as a road serving Pickney. This street should be evaluated in terms of how it serves downtown as wells as Pickney. We need to safely cross the street, yet we do not want to be separated from the rest of the community. Kentucky should be designed as an "entry" to downtown. Since downtown has a strong pedestrian character, the pedestrian nature of this crossing should be enhanced. Storm Water- Storm water runoff increases with each parking lot built on Iowa St.; this water ultimately ends up at the river which means it goes through Pickney. PNA must closes monitor development throughout the community to regulate its effect on Pickney. Rivers and Parks- The Kaw river should be one of the focus points for the city. Instead, it is neglected and polluted. (not to mention prone to flooding). We should make efforts to encourage community-wide events at Burcham Park. The river should be strengthened as a destination spot for recreation and public gathering. Additionally, the city parks in Pickney should be cared for, used, and protected. General PNA meetings and neighborhood gatherings should be held at Clinton Park, Burcham Park, or Constants Park. Clean-up efforts should be put in place to care for these public parks if city services are not adequate. Pickney Elementary- With the recent "futures conference" undertaken by Lawrence to define the role of our schools in the community, PNA should look into using the resources at Pickney Elementary to full advantage. The neighborhood dance was an excellent example of the schools potential to be a focal point for the neighborhood. We should try to use the facilities at the Elementary School for our PNA meetings. Pickney Elementary School also serves to connect us with OWL and other neighborhoods who send their children to the school. Housing- Current zoning regulations, impact fees, property taxes, etc. Make it difficult to develop property in our established neighborhoods. Set-back regulations were written for suburban sites. When these are applied to Pickney sites the buildable area is so small as to make it unusable. Impact fees are applied to developers regardless of where they chose to build. Why should Pickney require an impact fee? We have an established school, existing fire service, police service, existing utilities (storm sewer, water, gas, phone). These impact fees discourage development in our neighborhood. Current regulations encourage a continual growth away from downtown. This causes blight, neglected properties, increased crime, lowered school enrollment, neighborhood decline, etc. in Pickney. �PICKNEY···NEIGHBORHUOD ASSOCIATION Diversity- Pickney is one of the most diverse neighborhoods with people of varying age, economic standing, race, etc. The neighborhood reflects this. Property values range from beautiful historic mansions to cost efficient mobile housing. We have a wide range of rental property as well as Home owners. PNA should encourage this diversity and embrace all neighbors. Pickney is a microcosm of Lawrence as a whole. A walkable Neighborhood- As an established neighborhood, our sidewalks are a vital part of our transportation network. Our kids walk to school on them, we use them to walk the dog, visit our neighbors, and access downtown and other neighborhoods. Why are the individual property owners responsible for the care and upkeep of the sidewalk in front of our property? We are also, liable for any accidents neighbors may have while passing by our house. Shouldn't sidewalks be recognized as a vital part of our transportation network? Didn't the city just spend a heck of a lot of money installing handicap curb cuts throughout Pickney (and OWL)? Who is responsible for the maintenance of these curb cuts? Aren't curb cuts pointless if the sidewalks are not maintained as a consistent part of a pedestrian transportation network. Historic Resources- As an established neighborhood, Pickney has a wealth of historic properties which enhance the character of the community as a whole. PNA should advocate the support of and encourage restoration and renovation of these cultural resources. PNA should consider the policy of preserving and restoring brick streets carefully. Downtown Development- Pickney is one of the neighborhoods surrounding the Downtown area. As such, the fate of downtown directly affects the state of Pickney. We should be proactive to encourage the continued community wide focus on "downtown" as the heart of Lawrence. Every development on Wakarusa or Iowa threatens the continued health of downtown as the cultural and retail center of our community. Pickney (and all COBG funded neighborhoods) should become more vocal and active in guiding the development and preservation of the downtown district. Collection of Concerned Citizens -Pickney is made up of a diverse population; we are a cross section of Lawrence. Our concerned citizens should be given every opportunity to organize and express their opinions as representatives of the community as a whole. PNA should openly recognize that what effects Lawrence as a community, directly effects Pickney as a neighborhood and vice versa. �Pinckney Neighborhood Fall General Meeting November 7, 1999 The meeting was called to order at 2:15 PM with Andrea Knickerbocker (vice president and acting president), Rosalie McMaster (treasurer), John Pepperdine, Shelley Barnhill, Katie Armitage, Charles Jones, Michael Holtz, and Sara Taliaferro (coordinator) present. Sara opened by thanking everyone present for helping with the neighborhood association for the last year. She summarized our accomplishments. First, we cohosted a Community Dance at Pinckney School with OWL and LMH. Pinckney School feels it was successful and is planning a second event. Second, after working with Chad Vogt, it is set up so the city will maintain the storm ditch in 200 block, between Michigan and Arkansas Streets (cut weeds, etc.). Third, our spring neighborhood cleanup was successful; the next cleanup is November 13 111 • We could use volunteers to walk the parks and also need volunteers for a second cleanup of the 218 Alabama St. house on that day. Andrea wonders if we should approach Bert Nash about volunteers. John Pepperdine volunteers to hand out flyers if Sara gets them made. Fourth, we have supported Tenants To Homeowners with the project at 218 Alabama Street. It was a home that was fairly run down and is now getting rehabilitated. Fifth, people are reporting neighborhood blight, and we are working with Julie Wyatt to take action on these. Katie Armitage mentions that the house at 534 Ohio Street is in horrible shape and that drug dealers may be operating out of there. Sixth, we have a walking tour brochure. Sara passed around an example. Katie Armitage did the historic work for the brochure, and Sara put it together. Sara is making corrections and creating a map for the brochure, but it is nearly complete. Andrea states that we want to extend a thank you to Marguerite Risley for working so hard as our representative on the Tenants To Homeowners (HOOT) board. She mentions that she and Sara sent out thank you letters to people who helped us over the course of the year, and Marguerite was included. Andrea introduces John Pepperdine as our new HOOT representative.She says we also owe a thank you to Phyllis Wolf, our HAND representative. Sara introduces Shelley Watts Barnhill as our new representative. Sara mentions that she had a good talk with Phyllis Wolf who gave a lot of information about the neighborhood. Phyllis may be hard to get in touch with but would answer questions if Shelley needs her to. Charles Jones says he will be happy to tell her about the board as well. As for new business, Sara mentions that the traffic committee has given her a report, and we will figure out how to use that information. Andrea reminds everyone that elections will be held in February for the positions of President and Secretary. Katie Armitage informs the group that there are trees along the riverfront walk that are debarked and wondered why. Sara says that she will try to find out about it. Sara reports on a letter from Mike Wildgen informing us about a utility department project that will probably start in 2000. It is a lagoon system to prevent lime softening residuals form being dumped in the Kaw. Rosalie asked if these were sewage lagoons. Mike said they were not. He works for a contractor and has been involved with treatment plants. He says this would be a settling pond. Charles says that he thinks this is �a good thing the neighborhood should support, and he was involved in discussions on this. He asked if anyone noticed the runoff in the creek under the footbridge along the river walk. Everyone had. He said that the cloudy whitish residue in there is what we are talking about. Consensus was that the neighborhood acknowledges and supports the project. Sara shows the map that Mr. Wildgen included with his letter. Rosalie asks if we could plan some event with Friends of the Kaw-such as a canoe trip--to celebrate when the lagoon is constructed. Others agreed that they liked the idea, and we will discuss it again when lagoon construction is underway. Sara asks everyone to think about how we can continue to improve outreach to neighbors. Should we start an E-mail list? An E-mail signup was passed around. Rosalie mentions that she does not have E-mail, and she thinks E-mail would exclude some of the people we would be targeting. There was discussion on how to include more people who traditionally had not been very involved such as lower income or renters. The newsletter does seem to be getting response. Everyone agreed to think about this and bring ideas to the next meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 3:30PM. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro �PINCKNEY NElGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES FOR: Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting I Planning Meeting Date: November 12, 1999 Attendees: Vice President Secretary Neighborhood Coordinator Andrea Knickerbocker Jody Brown Sara Taliaferro Meeting was called to order at 7:00pm William Tienken: • Andy read a letter she drafted to William thanking him for his contributions to Pinckney and wishing him improved health. Upcoming Elections: • Andy will be stepping down at the end her term and William has officially stepped down due to continued health problems. Therefore, PNA will be holding elections for President and Vice President at the next general meeting. It would be an advantage to stagger the terms of the board members so that PNA can maintain consistent representation instead of having a complete turn-over every two years. Newsletter: • There is still concern about the mailing list for the Newsletter. Andy suggested adding "or Pinckney Neighbor" to the letter in case they are going to incorrect addresses. Also, we could added a blurb to the newsletter stating to give us a call if you know of someone who" not receiving the newsletter or if your name and address is shown incorrectly. Sara will check with the printer once again to make sure they are using the current mailing list. Goals for upcoming year: • PNA's primary goal for the upcoming year will be to increase neighbor participation through an "outreach" program. Sara proposed going door to door to solicit volunteers. Jody suggested utilizing the group of neighbors who have participated over the last year by setting up formal roles for them. For example PNA could have block rep's, and LAN. liaison, a Pinckney Elementary School liaison, board members on Tenants to Homeowners etc. Jody suggested building up a core group of neighborhood representatives this way. The Board meetings could be opened up to this broader group. Jody also suggested seeking out corporate sponsorship from local businesses as a way to generate funds and strengthen local business. �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES FOR: RECEIVED Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting Date: February 5, 2000 SEP 1 3 2004 L NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCES Attendees: Andrea Knickerbocker Vice President (Acting President) Neighborhood Coordinator Sara Taliaferro Secretary Jody Brown John Pepperdine Shelley Barnhill Charles Jones Katie Armitage Ken Armitage Mike Holtz Karen Noll Eleanor Symons Tenants to Homeowners Alan Bowes Lawrence Journal World Chris Koger Lawrence Journal World Richard Gwin Presenters: Tom Trenolone Amber Harden Studio 804- University of Kansas Studio 804 - University of Kansas Meeting was called to order at 1:OOpm Elections: • Sara presented the nominations for the available Board positions. The ballot included John Pepperdine for President, Jody Brown for Vice President, and Dave Unekis for Secretary. Sara made a motion to accept the ballot as drafted, Andy seconded and it was approved. John, Jody, and Dave were unanimously elected by the attendees. Andy noted that PNA will attempt to stagger the Board terms so there will always be returning members. Jody Brown was the secretary and Rosalie McMaster will continue to serve as Treasurer. Congratulations to the new board members. Appreciation of past Leaders: • Katie Armitage presented a gift of flowers and a card signe·d by all attendees to Sara and Andy to show our appreciation for their devotion and service over the last few years. Andy almost single handedly kept the PNA afloat and was the key person behind an effort to get us back on track. We thank her for her efforts and her leadership. Sara has served and continues to serves as PNA's faithful and effective coordinator and we look forward to many more years of working with her. Also, PNA wishes to extend a special thanks to William Tienken who along with Andy led the effort to rebuild the neighborhood association until failing health caused him to step down. We are grateful for his efforts and wish him well in the future. Barker Neighborhood Association Resolution: • The Barker neighborhood has drafted a resolution to be sent to the city of Lawrence regarding the regulation of sexually related businesses. The resolution (as read by Sara during the meeting) requests that the city look into regulating the location of sexually related businesses, restricting them Page 1 of2 �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION to areas remote from residences, churches, and schools. Additionally, the resolution requests the city consider ways to regulate the existing "Naughty-but-Nice" store which has opened in Barker. After much fruitless discussion on the legality of regulating free speech, it was concluded that the City of Lawrence should make these legal decisions and the Barker resolution simply requests that they begin to research the issue. Katie Armitage made a motion that PNA draft a letter supporting the "sense" of the Barker resolution; Charles Jones seconded and it was unanimously approved. Sara will draft a letter and circulate it to the Board members for review and approval. As an aside, Charles Jones commented that if any neighbors had questions regarding zoning regulations they could contact him for help. 216 Alabama: • Tom Trenolone and Amber Harden from studio 804 in the University of Kansas Architectural graduate program gave a presentation of the house they are designing at 216 Alabama. The 16 students in studio 804 will design and build a fully accessible home over the course of a school year. In the past, the studio has worked with the city of Lawrence to build these homes. This year the students will be teaming with Tenants to Homeowners. Tenants to Homeowners already owns a house and a double lot at 218 Alabama and are currently in the process of rehabilitating it to be sold at an affordable rate to a needy person or family. The double lot will be divided to make room for the new student designed house (which will be 216 Alabama). The association with Tenants to Homeowners has been very effective so far and could prove to be a model for the future. Studio 804 will qualify as a "not-for-profit" organization this year. This will allow them to seek larger corporate sponsors (for example General Electric will be donating some equipment). Studio 804 has already presented the schematic design to the Tenants to Homeowner's board and Jody Brown (PNA secretary) has been serving as the neighborhood's representative at these meetings. The house will be fully accessible to those with disabilities, it will be energy efficient, and will incorporate sustainable design ideas (such as recycled materials, natural lighting, environmental friendly materials, etc.). The design consists of a home unit and a garage connected with a breezeway. This breezeway provides shading for south facing windows, and contains passive solar panels. A pleasant outdoor space has been carefully defined in the back yard with direct access from a deck. Copies of the design are available for review at the reference desk at the Public Library. • The home design met with general approval and overall enthusiasm from all attendees. Ken Armitage noted that this is an excellent example of "in-fill" housing. Charles Jones and John Pepperdine noted the success Tenants to Homeowners have had soliciting volunteer labor at the 218 site, and offered neighborhood support (unskilled labor of course) to the students efforts at the new house. • Alan Bowes fielded questions about the financing of the project. The funds come ultimately from the department of Housing and Urban Development. Tenants to Homeowners will be required to follow federal regulations to determine qualifying buyers. The house will be sold at well below market value and will go to someone with a specific need for handicap accessibility. • The house is slated for completion by May 21 11 Future Meetings: • The PNA board will have a kick-off meeting 6:00pm, February 18111 at Jody Brown's house. Pizza will be provided. Meeting adjourned 3:00pm Respectfully submitted, Jody Brown (PNA Secretary) Page2 of2 �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORNOOD ASSOCIATION 02/01/2000 FREE STATE CREDIT UNION BALANCE: $114.30 PETTY CASH: $ 10 1999 CDBG DRAWS DATE ITEM 03/07/99 03/09/99 04/19/99 04/20/99 04/21/99 05/24/99 05/28/99 06/09/99 06/10/99 06/1l/99 07/07/99 07/22/99 07/26/99 08/03/99 08/13/99 08/15/99* 11/05/99 11/05/99 11/05/99 11/05/99 11/30/99 12/01/99 12/10/99 01/22/00 01/22/00 SARA/HRS. (JAN/FEB) LAN ASSOC. DUES (1998, 1999) NEWSLETTER SARA/SUPPLIES SARAIHRS. (MAR/APRIL) NEWSLETTER SARA/HRS. (MAY) SARA/POSTAGE SARA/SUPPLIES NEWSLETTER SARA/HRS. (JUNE) NEWSLETTER WALKING TOUR BROCHURE SARAIHRS. (JULY) NEWSLETTER POST OFFICE FEE (YEARLY) SARA/HRS. (AUGUST) SARA/HRS. (SEPTEMBER) SARA/HRS. (OCTOBER) NEWSLETTER WALKING BROCHURE "CLEAN UP" FLYER PHOTOS FROM K. ARMITAGE SARA/HRS. (NOVEMBER) SARA/HRS. (DECEMBER) TOTAL DRAWS FOR 1999: $5363.84 *date may be incorrect AMOUNT 90.00 50.00 530.82 43.37 210.00 789.84 172.30 6.60 14.35 486.86 155.00 486.86 164.47 150.00 551.80 44.00 150.00 60.00 178.00 553.12 98.21 16.04 17.10 270.00 75.00 TOTAL 90.00 140.00 670.82 714.19 924.19 1714.03 1886.33 1892.93 1907.28 2394.14 2549.14 3036.10 3200.57 3350.57 3902.37 3946.37 4096.37 4156.37 4334.37 4887.49 4985.70 5001.74 5018.84 5288.84 5363.84 �BREAKDOWN OF 1999 CDBG DRAWS BY CATEGORY COORDINATOR FEES JAN/FEB MAR/APRIL MAY JlJNE JlJLY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 90.00 210.00 172.30 155.00 150.00 150.00 60.00 178.00 270.00 75.00 TOTAL COORDINATOR FEES: $ 1510.30 NEWSLETTERS APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST NOVEMBER 530.82 789.84 486.86 486.96 551.80 553.12 TOTAL COST OF NEWSLETTERS: $3399.40 OTHER PRINTING (BROCHURES, FLYERS) 164.47 JULY NOV 98.21 DEC 16.04 TOTAL COST OTHER PRINTING: $278.72 MISCELLANEOUS COSTS (SUPPLIES, DUES, PHOTOS) LAN DUES SUPPLIES PHOTOS POSTAGE POST OFFICE FEE TOTAL COST MISCELLANEOUS: 50.00 43.37 14.35 17.10 6.60 44.00 $ 174.42 �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Februaryl\2000 I<\ John Pepperdine (President), Jody Brown (Vice President), Rosalie McMaster (Treasurer), David Unekis (Secretary), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. The group discussed ways to increase participation in neighborhood association activities. The newsletter works to reach people and make them feel connected. David asked who printed the newsletter and what did it cost? Sara said that Kansas Key Press does the printing. David wondered if we could do it cheaper elsewhere. Sara said she had priced it out, and at the time, this was the most cost-effective way to do the newsletter, plus KKP works with nonprofits and would give us an invoice. If David wants to review this, he could. Vicki is our contact at KKP. John asked if we should work harder to have area representatives for the neighborhood. He wondered what other neighborhoods do. The idea of geographic representatives versus block representatives was discussed. Should we divide the neighborhood into quadrats? No decision was made. Sara mentioned that the townhomes on N. Michigan have their own association. Perhaps a representative from the townhomes could be invited to meetings. Rosalie wondered if we should include the townhomes. The group thought yes. Rosalie also suggested we reach out to people who have been active in the past. For instance, Eleanor Simons might be willing to be the Wisconsin Street representative. Jody thought setting a predictable pattern for meetings might help people anticipate them and help remind people to participate. Having meetings the first possible Saturday after Easter, July Fourth, Halloween, and New Year's was discussed. The board decided to try that. Saturdays versus other days were discussed for meetings. It was noted that Saturdays seemed to work best for the greatest number of people. The board discussed setting up a Pinckney website. This will be discussed at the next general meeting to see if there is interest. A neighbor had asked about a website at one of our events at the Tenants To Homeowners rehab. John reminded the group to get information to Sara for inclusion in the next newsletter. Sara said the board needs to set a date for the next newsletter. We know that the Pinckney Street Dance at the school is May 20th, but we have no other dates set yet. John suggested a May 1 deadline for the newsletter to get to press. Rosalie asked if we were going to solicit neighborhood businesses for contributions for the neighborhood dance. Sara thought we should let the school handle that, since it is their event and they had relationships with some local businesses such as the hospital already. Besides, we may want to approach businesses for neighborhood projects and might want to form a plan or policy on that before we start asking for things. Rosalie asked what the school was planning for the dance. Sara asked if we could get a neighborhood parent of a Pinckney pupil to attend the planning meetings, represent the neighborhood, and report back to us. Jody said he would compile a list of possible contacts. Sara mentioned that we had some time-sensitive items to discuss. First, froject proposals for the Capitol Improvement Plan of2001-2006 must be submitted by March 6t to the City of Lawrence Planning Office. The idea of developing Green's Lake into a park was discussed. But right now it is private property. Second, The City of Lawrence is holding a Neighborhood Grant Program, and those proposals are due May 1. The group discussed possible funding sources for projects in the neighborhood. Would Friends of the Kaw be a funding liason? Could we work more closely with Pinckney School, have meetings there? We should explore other funding sources. �John mentioned that March 18 1h was the final cleanup for the Alabama Street project with Tenants to Homeowners, and that we had committed to do it. We could meet first and then head over. Rosalie mentioned that the Free State Credit Union Account has a checking account option. She asked if we wanted that. The group discussed it, and although it would make it easier to pay out of the account, PNA writes so few checks that it would not be cost effective. Jody mentioned that Studio 804 is soliciting materials for their accessible home project. (These notes were taken by Dave Unekis and typed up by Sara Taliaferro some months later after David resigned and handed them in.) �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting March 18, 2000 John Pepperdine (President), Jody Brown (Vice President), Rosalie McMaster (Treasurer), David Unekis (Secretary), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. John opened the meeting by asking if the neighborhood association could participate in the neighborhood dance. Sara said it was open to all Pinckney and OWL residents, and they would like us to run a cookie table and solicit donations from neighbors. Sara and Rosalie will run the table. John will help hand out flyers in the neighborhood. Flyers will be out around May 1, and Sara will check with the school and see if something will be in the Journal-World. John asked for an update on the sidewalk program. Sara had talked to Mike Wildgen. The deadline is April 3. The application is not too involved, but we need to identify the sidewalks. John said he did a sidewalk survey when he worked as the neighborhood coordinator one summer when he was a student. It probably is gone or needs to be updated. Sara had it; it was in the old files. Jody felt that since there was not a lot of money in the fund considering what it costs to replace a sidewalk. We ought to highlight highest needs and give precedence to routes for Pinckney school children. Some possible streets were named. Sara will survey and measure. The Neighborhood Grant through the city was discussed. Sara told the board that the most a group could get was $2,500.00. She mentioned that some neighbors had requested a Langston Hughes statue for Clinton Park, and John wondered if we could do a statue. Jody wondered if that was too ambitious. Perhaps a plaque with historic information? Someone suggested contacting Katie Armitage to discuss ideas such as a Langston Hughes plaque or one to commemorate the fact that Illinois Street was called "little Harlem." Jody made a motion that a sign be the focus of the grant, and John seconded. All voted for that. Someone brought up the Land at Green's Lake again. It was suggested that Sara contact Parks and Rec. and also try to find out more about ownership of all the land in that undeveloped area. Jody asked Sara to contact the Friends of the Kaw about collaborating on some event for the neighborhood. (These notes were taken by David Unekis and typed months later by Sara Taliaferro after David resigned and handed them in.) �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting April}OOO 16 John Pepperdine (President), Jody Brown (Vice President), David Unekis (Secretary), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. John reminded everyone that Tenants To Homeowners has a meeting next Tuesday at 6:30PM at the Unite Way building. He encouraged others to attend with him. Sara reported that the sidewalk proposal is in. We requested replacement of a section along the west side of the 500 block ofMississippi, the west side of the 400 block of Illinois, and the west side ofthe 300 block of Mississippi. John would check with a state authority he knows who works with a committee that gives funds away to see if we could somehow get additional funds from another source. Sara reported that Pinckney School is asking us and Old West Lawrence to contribute money to pay for a DJ for the dance. OWL is contributing $300.00, but we simply do not have that much money. John made a motion that Pinckney contribute $50.00. Jody seconded, and the board voted to do so. John asked if there was any more news on the dance. Sara said we are on for cookies again this year. David said that he and his wife Jen could make some. The group discussed collecting dues for future projects. Jody asked what other neighborhood associations do. Sara thought that since we are CDBG recipients, we may be limited in what we can ask. In the past, it was maybe $2.00. John asked what we would spend it on. Jody thought we should not collect dues until we defined how we would spend them. He wondered if we could increase newsletter quality, perhaps ask for a voluntary subscription to the newsletter itself. John asked if we would ask for $2.00 Or $5.00. The group voted to ask for $2.00. Sara reported that the historic sign project proposal was moving along. Sara mentioned that Ed Salisbury's niece called from Chicago. Ed Salisbury lives on the 1500 block of Fifth Street. He is 92, she thinks, and his father built the house in the 1920s, which was a big deal for an African-American family. Is it eligible for historic designation? How could we help him fund rehabilitation of the home? Ed is definitely on a fixed income. Could we tie this in to the "Little Harlem" designation? Is that something neighbors would support? Sara said that she is not certain that the deed is in Ed's name now, so that might matter for rehab funds. Jody suggested contacting Dennis Enslinger, the Historic Resources Commission Chair, to get ideas or suggestions. Sara said that she contacted Friends of the Kaw, and they would definitely like to work with the neighborhood on some project involving the river and Burcham Park. Jody would like to talk to someone about the trails along the river. He fells they are being neglected. Sara thought maybe Parks and Rec. John wondered if we could put something in the newsletter to generate interest in an event in the Park. This was discussed but no decision made. (These notes were taken by David Unekis and typed up by Sara Taliaferro some months later when Dave resigned and handed them in.) �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting June 3, 2000 Alan Blair (OWL President), Bill Pugh (OWL member), Margene Swarts (HOME/HAND grants manager for City of Lawrence), Cindy Nau (Neighborhood Programs Specialist for the City of Lawrence), Eleanor Symons, Katie Armitage, Andrea Knickerbocker, John Pepperdine (President), David Unekis (Secretary),Jody Brown (Vice President), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. John Pepperdine introduced Margene Swarts and Cindy Nau from the City Of Lawrence. Cindy is the neighborhood program specialist. They talked about city resources and contacts and answered questions. Sara reported that PNA is approved for a grant to construct and install two signs to commemorate the history of Pinckney. One will be in Clinton Park and mention that Clinton is part of the original plat for the City of Lawrence. The other will be near the ravine along Indiana Street, close to Fifth Street and will commemorate Hugh Cameron, the "Kansas Hermit" who lived in a tree house near the site. John suggested we have a dedication ceremony for the signs when they are complete. Sara announced that PNA put in a sidewalk proposal for sidewalk replacement, and the city is reviewing the proposals. Sara asked when the association would like to have the annual spring cleanup. John suggested before the 4th of July, perhaps June 241h. Sara said it would have to be on a Friday. The group decided June 30th was an alternative after looking at a calendar. Sara will check to see which date will work for Solid Waste. Alan Blair and Bill Pugh talked to the group about their efforts to initiate traffic calming on Sixth Street. Old West Lawrence NA would like to see two green extensions from the curbside that direct traffic away from the curbs. They would like to post signs on the areas that state "You are entering Old West Lawrence Neighborhood and Pinckney Neighborhood." It would start at Alabama Street on the OWL side, and the other would be from Ohio Street on the Pinckney side. The neighborhood names would be reversed in priority on the sign depending on which side of Sixth Street the sign appeared. OWL would also like to reduce the parking lanes, plus folks park illegally anyway when they pick up their children. I<:DOT's recommendation is a turning lane from Maine to Tennessee Streets. Bill Pugh says that this could never be because of the street' proximity to historic homes. It is part of the environs, and pushing traffic, especially truck traffic any closer to those properties would set up damaging vibrations. �Alan reported that KDOT did a study and found that the average speed is 39mph on that stretch of Sixth Street. They feel that is acceptable even though it is above the posted limit of 35 mph. The City will not reduce it to 30 mph because it is a highway. Both neighborhoods are concerned about the traffic speed, especially around Pinckney School. The city will not put up warning signs about a school zone. They cite the existence of a tunnel for walkers as a reason. Alan said that Mike Rundle thinks the city would be open to traffic calming discussions. Katie Armitage brought up the crossing at Sixth and Kentucky. She said it is so unsafe. She had a postal worker beg her to get the neighborhood to do something about this. Northbound traffic on Kentucky is especially menacing to pedestrians and will not yield to those in the crosswalk. Sara mentioned that she has had other neighbor complaints on this matter. Someone mentioned that they did not feel that traffic engineers take pedestrians into consideration. Katie said she called about the crossing and did not get a satisfactory answer. The meeting was adjourned, and all who were free to do so met along Sixth Street to walk the area and discuss ideas. (These notes were taken by Dave Unekis. Sara Taliaferro added her own notes and typed up the minutes some months later when Dave resigned and handed in his written notes). �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Septen1ber16,2000 John Pepperdine (President), Jody Brown (Vice President), Dave Unekis (Secretary), Rosalie McMaster (Treasurer), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. The Annual Spring Cleanup was discussed briefly. People are pleased with the cleanup and are calling about it and participating. Ideas were discussed for increasing participation in the parks cleanups. Sara reported that we got several calls about the Rehabilitation Grant/Loan through the City of Lawrence. She handed out five applications. Sara reported that no firm dates are in place for the replacement of the sidewalks, but all three of our projects are on the list. The City is committed to doing the replacements, but it sounds as if they will work around other scheduled maintenance projects. Sara reported that she had some complaints about trash blowing down Second Street around the area of Hope Court. Residents thought it was coming from the mini mart and had talked to the employees there, but they denied it and seemed indifferent. At John's request, Sara sent some letters in August to several businesses in the area and asked the owners to report if they noticed trash problems. She followed up with phone calls. She has had no more complaints. In August, Sara also wrote a letter to Bob Yoos about the alley trash pickup behind Louisiana Street. Neighbors had called because they met with someone (it turned out to be Bob Yoos) to ask that trash pickup be restored to the alley. Evidendy, Mr. Yoos said the new truck was too big to make the turn into the T-alley because of a telephone pole. He said the neighbors would have to pay for the pole and guy wire to be inoved, and the property owner at that corner would need to yield part of his corner so the pole could be installed there. Neighbors said they were willing to t1:y but did not want to pay the whole $600.00 plus bill to have this done. The neighbor would yield his corner but may sell his home in a few months, so they would have to move on this. The board discussed raising money for the pole and possibilities for getting more funds. The board asked Sara to call Bob Y oos to discuss the matter further. At the board's request, Sara sent a letter to the City Commission concerning our and Old West Lawrence's concerns about traffic speed and safety on Sixth Street. She and Allen Blair attended a City Commission Meeting on the 22"d of August and read brief statements about our concerns. She and Allen Blair will meet with planning staff sometime soon to discuss ideas for traffic calming. Jody mentioned that we can request a traffic study from them and see if the street is meeting its design function. There is an annual report on most dangerous intersections. John asked if this was a KDOT report. He will check. Sara reported that the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods is proposing a change in the single-family residential portion of the zoning code. The definition of family is now "no more than four unrelated persons" are allowed to co-habitatc in a residence, and LAN wants to change this to two persons. John thought we should support this concept because it would promote family-friendly neighborhoods. Jody reported having trouble buying a home that he and Meg could afford because three different times someone outbid them. The new owner then turned the property into a rental in each case. J ody thought the new ordinance might take away some of the profit incentive for landlords, and he thought that would give families a better opportunity to compete for properties. This topic will be discussed at the next general meeting. �Sara has some information from Katie Armitage for the historic signs but needs to do more research for the Historic Sign Project. It is difficult to find much on the Park. The board set October 15th as the date for the next general meeting. The Annual Fall Cleanup will be the 20th of October. The parks cleanup will be October 21. J ody said that way it would be before Halloween, a time when folks would be out walking around for trick or treating. Jody also wanted the board, or Sara on the board's behalf, to contact Parks and Recreation about putting up littering signs along the river bank and extra trash cans along the river edge of the parking lot in Burcham Park. He said that the park and the river trail needed attention. John said he would talk to Charles Jones about this. Charles had mentioned talking to the city about the park, so John will follow up. The board discussed a neighborhood 'Walking Campaign' where the board would go door to door and introduce themselves to increase neighborhood contact and perhaps increase participation. Rosalie asked if we could target an area and get volunteers to have a meeting in their home. Jody was skeptical about the amount of effort as opposed to the payoff. It would be a lot for the board to do. Sara wondered if the campaign could be spread throughout the year or over two years to make it work. All agreed that outreach was a good idea, but no consensus on what to do. All agreed to think about the issue more and discuss it at the next meeting. Sara reported to the group that an empty house on the 400 block of Illinois Street, West side (green house) is blighted and the subject of controversy. The City has cited it for environmental blight. It is owned by an Alice Walker, who died this year. Her sons are fighting over the property. One son who lives in Chicago wants to have the house and rehabilitate it. He fears that his brother will sell it to someone who will then tear it down and build a duplex. Jody thought that was undesirable in an older neighborhood. Sara asked what the board felt should be our stance. The board felt that for the time being, we should speak in favor of rehabilitation of the home but try not to take sides with any family member. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator (Dave Unekis lost his notes from this meeting, and Sara constructed this report from her own notes with the boards' approval some months later.) �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION GENERAL MEETING October 15,2000 John Pepperdine (President), Jody Brown (Vice President), Rosalie McMaster (Treasurer), Ken Armitage, Shelley Barnhill, Jerome Ratzlaff, Katie Armitage, and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. John called the meeting to order at 10: 10 AM. He asked Sara to report on the sidewalk fund proposal. We submitted a proposal for repair of sections of the following areas: (1) the north side of 4th Street between Alabama and Mississippi Streets; (2) the west side of the 400 block of Illinois Street; (3) portions of the east and west sides of the 300 block of Mississippi. We are on 'the roster' for the fiscal year that began August 1st, but no plan is set for the work at this time. Katie Armitage did the preliminary report on Hugh Cameron for the sign, and Sara just completed a search for information on Clinton Park. The project must be completed by December 31st. Sara will put something in the newsletter to ask for participants in work program to complete the wall or for neighbor's memories of the park. The Planning Commission is contacting KDOT. John said we also need a clarification of OWL's stance on the proposal and a solicitation of opinion from our association. Discussion followed with no motions. John brought up the proposed change in the definition of family in the single family residential zone description in Lawrence's zoning. The proposal is to change the definition of "no more than four unrelated persons" to "no more than two unrelated persons." The group discussed the issue and voted to support it. John said Sara will write a letter to the Planning Commission. This may be discussed at the meeting on the 25th. The Fall Neighborhood Cleanup is scheduled for October 20. The City of Lawrence's Forestry Division is sending around a chipper truck .. The parks cleanup will be October 22nct at 1:00 PM. Cleanup leaders are Charles Jones at Constant Park, Steve Braswell at Clinton Park, and John Pepperdine at Burcham Park. Sara asked the group to think about long-range plans for neighborhood to bring up at future meetings. If there are any programs or information that we should share at meetings, please let the board know. The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 AM. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting November 12,2000 Agenda Items: 1) CDGB Block Grant Proposal-suggestions for funding. It was decided to increase the amount requested for the neighborhood cleanup to cover brush removal. The City of Lawrence collected and chipped the brush, and it cost $600.00. Neighbors have consistently requested that brush removal be a part of the cleanups, and participation was very good last time. 2) Discuss plans for implementing current grant. The timing of newsletters for the remainder ofthe fiscal year and the number of newsletters the association could afford to send given the operating budget were discussed. 3) Sixth Street Issues-Sara and Alan Blair of Old West Lawrence NA met with city planning staff and talked over the green areas and signs concept. They seemed lukewarm to the idea, citing drainage problems with the triangular extensions into the existing street. They put forth a boulevard concept that would involve green medians to help pedestrians and that might have a traffic calming effect. OWL could not support that because of the environs issues. (These minutes are actually Sara's notes from the meeting. David Unekis lost the minutes, and the attendance record was a part of that.) �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting November 12,2000 John Pepperdine (President), Jody Brown (Vice President), Dave Unekis (Secretary) ... Steve Braswell, Kendall Simmons, .... Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. The group voted to support an increase in the amount requested for the neighborhood cleanup to cover brush removal. Sara reported that the City of Lawrence collected and chipped the brush at the last cleanup, and it cost $600.00. Steve Braswell spoke up in support of brush removal and said he would like to see it be part of every cleanup. The group discussed on Pinckney Neighborhood's position regarding changes to definition of family in zoning ordinances for single family residential areas. Steve Braswell and Kendall Simmons had misgivings about the proposal and wondered if we were being anti-landlord. John Pepperdine said we want to be very careful to show that we are not anti-landlord, nor are we anti-student. KU students were lobbying against this, even though the article in the paper showed student rental property (house) in Oread neighborhood that is actually not in single family residential zoning and would not be effected. It was discussed whether or not we could find out how many properties would actually be affected. Sara had a call for and a call against. The group voted to support a letter in favor of the change, although the vote was not unanimous. Sara reported that she and Alan Blair of Old West Lawrence NA met with city planning staff and talked over the green areas and signs concept. Planning and traffic staff seemed lukewarm to the idea, citing drainage problems with the triangular extensions into the existing street. They put forth a boulevard concept that would involve green medians to help pedestrians and that might have a traffic calming effect. 0 WL could not support that because of the environs issues. Bill Pugh (OWL) has since told Sara that this boulevard idea has been presented and voted down in the past, and he was disappointed that the city tried to present it again. It cannot fly because it would put traffic nearer historic homes. No vote was taken after the discussion. (This report is from Sara's notes. The original minutes were lost along with the roster. Sara indicated the people mentioned in her notes, but the roster indicated is not complete.) �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Date/Time: February 17, 2001 - !O:OOa.m. Attendees: John Pepperdine, President; Jody J. Brown, Vice President; Jerome Ratzlaff, Treasurer; Cindy Pierard, Secretary; Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator. Meeting Schedule We need to establish a regular schedule for neighborhood meetings. Jody suggested that meetings follow major holidays to help people remember them. Thus, the coming year's meetings will take place the week on the Saturday that follows Easter (spring), Independence Day (summer), Halloween (fall), and New Year's (winter). The spring meeting will be our next general meeting and will take place at 10:00 on April 21. Sara will talk to officials at Pinckney school about using their facility for the meeting. Officer Jolm Barta of the Lawrence Police Department has offered to present a program for the neighborhood. We will invite him to speak at the spring meeting and ask him to provide us with neighborhood-specific data on crime. City Commission Proposal Several people have contacted Sara and/or John about the proposal before the City Commission that would limit the number of unrelated people who may live together in one house. The majority has been in support of the proposal, although there are concerns about ensuring that unrelated people, who might not otherwise be able to afford to live in a home, are provided with fair treatment. The board is in support of the proposal and thinks that the recent action of increasing the restriction from two to three people will result in a more affordable housing situation, both for unrelated people and related people. John will write a letter of support to the commissioners. Other Upcoming Meetings John mentioned that there will be a meeting on methamphetamine labs at the Lawrence Public Library on March 13. The meeting will be held in the auditorium and should get underway at 7:00. Sara noted that March 8 is the date for the hearings concerning neighborhood funding. March 28 is the date of the meeting at which proposals for the city's capital improvement plan will be discussed. Neighborhood associations are welcome to submit any type of project that would benefit their area. Jody suggested we submit a letter in support of the proposal to retrofit Sixth Street as a boulevard. The board agreed. Neighborhood Outreach Sara asked board members to consider possibilities for increasing our outreach within the neighborhood. Suggestions included: I) devoting a section of the newsletter to discussion of projects and advocacy issues with which the association is currently involved; 2) holding upcoming meetings in prominent spots within the neighborhood such as Pinckney School or Clinton Park; 3) continually review and act upon the list of priorities listed by neighborhood residents in the 1998 survey (blight, preserving neighborhood landmarks, neighborhood safety, traffic issues, environmental issues such as recycling, developing Pinckney School as a neighborhood center). The signs commemorating Pinckney neighborhood historic sites ("Kansas Hermit" Hugh Cameron and Clinton Park) should be ready for installation later this spring. In conjunction with this event, we will look into the possibility of having Rick Averill attend, as he has portrayed Cameron as part of the Kansas Historical Society historic impersonation program. John will write a letter to Erv Hodges, thanking him for his support of this initiative Cindy noted that the KU Libraries would be hosting a Saturday morning workshop on researching the history of your historic home, which might be worth promoting in the newsletter. Sara will write a letter to the city commission concerning the problems with safely using the pedestrian crossing at 6th and Kentucky. Jody suggested that we begin thinking about activities in connection with the celebration of Langston Hughes' birthday. One possibility might be to acquire an historical plaque denoting the "Little Harlem" area of Lawrence along the 400 block of Alabama, Next Board Meeting The next board meeting will be on March 17 at Jody Brown's house. Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard (PNA Secretary) �To: Sara Taliaferro From: Katie Armitage- Feb. 20, 2001 Re CORRECTED PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING MINUTES The Pinckney Neighborhood Association met at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Room G., Sat. 10, 2001, 9 a. m. Attending: J. Pepperdine, Jody Brown, Rosealie McMasters, Jerome Ratzlaff, Shellie Barnhill, Ken and Katie Armitage. President John Pepperdine presided. Sara Taliaferro passed out agendas ELECTION OF OFFICERS: Vice President-Jody Brown, Sec. Cindy Pierard-Treas. Jerome Ratzlaff, Katie Armitage moved approval, seconded by Shellie Barnhill. Passed. TRAFFIC-Jody Brown reported on status of 6th St. & traffic calming proposals. Jody personally favored a boulevard solution rather than "turn lane stacking" into OWL as recommended by city. Signal at 6th and Kentucky-all agreed on danger and the too short "walk" light. A letter will be sent to the City Commission about this. CDBGGRANT PNA will request the same as last year as will most of the other neighborhood associations receiving funds from CDBG. PNA's request covered coordinator salary @ $10 per hour 35 hours a week, $4,200 total. Operating expenses include, $120 for walking tour brochures; truck, chipper and two forestry employees for neighborhood cleanup; $3,600.00 for newsletter, $40.80 for stamps, box rental etc. for total operating cost of$3,934.80. The total budget is $8,734.80 NEIGHBORHOOD CLEAN UP-A discussion followed re:paying $600, for 6 hours for city truck. Ken Armitage noted that only some Pinckney residents regularly use the grass pick up. An argument could be made that the city then should provide trucks for brush pick up. Ken also mentioned the bridge being out between Constant and Burcham Parks on the River Trail since last fall. This situation will be mentioned in a letter to City Hall about other park matters. NEW BUSINESS Zoning- The City is updating zoning, which has not been changed since the 1960s. A consultant, hired to look at this, may recommend 6 residential zones. Pinckney currently has 4 different zones. Lawrence Association of Neighborhood has a committee looking at this. Solutions in. older neighborhoods could include an "overlay district," or as Jody Brown favors, a separate zone for the original townsite. The Pinckney Neighborhood is encompasses "historic" and 1950s developments, ex. Countryside Lane's California style houses. Concern was expressed about rapid changes on 5th and 4th, a traditionally black neighborhood, where developers are buying up houses for the lots. Discussion of a condemned house 4th & Minn. with a big lot. New construction must include off street parking etc. which changes traditional buildings and sites. A discussion followed about defining characteristics of the neighborhood, alleys and street set back etc. Sara needs help in collecting data on this. Ken will measure set backs on Ohio Street. NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION ACT.-State Tax Credits for home improvements Sara will call on this. Meeting was adjourned 10:45 a. m. �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting March 17, 2001- 10:00a.m. Date/Time: Attendees: John Pepperdine, President; Jody J. Brown, Vice President; Jerome Ratzlaff, Treasurer; Cindy Pierard, Secretary; Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator. Outreach Discussion centered on different possibilities for outreach and learning the needs of people in the neighborhood. Crime, traffic, and blight were all concerns that were voiced by residents during the last survey done several years ago. Sara noted that Julie Wyatt (Environmental Inspector, City of Lawrence) recently contacted her about a Pinckney property that has been cited for blight. It is a good step that the city is contacting neighborhood associations when these situations occur, but how should PNRA respond? It was decided that we should consult with other neighborhood associations that have had some recent success with outreach. We will try to have a joint meeting on May 5, shortly after the PNRA general meeting. General Meeting Update The meeting is planned for Saturday, April21. Sara is still working on confirming the location (hopefully, Pinckney School). Other Meetings John distributed information from the meeting on methamphetamine labs that was held the preceding week at Lawrence Public Library. We could bring extras to the general meeting. Newsletter The plan is for the newsletter to be distributed approximately two weeks in advance of the meeting. We will also plan to distribute flyers the week prior to the meeting, perhaps particularly targeting areas where crime has been a concern since that will be a focus of the meeting. Neighborhood Clean-Up We will try to schedule this for Mary 12 or 26, after Commencement. Dedication of Plaques Neighborhood Outreach The two plaques commemorating Pinckney neighborhood historic sites ("the Kansas Hermit" and Clinton Park) should be ready for installation soon. In the last meeting, we discussed the possibility of having Ric Averill portray Cameron, and inviting students from Pinckney school. This could be done fairly easily since the location of one of the plaques, Clinton Park, is immediately behind the school. We will see if this could be arranged for later this spring. Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard (PNA Secretary) �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Spring General Meeting April21, 2001 -10:00 a.m. Pinckney School Library Attendees: John Pepperdine (president), Sara Taliaferro (coordinator), Jerome Ratzlaff (treasurer), Jody Brown (vice president), Cindy Pierard (secretary), Emily Zung, Ray Finch, Jesse Cortez, Carrie Pepperdine, Meg Brown, and Carol March. Welcome & Announcements Sara Taliaferro welcomed everyone to the meeting, introduced the PNA board members, and made a few general announcements: Friday, May 18 Neighborhood spring pickup. Place all large items at the curb and city crews will take them away! No hazardous waste. Saturday, May 26 12:30 Picnic lunch (12:30) and dedication (1 :30) of historic signs concerning Clinton Park and "Kansas Hermit" Hugh Cameron. Ric Averill will depict Cameron as part ofthe dedication ceremony. Sara noted that Louisiana Street residents have long been trying to arrange for garbage pickup to the alleyway behind their houses. The city has agreed to provide services, but will need to purchase a support pole for a guy wire in order to make it possible for trucks to easily navigate the alley. The cost for this service would be $601. Sara asked neighbors who felt they could to contribute to this project, noting that alleys are a part of historic neighborhoods, and it is worthwhile to see that they are preserved. Emily Zung announced that the MS Walk would be held on Saturday, May 28. She had fliers available if people wanted to post them on their doors to show support for the walkers. Presentation- Officer John Barta, Lawrence Police Department Officer Barta noted that neighborhood crime prevention programs were very important because the LPD is thinly staffed. There are 123 police officers in Lawrence (only 117 at present due to vacancies). Only 12 police officers patrol the entire city of Lawrence during a regular shift. Because of their staffing, LPD is "call-driven" and responds to people who contact them about problems rather than regularly covering all areas of the community. Barta offered several tips for improved home security. He recommended noting all model and serial numbers of appliances [LPD has an engraver available for check-out], which is the only real way for your property to potentially be recovered. It is a good idea to put a name or other identifier on valuables, but do not use a social security number. It is also a good idea to take photographs or videotape the possessions in your home. It is much easier for insurance officers and police to get an idea of any items that may be missing. Barta also offered tips for identifYing suspects, suspicious vehicles, and weapons. For suspects, he suggested working from the top down, noting sex, race or complexion, age, height, weight, hair color, facial hair, clothing, any unusual characteristics (odor, speech, etc.). For vehicles, he shared the CYMBAL strategy: color, year, make/model, body type, accessories such as bumper stickers, and license tag. For weapons such as guns or knives, he cited factors such as whether the perpetrator was left or right-handed, and any characteristics of the weapon (revolver v. automatic, folding v. fixed blade). IfPNA wishes to establish a Neighborhood Watch program, there much be a group of people who are willing to provide their names to LPD and to meet occasionally. LPD will work with neighborhoods to put up signs, but the neighborhood associations must pay for these. �Barta also shared some comparative crime statistics for the past year: Category Pinckney Old West Lawrence Indian Hills Calls Incident Reports Robberies Rapes Burglaries Home Alarms Noise Complaints 2549 374 I 0 12 128 40 2967 462 4 2 41 41 318 772 193 2 1 nla n!a n/a Barta invited Sara or others to contact him ifPNA wants to establish a Neighborhood Watch program. He invited everyone to review and pick up copies of any ofthe brochures he brought along. Sign Dedication May 26 is the date for the dedication of two new historic signs. One sign, which shall be placed in Clinton Park, tells the history of the park; the other, relates the story of"Kansas hermit" Hugh Cameron. A potluck picnic will be held in the park at 12:30 p.m. Ric Averil will attend the picnic and tell the story of Hugh Cameron. At 1:30, the dedication ceremony will get underway. Outreach Discussion centered on different possibilities for outreach and learning the needs of people in the neighborhood. Crime, traffic, and blight were all concerns that were voiced by residents during the last survey done several years ago. Sara noted that Julie Wyatt (Environmental Inspector, City of Lawrence) recently contacted her about a Pinckney property that has been cited for blight. It is a good step that the city is contacting neighborhood associations when these situations occur, but how should PNRA respond? It was decided that we should consult with other neighborhood associations that have had some recent success with outreach. We will try to have a joint meeting on May 5, shortly after the PNRA general meeting. General Meeting Update The meeting is planned for Saturday, April21. Sara is still working on confirming the location (hopefully, Pinckney School). Other Meetings John distributed information from the meeting on methamphetamine labs that was held the preceding week at Lawrence Public Library. We could bring extras to the general meeting. Newsletter The plan is for the newsletter to be distributed approximately two weeks in advance of the meeting. We will also plan to distribute flyers the week prior to the meeting, perhaps particularly targeting areas where crime has been a concern since that will be a focus of the meeting. Neighborhood Clean-Up We will try to schedule this for Mary 12 or 26, after Commencement. Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard (PNA Secretary) �Pinckney N~ighborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Date/Time: May 5, 2001 - !O:OOa.m. Attendees: John Pepperdine, President; Jody J. Brown, Vice President; Cindy Pierard, Secretary; Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator. Upcoming Events Saturday, May 11 Park Clean-Up. Coordinators are Cindy (Constant Park), Charles Jones (Burcham Park), and Kendall Simmons (Clinton Park). Bring plastic bags and gloves. Friday, May 18 Neighborhood Clean-Up. A perfect opportunity to have large, unsightly objects taken away by the city crews. No hazardous waste. Saturday, May 19 Neighborhood Dance at Pinckney School. PNBA will have a booth with refreshments and newsletters. John, Cindy, and Sara will make cookies, etc. Saturday, May 26 Picnic/Historic Sign Dedication. Neighborhood picnic at Clinton Park (12:30), followed by ceremony dedicating "Kansas Hermit" Hugh Cameron and Clinton Park (l :30). Ric Averill will perform as Hugh. Funds are still needed to help cover his fee. John will ask former board members. CDBG Funds Sara shared the status of our funding request to CDBG. Overall, we did well. We requested $3934 in operating expenses, with $4200 for the coordinator, and $600 for neighborhood clean-up efforts. We were allocated $2754 in operating expenses, $3830 for the coordinator, and $600 for neighborhood clean-up projects. Lousiana St. Garbage Pick-Up Funds are needed to help cover the costs of a pole to anchor a guy wire to enable the city to resume garbage pick-up in the T-shaped alley behind Louisiana Street. Sara and John will send a letter to neighborhood residents requesting contributions. Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting Date/Time: September 291 2001 - 10:00 a.m. Attendees: John Pepperdine (President)/ Allison Watkins1 Katie Armitage1 Jody Brown (Vice President) 1 Cindy Pierard (Secretary)1 Jerome Ratzlaff (Treasurer) 1 Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) 1 Merle Jackson 1 Marguerite Risley. Sidewalk Improvements Sara announced that we were successful in getting a $2500 neighborhood grant to sidewalk repairs near 51h and Indiana, the location of the historic sign commemorating former resident Hugh Cameron. Sara and Marguerite Risley shared bids for the repairs that were received from three local firms. All of the bids include the incorporation of a small platform surrounding the historic sign, which should bring the sign into the public walkway. Those present voted to have George Osborne handle the repairs. His bid for the job was $2812.50, but we believe we might be able to get costs down to match our budget, especially if volunteers help to remove the loose bricks. The vote was contingent upon getting the price very close or equal to our budget, which seems very possible. Re-Zoning Questions John shared a petition put together by the Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association concerning rezoning of several blocks from duplex to single family. We want to monitor this petition closely to see if we might implement something similar in Pinckney. Sara will make contact with folks in OWLNA to see if she can learn more about their plans for the petition. Other Projects We have adequate funds to sponsor a fall clean-up, including rental of a chipper truck for woody debris. The clean-up will have to be on a weekday when labor costs for city workers are lower. This will be a day when residents can leave on the curb large household items and limbs or other debris for pick-up. Sara will try to schedule the clean-up for the Friday prior to Halloween (October 261h). Gas Rebates Merle Jackson noted that many Pinckney residents may be eligible for rebates from the gas company in light of last winter's exorbitant heating bills. He shared the application that he submitted along with the eligibility guidelines. We will publicize this possibility, along with contact information for the gas company, in the next neighborhood newsletter. Meeting Schedule Sara asked for assistance in scheduling the next two meetings. These will need to be somewhat close together since we are running behind in our meeting schedule. She noted that we would want to meet around November in order to generate ideas for CBDG grants. The group selected November 3rd and December 1st as the dates for the next general meetings. Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard, Secretary �PNA General Meeting, Pinckney School Library Date/Time: November 3, 2001- 10 a.m. Attendees: Sara Taliaferro, John Pepperdine, Ken McRae (312 Illinois), Steve Braswell & Kendall Simmons (427 Michigan). Discussion: Sara began with a breakdown of the CDBG funding request that she put together on behalf of PNA. Along with the PNA newsletter, coordinator salary, and miscellaneous cost associated with running PNA, the grant request to CDBG would also include asking the CDBG advisory board for $10,000 for replacing a park shelter in Clinton Park that is falling apart. Motion: A motion was put forward and accepted by all attendees that the CDBG grant was acceptable and should be put forward to the city's CDBG Advisory Board. Discussion: Steve Braswell shared a concern over the city's lack of cooperation with brush clean-up. Specifically, the city currently charges a fee for the clean-up and does not allow weekend pick-ups. Steve talked to Mike Wilgen, the city's attorney, but did not get a favorable response. Sara and John said they would talk to other neighborhood associations and LAN (Lawrence Neighborhood Association) about making a collective ask for free brush pick-up. Considering the service would benefit the city's efforts to beautify neighborhoods, this request was considered realistic. A brief description of the recent Old West Lawrence re-zoning effort was discussed. While the objective of the effort was to maintain current historic homes and affordable housing, Steve Braswell and Kendall Simmons were concerned that it may alienate rental property owners. It was decided, however, that a similar effort in Pickney would not be necessary or follow the same method due to the vastly different zoning situation. Respectfully Submitted, John Pepperdine (PNA President) Sara -r �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting Date/Time: December 1, 2001 - 10:00 a.m. Attendees: John Pepperdine (President), Katie Armitage, Jody Brown (Vice President), Cindy Pierard (Secretary), Jerome Ratzlaff (Treasurer), Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator), Ann Goans. Announcements The Neighborhood Resources Department is conducting a survey of the homeless December 5 through December 9 and is looking for volunteers to assist with this effort. Please call Cindy Nau (832-31 08) if interested. LAN suppotts our idea that chipper trucks should be provided as part of the neighborhood clean-up program. Hopefully, we will be successful in taking this up with the city. The Lawrence Transit System is offering free rides on Saturdays from November 22 through December 22 as a promotion for the buses. The brick sidewalk replacement project near the historic marker for Hugh Cameron (4th and Indiana) should be getting underway in the next week or so. It is scheduled to be completed by December 13. Neighborhood Rezoning (Guest Presentation) Ann Goans from the Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association shared information on their rezoning effort. They are petitioning the city to rezone to RS2 (single family) that part of Old West Lawrence now zoned RMD (duplex). This includes all or part of the 800, 700, 600 blocks of Alabama, Missouri, and Maine streets, and the 800 and 700 blocks of Arkansas, plus two lots on the west side of the 800 block of Illinois, as well as a few parcels that face 7th, 8th, and 9th streets. They believe that the RMD zoning is detrimental to property owners, historic preservation, and the larger community. Historic houses, many of them smaller, affordable properties, have been razed to make way for duplexes because of the zoning. The zoning also does not reflect actual neighborhood use patterns: 72% of housing in Old West Lawrence is owner-occupied single-family dwellings. They have been very successful in building support for the rezoning initiative. 91% of resident owners, 43% of landlords, and a total 70% of all property owners support rezoning. This support was carefully built through door to door canvassing and considerable discussion about the petition and its meaning. The petition states that all existing duplexes shall be grandfathered in, which has been critical to ensuring the support of KU students who live in the area. In discussing the petition with landlords, proponents pointed to the recent rezoning of the College Park area in Topeka, an effort which offered evidence that renters will pay well for the opportunity to live in a neighborhood setting where parking is available, and where noise and crowding are kept to a minimum. They have also lobbied the City Commission to take on this initiative (if the Commission initiates the rezoning, then no fee is charged to the neighborhood). This passed unanimously. Ann pointed out that successful rezoning efforts have now taken place in Brook Creek and East Lawrence, and the Old West Lawrence petition seems to be making good progress. There is good precedent for these efforts, and she encouraged Pinckney residents to investigate zoning issues if it seems parts of the neighborhood are not appropriately zoned. Those present agreed that this would be something to look into. �CDBG 2002 Application At the November meeting, there was a unanimous vote to work on a restoration of the buildings in Clinton Park as our CDBG project. After consulting with Mark Heckler, Facilities Maintenance Supervisor for the City, we have decided to ask for funding to have a landscape architect do a master plan of the park, detailing where each new facility will be located and how they will relate to existing facilities in the park. We will also ask for funding to hire an architect to design a new shelter house for the part to replace the current facility. It is estimated that these two projects will require ca. $12,000. Future funding requests might also be made to support additional redevelopment efforts: constructing new shelters, refurbishing the rock wall, constructing new restroom facilities, upgrading water, sewer and electrical work, upgrading playground equipment, etc. The CDBG proposals are due Monday. We reviewed 2001 budget and anticipate no major changes. However, a motion was made to bring the salary paid to our neighborhood coordinator into parity with the amount paid to other neighborhood coordinators. The motion passed unanimously. 2002 Meeting Schedule The next board meeting will be Saturday, January 15 at John Pepperdine's house (the day after A.A Milne's birthday!). The next general meeting will be Saturday, February 16 in the Pinckney School library. Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard, Secretary �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Date/Time: January 5, 2002 - 10:00 a.m. Attendees: John Pepperdine, President; Jody J. Brown, Vice President; Cindy Pierard, Secretary; Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator. Review of Minutes Minutes from the past year's meetings were reviewed, corrected, and approved. Cindy will distribute copies of all200 1 meeting minutes early next week (via email). Sidewalk Repair Project The sidewalk repair project on the 300 block of Indiana Street (surrounding the new plaque commemorating Hugh Cameron) has been successfully completed. Board Elections The positions of vice president and secretary up for election. Sara will call for nominations in the next newsletter, which should be published within the next few weeks. A slate of candidates will be presented at the general meeting in February, along with an invitation for additional nominations. Once the slate of candidates is finalized, officers will be elected by those in attendance. We suggested a few neighborhood residents who have attended previous neighborhood meetings, and who might be interested in serving as officers. John will contact these individuals to see if they would like to run for election. Several current board members are also interested in continuing their service. Treasurer's Report Jerome will present a treasurer's report at next month's general meeting. There was some discussion of developing a spreadsheet to automate the process of tracking receipts and expenditures. Re-Zoning We will resume of discussion of neighborhood zoning after the February election. Other Announcements Sara announced that Kendall Simmons is working on a web site for the neighborhood association, and asked for suggestions about possible site content. Possibilities suggested include a copy of the walking tour brochure, and information about researching historic properties in Pinckney using resources available at KU's Spencer Research Library and the Douglas County Historical Society. Spring Projects/Events We would like to sponsor some type of neighborhood activity this spring, possibly another picnic in April or May. Last year's Memorial Day picnic and plaque dedication drew a good group (ca. 15-20) of people. The depiction of Hugh Cameron by Ric Averill was particularly popular and was featured in the Journal-World. Perhaps this year's activity could also involve a similar presentation, for example, a talk on some aspect of Lawrence history or a walking tour of the neighborhood. Discussion of ideas and venues will continue at upcoming meetings. Sara expects that we will hear from Pinckney School about a neighborhood dance (usually held in the spring) in the next few months. A park clean-up and neighborhood spring clean-up are also possible activities. Next Meeting The next general meeting will be Saturday, February I 6 at the Pinckney School Library. The next board meeting will take place the week following the general meeting (place to be determined). Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting Date/Time: February 16, 2002- 10:00 a.m. Attendees: John Pepperdine (President), Jody Brown (Vice President), Cindy Pierard (Secretary), Jerome Ratzlaff (Treasurer), Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator), Katie Armitage, Ken Armitage, Kamel Nikazm, Steve Braswell. CDBG Update Every year, each neighborhood association may apply for CDBG funding, a federal program which provides money for neighborhood improvement efforts. Funds are used to support specific project, to pay a neighborhood coordinator, to fund brush/debris clean-ups, etc. All CDBG proposals are being evaluated presently and we hope to hear more about our requests soon. One special project for which PNA is seeking support improvements to facilities in Clinton Park. Specifically, we have asked for funding ($12,000) to hire an architect to do a master plan for the park, and to design a new shelter house. Elections Officer positions cunently open are the Vice President and the Secretary. Cunent officers (Jody Brown and Cindy Pierard) have agreed to run again, but the board also welcomes anyone who has an interest in participating in the board. No additional candidates were identified. The Vice President and Secretary were re-elected by a unanimous vote. Plans for the Coming Year The board continues to work towards extending outreach efforts. Several activities during the past year-particularly the Memorial Day picnic and historic sign dedication-were well-attended. We would like to continue these types of activities. The date for this year's picnic will be announced in time for the next general meeting and will probably fall on a Saturday close to Memorial Day weekend. Another important area is to educate neighborhood residents about the programs that may benefit them, for example, emergency loans and furnace loans to support residents who need temporary financial assistance. There is no perfect way to promote these services, but the newsletter is one good vehicle that reaches 1,600 households (of3,000 total in the neighborhood). Kendall Simmons is currently designing a neighborhood web site, which should be another effective outreach tool. Katie mentioned that she is regularly replenishing the walking tour brochures at Constant Park. We might consider installing additional brochure racks at other neighborhood locations such as by the new historic signs at 4th and Indiana and Clinton Park. We could also look in to the possibility of providing brochures to new homeowners in the neighborhood. Sidewalks have been identified as a key area on which the neighborhood would like to focus. Sara will be working with the city and other board members to determine what we might be able to do to improve sidewalks that are nonexistent or in need of repair. Upcoming Events March 10 Apri16 May 10 Board Meeting at Jody Brown's house General Meeting at Pinckney School Parks Clean-Up Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard, Secretary �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Date/Time: March 21 2002- 10:00 a.m. Attendees: John Pepperdine1 President; Jody J. Brown 1 Vice President; Cindy Pierard 1 Secretary; Sara Taliaferro1 Coordinator. Capital Improvement Plan Funding Requests Requests for city capital improvement funds are due March 11. These requests concern are long-term projects that are developed according to a six-year plan (2002-2008). Projects may include land acquisitions such as land for public parks, construction of public buildings, and installation of fixed equipment such as water and sewer lines. Our funding request complements our CDBG funding request, which concerns improvements to the public shelters in Clinton Park. We have already requested CDBG funds to hire an architect to develop a master plan for the park, and to design a new park shelter. Capital improvement Plan funding will be requested to complete construction and similar work that is identified by the master plan. Brush Clean-Up There is an ongoing concern with funding neighborhood brush pick-ups. In the past, we have requested CDBG funding to cover costs associated with hiring the chipper truck and crew to assist with brush pick-up. However, we would like to determine if there is another way to make brush pick-up available as a regular city service, particularly in older neighborhoods with many trees. Sara has raised this before at LAN (Lawrence Association ofNeighborhoods) meetings and with various city officials. LAN is generally supportive, but we have not had much response from the city. Sara believes that additional research is needed before we can do any more with this issue. She has a series of questions she plans to pursue, such as: what are the statistics on pick-ups for grass clippings v. brush pick-up? What is done with the bundled brush that may be put out for regular pick-ups-is it chipped and mulched or taken to the landfill? Is there some type of fund or tax that supports clippings and brush pickups? After Sara has completed her research, she will prepare a detailed memo for the city commission explaining her findings, describing what our neighborhood would like to see (no extra costs for brush pick-ups), and requesting their support. Copies of the memo will be available at our next general meeting. Annual Picnic We will have our annual picnic during the first weekend in June (Saturday, June I) at Clinton Park. We would like to have a speaker as we did last year commemorating some aspect of Lawrence history. Cindy suggested inviting the authors of. Another possibility is to ask someone who was involved with this year's Langston Hughes symposium, perhaps focusing on the author's connection to the Pinckney neighborhood. LAN Retreat Sara announced that she will be attending a LAN retreat tomorrow. The goal of the retreat is to work on LAN's mission statement and determine how the organization can become more effective. She will report back at an upcoming meeting. Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting April 6, 2002 at lO:OOAM John Pepperdine (President), Steve Braswell (Vice President), Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) ... sign-in sheet missing. We do not remember who else was in attendance. Robert Trepinski of Lawrence Memorial Hospital showed site plans for couple a new parking lot on the west side of Arkansas Street in the 300 block. LMH purchased the NW corner lot of Arkansas and Fourth and the SW comer lot on Michigan and Fourth. They will sell the two houses to someone who will relocate them rather than tear them down. A future meeting time will be posted on signs at the lot site. Old Business Update on CDBG application and proposed funding outline from NRAC. Discussion of Capitol Improvement Plan Discussion of meetings and data concerning brush collection as part of neighborhood cleanup. Steve Braswell would like a letter of our proposal sent to the City. Sara will write it and give to John for review. New Business 1) Neighborhood Cleanup 2) Neighborhood Picnic 3) Discussion of topics for July meeting 4) Neighbor's comments or concerns 11:30 AM-Meeting Adjourned Original minutes are missing-presumed that they left with Cynthia Pierard when she moved. These are some of Sara's notes and the agenda outline. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting July 13,2002 (Sign-in sheet is missing, as are original minutes. Cynthia Pierard was secretary and moved, taking a couple sets of meeting minutes with her. What follows was constructed from Sara and John's notes-both were present at meeting.) Sara reported that Lawrence Memorial Hospital is moving two houses from the lots where the new hospital parking will be. They will be moved to north Lawrence. Neighbors were pleased that the houses were being preserved, especially the bungalow from Arkansas Street. Discussion of next step on brush collection issue. Draft of letter attached that could be sent to Commissioners. Floodplain regulations were discussed. Developers have sent out a scare letter advising people to ask the Commissioners not to vote for the floodplain regulations, saying property values will go up. The Lawrence/Douglas County League of Women Voters supports the proposed regulations. Lawrence School District has hired an outside consultant to evaluate facilities of the district and make recommendations. Neighborhoods are concerned with having a voice in this process. There are three more meetings scheduled. Sara will attend at least one of them. Proposal by KU Endowment to raze houses at 1300 Ohio Street, which Oread NA opposes-we should support a fellow neighborhood association. Write a letter to the governor, and if anyone wants more information, contact Sara. PNA is getting some outside monies for our Clinton Park Restoration Project. Should we raise some money on our own for landscaping? Another neighborhood improvement idea was a park bench over near the 'hermit sign' and a post with a box for pamphlets on Hugh Cameron's life (more detailed than on the sign). Neighbors liked this idea and would consider it for a neighborhood grant idea. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, PNA Coordinator �April 7,2002 City Commissioner City Hall P.O. Box 708 Lawrence. KS 66044 Dear: W/e are writing on behalf of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association to discuss a proposal we would like to make concerning brush pickup at our neighborhood cleanups. Pinckney neighborhood has held spring and fall neighborhood cleanups for several years. In the past, the City of Lawrence was quite involved in our cleanups. The cleanups were held on Saturdays, and city solid waste crews came around for household nonhazardous waste, and forestry crews came around and collected brush. Over time, city policies changed, and such issues as employee overtime policies led to a discontinuation of Saturday pickups. We have continued to work with the City of Lawrence's Solid Waste Division to hold our neighborhood cleanups on Fridays, and their service and support in making our cleanups successful has been phenomenal and is greatly appreciated. The brush pickup portion of our cleanup has undergone some changes. City Hall officials (namely Mr. Jim Beebe, Mr. Mike Wildgen, and Ivlr. Tom Wilkerson) worked with us on our Fall 1999 and Spring 2000 cleanups and sent around a chipper truck at no charge to us. Forestry staff were very supportive and helpful during those cleanups. In the fall of 2000, we understood from conversations with city staff that Pinckney was not the only neighborhood working with the City of Lawrence to have brush collection as a part of neighborhood cleanups. Tlus caused increased demands on personnel and equipment, pulling tl1em away from other jobs, and thus increased costs for the department. The division of forestry informed us that they would need to bill for our fall 2000 cleanup and billed us tills fall for SL'< hours for two workers, a truck, and a chipper at a cost of $567.74. We requested CDBG fund to cover this at city staff's suggestion, and the Forestry Division kindly waived the portion of that bill not covered by CDGB funds. This is the current procedure for brush collection at our neighborhood cleanups. Here follows a summary of our opinions in light of our understanding of the current procedures and policies. We live in an older neighborhood, and brush and branch clearing will be an inevitable part of neighborhood cleanups, especially after such natural catastrophes as the February ice storm. Our current alternatives, as we understand them, are to place bundled brush out with our household nonhazardous waste on our scheduled pickup day or place bundles curbside during our neighborhood cleanup, take our brush by truck to the forestry yard at 11th and Haskell on Saturday for a fee of $2.00 a load, work with the city using our own or CDBG funds to pay for a city chipper truck and crew, or get an outside contractor to donate chipper truck and crew sen-ice to our neighborhood cleanup. Our neighborhood is opposed to the first alternative because we do not want to add brush bundles to the city landfill, and we think citywide household brush output is substantial enough that tills is a significant and unwanted addition to the landfill burden. The second alternative poses practical problems, since our neighborhood has an appreciable proportion of families with low to moderate incomes, many older or disabled neighbors-and few neighbors own a truck or have access to one even though the brush collection site has very reasonable fees for loads of brush. We also have found that our neighborhood cleanups generate both compliance and sense of pride and community ownership that is much more effective in addressing the quality of the neighborhood environment than is reliance on individual compliance. This leaves the latter alternative of cllipping. It is our understanding that tl1e most efficient way to handle the brush during a neighborhood cleanup is to send a chipper around >vith a truck and chip on the spot. We find it to be the most effective way of cleaning up our neighborhood environment and feel it is the option we should continue to choose. �-2- April 22, 2005 We could continue to request funds from CDBG for brush pickup, and it is indeed true that it provides a valuable service to the neighbors, ensures that people who might be less able to comply through other means can participate in cleanup efforts of their properties, and undeniably fits with the goals of the Community Development Block Grant by addressing neighborhood blight through correction of environmental noncompliances. \'V'e have two concerns with this approach. First, we take our responsibility as a grantee very seriously, and we do not wish to ask for any monies from CDBG for services that might be otherwise covered within city responsibilities and governances. We compete with many very worthy organizations and associations. So if PNA were to request the approximately $1,400.00 a year that it currently costs to provide brush cleanup twice a year, and if other target neighborhoods request the same, this begins to drain those financial resources away from projects that we and other entities would also like to realize. Further, we feel that this is not only a target neighborhood concern, but it is in fact a citywide concern. Implementation of a city plan to handle brush will benefit all landowners and landlords, and it will provide a means of reducing landfill input and will be a means of addressing neighborhood blight. We have explored the possibility of having a private contractor donate services to our cleanups, but this is not a viable longterm solution, since .... We understand the grO\ving demands on city staff to provide services, and we also appreciate the budgetary concerns behind the evolving policies and procedures. We hope that a plan can be developed and implemented that will make free city brush pickup service a part of Lawrence neighborhood cleanups. We look forward to suggestions and strategies from city staff as to how this policy might be implemented, providing financial and staff support to the Forestry Division and a valuable service to the Lawrence community. Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods has voted to support us in our request on this matter. We think that there are many advantages and benefits to such a policy, tl1at these benefits would be city\vide, and that the policy would be compatible to both the mission of City Hall and to the policy statements of tl1e Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods. Thank you for your time in considering this request, and we are most grateful for your support and consideration. Sincerely yours, Steve Brasswell PNA Cleanup Committee Chair John Pepperdine PNA President Sara L. Taliaferro PNA Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting October 26, 2002 Ken McRae, William Zung, Emily Zung, David Unekis, Archie Hawkins, Kendall Simmons, Steve Braswell, Tauneel McKay, Katie Armitage, Jennifer Yuil, Ciynthia Pierard (Secretary), John Pepperdine (President), Jerome Ratzlaff (Treasurer), Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator), and Janet Smalter, Kent Smalter, and Michael Morley of Morley and Associates, Inc., were present. John Called the meeting to order at 10:10 AM. He that a special election for the PNA vice presidential position was being held since Jody Brown has moved to North Carolina. We have one nomination, Steve Braswell, for the position. He asked for nomination from the floor. None were offered. Steve was unanimously elected as vice president. John reminded the group that positions of president and treasurer are up for election in February of 2003. Michael Morley gave a presentation concerning a development concept for 3'd and Illinois Street lot. His group showed plans for the lot. They waht to rezone the entire block to allow them to build townhomes. The designs are energy-efficient and affordable. There were some questions and discussion about affordability, but everyone agreed on a November 16 meeting at 10:00 AM to discuss the matter further. Neighbors surrounding the affected area will be contacted specifically for this meeting. The latest neighborhood grant was discussed. Sara discussed the CDBG grant application, which is due at the beginning of December. Discussion of ongoing projects, The group agreed to change the amount requested for brush collection, since the older neighborhood has a constant supply of branches from established trees. Most people do not have access to a truck to haul the brush to the forestry yard. Sara asked the group to consider possible expansion of neighborhood projects. The next general meeting is scheduled for November 23, 2002. (No one seemed to be able to find the notes for this meeting. Presumably, Cindy had them, but she did not locate them before she moved away. Sara had the attendance roster and wrote up minutes from her own notes). �300 BLOCK OF ILLINIOS-PROPOSED REZONING PROJECT (From November 16 1h, 2002, meeting) Cindy Pierard (Secretary), Jerome Razlaff (Treasurer), Emily Zung, Harry Miller, Ken McRae, Erik Rowlett, Jennifer Yuil, and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. The group brainstormed and came up with the following lists. The lists were written on large posters on the wall and discussed. Pros *The project is for residential and not commercial use. *The City of Lawrence could/would repave and improve 3rd Street (we would want clarification on this). *Parking space within the lots is included in the design. *The developing team seems willing to blend the construction with the neighborhood-good design, decent construction would be an improvement over some of the existing environs. *We have a chance for input on this project. We may not with other proposals. *This project could pave the way for new patterns of inserting neighborhood input into future development projects. Cons *Allowing zoning change might appear to reverse our stance of preserving single family residential zoning and reclaiming areas of Pinckney as single family residential. *This zoning change could lead to further zoning change proposals, thus eroding SRl-2 areas further. *Neighborhood feels uncomfortable without a better understanding of the thought process/plan for the development and would like a concrete plan with platting, three-dimensional conceptual design sketches and/or blueprints, etc. *Once the lots are sold, there are no guarantees as to what could happen with the properties (such as owner-occupied versus rental, maintenance on properties, etcetera). Action Items *What are options to assert more longterm neighborhood control over this project? For example, could we suggest that the property return to SR-2 under certain conditions? *How much specificity can we get on the project proposal? What will the design really be? When a project like this is proposed, how carefully must the developer/builder stick to the specifications as outlined, and what actually happens if the plan is not followed exactly? *What covenants or homeowner associations exist in Lawrence, and how do they govern effectively? Can both we and the project planners investigate this? *Will there be gutters and other improvements made to Alabama Street? *We would like an update on the discussions with Bert Nash, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and Tenants to Homeowners, etc. Respectfully submitted, Cynthia Pierard (Secretary) and Sara L. Taliaferro (Coordinator) �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting November 23, 2002 Ken McRae, Kendall Simmons, Marguerite Risley, Kelly Brown, Andrew Driscoll, Mark Ridgwall, EmiLee Whitehurst, Cindy Pierard (Secretary), Steve Braswell, (Vice President), Jerome Ratzlaff (Treasurer), John Pepperdine (President), Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator), Rebecca Buford (Tenants To Homeowners), and Kent Smalter (Morley and Assoc.) were present. Sara Presented the draft of Pinckney's CDBG application. We are asking $3,683.50 for operating expenses, $4,200.00 for Coordinator salary, $7,000.00 for the Clinton Park Restoration Project, and $1,680.00 for brush collection during the spring and fall neighborhood cleanups. The Clinton Park estimate is to pay for an architect's plan for the Shelter House and the restroom facility. Both need to be torn down and rebuilt. We currently have funding for a master plan. All present voted to accept the CDBG application. A group met and put together a list of pros and cons for the 3rd and Illinois proposed project, but the group needs more time to investigate some of the concerns. The association cannot make an end-of-month deadline to vote on this before it goes before the Planning Cornrnision in December. Kent Smalter said they could ask the Planning Commission to take them off the agenda for January and hold the Planning Commision decision until February. A January 11th meeting date was set for Pinckney for an in-depth discussion and vote on whether or not the neighborhood supports the proposed rezoning. Kent Smalter said they could adjust to that but hoped there would not be more delays. Sara said the group worked pretty hard on the 161h and had good discussions about both pros and cons of the project. She thought we could come to a decision. Marguerite Risley told the group that the neighborhood actually petitioned successfully to have that area changed to single family from duplex zoning a few years ago, and she had deep reservations about undoing that work. It was done to preserve the single-family nature of the neighborhood. She pointed out the properties on the north side of Third Street, which were converted to duplexes. They are an eyesore and blight to the neighborhood. Others echoed her concerns about the rezoning. John said we need all neighbors who live in that area at the January meeting. Officers will call people to let them know, and he asked those present to get the word out. Sara asked for a site review of the naturalized area along east Indiana Street. Where should the bench and signpost be placed? She reminded the group that the grant covered a signpost for a box to hold a detailed pamphlet on Hugh Cameron's life. It also covered some native plantings to help beautify and stabilize the bank. Marguerite said that we should check with city officials about placement of the bench, since that area had flooded in the past. Sara said that we could not make a final decision without talking to Mark Hecker and others about it. The group voted to empower the board to make a bench selection and order the bench. Sara said that one possibility was a metal bench such as the ones near the bandstand in South Park. Members agreed to check them out and get back to the board by sometime in January. Sara reminded the group that the positions of Secretary and Treasurer are up for reelection in February. She said that Both John and Jerome would welcome replacements but might serve again. She also thanked Jerome for being the Tenants To Homeowners representative for the neighborhood. Jerome said that he also was serving on the Habitat For Humanity board, so he would be glad to let someone else be treasurer-really! Andrew Driscoll outlined problems that he and other neighbors have been having with Project Acceptance on Maine Street. Mark Ridgwall said that he had lived there a number of years, and the problem had deteriorated in the last two years or so. Complaints were many and �included fights outdoors, yelling, public urination, alcohol bottles thrown in neighbor's yards, people sleeping on Andrew's porch, lewd comments made to Kelly, Andrew's fiancee. Andrew had talked to the director and the landlord, but nothing has changed. He asked if this was a neighborhood association concern. The group agreed that it was, and John asked Sara to work with the neighbors and the city to try to resolve the issue. Marguerite said that she called the police on a couple who had tumbled into the ditch near her home on Indiana Street. She went out to help them, thinking they were in distress, but it turned out they were drunk. They were on their way to Acceptance House, they told her. But P.A. is supposed to be closed at that time, and the incident happened after dark. Jerome Ratzlaff said his wife was approached by a very inebriated man one day a couple months ago, and the man got in her face and told her she should check out Project Acceptance because it was a good place. He did not harm her but was too friendly and hard to get rid of. Rebecca Buford introduced herself as the new Assistant Executive Director of Tenants To Homeowners and said that TNT would like to know of properties that might be for sale for affordable housing. They enjoyed working with the neighborhood in the past and wanted to do so in the future. She could talk to anyone who is interested about tax advantages to donating properties. She also reminded the neighbors about the first-time home buyers seminars and thanked the association for publishing these dates in our newsletters. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting January 11, 2003 John Pepperdine (President), Steve Braswell (Vice President), Jerome Ratzlaff (Treasurer), Tauneel McKay, Erik Rowlett, Kendall Simmons, Kathy Stiers, Linda Albin, Paul Liechti, Ken McRae, Pat Miller, Harry Miller, Andrew Driscoll, Mark Ridgway, Carrie Pepperdine, William Zung, Betty Peterson, Kent Smalter (Morley and Assoc.), Michael Morley (M & Assoc.), Janet Smalter (M. & Assoc.), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. A Journal-World reporter and a photographer were present but did not sign in. John called the meeting to order and opened the floor for discussions. Linda A. is worried because we will double the neighborhood population for this area if we allow by building town homes. She is also worried about the tenant situation. Michael M. says they have talked about approaching Tenants To Homeowners and working with them to place qualified owner/tenants. Eric R. asked what is meant by qualified. Jerome Ratzlaff aid that there are maximum yearly income requirements and that potential homeowners go through an application process with TNT. He also noted that at $120,000.00, these properties would be at the upper end of what TNT could finance. KentS. said that in response to Linda's concern, Horizon 2020 describes buffer zones between more and less densely zoned areas, so this project might be appropriate as a buffer zone. Sara T. pointed out that although the 200 blocks of Illinois and Alabama were zoned duplex, the actual structures were single family bungalows or low-proftle duplexes that mimicked bungalows, so she was not certain how town homes would be a buffer to single family residences from the 200 block. Tauneel M. asked what would keep these town homes from being sold and used as rentals if TNT were not involved. Janet S. pointed out that design features might prevent this from happening. Tauneel asked about plans to widen Illinois Street. Janet S. said no, that they would vacate the right-of-way to 60 feet on Third and on Illinois Streets. They have replatted the area and are asking for rezoning. Betty P. Asks for an explanation of replatting and rezoning. Some discussion of spot zoning versus a rezone of the whole block followed. The gist was that the neighborhood did not want the whole block rezoned. Tauneel admitted she was on the edge as to how her vote might go. She liked the idea of affordable and energy-efficient homes. Betty P. asked if there were any other homes that SMS had built that the group could look at for examples of the building style. Michael M. said that there were not, but he gave some addresses of other projects to refer to to give a general idea. Kent S. said that they also wanted to make "green" construction, a point that might not have been stressed before. Andrew D. said that if design is a factor, then we need some more concrete information to help with our decision. Michael M. said that they were not required to do that and would not invest time and money generating designs for a project that was not yet approved. Pat M. asked how many bedrooms the units would have. Janet S. said two or three bedrooms; it varied from unit to unit. Pat M. said that the plans as drawn did not allow a place for children to play. She thought the design was more conducive to college student dwellings or military or starter home. Ken M. said there are area parks for the children to play. Kent S. said they would like to leave Alabama Street as a green space. Michael M. said they would like to clean it up too. Also, he thought that a lot of the neighborhood had been lost to the hospital, and developing these lots would recap some of the housing stock loss. Carrie P. said she was vety concerned with traffic and density issues. She thought this development would cteate a lot more traffic on Mississippi Street. Betty P. says �she sees this as a lot less of a concern than hospital traffic and other street traffic. Kent S. said that he thinks the new zoning could actually lead to improvements in the area. Michael Morley said it would generate new curbs and sidewalks. Ken M. asked of it would be a benefit district if the developer was not involved in this project. Michael M. was not certain. Carrie P. asked if the city required them to address traffic issues. Michael M. did not think so. Ken M. asked if there could be a sunset provision to the zoning so that there was some limit if this project did not go through. No one knew. Kent S. said they wanted to get financing started. Kendall S. asked if he meant start financing or start work soon. KentS. said start work, they were behind schedule now. ] ohn asked if we needed further discussion or if the group could vote. The group wanted to vote. John asked "Does Pinckney Neighborhood Association favor rezoning the six lots at the southwest corner of Third and Illinois Streets from RS2 to RMD?" Five people voted in favor of the change, and twelve people voted against the change. March 8, Saturday, at 10:00 AM at LMH was chosen as the time for the next meeting. Sara announced that elections for the President and Treasurer positions, the Annual Spring Cleanup, and the Annual Picnic were items on the agenda for the next meeting. Kendall made the suggestion that newsletters come out on a set schedule because they are very important. No motion was made. The meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting Date/Time: March 71 2003 - 10:00 a.m. Attendees: Emily Zung 1 William Zung 1 Linda Altin, John Pepperdine1 Sara Taliaferro1 Steve Braswell, Kendall Simmons1 Jerome Ratzlaff, Cindy Pierard. Agenda 1. Elections 2. Neighborhood Clean-Up 3. Picnic 4. 3rd and Illinois 5. 6. 7. 8. Project Acceptance Park Bench Installation Park Clean-Up Timeline Project 1. Elections The Treasurer and President position are open. Both John and Jerome would be willing to serve on, but they also expressed interest in getting new folks involved. Emily Zung was nominated for the Treasurer position. Steve Braswell nominated John to run again as President. Both Emily and John were elected unanimously. 2. Neighborhood Clean-Up The spring neighborhood clean-up will be held Friday, April25. Household non-hazardous waste and bruch will be collected. Sara reported that the city does not provide brush pick-up any longer, so we need to contract this out. Some questions were raised as to whether the city would reconsider since this is an important service for older neighborhoods with established trees. Sara will investigate and pursue with the city and/or contract with an independent pick-up service. It was noted that we use CDBG funding to support the costs associated with brush pick-up. 3. Picnic The neighborhood picnic will be held on Saturday, May 24 (Memorial Day weekend). We would like to have some sort of program or speaker. We have done this for the previous two years, and it seems to be popular. "Water in Pinckney" was a suggested theme. This sould involve wetland development by the river. It may also involve someone from the water treatment plant talking about water quality. In an attempt to feature a different neighborhood park, we will hold this year's picnic in Bercham Park. 4. 3rd and Illinois The City Commission met Februray 2ih to discuss Michael Morley & Associates' proposal to build townhomes at the intersection of 3rd and Illinois. PNA had already voted on this matter and voted against rezoning the land, which would be necessary were the project to go forward. The City Commission voted down the proposal. Something we might consider is putting together a neighborhood petition to zone the north side of 3rd street to single family housing and grandfathering in existing duplexes. Sara will investigate this. �5. Project Acceptance Sara has continued to meet with the board members of Project Acceptance, a client-run drop-in service for individuals with mental illness. The situation with the neighbors has stabilized. The city will undertake a review of Project Acceptance in the near future. If there are future problems, PNA may need to weigh in on rezoning the special permit that allows Project Acceptance to run at this location. 6. Park Bench Installation Sara has yet to order the bench that we received funding to install at the intersection of 51h and Louisiana, near the historic plaque that marks the former treehouse home of Hugh Cameron (former Pinckney resident). She plans to order it soon, but anticipates needing a place to store it short-term until it can be installed. William and Emily volunteered their garage. Steve asked if any permits are needed to install something like this, and Sara said she would investigate and report back to the board. Steve volunteered to work on the installation. 7. Park Clean-Up The Park clean-up will be held on Saturday, April26 one day after the neighborhood clean-up. Emily and William volunteered to clean up Bercham Park since they will be there to oversee the annual MS Walk. Charles Jones and/or Ken and Katy Armitage will be called upon to clean Constant Park. Kendall, Steve, and John will work on Clinton Park. 8. Timeline Project Sara is interested in starting a neighborhood timeline project as a creative way of building knowledge of neighborhood history and continuity. Brush Creek neighborhood has done something similar. Other Steve asked that we replenish the supply of neighborhood walking tour brochures at the Visitor's Center. John suggested that we ask the Visitor's Center if they could assist with copying costs. Steve mentioned the possibility of installing historic street signs as Old West Lawrence has done. This might be a project to pursue with future neighborhood grant money. The meeting was adjourned around 11:25. Respectfully Submitted, Cindy Pierard, Secretary �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting March 29, 2003 A board meeting was held on this day. Cynthia Pierard was secretary. No notes currently exist for the meeting; Cynthia took the minutes with her when she moved out of state. It was new treasurer Emily Zung's first meeting, and her job duties were one of the items discussed. �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting June 14, 2003 John Pepperdine (President), Steve Braswell (Vice President), Emily Zung (Treasurer), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. John called the meeting to order at 9:15AM. Emily reported that 235 Illinois is vacant again, and she is concerned about what happened to the elderly former tenant. Work had started on the place, but materials were left out in the rain, and she does not know if the open, uncapped sewer pipe in the garage has been capped. It is a blighted property, and she does not know what direction things will go now. Steve reported that he had paid $5.00 for his individual dues, but Pinckney owes $20.00 for dues to LAN. Sara said that Steve does not owe individual dues because he is Pinckney's official representative. She would send $15.00 and a note to the LAN treasurer, and Pinckney could reimburse Steve. Sara reported on the LAN retreat she attended. She reported on items of possible interest to the neighborhood that LAN supports: (1) sidewalks in neighborhoods, (2) developers talking to neighborhoods and getting approval for projects within the neighborhood, (3) investigating the high property values downtown and supporting measures to make it more affordable for local businesses, (4) tornado safe rooms, (5) the Lawrence Sesquicentennial events. John thought tornado safe rooms would add to cost of building homes and that affordability is an issue. Steve said our own neighborhood is very interested in seeing neighborhood cleanups continue. Everyone thought sidewalks were important and wanted more city support to replace broken sidewalks in established neighborhoods. John mentioned that speed limits were a constant issue in the neighborhood. The group was joined by General Meeting attendees, and the board meeting ended. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting June 14, 2003 John Pepperdine (President), Steve Braswell (Vice President), Emily Zung (Treasurer), Kendall Simmons, Katie Armitage, Michael Shaw, and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. John called the meeting to order and asked Sara to start reviewing the meeting agenda. Sara reported that the Pinckney Neighborhood was entered in the Fourth of July Parade and that the theme was "Pinckney Neighbors Throughout History." Sara said this would allow children and others to participate as modern neighbors if they were not able to pull off an historic costume. Katie said that she has a couple period outfits she would lend and some American flags, but she will be out of town. Sara will look for a mule for a "Hugh Cameron" to ride. She said no horses were allowed in the parade, but she had written a note to the parade committee, and a brief article about the parade had mentioned the mule in Pinckney's entry, so it is a go. Steve and Kendall will be there and might bring some neighborhood children. Sara said the Driscolls were coming in period costumes. Michael Shaw, a neighbor and member of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance, talked about the proposed historic districts in Pinckney. He said the districts were Pinckney Number One, which consisted of Louisiana Street from Fifth to Sixth Streets (but not 545 Sixth), all of Ohio and Tennessee Streets, and Sixth Street north side from Louisiana to Tennessee Streets. Pinckney Number Two is Indiana from Fourth to Fifth Streets. He said the paperwork would be paid for to establish districts. They would be registered and participants and nonparticipants indicated. There are five districts within the city of Lawrence. He said there was a September deadline for filing, and they would need to know the neighborhood's support. John said it would be difficult to have a summer meeting, but perhaps in August the neighborhood could vote. An August 16 meeting date was set for the next general meeting. A discussion of nonparticipants and participants and what restrictions were placed on environs followed. Katie noted that many homes were already within the environs of registered properties, both State and National, and that their owners have not suffered from this. She gave examples of allowances that had been made for different owners. We need to have maps and more information for the August meeting. John asked what issues surrounded the proposed tower downtown. Why was it being restricted in height? Was it because of the Downtown Hitoric District? Katie said it would dwarf the Eldridge House and the old Post Office, and those were the issues. Sara gave a brief update on Project Acceptance. Andrew Driscoll was filing complaints with Sara announced that the Master Plan would probably be ready in August for funding sources. the group to review and get neighborhood input. Steve asked if lights were in the Master Plan. Sara thought they were, but she would check to make certain they were included. Emily asked if the Burcham Park gate could be locked at sunset as it once was. There are drug dealers who are using the park. Katie noted that EMTs and police came down along the river and took away an unconscious man who may have been dead. He was homeless. She saw nothing about it in the paper, though. Emily reported that the Free State account has $1,338.79. Most of this is for the park bench and improvements near the Hugh Cameron sign. The meeting was adjourned at 11:20 AM. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting August 16, 2003 John Pepperdine (President), Steve Braswell (Vice President), Katie Armitage, Alison Roepe, Lucy Simpson, Shellie Bender, Kent VanHoesen, Andrea Wellborn, Robert Irving, Niki Christopher, Steve McDowell, Sheldon Weisgrau, Mike Yoder, Paul Baumchen, Carol von Tersch (Lawrence Preservation Alliance), Virgil Dean (Lawrence Preset-vation Alliance), Michael Shaw, Dale Nimz, Bridget Murphy, Charles Jones, Newt Baur, Laurie Lang, Chris Greenhoot, and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. (A few others did not sign in, including Boog Highberger). John opened the meeting by welcoming those who were in attendance from the Lawrence Preservation Alliance to help with the discussion and answer questions about the proposed historic districts. He said that it was not possible to get someone from the city at this meeting because Dennis Enslinger left his position with the city, and Lynne Zollner just started as Historic Resources Director and needs to get up to speed with the position. Before discussing the proposed districts, though, a few items of business must be covered. Emily submitted the treasurer's report electronically. We have $1,345.46 in the Free State Credit Union Account. Sara announced that the Clinton Park Master Plan meeting to discuss future improvements in Clinton Park will be held Wednesday, August 27 at 5:30PM at the Clinton Park Shelter. She invited all interested neighbors to attend. If anyone had comments or questions but could not attend the meeting, please call Sara to let her know. John asked if there were any nominations for PNA Board Secretary, a position that opened because Cindy Pierard moved to Arizona. None were offered. John made a motion that the vote on this position be deferred to October, and Steve seconded. All voted in favor. Sara noted that a neighbor had called about the funding for crossing guards. The City of Lawrence will pay salaries this year but is considering cutting salaries next year because of budget concerns. This will be an issue for students in Pinckney and their families, especially the crossing at 5th and Maine, which is hazardous and gets heavy traffic. John introduced Carol von Tersch from the Lawrence Preservation Alliance and asked her to open the discussion on the proposed historic districts. Carol said that tax credits to help participating homeowners were only part of the benefits. Shelli B. and Niki K. told of several instances where homeowners had bad experiences and had their costs go up or long delays because of the Historic Resources Commission reviews. Niki said that it was unfair to homeowners on moderate budgets because they could not afford an architect, which would be required. Virgil Dean said this depended on the size of the remodel and what was being done. Katie A. said that homeowners could get exemptions based on income and ability. Charles Jones asked that only people who could testify to their own experiences should enter into the discussion. He thought it misleading to give antecdotal evidence and thought that one of the examples given as a negative was someone who actually supported the district but did not want to go on record. La uri Lang said that her new porch project went through painlessly, but she would just as soon not have the review process at all. Lots of discussion and dissention followed. Some people mentioned good experiences. One couple was upset to find out they were already within the environs of Old West properties and wondered why they had not been informed when they bought the house. Someone else said that the zoning board was the painful part of the process for them �when they remodeled their home, but the Historic Resources Commission was no problem. Someone asked about the environs concept. Dale N. said that 500 feet petimeter around an historic property or district is a state law. Most projects will be approved unless they "threaten" the histotic quality. Someone else asked if a property could opt out of the historic district. Not necessarily. It depends upon where it is located. Dale N. said that 70 % of the properties had to be contributing for the district to exist. Carol v.T. said that she did a remodel to her home, which is listed, and she removed a window and changed it . This was permitted because it was not considered a permanent change. The Permit is the call of the Neighborhood Resources Department, and that might not be part of the review. One of Shelli's examples involved fences, and Carol said that variances are only needed for fences over six feet tall. There are special corner lot requirements too, which might have affected Shelli's example. Also, if some sort of footer or foundation needed to be laid (stone pillars, for example), that might require review. Generally, it takes three to five days for the building permit, and the HRC tries to mn its review concurrently. Someone asked how this process got started. Dennis Enslinger met with interested community members in an open meeting at the library and got enough community response that the city took the initiative to move forward. They formed a contract between the City of Lawrence and the State. They got a grant to hire consultants to review all the properties in the proposed districts to outline the reasons why a property might be participating or not. The Staff at the State Historic Society are currently reviewing this? Once their review is complete, the nomination will go before the state board in conjunction with the National Park Service. The Park Service Historic Sites Board will meet in Febmary, and the districts could be approved by next Febmary. Virgil Dean said that if people had concerns our questions, they should write a letter, call Lynne Zollner, or contact the State Historic Society. Shelli said they were organizing a letter-writing campaign. The Historic Resources Commission and Lawrence City Commission will have specific meetings about this in December and January and get an official response to pass on to the state. John asked if the group was ready to take a vote. Charles J. said he thought that the group should not, that there were too many questions and misinformation. He felt as if it would divide the neighborhood too much. Carol v.T. said that the neighborhood vote would just go on the record, but the individual homes within the districts and within the environs had to weigh in. The neighborhood vote would not count for more than opinion. Steve B. said that he felt he could not vote anyway because he did not live in a proposed district nor within the environs, and it seemed unfair to weigh in on something that did not directly affect him. Shelli B. thought we should not vote because she had lots of no votes on a petition, and she thought the no votes would carry. She thought we should schedule another meeting. John mentioned that he thought people had to be present to vote. The group unanimously agreed to not vote. The next meeting is tentatively set at 10 AM Octo bet 11 at LMH in a room to be announced. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Historic District Concerns Raised at August 16, 2003 PNA General Meeting 1. Houses within environs are subject to regulation without tax credit benefits. 2. Is it true that people can opt out of district? 3. Qualifications for tax credits for contributing houses are not automatic? 4. There is time and expense involved in review process. 5. Is flexibility dependent on the composition of the HRC board? 6. Who is already in environs? What houses would remain status quo? What properties would change? 7. Last house on Ohio Street-why is it not included? �Clinton Park Development Meeting for Pinckney Neighborhood Association August 27, 2003 David Hamby (BG Consulting), Mark Hecker (Supt. Of Parks and Rec.),John Gress (LPRD), Mike Pisani, Glen Walker Jr, Shawn Georgie, John Torrburg, and Sara Taliaferro were present. The bathroom design was discussed. Mark suggested that the men's restroom would have a urinal or two and one ADA accessible stall. The women's bathroom would have on ADA and one regular stall. Everyone thought that was fine. Different locations for the shelter were discussed. The neighbors did not want a smaller shelter. Mark suggested a gazebo style. Neighbors liked the current style. Amount of park use was discussed. The neighbors said the park got a lot more use than the official shelter reservations would indicate. Landscaping was discussed. Neighbors would like plaques recognizing people who contributed. Lawrence Memorial Hospital might, and perhaps the V.F.W would. The order of work was discussed. Probably the bathrooms would be first, and then the shelter. The playground would probably be third. The sidewallc would be a higher priority. The parking lot and the basketball court would be last. Mark Hecker directed the group to check out the playground at Ryan Grey Park at Tenth and Hillcrest Streets. It is new and big and is the kind of playground that could go in Clinton Park The rock wall restoration was discussed. Sara said Kieth Middlemas is a stone mason. Glen W. said he worked with another local man who is very reasonable and does good work. We would take bids. We could also check to see if there ate any funds or grant available because the wall is a WPA project. A garden would be planned around the wall. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Meeting at Clinton Park August 31, 2003 John Pepperdine (President), Steve Braswell (Vice President), Emily Zung (Treasurer), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. This brief meeting was to apprise the board of the August 2ih meeting, since none of the board could attend. Sara told them of the plans as discussed. The group walked the site and discussed the location of the shelter. It could either be where it is now or over where the bathrooms are currently, providing a view of the rock wall. Emily is okay with either shelter location. John is also okay with either. Steve prefers the current location and does not want the shelter to be smaller. Sara added their votes to the rest of the group. She said that people slightly favored moving or did not care. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Draft Minutes of Pinckney Neighborhood General Meeting October 11, 2003 Meeting began at 10:00 AM at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Paul Liechti, Niki Christopher, Shellie Bender, Katie Armitage, Ken Armitage, Charles Jones, Linda Albin, Larry Smith, Mianne Irick, Larry Irick, Bridget Murphy, Shawn Georgie, Kelly Foos, Andrew Driscoll, Amanda Jay, Jeff MacFarland. John Pepperdine (PNA President), Steve Braswell (PNA Vice President), and Sara Taliaferro (PNA Coordinator) were present. 1) Alan Bowes with Tenants to Homeowners presented preliminary plans for housing development of 6 lots their organization plans to purchase at 3rd and Illinois. This is the same property that the Morley Group had planned to develop. Tenants to Homeowners wants to build three single family homes and three duplex townhomes. TTH is proposing that the lots include duplexes because they can lower the cost to a prospective homeowner to around $70,000.00 to $90,000.00. It is hard for someone to purchase a decent home for that price in Lawrence. The City is encouraging TTH to provide affordable housing for more people and to work with the neighborhood association. They want to start this project in spring of 2004. This will require rezoning these lots for multi-family housing and Tenants to Homeowners is looking for support from PNA. Alan will come to the next PNA meeting to discuss this development and listen to neighbor's concerns. 2) Sara Taliaferro presented preliminary plans for the new master plan for Clinton Park. Some highlights of this plan include: • Rebuilding and moving the bathrooms and shelter to the east side of the park. Bathrooms are not now ADA compliant. • Revise the parking to have two entrances. • Rebuilding and moving the basketball court to the east side of the park. • Building a walk through the park including the lower area. • Provide garden seating where the shelter house currently stands. • Provide new playground equipment. A meeting will be held at Clinton Park with the architect to discuss plans at 5:15 PM, Wednesday, October 22. All interested parties are invited to attend. 3) Announcements from the board: • The PNA clean-up will be Friday October 24. Brush pick-up will be included. • The city is sponsorin~ a Home Energy Conservation Fair at the County Fair Grounds on Sunday, October 191 . • The next PNA general meeting will be Saturday, November 22nd, at 10:00 AM at LMH. Lynne Zollner, Lawrence Historic Resources Administrator will be there to discuss historic preservation districts. 4) The proposed historic districts in the Pinckney Neighborhood were discussed. John Pepperdine announced that at this point there seem to be nothing for PNA to vote on and a vote would not be held. • The board handed out literature provided by the City with general information on historic districts. • Nicki Christopher gave a brief overview of where the approval process for these districts is and who to contact with questions or concerns. • Katie Armitage presented some of her experiences while a member of the Lawrence Historic Preservation Commission. �• • There was a spirited discussion by many in attendance with different points of view expressed. The issue of historic districts will be on the agenda for the next PNA meeting. 5) The meeting was adjourned at approximately 11 :45. Respectfully Submitted, Steve Braswell PNA Vice President �Clinton Park Development Meeting for Pinckney Neighborhood Association October 22, 2003 Mark Hecker (Supt. OfParks and Rec.),John Gress (LPRD), Steve Braswell (Vice President), Mike Pisani, Shawn Georgie,? Georgie, David Byrne, Ken Armitage, Jenny Smith, Lynne Ellis, John Ellis,John Torrburg, and S~ra Taliaferro were present. Everyone reviewed the plans and started walking the site. Several people wondered about the location of the shelter. All agreed that it should not be smaller. The idea of a patio area for additional picnic benches around a smaller shelter was discussed. Eventually, the group agreed that they would not mind if the shelter were moved as long as it was not smaller. Several people gave examples of use at the shelter. Additional picnic benches at the current site was discussed so there could be two seating areas. People were not opposed to this. Several people objected to the proposed parking lot. They did not want it bigger, or at least not extended so far toward Maine Street. Eventually, everyone agreed that the new plan allowed more green space than the current parking lot, but they did vote for the concession of a shorter lot that had an entry point on the east side of an existing tree rather than the west side. Lots of discussion ensued about the size, necessity, and placement of the basketball court. The group compromised on the location, but insisted that it got use and should be the same size at the new location. Everyone wanted a bigger playground. The size of the playground was discussed. No one liked the proposed bathroom site. The group walked the site and suggested a new location near the treeline and farther from the houses on the east side of the park. This location would be nearer the existing path. Sewer lines were discussed. Mark H. thought this new site could work. Lighting placement and sidewalks were discussed. People did not want trees removed unless it was absolutely necessary. They agreed that clearing underbrush was desirable, especially along the treeline that separates the playground/upper area from the ravine. Homeless people camp there, and a man actually menaced Steve B. during one of the park cleanups. Neighbors take their dogs out to scare the people off. The group wanted some new trees planted to shade the playground section and pointed out where trees were lost. Mosquitos descended, and the group disbanded. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting November 22, 2003 John Peppercline (President), Steve Braswell (Vice President), Katie Armitage, Charles Jones, Dale Nimz, Michael Bradley, Tresa Hill (Lawrence Preservation Alliance), Carol von Tersch (LPA), Michael Shaw, Robert Irving, Andrea Wellborn, Lauren James, Larry Smith, Allison Watkins, Shari Bradt, Lynne Braddock Zollner (Planning Dept.), Linda Finger (Planning Dept.), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. Guest speakers Lynne Zollner, Historic Resources Administrator, and Linda Finger, City Planner, discussed the proposed historic district. They had maps of the proposed sites, maps of current historic projects, and literature to share. The sites board will meet February 21, 2004 to do a 106 review for projects within the district and will also have an environs review. Dale Nimz suggested a walking tour of the proposed historic area some time in the spring. Sara reported that the Clinton Park Master Plan meeting is tomorrow but will be in Room D, changed from Room A. Neighbors at the 22nd meeting approved plan with changes. Namely, they did not like the location of the bathrooms, and they wanted the parking lot smaller. Sara reported on the proposed Tenants To Homeowners project at 3rd and Illinois. A meeting will be held December 6th to vote on the rezoning. This is the same vote we took in January, so perhaps it can be considered a formality.? Michael B. mentioned that Topeka's CHOTO track record is bad and that a lot of houses go back on the market within 5 years. HOME program might prevent this. Sara suggested talking to Alan Bowes about this in December. Sara informed everyone that she has had several reports of a growing problem of drug dealers in the neighborhood. All present said they would be interested in discussing a unified neighborhood watch program, and this will be the topic of our January meeting. City of Lawrence is holding a focus group meeting with police department consultants for neighborhood representatives on Wednesday, December 3 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. Is anyone interested in being a neighborhood representative? Sara planned to attend. Steve Braswell said he would be interested. People cited traffic concerns as a neighborhood issue besides drug dealing. Katie mentioned the ongoing problem of the safety of crossing Sixth Street at Kentucky, but she doubted that was a police matter. Steve and Sara promised to pass these concerns along. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Special Meeting for Proposed Tenants To Homeowners Project December 6, 2003 Michael Bradley, Latty Smith, Alan Bowes (fenants To Homeowners Exec. Dir.), and Sara Taliaferro (PNA Coordinator) were present. Sara introduced Alan Bowes. Alan outlined the proposed project and said that regardless of zoning and the types of swellings that were built, TNT had certain goals. They want to maximize livability, affordability, and energy efficiency. They want more built-ins. The homes would have a smaller footprint with a bungalow design (soffits, a little front porch with an airlock, etc.).They will use insulated concrete forms such as were used in a bungalow they did in North Lawrence. Energy efficiency is critical, especially when house payments are already high. Michael B. felt that the value of a front porch to a neighborhood is great, and that ought to be included. Alan B. said that TNT wants to buy the vacant lot next to the yellow house on the north side of Third Street so the can ensure a sewer line from the north and could have basements without pumps. Larry S. said if there is to be a benefit district for any improvements, he wanted that borne by TNT. Also, he wanted to make a statement that he has been there since 1938(?), and the area we are discussing was originally developed as single family residences. Now the area is chopped up by city land, the hospital, RO, and so on. Areas designated duplex have "gone to hell in a handbasket" and were eventually purchased by landlords and not kept up. Alan B. said that if TNT paid for the curbs and guttering that they would "eat" the costs, and the house cost would go up. They will talk to PNA and the City about this more. Alan B. talked about Land Plan Engineering, the company doing the platting. He also said that the home prices would be 80% cost, 20% was HOOT financing on each unit, so it was about $8,000.00 to $9,000.00 a unit to HOOT. For example, for a $100K house, $80K was mortgaged through homeowner and $20K came from the City of Lawrence (half of which is forgiven after ten years). Buyers make under 80% of median income and might have a fixed income. Michael B. said that cookie cutter homes were not desirable and gave examples. Alan B. agreed. He said that two-car garages would be in back of the homes, for instance. Alan B. said that TNT bought out Smalters' and Morley's claim. Michael B. asked if TNT was using HOME funds and cited the poor track record in Topeka, with HOME houses getting sold to landlords and deteriorating. Alan B. said yes, HOME funds were used but that here in Lawrence, if the homeowner sells to someone under 80% of median income, they qualify for the same mortgage. He said that TNT has a revolving building fund. Alan B. said that TNT would like to purchase the duplexes on the north side of Third Street, allow the tenants to stay as long as they wanted with an option to buy. Michael B. asked about the horrid yellow duplex. Alan said that if TNT purchased it, once the tenant moved out of their own accord, that duplex would be torn down and replaced. The others would be rehabilitated, since they are in reasonable condition. This pleased the neighbors greatly. A vote was taken. All present voted against rezoning. Lany S. pointed out that not many people showed up because they had already studied this issue and voted earlier this year. Sara T. said that was true and on the record. She said the vote occurred in January. Alan B. said he understood, and he was obligated to pitch his case and see if TNT's involvement changed the neighbors' attitude. Sara T. said that she had not heard anyone saying this changed their vote. However, the neighbors at meetings have expressed approval and support of TNT's involvement on the project. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator �Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting February 21, 2004 Steve Braswell (Vice President), Emily Zung (Treasurer), Leigh Ann Foskey, Satn Amburgey, Dale Nimz, Reva Nimz, Ruth Lichtwardt, Ken Armitage, Katie Armitage, Chris Burger, Lara Burger, Mike Ediger, Officer John Barta (LKPD), Mollie Mangerich (City of Lawrence WRRD), and Sara Taliaferro (Coordinator) were present. Steve B. started the meeting and asked Sara to lead the group through the agenda in John's absence Qohn Pepperdine, PNA president, was felled by the flu!). Sara introduced Mollie Mangerich, the City of Lawrence Waste Reduction and Recycling Division Supervisor, to explain the pilot program for yard waste recycling in Pinckney. She said the program also would run in a couple other neighborhoods. She explained that the goal was to get people to use recyclable paper sacks for bagging yard waste, or to place yard waste in cans or carts. If plastic bags are used, crews have to gut the bags and dispose of them separately. Katie A. asked why we do not pay for bag. She felt that lots of older neighborhoods compost their yard waste and do not need to pay as much for the pickup. But everyone pays for the sanitation fee, which Mollie explained covers these expenses too. Steve B. asked if there would be an ordinance against plastic for yard waste. Mollie said this had been discussed. He asked if sticks were collected too. Mollie said not in the yard waste. She then gave out pamphlets and talked about clopyralid, the pesticide found in yard waste. She fmally said that they do a cost effectiveness analysis yearly of all waste and discuss various recycling methods. Sara then announced the elections for the positions of Vice President and Secretary. She asked for nominations from the floor. There were none. She said that Steve Braswell was willing to serve another term as Vice President, and that Dale Nimz had agreed to serve as secretary. She called for a vote. The slate passed unanimously as presented. Sara thanked Steve for all of his support and service to the neighborhood and welcomed Dale. Sara introduced Officer John Barta, who came to give a presentation on neighborhood watch and discuss particular concerns of the Pinckney neighborhood. He presented a Powerpoint presentation on neighborhood watch. Then he discussed how not to become a victim. • Lock doors, even when home. • provide exterior lighting around home. • Trim shrubs around doorways and windows. • Have a visible street marker that police and emergency crews can read from street. • Never leave your garage door open. • Have peepholes or some other way to check someone's identity through a closed door. Do not let in unannounced repairmen. Call and check to verify. • Do not hide a key outside your home. Not under doormats, flowerpots, or anywhere around your house. • Have mail and paper collected if you are gone away from home. Put lights on timers and close ground floor curtains. • Do not give personal information over the phone. Hang up immediately on harassing phone calls; say nothing. Hang up and call police if call is threatening. • Make a list of serial numbers and model numbers on all items in house. Hide list. Identify, photograph, engrave (police department has an engraver that folks can borrow). • Install a deadbolt with a steel or aluminum jamb that cannot be kicked out. • Lock your car, even when you are in it. Do not leave valuables in plain sight-this promotes "window shopping." Thieves will break open cars for CDs and such. Remove the stereo faceplate if you can. • Look around the car, be aware in places such as parking garages. • Do not pull right up to the car ahead of you when on the road. Always have an escape route. �• • • • • • • Do not leave your car warming on a cold day! Do not walk in alleyways or poorly lit areas. Stay alert and walk with confidence. Do not flaunt expensive jewelry or cash. I<now where you can access phones 24 hours. When trying to remember a car description, the following acronym may help: CYMBAL-color, year, make/model, body style, accessories/damage, license plate (even a partial is helpful). When trying to remember people, try to identify sex, race, approximate age, clothing (especially shoes), height and weight, body build, hair and eye color, distinguishing marks (scars, tatoos, odor, etc.). When describing weapons such as guns, was it a revolver (rolling barrel) or a semi-automatic? Was the knife serrated, or was it a switch blade? Steve asked if car alarms were effective. Officer Barta said they were at night. He also said that alarms on houses often had high rates of false alarms because people did not know how to use them properly. There are direct and indirect alarms. Lara B. said that there were a lot of drunks who park on Tennessee Street, especially on weekends. She said some of them seem to be leaving downtown or Abe and Jakes and realize they should not drive. Others just park there. They are loud and disorderly. Someone else asked about loose dogs and what could be done about them. Officer Barta said that pepper spray could work as protection, and that someone should call animal patrol. Officer Barta talked about neighborhood watch. He said that each block needed at least two or three people who would watch. Everyone should tell neighbors about trips they are taking, visitors they are expecting, and just generally communicate. Everyone must watch. There should be separate neighborhood watch meetings from the regular neighborhood meetings. Get to know your neighbors and call the police when suspicious activity is noticed! If a block is an official neighborhood watch participant, the police need a responsible party list so they can contact people. The program is free. Neighborhood watch signs are $20.00 per sign and can be installed at the entrances to blocks or neighborhoods. Lara B. said they had problems with transients camping and wandering in neighborhood. Part of it was just not knowing how much of a problem it is, but she did not think people should camp within sight of houses in the park. The group discussed this. The other big concern was drug houses. The group discussed houses and areas of concern, and they agreed to have another meeting to talk about options. Sara T. mentioned a program in Oakland, Calif., where neighbors got together and sued landlords of houses rented to drug dealers. This had success. Officer Barta said we would need to explore the legalities with City Hall to flnd out what could be done given Lawrence's ordinances and such. But we could contact landlords. More discussion is needed about the appropriate way to handle this. Officer Barta said that as much detailed information as could be passed on to police, the better. Give license plate numbers, times, people seen, types of activities, the kinds of details he talked about earlier. Sara T. said that when she lived on Missouri Street, a drug dealer lived next door. The police knew about it and seemed to have an undercover operation going but could not talk about it for fear of jeopardizing the operation. But neighbors worried that nothing was happening, so it was tricky. Dale Nimz said that he would be willing to be a contact for people interested in Neighborhood Watch. The group would meet in a couple months after they had time to talk to their neighbors and work out a plan. Respectfully submitted, Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lawrence (Kan.) 1988-2004 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Pinckney_Minutes_May1988-Feb2004_Final.pdf https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/fee331448c8204c6c083df6fff741c3f.pdf 4adcf703a15762064caf7736f83d3621 PDF Text Text PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER APRIL, 1980 PNA l,leeting The rumual meeting for the Pinclmey Neighborhood Association will be held at Pinckney School on Thursday, Hay 8 at 7:30p.m. A tentative agenda for the ,teeting is as follOrJs: 1. Reading of minutes 2. Treasurer's report 3. Announcements - Spring Clean Up date 4. Election of officers for 1980 - 81 year. LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD ~,PRESERVATION FUND, INC. Concerned Citizeps-you con be a force in shaping a better lawrence! Decisions on matters such as sidewalks, drainage and zoning con hove a significant eHect not only on your property values but also on your quolit)' of life. In lawrence such issues as the City Garage, 'the Alvarnar Golf Course and currently the Bluffs, demonstrate that individuals and . neighborhoods often lock the resources to cope effectively with suct!com- ~~ .ad appeared in the f'tllunity problems. r fi''- 1 1 24 Lawrence Jrurnal- : ed. More fran the 'Tht> lawrence Neighborhood Preservation Fund is a non-profit organization ighborhood l'Teservation established to assist residents in the reasonable resolution of their land use , · ttee at tile iltay 8 problems. This fund follows the lead of other cities where the principles of · ting. sound planning were ignored and where recourse to legal action become necessary. Clearly lawrence now needs such a fund. Show that you care about the reasonable and orderly development of your neighborhood and your city. Support this effort with your contribution. CONtRiBUTION TO THE LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION FUND, INC. FROM: ________________________ Organizing Members: Dick Ounhoupt, Tom Gl.ason. Dick Spear AMOUNT ENCLOSED$ _ _ _ PLEDGED$._ __ Use: Director's Discretion Bluff's Issue __ SEND TO: The Lawente Neighborhood Preaervation Fund, Inc. c/o Richard l. Spear, Trees. 1702-1 Ohio St. low renee, KS 6604.4 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL: 843-3317 or ~2-0111 evenings �···- ·--- )rlla·" ............ , .... ~ . announcing the LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION FUND, INC. ·Concerned Citizens-you can be a force in shaping a better Lawrence! Decisions on matters such as sidewalks, drainage and zoning con have a significant effect not only on your property values but also on your quality of life. ~~ttiwrince· lU~t~"'tnu~n•::Qjlfttf'4ll$ ~e~~~JA~Goit. .__. · ~ ·"etW-rently :the Sluffs~. demonstrate that in IViUC.Is and neighborhoods often lock the resources to cope effectively with such .-wf.~ .-~btems.· .,..._ · ~~- The Lawrence Neighborhood Preservation Fund is a non-profit organization eMablished to assist residents in the reasonable resolution of their land use problems. This fund follows the lead of other.cities where the principles of sound planning were ignored and where recourse to legal action became necessary. Clearly Lawrence now needs such a fund. Show that you core about the reasonable and orderly development of your neighborhdod and your city. Support this effort with your contribution. ·CONTRIBUTION TO THE LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVAT~ON FUND, INC. FROM: _________________________ AMOUNT ENCLOSED$ _ _ _ PLEDGED$ _ __ Use: Director's Discretion Bluff's Issue __ SEND TO: The Lowence Neighborhood Preservation Fund, Inc. c/o Richard L.-Spear, Treas. ' 1702·1 Ohio St. ' lawrence, KS 66044 Organizing Members: Dick Dunhoupt. Tom Gleason, Dick Spear FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL: 842-0111 evenings, or 843-3317 days �• RESOLUTION NO.·~ A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING POLICY GUIDELINES TO BE FOLLOWED BY NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS THAT HAVE :BEEN ALLOCATED SU'PPORT FUNDS FROM THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACT. ~· ! WHEREAS, the Lawrence City Commission has allocated Community Development Funds to various neighborhood improvement association• to aupport their progra.mll and act\vities; and WHEREAS, the City Commission desirea that theae funds be used promptly and wisely ir. programs and activities designed to aid the neighborhoods; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS, the following policy statement is established: aupport fi1Dd1 from 974, will be uired to 1. Each association is required to have, at a m1n1mum, quarterly meetings. The associatiollll are encouraged to have regularly sched~ole:i meetings each month. ~. Businea5 may be conductec only at open meeti..nga of which all members have be<'!n notified a r-•onable time in advance. 3. All SOCia .Ollll mul!t elect officers 0~ r•rly basia, in accordance with written by-laws. peae by.law• 1hall be on !Ue with the City. -- I 4.:,. Neighborhood anocl.ationll must have definite geosrapbical Membership must be open to any penon eighteen yeare of age or older living or owning property in the specified area. Each !LBB0ciation may allow for non-voting members in its by-law&, 5. Bueiness meetings must be conducted at the regular sche<luled meetings. r', boundaries. 6. 7. Membership dues cannot exceed $1.00 per year for individuals. It f. inute• of e&ch meeting or &n &nnu.al raport are to be forwarded the City Manager's Office for dlatrUnstioaio the City ommi11ion. 8. day of The associations are encouraged to utilize a portion of the fu.nds to notify member& and the public of the times and pi.ace of each meeting. , ADOPTED by the Governing Body of the City of Lawrence, Kane as, this 1~__,/ 1'377. APPROVED ATTEST: Vera Mercer, City Clerk .1?d �PNA OFFICERS: Carol Francis, Pres., 1916 Countryside ln •. 843-2632 Terry Summers, V. Pres., 539 Tennessee ••• 841-2172 Michael Shaw, Sec., 304 Indiana • • • . • . • 842-5455 Debbie Black, Treas., 331 Clayton Ct. .843-5740 Gille King, DCBG Rep., 1905 Countryside Ln .• 841-6018 EXECUTIVE BOARD~ Joan Huber, 416 Iowa Tom McClain, 445 Tennessee Mona McCoy, 516 West 6th St. Mary Schurer, 1417 West 4th St. Cleta Wells, 445 California MISSED THE NEWS? If you are not receiving ~his newsletter through the mail (or know of someone in the Pinckney neighborhood who isn't), give us your name and address (or theirs). We still use the city water meter list, which means a lot of "in care of" newsletters go astray. SOMETHING NEW IN THIS ISSUE -ADVERTISEMENTS r .. JOIN Help us correct that situation by providing names and addresses of new residents and others who are missed. PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NOW! Dues are $1.00 per person per year. J PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER 1916 Countryside Lane Lawrence, Kansas 66044 lli lA~RfNCE FE~D & SU,P 0545 -.JSUlNS1N I..A~ENCE t KS. b604t~ -~. PERMIT #244 BULK RATE U.S.P.P. Lawrence, Kansas 66044 �.• · I PROPOSED PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION BYLAW AMENDMENTS Oue to lack of space, the proposed Pinckney Neighborhood Association bylaws are only sllllnlrized here. The proposed changes were presented at the March 22 general meeting; complete copies of the Bylaws will be available at the May 17 annual meeting. carol Francis first requested that the bylaws be updated to remove awkward language that was used when the Association was first being organized. SUI-'MARY The purpose of the PNA is "to promote understanding with the City of Lawrence; to improve property, living conditions and communications within the neighborhood; and to promote good public relations with businesses in the neighborhood." Any resident or owner of residential property in PNA may be a voting member; owners of business and any other interested persons who have paid dues may be non-voting members. Dues are set by the Executive Board (they are currently $1 per year}. PNA is operated by an Executive Board, which consists of the four officers, four elected directors, and the immediate past president. Directors are elected for two years on odd numbered years; officers for two years on ellen mrnbered years. The board must meet at least once per calendar quarter; the majority of the board must be present to constitute a quorum at board meetings. PNA officers are the president, vice-president,·secretary and 4reas6rer. Their duties are the usual tasks assigned to those offices in most organizations. PNA must hold at least one general meeting per calendar quarter; the board can call more at its discretion. Mambers present at any properly called meeting constitute a quorum. At the annual meeting, held in May, officers or directors are elected. Nominations for these elections come from a Nominating Committee, chosen to represent the different sections of the neighborhood. Additional nominations may be made from the floor at the annual meeting, provided the nominee has consented to serve. Bylaws may be amended by a majority vote of alJ members persent at any general meeting, provided there has been prior notice of the proposed changes. Other stipulations relating to common principals of parlimentary proceedure are included in the amended version as well as the original. The entire document will be available at the annual meeting. Our element of Spring is in bloom! we§tside 9reenhouse frv~ tYton.·Sat 1().5 Thurs. 'til 8 Sun. 12-4 440 Florida 842.()()39 TYPING GRAPHICS EDITING 6" pots s·· basketS DATA MANAGEMENT Ger Mlcrosumer Enterprise• Geranium white. pinks. reds 539 Tennessee 841·2172 ·t �2 SCHOOL CELEBRATES 50 YEARS Pinckney School was remembered for its first 50 years at an Anniversary Assembly held May 7 at 2 p.m., and later that evening at a picnic. The present building was first used in 1931. A 11 gym full .. of Pinckney's past and present principals, teachers, students, community leaders and friends were on hand to celebrate the event. Mayor Marci Francisco told about signing the city's official proclamation declaring "Pinckney Week" May 3 to 7. School Superintendent Carl Knox acknowledged the continued "good citizen" support toward the school from students, teachers, parents, and the community at 1arge. Nettie Spray recalled her earlier years as principal before the present building was built. She is 92 years old and began her teaching career in 1915. / Elfrieda Fischer Rowe remembered incidents from her early day~ in grade school. The evening picnic provided time for friends of Pinckney to mingle with each other. They toured the building, viewed historical exhibits and kept up a constant chatter about the low drinking fountains, lines to the clinic, faces remembered, story hours, poetry clubs and former teachers. DAY CARE PROVIDED IN NEIGHBORHOOD The Children's Learning Center, Inc., a non-profit day care center at 331 Maine, provides a number of services for Pinckney neighbors. The center cares year-round for children between the ages of two weeks and six years. In the surrrner months, :he center extends its services to care fc r elementary school children to age : ':· \ The center offers full and part-time care, including preschool training~ Breakfast, lunch and snacks are included in the program. The group provides transportation to or from school for children enrolled in Pinckney kindergarten. The agency is state licensed, private and non-profit. It is non-discriminatory. And it accepts children whose families are funded by Social and Rehabilitation Services, by Douglas County Child Development Association scholarship or by private pay. For more information, call Children•s Learning Center, Inc., at 841-2185. PNA RECOGNIZES HEROES Last September at the Pinckney Neighborhood Get-Together, Carol Francis, PNA President, awarded "hero 11 buttons to those persons recognized for giving · time, effort or service to the neighborhood. These people are Conrad Altenbrand, Debbie Black, Ed Boles, Ellen Brower, Carol Francis, Gary Freeman, David Green, Joan Huber, Cille King, Tom McClain, Mona McCoy, Melissa Mathews, Don Mayberger, Ava Milett, David Morgan. Maxine Newman, Judy Nolly, Mary Schurer, Mike Shaw, Marion Smith, Ruby Smith, Terry Summers, Buford Watson, Cleta Wells, and Brad West. The buttons were designed by Ellen Brower. If you know of other names to be added, please mention them at the annual meeting, May 17. i J This newsLetter goes into over 900 houeehokle in the neighbo:rohood. Support your neighborhood by placing an ad. Call the President ;{or detaiLs. �PINCKNt::Y NEWSLE t TEA summer 1982 NEIGHBORHOOD PNA ANNUAL.MEETING SET MAY 17 Pinckney Neighborhood Association will hold its annual meeting at Pinckney School on Monday, May 17, at 7:30p.m. Brian Lawrence, Assistant Director of the Douglas County Ambulance Service (DCAS) will be the f'atured speaker. He will talk about an additional ambulance station at a proposed location r.ortheast of Lawrence Memorial hospital and its effects on the neighborhood. The Director of DCAS. Ted McFarland, spoke to the board at its April 19 meeting. He said the planned four-bay garage would cost $300,000 and be b~ilt across from Woody Park. Lawrence's visit will allow questions and comments from PNA neighbors. The CDBG board member will serve a threeyear tenn. Additional nominations for officers and the CDBG representative may be submitted from the floor by any voting member of PNA if the nominee has previously consented to serve. Other annual meeting agenda items include the consideration of amendments to the bylaws, printed elsewhere in this newsletter, and reports by the treasurer, secretary and standing committee chairs. Refreshments will be served following the meeting. A rummage sale is scheduled for early June, but a definite date has not been set , Organizers are scouting for a large, dry garage or other adequate storage space f large items. Donated objects are also t doesn't include cloth Proceeds will help defray legal def expenses for the Bluffs area residents w fought the zoning change in court. If you can provide space, sa e or personal he 1p (ca 11 i ng, se 11 i The questionnaire published in the last PNA newsletter brought seventeen responses ELECTION OF OFFICERS and the following results: Tom McClain, chairman of the nominating QUESTION . YES NO committee composed of Terry Summers, Karl Schoenrade, Melissa Mathews and David Green, Two cleanups per year? 10 7 will propose the following slate of officers: More tree planting? 14 3 president, Terry Summers. 539 Tennessee; More park development? 10 5 vice-president, Melissa Mathews, 338 Illinois; More newsletters? 8 4 secretary, Michael Shaw, 304 Indiana; and 2 11 A neighborhood office? treasurer, Jane Waldron 440 Florida. 8 7 Renovate house for PNA office? Elected officers will serve two year Additional cOlllllents included block getterms. togethers, tree plantings by newly approved sidewalks, sidewalks in addition to those In addition, Gerry Williams, 1900 West ' recently approved, cleanups in present parks, Third Terrace, will be nominated as PNA's police patrol of illegal parking, better representative to the Community Development facilities for Burcham Park, increased dog Block Grant Board, to fill the position held control, park in west end of PNA, and a by Terry Summers. His term expires June 1. "neighborhood tavern." �.. . . July 15, 1982 Ms. Faith Spencer, Social and Rehabilitation Services 319 Perry Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Dear Ms. Spencer, The Pinckney Neighborhood Association urges the Social and Rehabilitation Services to carefully consider their expanded facility location in Lawrence, Kansas. We believe that the community, clients and S.R.S. staff will be best served by keeping with evaluative standards practiced by S.R.S. in its present operations. Under such guidelines, there are many compell;ng reasons to retain the present site at 13th and Massachusetts. These reasons include: 1) The present location is centrally located. 2) It is only two blocks from court services. It is across the street from a park providing a "neutral environment" for clients. 3) The site is in a residential location instead of a less appealing business or industrial setting. 4) 5) The present location is free of undesirable noise such as trucks and railroads. The facility is more highly visible to potential community contacts. 6) There is more parking than most other possible locations, including an on-premise parking lot. 7) The building will, if present plans are followed, be a single lease occupant structure. 8) 9) The building is relatively close to restaurants, business support companies, and other family support agencies. The building is preeminently client oriented in its physical attributes. 10) The building is not structurally pre-limiting in that any necessary modifications cen be easily made. 11) Pinckney Neighborhood Association ~ Lawrence, Kansas �• Pinckney Neighborhood Association July 15, 1982 page 2 12) The site is easily accessable to the handicapped by simple modifications to walkways, doors. and bathroom facilities. 13) The structure presents a visually relaxing environment. 14) Smaller work space segments make the oriented for work efficiency. ~ilding employee The building proportions allow a fairly good heating/ cooling efficiency with some modifications. 15) 16) Modern scale ceilings allow for better illumination with less electric usage. 17) The floor plan allows for easily directed traffic patterns. 18} Large restrooms are very utilizable and potentially very accessable. 19) The human scaled interior would produce many work effort efficiencies. 20) Staying in the present facility does not involve a cost.l_y and interruptive move. The present facility conforms to existing Lawrence land usage patterns. 21) And staying in the present facility will not disrupt existing clients and community contact's perceptions of S.R.S. 's 1ocation. The building has an existing familarity. 22) Please consider that the present location is worth its rent · in the lasting economies of operation that these reasons imply. For the P.N.A. Executive Board, ~~~ President �Pinckney Neighborhood Association 535 Indiana Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID LAWREHCE, KS 60Q4.t Ptt'Tnlt *. 232 �ASSOCIATION *** NEWSLETTER Vol. I FINALLY, BURCHAM GATE! Ill On August 30, 1988, the Lawrence City Commission unanimously approved the expenditure of CDBG funds for the construction of a gate at the entrance of Burcham Park. Additionally, the Commission directed their staff to prepare an Ordinance for closing Burcham Park from 10:30 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. YOUR NEW PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OFFICERS : President: Suzanne Perry 535 Indiana Street 841-4399 Secretary: Arvilla B. Vickers 424 Indiana Street 8!:3--5353 Vice President: Carol Renzulli 533 Alabama Street 841-7719 Tresurer: Susan Hewitt 1215 West 4th 842-0749 INPUT FOR THE Ou~UT The PNA Newsletter will be coming to you regularly now. Your ideas, comments and general input is welcome and important. Your newsletter will be "bigger and better" next time (no by-law amendments to publish), it will be packed full of important gems of information,- but if you have comments, requests, etc., please contact our Secretary. PNA MAILING LIST Our mailing list has had some partial up-date recently but your help is needed regarding this difficult task. If, when you receive your newsletter, it has been forwarded to you from some previous address, please contact our Secretary so the correction can be made. Or, if you know you '11 be moving soon, please do the same·, it will really help a lot! TO BE CONSIDERED: The provosed amendments to the P~A By-Laws shall be discussed and voted upon at the next PNA genera t meeting. Please be sure to attend so you can varticivate in the adovtion of these amende,mts. • PROPOSETI AM!II1lHl!ITS 'ro l!t-l.AliS: AlTtCU: IV. Sec.ti.on 1. b.Uau· Th.a propany and buaineu of the PllA ab&ll be aa..a.a1ad. under tht aaaeral tupuvilio'D of tba txecutive acari. .UTICU IV. S..e.tion 1. Juaber nd len of OUisa. The txecutiva loard eb&U c.onli.c of the OUicen of tbt PllA (u naa.d il'l ArUc:l• V belov). The four alae tid oftic.tta tb.&ll tU"''I for tva (2)-yur uru ud. ba alt~eud in even---nuakr~ :yu.·n. All tlectiona tb&ll be at t.ba Annual ~•tina. AI.TICU tv. Section 3. Qy.alificatiqna .. No per .on a hall be· •lt.ettd or appoint~<! or thall c.ontinut to urva u an ofUctr of tbil A.uoc.Ution unlatt ha/1b.a 1a a voc:ina • • k r ot tba PltA. AlttCL! tV. S.cti.on S. Ppvau and t>utiu, ••• Tow.rdt tbua objaeuiv .. tha Ottieart aay an ian ••• .u:ncu IV. S.etion 7 •....Qwma. A Majority (3) o! tba Exaeutive Board shall couttitutt a quoru:::.. 0 :~~~ !!~i;~~~ ! .!1:'~·~·~ u.r,..p,..!'~~ · .tn!" nff'i<."~':' ll':f.Jil:-in! t;h"!'u re~a... euti'ta a .. t~--a• uy :,a AlTICU: V. Saetion l. tuu.aneion i !las;ton qf Otficu•. the Oftic.trl Pruidant, a Viea-Pnaident, a S.e:ruary an~ a Truwrat ••• * * * * * * * o¥-\ The next PNA ot tha P1U. shall ba a ~o AATICU VI. The Advilory Counc:U (ow J..rticla) Saction l. ~XIHLU• T'ha purpou of the Advbor: Council lball ba to a4vha and anitt t:ba Ott.ican in their ciutiu. (aaa Art:icla.IV,Saction 3.) l(tt""~;I....!l...TUl\..Ql,....Q.f...U.J:;A. Tha Ad.vioory CoWlcU ah&a c.ondst of S m•ban of tha PNo\. !ha 5 ••bart th.&ll ba appointed for 2-yut: tal"at 1n ot,hA-L<..:...~&Dan..d y~<:"i...,. i..l!. &t'\K!Ui.bl~to.U!J:I ah.all ba ll&d.e at; the Annual M.tetia.&. Saction 2. Section 3. Qn•l1f1e•riou. No puton th.&ll ba appointed or sb&ll contia.ua to urve •• ao. .o\.dvho:--: CoWlCil a.-her of the PKA \UU.au ba/aha ia a votia.J ••bar of tha A.uoci.ation. · Section 4. ~. Any va~cy in the Advisory Council by rea.an of rutrnation, duth, or dilqual.Uicatio'a . .., bt fUled, unt:U tbe nat AlUtt.t.&l Maeti.D.J, by a aajority vote of c:M Ex:acuti•u loud. Stction S. Jbi.WL• Tht c!utiu of tht Ad.Yiaory Council aball''tl• to advh• and uailt tba OfUca:-s 1n. thtir dutiu. (Su Article IV, Section S), J.dvitory Council mtabert ab.all ba pruent at lltttina• of tht txacuc:ivt Board. Section 6. ~. Su Art:ic.lt IV, Stction 6, Artic:.la VII. Section 2. ~•tin&. AA AD.nu&l Mut1J1& 1h&ll bt htld 1n Kay. This . . tti.nl th&ll thc:.t tbt Otfic.art in tv.a.-nu.btrttd yuu and appoint tbt Advilory Council ••b•rs in odd rtu:~~baud. yura ••• Article vu.· hction J. Sp•chl 'fuunr•. A ujority (3) of the Offic:..rt uy eaU a aptci&l tuetina of the A.,oc:.iation to conduct AAioc.i.ation buaineu. At'tich VUI. S•ction l. Haaipar1n• Cgmtrr.. • •• Any vacancy on tht No.Wtins Co•ittu ana:: be filled by. the Executive Board. Sun .. tiona for o.osin&tiona for OfU.cua uy bt a ant to thil.,, Artich VIII. Saetion l. lleport of the Ho•in&titta Co•itttt and N911ioaeigp• hqm tba flcar, !'n• report ot the Noainatinl Co-.ittu of ita no•i..nationl for Offictrs a.nd tba PUt thu• •• , Art:ic:h X. Stc.tion 1. -~tcut,.ve_.lo_.ar4_Aetioo,_. The txaeutiv• Board uy u\c.t public lt&teaentt and calt.l any othtr action• that ic dttmll n•ce.sury in tht performance of its dutiu. O•cilions ude by tht Executive !loud .art subjtc:t to IUf&buahip rtviev, .Date I general meeting .... Wednesda.u Sept. il, 1988 Tir.1e : 7:30 i?.m. Place . ."incknev School Gymnasi~ Along with ot~er agenda iteMs, the LA!/ QuaUtu o"" Li;"e Corrunittee Re"'ere~dt~ ~itt be discussed. and voted upon. Hope to see you there!! �FOR YOUR MEMORY BANK: Thursday, September 15, 1988 LAN meeting-7:30p.m. Fire Station Number 1 -Training Room * * * * * * ~ If you have questions or problems regarding a housfCIUAlletiiiU ing situation, call ·:he OPPOITUIUY Lawrence Human Relations/ Human Resources Department at 8417722, extension 314. You can gainvaluable information, appropriate referral, free copies of housing law, related written materials and, if appropriate, exercise your rights under Ord. 5436, our local Fair Housing law. Education regarding all of our rights and responsibilities can help avoid problems and keep us all "building a nation of neighbors." ~- •4:•=;•4:• IU\)>~ lliW~~t::s <Utlltn ~ < -0 n; ::s a. ::s :J n 9:~~ Ill - · ~»::soz ;..Ill :J !. Ul Ill 1.1' :J!:t "'~» Ill!» :::T D" 0 "'r+ ... 0\ 0\ :::T 0 t a. 0 0 ~ •·t • •·t* • *'~**** During this coming winter season, please remember to help feed our beautiful birds and small creatures. Large and small seeds and such can be life savers. ALSO, water sources when it's freezing outside is as important. Additionally, please remember our pets must be prcperly fed, watered (regularly), and sheltered. For education/info on these topics, call our Humane Soc., 843-6835 and/or K.U. Animal Care Unit, 864-5587. You can also help our fellow fur persons by calling these numbers if you see abuse or neglect happening ... help them, they are helpless in such situations! ~ r "" . LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD TOUR ~,; 9, ~- On Saturday morning, July LAN (Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods) and LAN representatives, held a Bri tbLIS tour of the Lawrence "inner-city neighborhoods" for Lawrence City Commissioners and Kansas City visitors from the Old Northeast Neighborhood Association and Old Northeast, Inc. 1988, Pinckney was toured with yours truly giving the nar-r-ation. Special attention 1r1as paid not only to our many fine old homes but also to the harmonious new construction and low-income scattered site buildings. A tour of the Shaw house at 304 Indiana was enjoyed by all. After touring Old West, Dread and East Lawrence neighborhoods, the group shared a catered lunch at Liberty Hall and went on to an afternoon of workshops on the "model block" concept, preservation and scattered site building. > "'0=: !=m ~~...,~~ "'"" (/)c .. P'!::(/)::0 ;to""!Cr-t)> en l>-t ~a> f: N~ G>JTI CTI The day was both enjoyable and instructional and I found myself viewing Lawrence with a fresh eye. It was good to meet others who are involved in preserving and revitalizing the old neighborhoods. I was especially pleased to represent the diverse and )( unique Pinckney Neighborhood. A'itt~ .llfj ~ , , ....,.~ )( ~ ~ if ~ ~ ~ 1 ~ I~ Sandr·<• Br·andt 618 !\lest Fourth �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION II *** NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSLETTER Vol. II Everyone likes to "clean-up" ... Look at this! The City offers FREE removal of deteriorated buildings in Pinckney, like that old shed, garage or other structure on your property (horne or rental). Dead/dying trees are also included in this service. Application forms for this program can be obtained at City Hall, Community Development Dept., Rrn. 08. Clearance & demolition contracts will be administered by the CD Dept. Note: 1) Unless requests for removel/ demolition exceed available funds, there will be no income restrictions, but in such a case, applicants who meet CDBG income guidelines will have first priority. 2) The applicant need not be an owner/occupier of the property where the structurejtree(s) are located, Call the CD Dept. for any additional information - 841-7722 x 100. Sad news •.. but not surprising ••. although it was recently stated otherwise, the HUD sponsored 312 Housing Rehabilitation Loan Program has been cancelled, These extremely low interest loans have made it possible for lower income persons to achieve much needed repairs to their homes •.• but no more, at least not until further notice, according to Margene Swartz of the City. Amended By-Laws Approved. If you would like to have a copy of the amended Pinckney Neighborhood Association By-Laws, just attend the next meeting on 11/30 or call Suzanne at 841-4399. It's been a drain on our patience ... at least to those NEXT MEETING ... DATE: November 30, 1288 TIME: 7: 30 p.m. PLACE: Pinckney SchooZ ~n the Teachers' Wor~ RoomEnter through East dc;o"r, walk straight ahead, it's the 2nd dom> on tr.e ;o7_,f:t. Agenda 1. Vote on LAN Noise Ord. (if you want a copy before the meeting, call Arvilla, 8435353) 2. Prioritize 1989 CDBG requests-see below* 3.· Burcham Pk. Band Policy 4. Demolition of Blighted Property-update ++++ * -Asphalt overlay of 300 & 400 blks. of Ind. st. -Play equip/Burcham Pk. -Sidewalk-400 blk. Ind. -Soccer or tennis court in Clinton Park -Pinckney tennel lights within nose-shot ... but the Lawrence Public Works Department has determined that a broken sewer main is leaking into the drainage ditch at 5th and Indiana Streets~ Monies have been approved ++++ to install a new main and for the removal of blockage at the mouth of the culvert which prevents water flow and has caused a stagnant pool of very foul smelling sewage water from time to time in the past and even more so recently. The contract for the main repair will be let at the end of December which means the work could be done as early as the first of the year, per George Williams, Director of Public Works. Removal of this health hazard esthetically displeasing situation will be a joy for us all. THOSE GREAT TEE SHIRTS ARE BACK! "Preserve Pinckney Neighborhood" tee shirts are once again available. For those who may not recall, the tee shirt carries the Pinckney logo as well as the Preserve Pinckney Neighborhood statement. Place your order at the next meeting or call 841-4399 Sizes S, M, L, XL 100% Cotton $7.00 ea. Colors: white or tropical pink, with black lettering AND WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD! ! ! Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Hayden (6th and Lousiana) and Mr. and Mrs. George Brooks (5th and Indiana) -~· t . ~~ . ~- -~ we look forward to seeing you at meetings and enjoying new input regarding our neighborhood! ~~ ;f~ ;'· ~.,_~ ~~~ ~~ --= --'-~~~-..:;·-=_o:--__-_-T_h_.,e All School Connnunity Relations Council needs a representative from Pinckney Neighborhood. Meetings Call 841-4399 are held the third Thursday of to volunteer or each month, November through get more info. May, from 7-9 p.m, ~ ~--- �row<o ;.<: Wf-'•Pl rtV101-' • W?;""l-' ro t-3 :TWOI1::t> Pl 1-'110011 ::l ~ < ,.,. 00 Pl f-'· (/) ~rt ...... .......... 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Pl ::l () t-< rt Pl ::l ..... ,... Cll f-'·Pl f-'•::l t-! Look at that ... it',; almost the last leaf to fall. That means it's go.lng to get colder and colder, and we all know that snow and ice will soon turn Fall into Winter. Funny how people think that because we wear coats of fur or feathers, that we somehow don't feel the cold. All my canine brothers and sisters and my feline "family" too, have told me about some of us who are treated very cruelly by conscious and neglectful acts. So many people don't know we HAVE to have a regular place to get water (no, we CAN'T successfully lick ice •.. I think a person should go stick their tongue on an ice cube and see how it works). And, of course, we need the right kind of food regularly. I thought it would help if a fur person talked to human persons to ask if they couldn't help the friends I have that are not as lucky as I am. Some dogs I know don't have proper shelter, clean water or exercise and they told me a poor white rabbit has been added to their sad number ..• same lack of consideration ... same neglect. They said the fur purrson has also been left to fend outside, too. Such a shame. Cats are more susceptible to extreme cold and lack of water than are many dogs, but yet, a larger dog can't fit into some small corner to perhaps get some relief from the cold. Too bad we don't have wings, we could fly away! But you know, my winged friends have told me that Kansas is their horne and they don't and often times, can't, fly away so far they can find food & water. Human~ persons can help us so rnuch •.. put seed out for birds, and keep putting a water supply out where domestic and wild animals can find it •. they learn quickly where to find these supplies. And, my person has told me that our veterinarian or the Humane Society can tell you, free of charge, how to properly care for us. There are pamphlets and nice people ther.to help. If you see a wild animal in trouble, call the Animal Care Unit at K.U. 864-5587, or if a domestic animal is lost or being neglected, call the H.Soc. at 843-6835. Another thing, we needs love and hugs just as much as humans. Isolation hurts just as much as no shelter food or water ••. and we get awful, painful different kinds of worms that won't hurt people, but can kill us if not killed first. we love you, .b>please love us ••• Thank you •• , ' ~ ~ rtP..~Oct>0 rto..ro:<:::Jo Cll f-'· rt t-!rtP..O (1) f-'· Hl f-'• f-'· 0 !-' ::J (1) rn ::J f-'•0 Pl rn:>;'::lon rn-....roroc::r 0() li t-!Ort Pl EJOO"::l::l Sll !3 Cll Cll 0.. t-'(1) :T ~ 1-':::Jct>rnrnro rtSllCI-'<:: 0 Cll t-! t-! Cll Cll Hl (1lrt11 Sll Hl rt'< Ccr'lirtct> tnOOOt-! s c 8 > -u=: CD~ .c m !Jlc 3:z,,r ;:;,:~l>o"' - -(/l :0 ;11o""C-;)> 1\)(J) :l>-i WO> l\)~ G)ITJ I'll 1: rt - �r·-·-·-·-·-· .I ·-·-·-·t- PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER MARCH 1989 1 .I L. - • - • - • - • - • - • - • ... • - • - • - • - • - • ... • - • - •V~L.U!:!._E.l~!,_ • J Please note our usual PNA logo will be used on the next newsletter but was not used this time because of lack of space •••. so read on, there's lots to tell you! I · THE NEXT PNA MEETING will be held at Pinckney School on Thursday, March 30, 1989 at 7:30p.m. in the Teachers' Work Room- Enter through east door, walk straight ahead, it's the 2nd door on the right. The AGENDA will include: 1) Guest Speaker, Janice Grashel on the Recycling Task Force; 2) Vote on LAN Recycling Referendum; 3) CD Request update; 4) Burcham Park Band Policy; 5) Spring clean-up; 6) Truck Routes; and 7) New Business. Each biennium, City Commission elections become more and more important to the older, established neighborhoods, such as Pinckney. As Lawrence grows, new demands are made on city services and new developments are obvious places to put the tax dollars for sewers, sidewalks, lights, etc. We MUST have Commissioners who are sensitive to the needs of ALL of our neighborhoods. PLEASE BE SURE TO VOTE ON APRIL 4 AT PINCKNEY SCHOOL. The ANNUAL Pinckney Neighborhood Association meeting will be held on Thursday, May 25, 1989 at Pinckney School. Please be~ to attend ... it's the only way you can participate in the "care and feeding" of your neighborhood! The care provider is YOU so please save some time for every meeting ... you will see that it will make a world of difference when we all care for our neighborhood. IT'S THAT TIME l\GA!N! Plei\se "lend your-due" to our Treasure:~;, Sue H.e'(l;i.tt, befo:.;e the annual meeting. It's $1.00 per individual memebership or $2.00 for a family membership. On March 13, 1989 the amendment to the national Fair Housing law went into effect, protecting children and the handicapped under Title VIII. Anyone who is a rental housing owner or manager, or who rents a house or apartment should attend a program to be held on April 14, 1989, in the City Commission Room of City Hall. Mr. Troy Scroggins, EHO Specialist and sec. 504 Regional Coordinator, will speak about the new law and after his talk, he will answer all questions regarding individual situations, etc. Do yourself a favor and attend this informative session. Register NOW by calling 841-7722x314, by writing to or stopping by the Human Relations Dept., 3rd Fl. of City Hall, P.O. Box 708, Lawrence, Kansas, 66044. There is no fee. There will be free materials and refreshments. Triplex Development Prevented. Thanks to all of you who responded to our logo: "Preserve Pinckney Neighborhood!" on Jan. 25 and helped prevent blighted structures at 532 Mississippi from being replaced by triplexes. · Despite a City Planning Staff recommendation in support of the developer's request to rezone these lots from RS-2 (single family) to RM-1 (multi-family), the Planning Commission voted 10-0 to deny the rezoning. The presence of 25 concerned Pinckney residents and the compelling arguments of 7 of you swayed the Commission to adhere to the guidelines of the Pinckney Neighborhood Plan and preserve the single family nature of this section of the neighborhood. Thanks also to the Pinckney PTA for opposing the request because of traffic safety concerns. TRUCK ROUTES. Truck maps have been delivered to member neighborhoods by the Lawrence Assoc. of Neighborhoods (LAN). The maps detail truck routes defined by city ordinance and show recommended delivery routes. Only Michigan St. is a designated delivery route in Pinckney. It is unlawful for a truck, trailer or semi-trailer weighing in excess of 20,000 lbs. to use streets other than ruchigan St., 6th St. or McDonald Dr. unless a specific off-route delivery is being made. Complaints should be phoned to Mary Thomas, LAN rep. (841-1068). Please make a note of carrier's name, '-truck #, street location & time of day. For repeat violators, report same info to the Police. RECYCLING REFERENDUM. At the Feb. 9 LAN board meeting, it was unanimously recommended that affiliates (i.e. PNA) endorse the following motion: That LAN support the city recycling efforts with all deliberate speed. we will vote of this motion on 3/30. Janice Grashel will speak. (If your eyes are beginning to cross by now, give them a rest, but do continue reading!!!) 1989 PINCKNEY CD REQUESTS: A) Pinckney School Tunnel Lighting - $2,270; B) Beautification of 5th and Ind. Drain Channel - $4,500; C) Clinton Pk. Landscaping - $3,100; D) Burcham Pk. Playground Equipment - $4,500; E) Street overlay, 300 & 400 blocks of Ind. St. - $14,000; F) Two Clean-ups $1,300; and G) Operating Expenses - $1,700. Total: $31,370. Many thanks to Tallie Smith and --~---h.:...,.,.,. ::.nr1 oresenting these reques-cs to tltt! CDBG Adviso.a::y Board. �HOW TO REPAIR A BRICK SIDEW,AI_K - :Tools' & materi~ls: shovei (shar...,shooter t:ype), · tape ~easure, string, stakes,. hammer, .rubber. nlaJ 3-bubbJe JeveJi 2"x6 1,1 pr 2"X4 11 W I measures·:a bit less' than Width of new ;valk (minus ed9ing)ricks.), sand.··' 1) Remove &:.stack; bri9k~ fro~ ,old ~sidewalk; l~avin9 edgi':lg bricks in plac.e. Edging bricks ··are ·the ·upended. bricks that line. either side. of,.Jhe .walk; 1 2) [optJOnalJ Re-align & level o.nly one, side :(j(.:edglr;jg · ~~icks. Pound stakes in ·at eit~er · e~d ..;of:'~'dgi.~g bricks; stretch string between stakes at, desired heigh.tt")',.': & ·al\gn bricks. Top of• edgers should be .%" above ,level of surrounding ground. and 1u. above level.. of, nefVX~!ll,~.~ay~ Leave other· :dgif1Q r~w for_ lat~r ·becaus~ :'it. m~y be n:ov:d. 3) De term me herghth at .wh1ch, you,: \y.afltz;new.; walkway., Optn:num herghth .rs slightly., lower,; than ;surroundmg ground. 4) Re- . moye. some •'dirt: ~nd/cir/~ci_~.~sii~,# as necess.ary:;~a:::.~}s~ the old ground. ",(Jne'or' two inches of sand .provide the. best bed fo:: the .new;waJk,;a~d ma~e.(.l_evelmg·:.e,aster. 5) Sand you add .should be leveled and· tamped down hard with a 2x6.·. [sprinkling w/water';'aids ~tampiJ:Ig] The sand should be carefully leveled using a 2x4 or 2x6 & the' le'yel. Traditionally bricl(s(dewalks :were· slightly higher i.n t~.e center so water would drain off to the. side. iProbabal~· this. is', the·::i~eal; . though: I·:have laid all my· ·walks perfectly level because it seemed easier .. The leveli:lg/tarnpihg i;l;:u.st.i_rill)< :done, s._ectiori py section as you go, because· you are usually sitting in the bed! 6) As ~ach :Sec~ip!'J.iS J!}~pe,d. and[eveled,:·lay bricks back in the same pattern as before, placing· th(3m closely. toge!,her. · Do,::nof~.walk";on.'b,ri_cks '.yet!· 7) :when all. of~ s idew?,lk is re-laid, move. the other ·edging row :?O that )f. solidly :.edges your... new, . walkway: B) Sweep s'and. between all the bricks .. This must be domr repeatedly;.;:•Xpu're 'all dory~! • Nqy~/you can walk on it;_::.i:'; s. :, · . '~~~ ,, : ·.. ·. ·f.·:·.;:;':,· ·, ' ... ··. .. ·p· ·. '· ·. ·. ;_.,~t.~~~(~~t~lks on .· ':.}~·~~~~i~i~~~i:r;-~.~r~.~u~~~~~ siana~::•r-·.check it out!. Good:'.,V{5>rk neighbors, . .• . :.·~· ~" . ;. ~ -~·,.: •, :-:~1::\~~--'' -.- ...',:.~.\.1·,'·\ .-::• •.·.•·..·.· .:·:· .....: };.y;.;.:\Y~~::...-c.·- ,._ - - - ·.J ·~ . ... _ . RATE . U.S. POSTAGE •.PAID' LAWRENCE, KS 66044 f..ef!1:'~nf. 232 . : ·· ·: ~,.·.i,';;;. "•~h~J\ ··,1. ··:···· r~ I ·: / ,~,··1 :J::' ()/>~ (_ ;\;;· C1-~-- .IU ~.:.·? (_) \'V.::. We.need your participation in the· association and' the:_ne>vslette'r: •• .. . NEIGHB0f3.t;JOOD!!! ·. (~nd. if this welcome is., ...,-.~::---:.: ...... ~, .·because: ther.e's ·no Jess good .wishes behind it!!) :·.·.·:· :·-.·. -·~- . -· . ;.::·_:~_._··. :,.,:.:~,z-·_;·<:··.. ·.... ,....:·.....;· · : . ,and Sally Barker<:.:~.:<Barbara:and·MarkWalters . :;4thj~nd Indiana'," ... ·'·, _ i. ·. · · . ' 'f400~block Indiana . . -·. ,.1,·--: ;:~. ·.:::,::·,_•,. • .'- _:;:-··._; ,;· ..- .-:··\'·:· .' i ·.<·-: -: ..:. ·-·! · . :· ..:And:.~a·{,\:Velborne and' Roberfirving .. :K~nsas'·zen Center 1 '.:·'-~: ··:.;,/:! ;':\ · . ·. • 50o·:block L:ouisiana '': · > ·:~.... · ·:400 .block Ohio un,•rv"" . =-v · ..,·: . ' -~ ·- ·...·· . . :..-··.<· ~t ;_ ·' .., .••'. • . 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As a people, Americans believe that every person is entitled to safe, sanitary and affordable housing. Inherent in that principle is the right to choose where we want our shelter to be located & in what kind of shelter we wish to live, in other words, freedom of choice. The freedom to purchase or rent any home or any apartment which we can afford and which is in a ne1ghborhood of our choice is each family's or person's right. fiow we choose the hous1ng and neighborhood is a personal matter which may be affected by many variables, including its locat1on relative to schools, jobs, churches. shopping areas, friends, relatives and so forth. When anyone is denied or steered to, or away from, housing because of their race, sex, religion, color, national or1g1n. age, ancestry, handicap or familial status, their rights are violated, Federal state, and local law prohibit such 11 actions and provide remedies for those persons whose rights were violated. § § IF you seek help and/or information regarding a tenant-Hlnd1ord aispute that you are ~ does nor 1nvolve the possibility of d1scrimination, you can also contact the Consumer Affairs Association at843-4609 for compla1nts or at 843-4608 for inquiries. now located at 700 Massachusetts, Suite 211. Telephone hours are 9:30- 3:00 1·\on. - Thurs. 9:30 - 12 noon Fridays. Office hours are 9:30 - 4:30 Han. Thurs., same as phone hours on Fr1days. If you desire more information or a free Fair Housing booklet which contains copies of the pertinent fair housing laws plus the Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, and more, contact the Lawrence Human Relations/Human Resources Department, 3rd Floor, City Hall, 841-7722, extensions 314 or 310. The booklet is an excellent reference material for any citizen, regardless of whether one owns or rents. Please take advantage of an to help others and/or yourself. �PINC~~NEY NEIGHBG ... tHOOD ~ ASSO*C*I~TION NEIGHBORHOOD May 1989 NEWSLETTER Volume IV ANNUAL MEETING ANNUAL MEETING ANNUAL MEETING Thursday, May 25, 1989, 7:30 p.m., Pinckney School, Teachers' Workroom Reminder ••• Agenda: Approval of minutes-March 30 neeting, Treasurer's Report and 1989/90 Members hip dues dues payment, Burcham Park Band Policy, Discuss PNA Western Boundary, $ be collected at Election of Vice-President, Appointment of Advisory Council, New Business. There will be two guest speakers: Judy Wright re Independence Days House Dec- $ the annual meeting $ $1 per individual or oration Event and Linda Hixon re Model Block Presentation. $ $2 per household. At ADVISORY COUNCIL $ this time, PNA has no Five volunteers are needed to serve for two year terms on the Advisory Council $ checking acct., so pay whose function is to advise /assist the officers in their duties. Members will be $ ment in cash would bE appointed at the 5/25 meeting. Duties of the AC members consist mainly of $ appreciated. Treasury attending meetings of the Exec. Board. Broad representation of the entire $ as of 5/1/89: $92.00. neighborhood on the council is encouraged as a means to hear concerns from ALL$ A complete accountin~ areas of Pinckney Neighborhood. Please plan to attend the 5/25 meeting and $ of the year's expendivolunteer to serve in this capacity if you possibly can. $ tures will be included NOMINATING COMMITTEE $ in the treasurer's report at the annual A nominating committee has been appointed by the Executive Board to $ meeting. Dues may ( $ also be mailed/given accept nominations or self-nominations) for the 1 year term of Vice President. Contact Sue Hewitt (842-0749), Kendall Simmons (841-6902), Eleanor Symons (842$$ to: Sue Hewitt, 1215 3986), Arvilla Vickers (843-5353) or Sherolyn Sneegas (842-4314) to nominate. $ West 4th Street. RIVER CLEAN-UP $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$: Participation in the Kaw River Area Clean-Up on May 6 was a great success for Pinkney Neighborhood. Two sites were cleaned-up in Pinkney: the ditch at 5th and Indiana Sts. and Constant Park down to the river and under the 2nd St. bridge. Twenty volunteers worked from 8 am to noon and collected nearly 2 TONS of litter and junk, some of which was recycled with the proceeds going to the homeless (LINK & The Salvation Army). Pinckney School Brownie troop No. 738, led by Bob Baker, also cleaned up the beach on the north bank of the river below the dam. MANY THANKS to the Brownies, Hillcrest Wrecking for free use of a tow truck at the ditch site, Bill Penny Concrete and the Journal-World for sponsoring a dump truck for hauling trash to landfill, the Chamber of Commerce for its donation of bio-degradable trash bags and especially to Patricia Marvin, SORT organizer who coordinated everything. Special thanks to the following volunteers who braved ticks, sludge, poison ivy and chill winds :at the ditch: Susan Pogany, Marguerite Risley, Fred Schuetz, Joe Hewitt, Dave Morgan, Suzanne Perry, Mike Shaw, Steve Hamburg, Sally Barker, Mark Creamer, Susan Clark (all from Pinckney), and Jana Muzyka, Cary deWit, Jerry Landers, Brian Davidson, Marci Francisco, Jeannette Jones, Gene Ferris and Steven Pawnkiller. BOUNDARY POLL Out of 1000 boundary polls sent out, only ten (10) have been returned. 5 from W. of Michigan Street, 5 from E. of Michigan St., three favored making Michigan the boundary, three against and four undecided Assorted comments: Creat a separate neighborhood association, why? Our interests are the same.* If boundary is changed, we wouldn't have to feel guilty for not participating. If divergent natures and issues are taken into consideration, then I think that Michigan St. is not the appropriate dividing line. I think the association should consider drawing its lines more in keeping with the type of homes, residents, etc. that we think of when we think of who fits in the "Pinckney Neighborhood Profile." *Communication may be the answer. Communication and participation is certainly an answer. ALL residents can benefit from a neighborhood association, but like any system, it takes the people to make it work. It's not a matter of fitting in, it's a matter of participating in, in a large or small degree. MODEL BLOCK PROGRAM The model block program offers to property owners in selected model blocks the opportunity to receive $1.00 back out of every $4.00 spent on the exterior of their homes, up to a maximim of $1,666.00. The purpose of the program is to encourage exterior rehabilitation of properties. Does Pinckney want a model block program? Please come to the annual meeting on 5/25 for details .... how can you lose!?!! AN INDEPENDENT IMAGE. • • The Independence Days Committee wants Pinckney residents to "decorate" their homes for this year's celebration. Suggestions range from a contest in which individuals decorate their own homes with winner receiving prizes to banners draped between porch colums or simple flags to give a uniform, low-key look to the neighborhood. The Douglas County Bank has made some money available to furnish some decorations to targeted neighborhoods. Interested? Residents, particularly on Tennessee or along the parade route (Tenn. to Ohio to Indiana to Burcham Pk.), should come to the annual PNA meeting to talk with Judith Wright from the Independence Days Committee who will present her ideas and listen to our input concerning what we want to display to out-of-towners and to our own home-town people. �-lOW TO REPAIR A BRICK SIDE1 'LK - Tools & materials: shovel(, 'pshooter type), tape measure, ;tring, stakes, hammer, rubber ma.. . [ 1 3-bubble level, 2"x6" or 2"x4" .ich measures a bit less than width >f new walk (minus edging bricks), sand. 1) Remove & stack bricks from old sidewalk, leaving edging bricks n place. Edging bricks are the upended bricks that line either side of the walk. 2) [optionalJ Re-align & eve! only one side of edging bricks. Pound stakes in at either end of edging bricks; stretch string between ·takes at desired heighth, & align bricks. Top of edgers should be %" above level of surrounding ground and i" above level of new walkway. Leave other edging row for later because it may be moved. 3) Determine 1eighth at which you want new walkway. Optimum heighth is slightly lower than surrounding ground. 4) Renove some dirt and/or add sand as necessary to raise the old ground. One or two inches of sand provide ~he best bed for the new walk and make leveling easier. 5) Sand you add should be leveled and tamped Jown hard with a 2x6. [sprinkling w/water aids tamping] The sand should be carefully leveled using a 2x4 Jr 2x6 & the level. Traditionally brick sidewalks were slightly higher in the center so water would drain Jff to the side. Probabaly this is the ideal, though I have laid all my walks perfectly level because it ;eemed easier. The leveling/tamping is usually done section by section as you go, because you are usually ;itting in the bed! 6) As each section is tamped and leveled, lay bricks back in the same pattern as before, Jlacing them closely together. Do not walk on bricks yet! 7) When all of sidewalk is re-laid, move the otJer edging row so that it solidly edges your new walkway. 8) Sweep sand between all the bricks. This nust be done repeatedly. You're all done! NOW you can walk on it. Susan Pogany 520 Louisiana . and there are some very nice bricksidewalks on the 500 block of Louisiana .•• check it out! Good work neighbors, good work! Pinckney Neighborhood Association 535 Indiana Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID LAWRENCE. KS 66044 Permit *· 232 I.\ II f) We need your ?articipation in the association and the newsletter,,, Call Arvilla B. Vickers at 8435353 or 841-7722, ext, 314 Thanks I - u-___. --------·---------------- WELCOME TO PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD!!! (and if this welcome is belated, please forgive, because there's no less good wishes behind it! 1) Steve hamburg and Sally Barker 4th and Indiana Barbara and Mark Walters 400 block Indiana Andrea Welborne and Robert Irving 5CO block Louisiana Kansas Zen Center 400 block Ohio To all PNA, if your name is not correct on the mailing list, please let us know! Just call Arvilla B. Vickers, 843-5353. Be a Star!! Support Fair Housing! Remember, fair housing law is for everyone. If you. have doubts about your treatment in real estate sales, financing, rental, call the City of Lawrence, 841-7722x314. ·fA~IVl~lvF~JVl~JVl~I:J~Rii/I:J~TWJ:ltli~~JVl~J:Yi. Ef It's a wrap!! (but not a rip rap!) Yes, the 5th & Ind. drainage ditch project seems to be finished. But the "rip rap" we were told would be put in to help retain the banks of the stream never materialized. Extra fill dirt was put in and it's been smoothed and seeded. We must hank the company that did the work for being so very careful not to disturb any more of the trees nd shrub than they absolutelv had to. We're all hoping for rain to help our farmers, but if a mighty :ansas spring rain hits the sl~pe of th:-t ditch before new growth starts, it will be interesting to see ~. -~- -It .~. " .._ o LL--1·- ___ :_ ... _ -11 ~----~,... .... rl nn thic:. nrniPrt-ll �The Pinckney Neighborhood Association wants to propose Model Block program for the neighborhood through 1990 - 1991 Community Development Block Grant Funds. To accomplish this we must act quickly. The purpose of the program is to encourage exterior rehabilitation of entire blocks. The program, if implemented, would provide property owners on the selected block with the opportunity to receive $1.00 back for every $4.00 spent on the exterior of their house, between August 1, 1990- July 31, 1991 up to a maximum rebate of $2,000.00 per house. For a block to qualify approximately 80% of property owners on the block must sign a petition promising to participate in the program. Newer construction on the block may be considered exempt-not part of the 100%-if desired. Please call the PNA(841-4399, Suzanne Perry) for a petition by September 15, 1989. Act quickly if you are interested in this program. Attend our next general meeting at Pinckney Grade School, Teacher's Workroom 7:30 p.m. - September, 25, 1989 Model Block petitions will also'be available at the Sept. 25 general meeting. Public Safety Poll At the July 19 Ldwrence Association of Neighborhoods (LAN) meeting member neighborhoods voted unanimously to endorse the formation of a city Task Force to investigate public safety issues. This task force is the one to be appointed by the City Commission to investigate police performance and the possibility of increasing the police force. The PNA is poll .. g all residents concerning public safety issues which you feel should be reviewed by the Task Force. If you wish to have input on a public safety agenda to be forwarded to the Task Force by LAN, please contact Suzanne Perry, 535 Indiana Street, 841-4399, before September 6, 1989. �Early this year, the 1988 Fair Housing Amendments Act went into effect. We should all be aware of our rights and responsibilities under local state and federal law. Persons involved in real esta.te transactions or the rental housing business, owner/manager/tenant should be educated regarding the laws that govern these areas. For information and/or free ccpies of laws/other pertinent information, contact the Lawrence Human RElations/Human Resources Dept., 3rd Floor, City Hall (841-7722x314) or ccntact the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in Kansas City MO .. 1-816-374-6457. Arm yourself with knowledge ... know your rights and your responsibilities! ~~~WJI ~inckney BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID LAWRENCE, KS 66044 Neighborhood Association 535 Indiana Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 ~ Permit #. 232 '~= ·J l.-.~- ·•: :l· * ::4:. ~: * * "'· ~:cf\t\'· PT .. ·:~nf? r ... ' ·•=cr-z-- .tfi1 (>}(;), CI\R ':37. ::. Just a reminder ... If you have discarded major appliances, furniture, trash and general debris on your property, be it a rental or your owned home, it can be removed free of charge by the City of Lawrence. Just a telephone call - 841-1215 - and you can rid yourself of an ugly, unsanitary and dangerous situation. Make that call today, and please, share this information with others! �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION TTER PNA meeting: Sept. 25, 1989, 7:30p.m., Tea ·-· o nurKroom, Pinckney Grade School Agenda: 1)Guest- Fred DeVictor, Dir. of Parks & Recreation-City •Update of Burch. Pk. landscape design •Review plans for new play equip. in Burch. Pk. 2)Guest:- Patricia Marvin, City Recycling Coordinator •will help neighborhood plan an October Clean-Up focusing on renting a wood chipper & removal of deadfall from yards 3)Model Block Petition Update 4)Fall Picnic Planning 5)PNA Executive Board Appointments Volume IV II/IUUHHIII/IIII#UIIII/1/1111111/I# 11111111111111111111 BOUNDRY REVISIONS . . . ~ It was unanimously deter- ~NO ~ mined at the May 1989 an- ~ nual meeting that no changes ~for PNA boundries would be ~considered until after the ~results of the 1990 federal ~census are known. Should ~ 1ncome levels of residents ~in PNA at that time cause ~the PNA to lose its status ;}S At a June Exec. Board Meeting, PNA officers voted unanimously against releasing the ~a target neighborhood, new PNA mailing list used for the newsletter distribution to any outside solicitors. ~boundries could be invest!NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR BURCHAM PARK - Pinckney has received $4,000 in CDBG funds ""gated. "' for playground equipment in Burcham Park. Initial plans included a free-standing swing ~ IIIIII//UI/1/UU/IIIUUIIIII/1/11111/ffll UU 1111111111 set and tubular slide. Meanwhile, the Parks & Rec. Dept. is considering replacing the existing wooden equipment in Burcham with a colorful, plastic/metal composit unit (similar to equip. in Centennial or Holcom Pks.) Fred DeVictor would like to combine City funds and the PNA's CDBG money for purchase of this new equipment. Catalogs & photos of possible equipment configurations will be available at the 9/25/89 meeting at which time Mr. DeVictor will present ideas and will listen to neighbor's input. "CHIPPING PARTY" - Want to clean up your yard this fall? See those dead limbs and brush disappear? Get free wood ch1ps for your garden? • Come and hear P. Harvw explain how PNA can help everyone recycle yard debris. CDBG clean-up funds would be .used to rent trucks for pick-up of limbs & brush from yards & deliver it to a central location-possibly Woody Park. At that point, a rented wood chipper would transform the brush piles into mounds of wood chips which ne1ghbors could come collect for mulch. Interested? Come hear more about it on September 25. BURCHAM PARK LANDSCAPING - Recently a design for landscaping improvements at the entrance to the park was drawn up by Sandra Brandt & Sue Hewitt for the neighborhood. PNA rec'd approximately $2,400.00 in 1988 CD~G funds for landscaping in Burcham. The design is under review by Mr. DeVictor, P & R Dir. and he will inform us at the 9/25 meeting of their decision. Many thanks to Sandra and Sue for their many hours of preparation of this design. LET'S ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE - Please contact any of the officers with neighborhood concerns. There are close to 1,000 households in Pinckney which makes communication & the exchange of ideas among neighbors a challenge. Please try to attend the Sept. 25 meeting & share your ideas & energy with other Pinckney residents. A Fall picn1c is also being planned to encourage a stronger sense of community w· e neighborhood. The PNA o Susanne Perry, President- 841-4399 • Susan Pogany, V. P . - 841-3736 • Arvilla Vickers, Secretary Sue Hewitt, Treasurer - 842-0749 REMINDER! HODEL BLOCK PETIT IONS If you and other residents on your block are terested in participating in the fedrally f. nded CDBG Model Block program [you get $1. DO b ck on every $4.00 you spend on exterior home o improvements], begin organizing your blo Get 80% of the home-owners and/or landlo your block to complete a petition (avail from S. Perry, 841-4399) and bring it to 9/25 meeting , bring or mail it to Suzanne at 535 Indiana St., Lawrence, KS. 66044. ??? ARE YOU AVAILABLE ??? ARE YOU AVAILABLE ??? The PNA is seeking a replacement for a vacant Community ment Block Grant (CDBG) Advisory Board position. This is a ; lunteer position for one year (term to expire Sept. 1990). CDBG Advisory Board meets in City Hall hours from mid-January to mid-April in order to make recommen ations to the City Commission regarding the distribution of a proximately $60D,OOO in federal money available to target neighborhoods, social service groups and City Departments. members also occasionally convene at other times during the when requests for use of contingency funds are received. Hi orities are encouraged to apply. For more information or f you wish to serve an this important board 1 at 841-4399 before September 25, 1989. HAPPY! ! ! ! ! ! ! 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As a people, Americ3ns believe that every person is entitled to safe, sanitary and affordable housing. Inherent in that principle is the right to choose where we want our shelter to be located & in what kind of shelter we wish to live, in other words, freedom of choice. The freedom to purchase or rent any home or any apartment which '1/e can afford and which is in a neighborhood of our choice is each family's or person's right. ~ow we choose the hous1ng and neighborhood is a personal matter which may be affected by many variables, including its location relative to schools, jobs, churches. shopping areas, friends, relatives and so forth. When anyone is denied or steered to, or away from, housing because of their race, sex, religion, color, national origin, age, ancestry, handicap or familial status, their rights are violated. Federal state, and local law prohibit such actions and provide remedies for those persons whose rights were violated. 11 § If you seek help and/or information regarding a tenant-landlord dispute that you are sure does not involve the possibil1ty of discrimination, can also contact the Consumer Affa1rs Association at843-4609 for complaints at 843-4608 for inquiries. now located at 700 Massachusetts, -'---"-=-"=="----'='-'-"-are 12 noon Fridays. Office hours are 9:30- 4:30 ~1on. - Thurs., same as phone hours on Fridays. If you desire more information or a free fair Housing booklet which contains cop1es of the pertinent fair housing laws plus the Kansas Res1dential Landlord and Tenant Act, and more, contact the Lawrence Huma~ Relations/Human Resources Department, 3rd Floor, City Hall, 841-7722, extensiors 314 or 310, The booklet is an excellent reference material for any citizen, regardless of whether one owns or rents. Please take advantage of an opportunity to help others and/or yourself. �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD /.VZP1<\t ASSOCIATION ~ *** NEWSLETTER NEIGHBORHOOD September 1989 Volume V PNA meeting: Sept. 25, 1989, 7:30p.m., Teacher's Workroom, Pinckney Grade School Agenda: 1)Guest- Fred DeVictor, Dir. of Parks & Recreation-City •Update of Burch. Pk. landscape design •Review plans for new play equip. in Burch. Pk . 2)Guest:- Patricia Marvin, City Recycling Coordinator •will help neighborhood plan an October Clean-Up ~ focusing on renting a wood chipper & removal of deadfall from yards 3)Model Block Petition Update 4)Fall Picnic Planning 5)PNA Executive Board Appointments IIIIIIHHH#III/II#III/111//1/IIIIIIIIIIIIIII/1111111111111 :E NO BOUNDRY REVISIONS . . • ~It was unanimously deter:Emined at the May 1989 an~nual meeting that no changes :lEfor PNA boundries would be ~considered until after the :lE results of the 1990 federal ~census are known. Should "" ~income levels of residents ~in PNA at that time cause ~the PNA to lose its status 2s At a June Exec. Board Meeting, PNA officers voted unanimously against releasing the ~a target neighborhood, new PNA mailing list used for the newsletter distribution to any outside solicitors. ~boundries could be investiNEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR BURCHAM PARK - Pinckney has received $4,000 in CDBG funds :i;; gated. for playground equipment in Burcham Park. Initial plans included a free-standing swing :;;; lfi/I//11/IIII//I/111/11/IIIIIIIIII/1/111/I/1/U 111/11111/ set and tubular slide. fleanwhile, the Parks & Rec. Dept. is considering replacing the existing wooden equipment in Burcham with a colorful, plastic/metal composit unit (similar to equip. in Centennial or Holcom Pks.) Fred DeVictor would like to combine City funds and the PNA's CDBG money for purchase of this new equipment. Catalogs & photos of poss1ble equipment configurations will be available at the 9/25/89 meeting at which time Mr. DeVictor will present ideas and will listen to neighbor's input. . . "':'. .1! . :' ..,, ·r:'iJ "CHIPPING PARTY" - Want to clean up your yard this fall? See those dead limbs and brush disappear? Get free wood chtps for your garden? • Come and hear P. f1arvin explain how PNA can help everyone recycle yard debris. CDBG clean-up funds would be .used to rent trucks for pick-up of limbs & brush from yards & deliver it to a central location-possibly Woodv Park. At that point, a rented wood chipper would transform the brush piles into mounds of wood chips which neighbors could come collect for mulch. Interested? Come hear more about it on September 25. BURCHAt·! PARK LANDSCAPING - Recently a design for landscaping improvements at the entrance to the park was drawn up by Sandra Brandt & Sue Hewitt for the neighborhood. PNA rec'd approximately $2,400.00 in 198B COBG funds for landscaping in Burcham. The design is under review by Mr. DeVictor, P & R Dir. and he will inform us at the 9/25 meeting of then decision. flany thanks to Sandra and Sue for their many hours of preparation of this design. LET'S ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE - Please contact any of the officers with neighborhood concerns. There are close to 1,000 households in Pinckney which makes communication & the exchange of ideas among neighbors a challange. Please try to attend the Sept. 25 meeting & share your ideas & energy with other Pinckney residents. A Fall picnic is also being planned to encourage a stronger sense of community within the neighborhood. The PNA officers are: Susanne Perry, President - 841-4399 • Susan Pogany, V. Pres. - 841-3736 • Arvilla Vickers, Secretary- B43-5353 o Sue Hewitt, Treasurer - 842-0749 REMINDER! t~ODEL BLOCK PETITIONS STILL AVAILABLE If you and other residents on your block are in· terested in participating in the fedrally funded CDBG Model Block program [you get $1.00 back on every $4.00 you spend on exterior home or yard improvements], begin organizing your block now!! Get am~ of the home-owners and/or landlords on your block to complete a petition (available from S. Perry, 841-4399) and bring it to the 9/25 meeting , br1ng or mail it to Suzanne Perry at 535 Indiana St., Lawrence, KS. 66044. ??? ARE YOU AVAILABLE ??? ARE YOU AVAILABLE ??? The PNA is seeking a replacement for a vacant Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Advisory Board position. This is a volunteer position for one year (term to expire Sept. 1990). The CDBG Advisory Board meets in City Hall one night a week for 2-3 hours from mid-January to mid-April in order to make recommendations to the City Commission regarding the distribution of approximately $600,000 in federal money available to target neighborhoods, social service groups and City Departments. Board members also occasionally convene at other times during the year when requests for use of contingency funds are rece1ved. Minorities are encouraged to apply. for more information or if you wish to serve on this important board, please call Suzanne Perry, at 841-4399 before September 25, 1989. MAY YOUR UPCOMING HOLIDAYS BE SAFE AND HAPPY, HAPPY HAPPY! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! �Early this year, the 1988 Fair Housing Amendments Act went into effect. We should all be aware of our rights and responsibilities under local state and federal law. Persons involved in real estate transactions or the rental housing business, owner/manager/tenant should be educated rEgarding the laws that govern these areas. For information and/or free ccpies of laws/other pertinent information, contact the Lawrence Human RElations/Human Resources Dept., 3rd Floor, City Hall (841-7722x314) or ccntact the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in Kansas City MO., 1-816-374-6457. Arm yourself with knowledge ... know your rights and your responsibilities! BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID LAWRENCE, KS 6~ Permit f. 232 Just a reminder ... If you have discarded major appliances, furniture, trash and general debris on your property, be it a rental or your owned home, it can be removed free of charge by the City of Lawrence. Just a telephone call - 841-1215- and you can rid yourself of an ugly, unsanitary and dangerous situation. Make that call today, and please, share this information with others! �The Pinckney Neighborhood Association wants to propose Model Block program for the neighborhood through 1990 - 1991 Community Development Block Grant Funds. To accomplish this we must act quickly. The purpose of the program is to encourage exterior rehabilitation of entire blocks. The program, if implemented, would provide property owners on the selected block with the opportunity to receive $1.00 back for every $4.00 spent on the exterior of their house, between August 1, 1990- July 31, 1991 up to a maximum rebate of $2,000.00 per house. For a block to qualify approximately 80% of property owners on the block must sign a petition promising to participate in the program. Newer construction on the block may be considered exempt-not part of the 100%-if desired. Please call the PNA(841-4399, Suzanne Perry) for a petition by September 15, 1989. Act quickly if you are interested in this program. Attend our next general meeting at Pinckney Grade School, Teacher's Workroom 7:30 p.m. - Septembe~ 25, 1989 Model Block petitions will also be available at the Sept. 25 general meeting. Public Safety Poll At the July 19 Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods (LAN) meeting member neighborhoods voted unanimously to endorse the formation of a city Task Force to investigate public safety issues. This task force is the one to be appointed by the City Commission to investigate police performance and the possibility of increasing the police force. The PNA is polling all residents concerning public safety issues which you feel should be reviewed by the Task Force. If you wish to have input on a public safety agenda to be forwarded to the Task Force by LAN, please contact Suzanne Perry, 535 Indiana Street, 841-4399, before September 6, 1989. �received From the 500 block Louisiana MODEL BLOCK RECOI+I£NOATION - Petiti' the 500 block Tennessee were considered by PNA officers and Exec. Bd. membe. dt the 11/6 meeting and were ranked for <imission to the CDBG board as Follows: 500 bl~. Louisiana 1 (out of 18 houses, 14 owners signed) 500 blk. Tennessee 2 (out of 10 houses, 7 owners signed & 2 owners on 6th Street Petitions and maps of both blocks will be included in the formal request for CD money, however, the PNA recommendat 1 on ·will be to fund rehab work on Louisiana St. further discussion of funding levels will take place at the 11/29 meeting. = == = = = = = ~ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = == = == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! A new representative to the Lawrence A3sociation of Neighborhoods is needed for PNA. Suzanne Perry will resign from this position at the end of 1989 after serving for 18 months. LAN meets about every 6 wks. end discusses issues important to all city neighborhoods (currently a LAN-initiated noise ordinance is scheduled to be considered by the City Commission). Anyone interested in representing the neighborhood in this associat:ion is encouraqed ~o call Suzanne Perry at 841-4399. :: : : = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ==============::::::::::::::::::::;:;:: Suggested 1990 CD Requests are as follows: Model·Block Grant for 500 block Louisiana; Drinking Fountain for Burchall' P1rk; Toddler Play Equipment for Clinton Park; tennis courts; soccer field. These are requests that are being researched "''d prepared for discussion at the 11/29 general neet1ng. At that time, final funding figures will be ava1lable and " pr1ority rank1ng will be given each request for submiss1on to the CDBG Advisory Board on December 1. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Fair Housing is Everybody's Business! For information about the laws which spell out everyone's responsibilities and rights, call 841-7722x314, Lawrence Human Relations/Human Resources Department or, you may also call 1-816-374-6457, the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity-HUn for detailed information about the recently amended Federal law. * PLEASE, * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PLEASE DON'T SPEED-ESPECIALLY IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS WHERE CHILDREN AND PETS CAN BE AT RISK. THANK YOU. )tc~~!d • Association 535 Indiana Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID LAWREI'tCE, KS 6S044 Pwmtt 1. 232 ~ Guess what!!?? Even though I am a "sweet and loving pet" for ~people, everything around my people's house is MY territory and I wouldn't be a dog if I didn't protect that territory. So if other dogs and people come very close to my territory, I might get very excited and that could mean a fight or a bite and THEN guess what? If I'm not kept on my territory by a fence or a tether, I could end up getting put to sleep if something like that happens. That's only the worst. My people could also be sued, that's the law, and then they'd be mad at me and oh, it would be so, s~o. · very awful. Also, if dogs are let to run where ever they pleas they can fight and bite ther people and dogs as they alking, even if those dogs are leashes, which is the right way, dogs that run loose really are breaking the law and don't know it. But their owners do. So please tell all IIW~IW ,t..-YOur people to be very considerate of all our neighbors an, keep their dogs on their property and on leashes, which is the law, when thev take them out for exercise. We HAVE to depend on our people to do the right thi1 We're just dogs and cannot change our in· stincts to chase a small animal, or defend territory, or look for food in garbage cans if we're let to run loose. When someone gets bitten in such a situa tion, if the owner was put to sleep instead of the poor animal, I'll bet peopl would start obeying the law real fast' But we'd never want our people to get h11 that's why we defend them. I wish thev could know what it's like from our 3tan~ point ... if we keep asking them to, maybe someday, they will. And don't forget, the cold, COLD weather is coming soon. Please remember we need the proper shelt water and food ... a little more food--:rr;-cold weather when we have to be outside. Consideration and love will take care of things every time!! Bow wow, bye bye ... �Pll\~KNEY NEIGHbJRHOOD ASSOCIATION *** NEWSLETTER November 1989 Volume vn The Pinckney Neighborhood Association wants to thank Eagle Scout Dannv Halverstadt who did • beautiful job painting the P1nckney School tunnel under 6th Street. The tunnel is now ••••tcng a new lighting system which is being paid for through Community Development funds. The Ccty cs ~t~l~ ~a~i~g_b~d~ !o~ ~h: ~i2h~sc ~h~c~ ~a~e_b:e~ ~ ~e~g~b~r~o~d_b~a~ !o~ ~a~y_y:a~s: _____ _ 11 FIRST STEP HOUSE is a home for recovering alcoholic and " chem1cally dependent women and their children. The women at " FSH have been sober at least 30 days, and have completed an " inpatient treatment program. They are ready to take their 11 11 first steps toward establishing a new, sober life, For same recovery is complicated by a lack of resources. Such women 11 benefit greatly from such a program because during their " stay, they have time to develop the resources needed for " long term recovery. For more information, call 643-9262 to of ask for Suzanne Stroup. = = :: :: : : = = & = = :: = = = = Pinckney PTO rep 11 ACCESSIBLE HOUSING PROGRAM Collaboration of Pinckney Grade School " The Accessible Housing Program of Independchildren and PNA to provide community " ence, Inc. is now in operation to ass1st services (yard work, errands, etc.) to older or handicapped PNA residents 11 persons with a handicap to make needed modAppointment of LAN representative - Payment of LAN dues ($25.00) " ifications on rental apartments or houses. Allocation for Jane Eldredge's fees from PNA Tresury " Some Examples of modifications that are COBG Requests Ranking " possible through the program include: Discussion and solutions of traffic problems on 6th St., east of My~~n~gsee :: - Building ramps to provide access to the L~ enterence of an apartment or house. ~~C~M~! =W~L~O~E ~ 1 = ~E~C~M~! ~! = =~L~O~E ~! ~ 1 = = = = = = = = = '"-,.~~.4. Widening doorways to allow clearance for llll...v ·· - Doris Pratt and daughter, Jan O'Neal have moved into the 300 block of North- " a person using a wheelchair. wood Lane, and Jan Moore is a new neighbor in the 200 block of Michigan st. - Installing a visual signaling system to We hope you enjoy your new homes and neighborhood and we look forward to inform a person who is deaf that someone getting to know you! Hope to see you at the PNA meeting on the 29th!! is at the door. = = = === = = = = == = = == = = = = = = = = = = = =, - Installing lever-type door or faucet H E L P ! ! ! Contributions are still needed to cover attorney fees ($400+) , handles to provide more independent operation. for legal services relating to the rezoning dispute at 532 Miss. Owning to Replacing or beveling door thresholds the .extremely small balance of the PNA tresury, volunteer contributions are which are too high, allowing smoother essential. Any amount would be appreciateed & sent to Sue Hewitt, Ires., at passage for a person using a wheelchair. 1215 W. 4th or brought to the meeting 11/19. fhank you for your support! =" - Installing grab bars in the bathroom. ~ ~ = = = = = = = = :: ~ = = 11 If there are accessibility modifications yot Current treasury balance is $55.21. Expenses for PNA picnic & Clean-Up on would like to make in the pLace you are ren· 10/22 came to $28.43, approximately the amount earned from the Spring ing, or you would like more in format 1 on, 11 Clean-Up recycling effort. = = = = = = = = = :: :: = :: = :: = :: = = = = = = = = = = :: : : : : = = :: =u Kris Vervaecke Hayden was appointed by the C1ty Commission in November to fill a vacancy for PNA on the Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board. Her term will expire 9/90. [hank you, Kris, for this contribut10n of your time and service to the neighborhood. " contact Bob ~1ikesic at Independence, Inc. , 1910 Haskell Ave. ,Lawrence, KS. 66046 or ca ~831-0333. .,A,A '\i_" = = = = = = = Jllfl·~ RE-ZONING VICTORY'!!! After a re-match before the Plann1ng Commission on 10/25 where commissioners voted 6-3 to reject duplex rezoning for 2 lots at 532 Niss. (as well as denying a motion to build only one duplex on those lots), it appe:trs the rental structures ~ that site will ~demolished and sold for single-family development. Hany thanks to the 18 ne~ut,­ bors who spent two hours at the Planning Commission meet1ng, the 70 people who signed a protest petition, and all of )OU who phoned commissioners in support of preserving single-family zoning. Thanks also to Gary Freeman, principal of Ptnckne;. Grade School, for working with the P~A and signing the petition, as well as PTO rep., Kelly Hayden, who spoke at the meetu Special thanks also to Jane Eldredqe, atty. and past P~es. of the PNA, who sa effectively represented neighborhood interest before the commissioners. PRESERVE PL~CKNEY \EIGHBORHOOD stlll proves to be a unifying battle cry 1 On 10/22 und 10/23, Joe Heva t t, Fred Schuetz 1 Suzanne Perry and t:he All Seasons Tree Se rv tee crew p tcked up ltmb:, from .lpproximately 20 front yards in Pinckney ne1ynborhood and stuffed them through a wood chipplng machine, produClllCJ pl!_'k-up truckloads of ch1ps. Several neighbors took home chips far thetr gardens from the ptle dumped in Clinton hHk, Others enjoyed chill, cider and potluck dishes afterwards at the park. Thanks to Sue Hew1tt and Suzanne Perry for the chill'! ============================================== NUl EXEC. BD. 1-\EMBERS- At the 9/25 general meeting, t·lark Creamer, .l12 Indiana, and Suzanne Stroup, Dir. of t·larketinq and Development at First Step House, volunteered to serve on the Exec. Board. Joe He,.itt, 1215 11. 4th, also serves on this bd. h1o more members are still needed. Volunteers are encouraged to contact any officer For more informatton. Dut1es are minimal: attend meetings held by officers frior to each general meebng in order to plan agenda and prov1de input on neighborhood issues - that 1 s all! It's an easy way to GE f I~VOLVED in supporting your neighborhood' 1 ============= \1 HAP P Y H0 L I D AYS EVERYONE!! ==============::= HAP P Y ENJOY, BE H 0 l I 0 A YS HAPPY AND ===========:::==== HA P P Y H0 l I D A YS 0 DR I NK P LE AS E , D0 N' 0 R I V �PIHCICHIY NIIIIIOIIOOD AIIOCIATIOH 10/2/89 Pinckney Fall Clean-Up AND Picnic CLINTON PARK Sunday, October 22, 1989 This year, the Pinckney Fall Cl<oJan-Up will nnt jndude disposal of trash or large items. For households needing pick-up of large items, please call the Sanitation Department 841-1911 during business hours, Monday thru Friday. If the City has one day's notice, their trucks will stop at curbside for almost any large item. Sl\~[ YUU~ Lll.tllS liN() Lllt>S fllll lli[ CIIIPPEil! ! ! TIPS FOR PREPARATION OF LIMBS PUT ALL LIMBS AND LOGS AT THE CURBSIDE LAY ALL LIMBS AND LOGS IN THE SAME DIRECTION (PREFERABLY WITH CUT END TOWARD THE CURe,) LIMBS MAY BE ANY LENGTH LIMBS UP TO 6 INCHES DIAMETER NO BUNDLING, NO BOXES NO STRING, NO WIRE, NO METAL NO TRASH, NO LITTER NO TREATED LUMBER SCRAPS NO STICKERS, NO THORNS, NO VINES NO ROOTS OR BUSHES WITH ROOTBALLS WHY FUSS OVER LIMBS AND LOGS? Neighborhood volunteers will be coming through the n<oJighborhood with a wood chipping machine and c:rew between 1 p.m. and 4 p,m on Sunday, Odober 22nd. The machin<;l turns our useless limbs into useful mulch, The mulch will be colleded in an attached truck and taken to the parking area of Clinton Park. You may bring your bags or boxes lo the park and take some mulch for lawn and garden. Bring some food and enjoy the l'icnic, too. COME TO THE PICNIC! PUNil:l LOCI\TIUN1 FOUill Sun<Jav, (I[J(I(J[Il 22 -- 4-0 p,rn, Clinton Pa.-~ Sllel te.- 11ovse riniCI<nev Neiglll>o.-lmo<J llssoc. will pr-ovide apple cider- and chili. Each family is ad;e<J to 11.-ingl - br-ing a cove.-erJ dish tllat will serve 4-~ per-sons - br-ing t.lleir- own f ooc:l ser-vice tltensih RAIN DATE If we get rain on October 22, we will reschedule the clean up/ picnic for Uctvl>e.- 2.'1. ELDERLY RESIDENTS ASSISTANCE If you are an eld13rly or disabl13d neighbor who would lik13 to participate in the Fall Clean-Up, but require some assistance lo gather and to place your fallen limbs at lhe curbside, call Joe HewiH prior to Odobl3r 20th al 842-0'749, after 5100 p.m. weekdays, or any time on weekends, and arrangemenl.s will be �:.lfJIA..:L ALJt:K tJt::CI·\f·l[\0~1 [tl\ - h\ P\,1. offtt·r•L'S tlk. Loul~il~tnCJ r>OO blk. lennPssee )Of) P.;r !~"_tlJI•':l !'•'•:··~'-l":'d 1nrJ Exec. Bel. rnernhers ut the 011t 2 lL rrq1t1 b tht• '"~UU t>lo,·.., !...•Jllt:.:.ll.u u,r1 rht• ··OU !Jitl• v l•"•r·....J.-•'1-" ~tPr":' c:~r••>,•1r•:····: 1nq and w1~re r·mkpd f,Jr submtsstofl to 1h1• dJBC IH:.tr·J '15 f-1: 1·:-~w::: nu~et qf lA hnu:,f's, _1~ msners stqnedi .out of 10 houses, 7 owners sujned & 2 owners on 6th Street Pet1t1ons tmc1 maps of both blnck5 will be included in the formal request for CD money, however, the P"-1..\ recommeni10tlon will be to fund rehab work on Lou1s1ana St. Further discussion of fund1ng levels will take place at the 11/29 meet1ng. = === === === = === ::::;; = = = = = = = == === = === = = = =-= = === =:::::: =;:; = =:: === = = = = = = = = A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS' A new representative to the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods IS needed for PNA. Suzanne Perry 1nll resign fro'll this postlion at the end of 1989 after serving for 18 months. LAN meets about every 6 ~<ks. and discusses issues Important to all city neighborhoods (currently a LAN-in1tiated noise ordinance is scheduled to be con-· sidered by the City Commission), Anyone interested in representing the neighborhood in this association is encouraged to call Suzanne Perry at 841-4399. =::: == = = = ==;::::::: :::::: = = === == = = === == = ======== = = === = == == == = == == == = = == = Suggested 1990 CD Requests are as follows: Model·Block Grant for 500 block Louisiana; Drinking Fountain for Burcham Park: Toddler Play Equipment for Clinton Park; tennis courts; soccer field. These are requests that are being researched and prepared for discussion at the 11/29 general meeting. At that time, final funding figures will be available and a priority ranking will be given each request for submission to the CDBG Advisory Board on December 1. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Fair Housing is Everybody's Business! For information about the laws which spell out everyone's responsibilities and rights, call 841-7722x314, Lawrence Human Relations/Human Resources Department or, you may also call 1-816-374-6457, the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity-HUD for detailed information about the recently amended Federal law. * PLEASE, * * *PLEASE * * DON'T * * SPEED-ESPECIALLY * * * * * * IN *RESIDENTIAL * * * *AREAS * *WHERE * *CHILDREN * * * * * AND PETS CAN BE AT RISK. THANK YOU. );~c~~!d BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID LAWR£1tc£, KS 66044 Association 535 Indiana Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 • ~ Permit*. 232 *************CAR-RT-SORT** CR-10 670 S2: 3 Guess YJhat! !?? Even though I am a "sweet and loving pet" for !!!Y. people, everything around my people's house is MY territory and I wouldn't be a dog if I didn't protect that territory. So if other dogs and people come very close to my territory, I might get very excited and that could mean a fight or a bite and THEN guess what? If I'm not kept on my territory by a fence or a tether, I could end up getting put to sleep if ~omething like that happens. That's only the worst. My people could also be sued, that's the law, and then they'd be mad at me and oh, it would be so, so~·very awful. Also, if dogs are let to run where ever they pleasd, they can fight and bite other people and dogs as they art alking, even if those dogs are on eashes, which is the right way, dogs that run loose really are , ~·· ,;~ b1·eaking the law -nd don't ~ ,•.,1, ' know it. But the owners ;:& :<~' a.~~· S.o please tell all ~ ~ very considerate of all our neighbors and keep their dogs on their property and on leashes, which is the law, when they, take them out for exercise. We HAVE to depend on our people to do the right thin1 We're just dogs and cannot change our instincts to chase a small animal, or defend territory, or look for food in garbage cans if we're let to run loose. When someone gets bitten in such a situation, if the owner was put to sleep instead of the poor animal, I'll bet people would start obeying the law real fast! But we'd never want our people to get hurl that's why we defend them. I wish they could know what it's like from our standpoint ... if we keep asking them to, maybe someday, they will. And don't forget, the cold, COLD weather is coming soon. Please remember we need the proper shelte: water and food ... a little more food in cold weather when we have to be outside. Consideration ~.d love will take care of things every l .e!! Bow wow, bye bye ... �We need active members and wculd like to meet yru at our meeting. If ycu wish to join by mail, please fill cut the ccupon below and return it to Vicki-1)'1ll1 Wazienski, 1413 W. 4th St., Lawrence, Ks. 66044. Dues are $1 per year. NAME ADDRESS TELEPHONE DUES ENCLOSED COMHITTEES (For ccrrM.ittees, list any you might like to serve on. If ~ou.have any ideas of committees that would be needed in the assoc~at1on, please list them.) I i I I j I 'ON lJWJa.f ~ S}l ·~a~~., OIYd 3 h150d 'S'fl U Yll )l'l!l!I �*** NEWSLETTER March 1990 Volume VIII parents of Pincknev students and residents near the school hc\Ve becor1e concerned ;_bout the dangers posed by the speed of traffic c.lona and Mississippi Street. Several proposals which mi•;:;ht help alleviate at least some of the problems have been suggested. Belo;; is ;~ summarv of the six we discussed at the last meeting. We would like your reactions to these and welcome any additional suggestions. The Pinckney PTO and the Old \vest Lawrence Association are working \<lith the PNA to develop a feasible pronosal to work on. Please join us as we try to ~ake our neighborhood school-as safe as possible for our children. ~ 1) ~wo tra~f~c lights. bet\<1eex: K~nt~ck:f c.nd Maine: poss~ble locc.t~ons~ Tenn., Oh1o, Lou1s1ana, Ind1an2, MlSSlSSlppl (not recoi~~endea by cros~1n? guard because of c.dded turning traffic which \<lould result) .....,..., 2) One traffic liaht between Kentuckv and Maine: all of the above ~.,__ E'treets considered. _, ·_ 3) School Zone and flashins li<;hts on Sixth Street. -~ 4) 500 block of Mississippi one-way going south; no left turn off of Sixth Street. 5) Flashin~ lights in middle of 500 block of Mississippi to stoD traffic so children can stop. 6) Barriers on easement between Mississippi and Illinois on Sixth St. Committee merr~ers to contact with other suggestions are: Susan Pogany, Karen Erb, Mark Creamer and David Morgan. i ~~==~= i . PLEASE NEXT PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION GENERAL MEETING ATTEND! Wednesday, March 21, 1990 at 7:30 p.m. at Pinckney School, Teachers' Room AGENDA: 1) PNA Yard Sale planning; discussion ofother fund raising events, e.g. Holiday Home Tour, membership drive. 2) Report from LAN rep., Kelly Hayden. 3) Report from Pinckney Traffic Safety Committee. 4) River Clean-Up, P. Marvin, Lawrence Recycling Coord. 5) Discussion of proposed Parking Lot on 6th St. between Vt. & Kentucky. 6) New Business. CDBG Requests - At the Jan. 23 PNA ~meeting it was decided to submit a 'late' CbBG reauest for $4,500 for an 80 day per yr. Coordinator for PNA. It is hoped that the hiring of a Coord. will ensure the perpetuation of the association and its goals regardless of changing levels of commitment by volunteers. The Coord. would help with a quarterly newsletter, see that CDBG requests are properly arrived at and submitted to the City, and follow through on the disbursement of any CD funds received by PNA. The other 1990 CDBG entries for PNAwere prioritized at the 11/89 gen. meetin~. Here they are: 1) oper. exp. !1425; 2) Clean-Ups $1200; 3) Model Blk Project (500 blk LA St.) !li28,000; 4)Tennis Ct. Clinton Pk. $25,000; 5) Drinking Fountains/Burch. Pk. $2325; 6) Toddler Play Equip.Cl.Pk. $5980; 7) Soccer Field in Clinton Pk. $18,750. Many thanks to David Morgan, 533 Tenn., who effectively presented these requests on behalf of PNA to the CDBG Advisory Bd. in Janu1'ry. We should know by the May Annual Meeting which of these requests will be funded. PNA were Oct. that $240 TREASURY DEFICIT - The PNA treasury is -now in the-red -$243.60. LAN dues for 1990 paid, the remaining $38.40 was used towards payment of legal fees ($522) incurred lsst during the 532 Mississippi re-zoning dispute. It was decided at the 11/09 general meet inc the PNA treasury should pay for outstanding legal fees not covered by volunteer donations. has been donated thus far, leaving a balance due of $243.60. Plans are currently underway for a HUGE PINCKNEY YARD SALE in April as a fundraiser- for payment of the legal fees (with any extra profits going into the PNA treasury). Marguerite Risley at 424 Indiana St. has graciously agreed to hold the sale in her yard. DONATIONS OF YARD SALE ITEMS AND VOLUNTEERS WILL BE ESSENTIAL. PLEASE START SCAVENGING YOUR HOMES FOR TREASURES TO DONATE!! The sale and other fundraising ideas will be discussed at the March 21 meeting. ELECTION OF ciFFIC'ERs -- President; Vi'ZePre"'sldeiit,- set;~;;-r;ry,:~r;-~t'T-r~~-;;~;;·e-r--,;;fin;;;- ef~c'"t~d at the May Annual meeting. Current officers will complete their two-year terms and several do not plan to seek re-election (e.g.President). A slate or candidates will ne needed for <:<ll four positions. If you are interested in serving your neighborhood as an officer or if you wish to nominate another willing volunteer, please contact Suzanne Perry, 81i.1-l;399, or Susan Pogany, 841-3736. YA:IR. -;::rousiNG=MoN1l-f1"990,=-wur·b-e ~~ci;;Tmed- il'Yl:'h~- c1t;=trl'r-;;:.;~~~c;;; =rr;f\P;u~ ~~rart CiT the national celebration for the establishnent cf fair housing lnvt in our country. This yearly affiiTrwtian of the right for all for equal op!Jortunity in housins: is the time for us nll to heir others stf!QQ up for their _rights and~ to educate yg_y.rself and .others. as to our riahts and our responsibiltties under housmo law. Call OL\1-7722, L.Jty Hall, If you nave anv 'luestwns-or It you would like a free -'fair housing booklet. ' �..... ,.... ,.... '· ·.·· way traffic 6lh Street 1. Safer, no two way traffic 2. C onvenicnt, no dead ends 3. More efficient, 40 cars instead of 23 this will support 2000 more sq. ft. of retnil business 4. No loss of landscape potential ~ S. Easy in & out of space >- "·' Green-Space or Grey Space?Park or ~ 11\ Parking Lot- Very soon the City will.3'1' decide about conversion of this space ~ lflto parking for city employees and "' downtown shoppers. Some prefer to ;; landscape this area as an inviting ~ green space for visitors arriving at Town Center. Come discuss this issue at the March 21 I -~ X Between Sts. on Six Street Total Capacity 40 cars + 2 H, C, Typical spece 9' x 1 8' BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAJD Pinckney Neighborhood Association 535 Indiana Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 LAWREitCE, KS 66044 Permit*. 232 ' ' .<1: ~ t. YNN •. ~- -~ ' ~ ~ ,l ~ ' ~- ·' :1. ;. 1 .. ~ ' (• J i"? J Cl) COr·JM. Df'.IJ. -Ll!'Y PO !lOX 7091l l.,\lJf~2:NCf ~:, ·1 /', l E 1 q lt"J ··;() 10 r·11 >: E f1 GlJr~ r:~l.JU .. K:) 66044·-~1 1VIH PLEASE MIND YOUR PARKING MANNERS - When it comes to parking your vehicles, are you considerate of your neighbors? Sure, it may be legal to park your cars, pick-ups or commercial vehicles anywhere you want ••• but don't forget your moral obligation not to inconvenience your neighbors. If you have more vehicles than can be· comfortably parked in front of your own house, perhaps you should consider the following: parking in your garage, renting a neighbor's unused garage, creating off-street parking beside your alley (if you have one), getting your neighbor's verbal permission to park in front of their house regularly, or some other creative solution. Residents with more than two vehicles (some have up to 5 per household!) often don't think about how irritating their cars are to their neighbors. Would you be angry if: 1) you arrived home a bit late to find no parking available in front of your own house -only neighbors' vehicles; Z) an elderly parent or disabled person came to visit and had to park a great distance from your house because your extra parking spots were regularly occupied by a neighbor's vehicle(s); 3) you looked out your front window each evening and weekend to see a large commercial vehicle or pick-up truck belonging to someone else? These things and others happen every day, and if your vehicles are responsible, you can bet your neighbors are upset -- but perhaps too ill-at-ease to discuss their feelings with you. Mutual consideration is the key. Why not take the first step toward neighborliness? Make responsible arrangements for your extra vehicles. HELP UPDATE THE PNA MAILING LIST - if you know of a new neighbor please call Arvilla B. Vickers at 843-5353 so the correction can be made on the mailing list. If you don't know the new person(s) name, call anyway and 1 will drop by their residence and get the information. If a person moves out of Pinckney neighborhood, most likely all their rrail will be forwarded to a new address. This means they get a newsletter they no longc<r need and the new person gets nothing. Please help to keep communication flowing between the PNA and all residents. Please join in so me part -of the -=e"'f7f=o=rt:=o=u='r=c=:i"'t=y==:"is=ct=:r=y=:i=on'=g=:'t'=o="'su""""'c""c=e=e=;d=a7t=re=g=a=rd=.te"·n=g==r==e=c:=y=c=;l7i n=g=."'c~a"'ll=,P'F.=:'M7"'a=rv""'i""n= at 841-7722 x 309 for informatior-. Our planet is in grave danger .•. please recycle-it's good sense & good busomess!! �Neighborhood Newsletter, April1990 SPRING CLEANUP COMING UP Beginning at 7:45a.m. Saturday, May 5, two city trash trucks with crews will cruise every street in the neighborhood, starting on the east edge at the corner of 6th and Tennessee. Large, heavy items (tree branches, brush, junk furniture) as well as garbage will also be picked up at the curb. Please have items out early. Glass (separate by color) and aluminum cans will also be picked up by a United Recycling volunteer neighborhood truck. The PNA will sell these recyclables to United Recycling with proceeds going to the PNA treasury. We must separate Glass and aluminum cans from other trash for the Saturday pick-up. Start saving now. Volunteers are needed to ride city trucks and help load up the trash. A lift is available on the flatbed truck for loading of heavy items. Please join in (free breakfast and gloves provided). To volunteer, call Kendall Simmons at 841-6902 before May 4. The clean up takes about 3-4 hours (8a.m.- noon). Pick-up trucks and drivers are also needed for the recycling drive. Sponsored by the Pinckney Neighborhood Association; funded by Community Development Block Grant Funds. there are two attractive single family residences on these lots. You can make a difference! Sale receipts in excess of the legal debts will be entrusted to Pinckney Treasurer, Sue Hewitt. II ANOTHER RIVER AREA CLEANUP II The River Area Oeanup is a cooperative effort to begin to restore some of our river area to a cleaner and healthier state. Pinckney Neighborhood Association, East Lawernce Improvement Association and North Lawrence Neighborhood Association are co-sponsoring this year's cleanup. Volunteers from Pinckney are needed to help clean up Constant Park, Burcham Park and the areas adjacent to Constant Park and under the Kansas River bridge. Please contact Suzanne Perry (841-4399) by May 4 if you can spend an hour or two picking up litter in these areas (or meet us at Constant Park Saturday morning). II EARTH DAY EVENTS II Volunteers: 7a.m., come to 424 Indiana to help set up or come later to help sell and clean up. The first Earth Day in 1970 focused millions of eyes on the condition of the home planet. The subsequent nationwide attention to environmental issues resulted in the creation of the EPA and the strenghtening of the Clean Air Act With 1990 comes an opportu;nity to both commemorate the first Earth Day and to rededicate ourselves to the challenge of caring for our planet. Earth Day 1990 will be celebrated in Lawrence with a festival sponsored by campus and community environmental organizations. The twentieth anniversary celebration in South Park will include educational booths, workshops, live music, local artists and craftspeople, childrens' activities, local businesses and services, food and drink-in short, everything necessary for truly wholesome awareness and entertainment. Profit: proceeds of sale will be used for payment of remaining $233 in legal fees incurred during rezoning dispute at 532 Mississippi in Ocotber, 1989. You may recall, that the proposal to build duplexes or triplexes on this property was defeated with the help of a former Pinckney resident Jane Eldridge and with the support of Pinckney residents who took the time to show up at the Planning Commission's rezoning hearing. Now Come celebrate at the Earth Day Dinner, April 22 from 5:00-9:30 p.m. at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper. Main dish, dessert and table service will be provided, but please bring a salad or vegetable dish. Speakers will make brief presentations from 6:00 to 7:00p.m .. Steve Hamburg, 40l,Indiana, will speak on behalf of Pinckney neighborhood regarding local concerns. All are welcome! PINCKNEY BENEFIT YARD SALE Saturday, April 28: 8:00am· 1:00 pm Donations: bring items for sale (with prices) to 424 Indiana (home of Arvilla Vickers and Marguerite Risley) by Friday, April 27.1tems may be dropped off at front porch. folding tables are also needed. �'~'=======AI=DS=W=A=L=K======~'ii~'=====L=A=N=W=OR=~=H=O=P====~~~ Saturday, April13 you can contribute to the AIDS fundraising walk starting in downtown Lawrence. Walkers will go past the Campanile on campus and end up in South Park where there will be food and entertainment Walkers are encouraged to obtain $30 in pledges The Douglas County AIDS Project and Health Care Access, community-based volunteer organizations will share the proceeds of the walk. The idea is to replace the insensitivity and aversion often displayed toward those who are HIV positive or who have AIDS with care and compassion, and to provide the community at large with accurate infonnation about AIDS. Health Care Access, with the help of the Lawrence health care community, provides medical services to persons with limited financial means whose health needs are not met by government or private insurance plans. Health Care Access believes that health care should be available to all, regardless of ability to pay. To join the walk, get a registration form by calling 8415670. You may preregister on the three weekends prior to April13 at: The Paradise Cafe, Riverfront Mall or the Lawrence Public Library. KINDERGARTEN SCREENING Parents with children who will be starting kindergarten next fall and who have not already done so, should call Pinckney school for an appointment for screening day, April 23. Call: 843-4622 Pinckney Neighborhood Association 223 Arkansas Lawrence,KS 66044 Saturday, April13, the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods (LAN) will sponsor the rrrst annual neighborhood workshop conference. It will emphasize skill building and goal setting. Sessions will be held on Newsletters, Treasurer functions, Secretarial responsibilities, Social/Activities, Leadership and Blockworkers/ Membership programs. Attendance is free for Pinckney members. Persons attending are asked to bring a covered dish according to the following schedule: A-H I-0 P-Z Salad; fruit;vegetable Main Dish;caserole;meat/fish Dessert or bread COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LOANS DEADLINE: April 30 The Community Development Department of the City of Lawrence will have a limited amount of funds available for its housing rehabilitation deferred loan program. These loans do not require monthly payments. Applications for the program year August 1, 1990 through July 1, 1991 will be accepted until April 30, 1991. Eligibility requirements for owner/occupants of a property range from gross annual family income of $16,900 for a family of one to $30,200 for a family of eight. Application fonns are available at City Hall, room 08 or can be be obtained by calling 841-7722, ext 3113 or 3114. BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID LAWRENCE, KS 66044 PERMIT #232 �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION J· ""'\ _JfoV?.. Pr~ 4,~. NEWSLETTER May 1990 A~~U~L ~EETING Volumn IX I A~~~AL ~EETI~G I ANNUAL MEETING ' ANNUAL MEETING 1 ·~~;~;;~~~> ~onday, June 4, 1990, 7:30p.m., Pinckney Grade School- Teachers' Workroom Guest Speaker: 3teve Jantzen, Dir., Watkins Community Museum- "History of Lawrence with a~ emphasis on Pinckney Neighborhood" Also: Election of Officers; Review of the year; Treasurer's Report; 1991 CDBG Requests Update; hth Street Task Foree Report; 5th & Indiana Ditch Report. ~~~n~~l('l!(:C'll~:"'l(~"'l("~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ominations for 1990-1992 Officers: Please contact one of the current officers, Suzanne Perry - 841-4399, Susan Pogany - 841-3736, Arvilla Vickers, - 843-5353, Sue Hewitt - 842-0749, if you are interested in serving as ~ President, Vice-President, Secretary or Treasurer of the PNA. Officers~~ serve two-year terms. ~ Independence Days JJI!!!.,i_,~::;. ~1. Y.:'l:N:.:.e::::..::.e.=.d.=.s__;V...:oc.:l:.:u:.:nc:...t::.-e=-e=-=-r~i,;l~ ·~~ '1~" ~ J..JJ YARD SALE SUCCESS! On April 28, 1990 a"' neighborhood yard sale was held at 424 Indiana. Six households contributed items and sales totalled $200. Remaining items were packed away for another sale to be held at the same address in conjunction with Independence Days. More items will be needed for the July sale, so please start saving now. Many thanks to Marguerite Risley, Arvilla Vickers, Kelly Hayden, Tolly Smith, Susan Pogany, Fred Schuetz, Bob Baker, Mark Creamer and Suzanne Perry for their efforts. Lawrence's annual Independence Days festival, July 4-8, needs volunteers to work a variety of 2-hr. shifts on the Hospitality and Security Committees Call Judy Write, 865-4476, to volunteer. CDBG Representatives Volunteers are also needed to serve as Pinckney reps. on the Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board. This board meets weekly from January through March each year and makes recommendations to the City Commission regarding the expenditure of $6-700,000 in federal funds. The terms of our current representatives, Suzanne Perry and Kris Hayden, expire in September of this year. Please contact S. Perry - 841-4399, if you are interested in serving on this important board. 6th Street Task Force Kelly Hayden and Marilyn Gabay were appointed recently by the City Commission to represent Pinckney Neighborhood and the Pinckney PTO, respectively, on the 6th Street Task Force whose task it is to determine what measures need to be taken to improve pedestrian and vehicular safety on 6th St. A report will be gjven at the June 4 annual meeting on this Task Force's progress. Independence Days Home Decoration Last year Douglas County Bank sponsored a neighborhood decorating activity in conjunction with Independence Days. Forty-four households picked up bunting from the Ind. Days office to decorate their homes. The Bank would like to extend the invitation to Pinckney Neighborhood to again participate by decorating your homes in the spirit of Independence Days. Douglas County Bank will purchase additional bunting this year so even more can participate. Those persons that stored their bunting at the Ind. Days office last year can pick it up beginning several weeks before the festival. Those people can also pick up additional bunting if they desire. Flags can be purchased again this year as well. The company has increased the price so the flags are now $17 each. If anyone in your neighborhood wishes to purchase flags they should contact Ind.Days off. (865-4476) by June 1, 1990 Sometimes ou feel like a Nut, sometimes ou don't!! Please excuse any past present future typos, misspellings, or other goofs in this newsletter! We try hard but sometimes the pressure jess gits to ya!! (At least that's my excuse!) Please advise any names spelled wrong, etc. so they may be corrected in future issues. Thanks for your patience ... Call Arvilla B. Vickers - 843-5353. ~~\WC!)«;;;;~;;n~ �FOR PEACE - October 12-20, 1990 ~EETI~G The meeting for peara will be an unprecedented citizens in Lawrence~ K5. ering of 1000 3oviet & Americ The t~gates •~th- will in,.:lude citi:ten.!: representing a broad cross-se. ~on of the publics in both count.-es. The central purpose of the event is to provide an opportunity for the participants to explore how they can work together,' individually and collectively, in shaping our common future. The event has two primary objectives. The first is to provide a forum, through a 4-day conference, for citizens to meet with their counterparts in areas of special interest. Secondly, to enhance cross-cultural understanding and friendship through the Host Family Program and special eventu. Both objectives will be pursued in the spirit of Soviet-American cooperation advocated by nat:i.ve Kansas Dwight D. Eisenhower. During the conference, the citizens will meet in Task Forces J.n their respective fields to d{scuss ways of achieving sustainable development and to initiate joint projects in areas of mutual interest. The Task Forces' specific topics are: Environment & energy; Business & Trade; Health & Medical Care; Education; Citizen Organization & Governance; Cownun~ca­ tions; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Family Life; Cooperation in Space; Sports & Leisure; Relig~on & Spirituality; Conflict Resolution & Global Security; Economic Conversion and the MilitaryIndustrial Complex; and Sustainable Economic Development. The final recommendations of the Conference Task Forces will be presented to Pres. Bush, Pres. Gorbachev and United Nations SecretaryGeneral Perez de Cuellar. The Conference is designed to serve as a major catalyst for :he development of personal and professional communication between the citizens of the two countries. Conferees will have direct access to a post-Conference co~runication system so that joint projects may be expedited and new forms of cooperation may continue to be explored and implemented. Three special events are planned to offer further opportunities for sharing cultural & histcrical diversities and commonalities. On Sat., Oct. 13, Soviet & American delegates will participatE! in a special Eisenhower commemorative ceremony in Abilene, KS. The ceremony is being hosted by the American Musie and Arts Festival which will be held in Lawrence on Fri. & Sat., Oct. 19-20. The third will be a concert by Soviet & American entertainers in Lawrence on Sat., 10/20. It is anticipated that this concert will be televised in both the Soviet Union and United States. In addition to the performances, t.he concert will be interspersed with videotaped highlights of the week's events. These will include the substantive results of the Conference, as well as the informal, personal interactions between Soviet and American citizens. HOST FAMILIES ARE NEEDED FOR THE VISITING RUSSIAN DELEGATES, For further information, contact Sue Schulte, Meeting for· Peace Foundation, 901 Kentucky, Suite 303, Lawrence, KS., 66044 (913) 843-6435":- ~~~~;~ ( !..~~~~·--·· ~ "W _)--~~ ~&, . .. ... BULK RATE_ U.S. POSTAGI~ • hb h d P•tnc k~·Y. Ne1g or oo Assoc1at1on 535 Indiana StrHt Lawrence, Kansas 66044 PAID KS 6&)4( I.AWRE!Ct Pttmlt *· 23~! A/'/; Jl ~,,>: ~~.. .·,~ ····~~~ i"' CLINTON PARK RESTORATION TICK TALK, TIME IS FLEA-TING ... (sorrv about that .. ! l A mason was found who would repaint the stairs which are part of the stone retaining walls in Clinton Park. $3 1 000 of the GDBG funds allotted were used. It looks very nice ... stop by and take a peek! Come to the PNA meeting on June 4 and pick up some val.\.lable material on the life cycle of fleas and ticks. It's that time again and whether you keep pets or not, these little beasties can really be a problem. But if you do keep pets, out of fairness and concern for them and yourselves, get this information and break that cycle by good preventative care and knowledge about how to fight an immediate i.nfestation. It is important to control pests, b·1t it is also VERY-important not to over-do dips and insecticides for the sake of your and your pet's health. If you can't come to the meeting, at least contact your vet, or, you can call Greg Olmsted or David Hixon at: the Health Jepartment at 843-0721 for information & hand-outs. They also have a microscope to identify any kind of six or eight-legged creature that decides to homestead on your pet or abode. KEEP PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD LOOKING SPIFfY!! -~ ~ The City will pick up your stuff in a jiffy! ... or almost. If you have large items like appliances or funiture to dispose of, don't leave them sitting around, call 841-1911 & the sanitation crew will pick up the next day - but set it out that day at the curb, not when youcall for the p].ckup. Branches and such must be tied in bundles no longer than five feet and eighteen inches in diameter. Anything that can be boxed or bagged should be put out for the regular trash pick-up but there is a 65 lb. wight limit on regular trash days. FAIR HOUSING .•• What is it? What can I do .~bout it? Fair Housing refers to the moral and legal right of every citizen to equal opportunity in the rental or sale of housing, in the terms and conditions of same, of access to the multi-listing service, of the right to associate with whom you pleaS€! in relation to that housing, and rr•uch more. If you have any questions about your responsibilities and/or rights under housing law, contact the Lawrence Human Relations/Hum<,n Resources Dept. at B·H -7 722x31.4. There is free written information and law copies also available. Support Fair Housing! Don't diacriminate! �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSLETTER APRIL 1991 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Aprill3 April13 April14 April20 Apri123 May4 May 3-5 MayS LAN Neighborhood Workshop Aids Walk Museum Day at KU Pinckney Neighborhood Cleanup Kindergarten Screening at Pinckney School Pinckney Bazaar Haskell Pow Wow Art in the Park FUND RAISING BAZAAR On Saturday, May 4 (rain date, May 11) the PNA will sponsor a first annual fund raising bazaar with proceeds slated to bolster the treasury. Participation is open to everyone in the community. Spaces will be sold for those wishing to sell craft, food or garage sale items. Cost will be $15 for craft or food vendors or $10 for garage sale items. The fee includes membership for one year in the PNA! If you can't attend but still want to support the neighborhood, donations will be appreciated. Any block interested in funding for next year should make sure its residents attend neighborhood meetings to keep abreast of developments. PINCKNEY CLEANUP The cleanup is coming around again! Saturday, April 20, (rain date, April27) trucks and personnel from the City's sanitation department, and volunteers from the neighborhood will meet at David Morgan's house across from Constant Part (533 Tennessee) and will canvas the neighborhood for trash, old appliances, brushpiles, etc that residents have put out to be taken away. No regular garbage, please. Usable garage-sale quality items are welcome and will be taken to the bazaar on May 4. Please separate trash from bazaar donations. The town notices: cleanups for the past years have made a dramatic difference in the overall look of our neighborhood. Put your items on the curb either Friday night or early Saturday morning so they will be ready by 8:00 when the crews come. To reserve your space for the largest neighborhood sale of the year, contact Robert Baker, 223 Arkansas or call him at 842-0709 Booths can be set up as early as 8:30 on May 4. See you there! MODEL BLOCK FUNDING The CDBG board has tentatively approved funding for the 500 block of Tennessee as model block. This means that for every dollar spent upgrading the exterior of your house/ property, the CDBG will kick in a quarter up to $1000. How can you lose? The CDBG will pay toward labor and materials, but not toward a resident's own labor. A note to the 500 block of Louisiana residents who received the model block award last year: have you made your improvements yet? Funding for following years is based on use of money already allocated. If you don't take advantage of this years allocations, next year will probably receive lower funding. Makes sense. Support those who support you! The following businesses have contributed to the Pinckney treasury indicating an interest in our neighborhood: King Pharmacy Lawrence Body Shop Patterson Construction Phoenix Art Gallery Rumsey Funeral Home Sneegas Plumbing Taco Johns We appreciate your support and participation in PNA activities. �Could you be .. . Would you be .. . Won't you be my neighbor? • ~~ /'i\ ..ri[1L Ii'::Blill ~ ~ ~ fi.!!.L ~~ua~~i!. .. /'{ ~ ~ ..ri[1L ii •. i!t {ill *; ~~ ta.~ liillL IIlli Join the Pinckney Neighborhood Organization Name Address ------------------------------- ----------------------------- • Single membership: $1.00 D Family membership: $2.00 D A. ~ Give to Robert Baker: 223 Arkansas A JI.!!I. ~ £l it. f6]rr �by Police last downtown discussed. Both issues at Watch on Channel 6 if you cion' t--:-fome;,·n Person. DANGER or IMPROVE- MENT??? JZ'.oc41.,e_ ~'"Sit!k.S.S/JV1 '}UtPt-k><P.rr #J'ffl, X/?f7P..t r'l? Downtown d,.:J.!~h-taEf> ~ Po/,.r.z. KPL is putting larger, new F.LSCTRO-MAGNETIC POWER LIN S on 5th Street to replace our old lines. Let's get a representative from KPL and an unbiased eXt)ert to discuss this issue of danger/safety of these lines at o~r next neighborhood meeting, March 30. 115,000 volt lines go up on But do we want them? Why here? Are they safe? issues �PNA NEWSLETTER July, 1991 PNA MEMBERSHIP TIME It's membership drive time again! You know the PNA wotX.s to maintain and upgrade the neighborhood. This means quality of life for yourself, your children and higher property values! Have you benefitted from the cleanups, sidewalks or model block? How about the play equipment in Burcham Park? Several ideas for possible neighborhood projects that could be funded by Community Development monies were discussed. These included asking for neighborhood tennis courts, funding to keep the ditches that drain into the river open and flowing, and possible alley parking projects. Anyone with more ideas or opinions to share should contact Robert Baker at 842-0709. The PNA will continue to work for neighborhood improvements and to maintain our quality community. But we need support and we need to tap the ideas, skills and energy of our community. Come to the next meeting which will be announced later this fall. Hire-a-Kid job service: the newsletter could carry ads for any neighborhood kids who want to earn money babysitting, mowing lawns or doing other chores for neighborhood residents. Fill out the form below, include a parent's signature, and mail to PNA, 223 Arkansas no later than September 30. Support the PNA now by renewing your membership or by joining for the first time. Just $1.00 for singles or $2.00 for family memberships gets you in for the year. SEE THE FORM ON BACK! NAME: ADDRESS: PHONE NUMBER: JULY 11 MEETING During the July 11 meeting held at the public library, the PNA membership in attendance discussed restructuring the neighborhood, next year's possible Community Development proposals and the possibility of a "classified" hire-a-kid job service for neighborhood youths which could be published in the newsletters. If, after the 1990 Census results are made public, the Pinckney neighborhood is no longer classified as predominately low to moderate income, it could lose the ability to receive the Community Development dollars which in recent years have funded tree plantings, playground equipment, sidewalk repair, Model Block programs and more. In the event that Pinckney's neighborhood status would change, the members might want to consider restructuring newsletter mailings and, perhaps, boundaries to make up for the lost funding. AVAILABLE DAYS AND TIMES: JOB(S): THANKS FOR HELPING Thanks again to those who helped make the PNA's first annual bazaar a successful fund raiser. Among those who helped or contributed are Suzanne Perry, David Morgan, Kelley and Kris Hayden, Dorthea Anderson, Linda Clay, Deborah McMullen, Robert Baker, Joe and Sue Hewitt, Susan Pogany, Marguerite Risley, Rumsey Funeral Home, Sneegas Plumbing, King Pharmacy, Taco John's, Phoenix Gallery, Patterson Construction, Lawrence Auto Body and Pinckney Girl Scout Troop #667. �SUCCESS ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUNDING AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE SERVICES For 1991-1992, the PNA received over $40,000 in Community Development monies for seven neighborhood projects. Sometime in the next year or so, several of these projects will be started or completed. For example, beginning August 1, the residents of the 500 block of Tennessee who signed up will be eligible to use CD money allocated for their Model Block program (Someone from the Community Development office will visit you to explain how the program works). Another project has been completed: five new trees were planted at the northwest comer of Fifth and Mississippi around the old city building. Through the volunteer efforts of two Lawrence physicians, Health Care Access is able to offer more hours of service to Douglas County residents. NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT Health Care Access is a private, non-profit agency offering affordable health care services to lowincome persons whose health needs are not met by public or private insurance plans. It operates primarily through volunteer efforts of the Lawrence health care community, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, local pharmacies and social service agencies. During the week of July 15-19, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation interviewed business leaders and community groups (including the PNA) about the possibility of establishing a local home repair loan program that would offer long term, low interest loans. If this program were established in Lawrence, Pinckney could be a target neighborhood. For general information call Robert Baker at 8420709. If a local program develops that would benefit Pinckney, details will appear in a future newsletter. Could you be ...would you be ...won't you be my neighbor? {I:JJ Fill out the form to the right and join us! lkW' Pinckney Neighborhood Association 223 Arkansas Lawrence, KS 66044 A pediatric clinic is now open every Tuesday from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. A physician will perform school and sports physicals as well as provide health care. Another physician volunteers her services to enable the clinic to open every other Wednesday afternoon from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. The clinics on Mondays and Thursdays from 3:00 to 5:00 pm will continue. Anyone with questions about the program or eligilbility for the service can call Health Care Access at 841-5760. r-singk~mbership$1--~----~ I Family Membership $2 NAME: ~ ~DDRESS: L I I I _;o PNA AT 223 ARKANSAS SEND BULK RATE U.S. POST AGE PAID LAWRENCE, KS 66044 PERMIT#232 J �Candidate nominations will be accepted during the meeting. Preliminary slate for officers: Meeting: Thursday, September 24 President: joe Hewitt Vice President: Open Secretary: Susan Pogany Treasurer: Open Welcome See you at the meeting, Old Business Joe Hewitt, Interim President Report on most recent KPL Meeting (10 min.) Discussion of CDBG Representation Report on 5th Street sidewalks (5 min.) New Business Self-Introduction of each officer candidate (5 min. each) Nominations Election of Officers ( 15 min.) Discussion of Fall Clean-up (15 min.) -\tour September Meeting (September 24 at 7:00pm) we will elect new officers for the Pinckney Neighborhood Association. These officers, working with the PNA Coordinator, manage Community Development Block Grant-appropriated and other neighborhood funds, organize bimonthly meetings, organize the neighborhood cleanup-ups, organize fimdraising activities and represent neighbors' views to our public officials. These positions determine the effectiveness of your neighborhood association Any Pinckney Neighborhood Association member ( ($1 for single, $2 for household) may vote in this election or run for office. Dues will be accepted at the door. I KPLPOWIEJRLINJEUIDATE -, As of September 9, neighborhood residents have been cautiously optimistic . The governor appointed Legal Counsel for the Department of Health and Environment, Bob Eye, to help us. He is facilitating meetings between Pinckney and KPL'S Vice President of Electrical Engineering, etc. On our side of the table we now have our own electrical engineer. For 23 years he worked for KPL. This doesn't hurt us at all. KPL has reduced the cost of the railroad route considerable. We have free legal representation with CURB (Citizens Utility Rate Board), Allen Decker, in our dealings with the KCC (Kansas Corporation Commission). CURB filed Pinckney's complaint about KPL's project September 9; hopefully the KCC will put a hold on construction until the complaint is resolved. And hopefully our talks with KPL will resolve the issue before, during or after the KCC decisions or hearings. PNA has a STUDY SESSION with the City of Lawrence September 21 at 4 pm in City Hall. We want the city to take an active role in responding to our concerns and in preventing what may be a serious health threat from entering our neighborhood. Power lines have been associated with increased rates of cancer. We don't want our neighborllood to be used as a power corridor. We think it is prudent for KPL to avoid exposing homes to what will likely be higher magnetic fields. The railroad route bypasses proximity to all homes. Let your commissioners know you want their help and count on then to preserve our neighborhood. Your call counts! THANKS for everyone's support and attention to our debate. Stay tuned to see what's next for these Neighbors against the Giant. Questions? Call Tolly at 842-3154. I PNA MEMBERS~-~] PNA Membership Dues for 1992-1993 are now due. Dues are $1 per individual or $2 per family per household. The PNA can accept checks. Please make checks payable to: Pinckney Neighborhood Association, and send them with this form to: Suzanne Perry, Treasurer/PNA, 535 Indiana St. , Lawrence, KS 66044. Payment of annual membership dues is a requirement for voting at meetings on neighborhood business. The current balance in the PNA checking account is $206. In the last fiscal year one administrative expense has been paid from the account in the amount of $157 for photocopies relating to the KPL power line issue. A $120 hand-held millegausse reader was generously donated to the neighborllood by Steve Hamburg (401 Indiana St.). This gift has enabled concerned residents to monitor the EMF'S along Fifth Street and to compare/ challenge readings obtained by KPL. Thank you Steve!! �On August 2D, 1992, the Lawrence Resourcc:s Commission recommended that two Pinckney neighborfu.<Xld homes be placed on the Lawrence Register of historic: Places. The "Dillard house", 520 Louisiana, owne:d by Susan and Stef.mo Pogany and the "Griffith house", 512: Ohio, owned by Karen and Tom Erb, both met the qualifications for listing. Later this month the City Commission will act on this recommendatiom.. A house can be nominated based on its distinctive arcbite.ctural style, its link with important Lawrence residents or its value in the development of Lawrence. The owners found that the rec·ently completed Re!>LJrru: of Old West Lawrence Homes by David Benjannin and Dennis Enslinger was very helpful in frlling out: the application. It contains detailed informati1on about a number of older homes in the Pinckney neighborho<Xl. The: Historic Resources director Linda Finger also has acc.~ss to detail·ed histor.ica.l facts about many houses and can help by adding these relevant details to the application. We are hopeful that other residents will nominate llheir homes for the register. We feel there are many hiEtoric homes in our neiglitborllood that need recognition and appreciation. Plea:se conta<;t Linda Fingerr at the Douglas County Planning Office (832-3154) for an application orr Karen Erb (843-2519) for help in learning more about your home. Plea.<>e help us prove to tht~ city ili.at Piinckney neighborhood is lru.1y an historic neighbor.bood. We also need vohmteers teo work oo our crisis intervention teams (l;pecial training will be wrovided) by signing up to be available morning, afternoon, evening or overnight (to b~ on call) for crisis support. I Project Acceptance, a peer support group for people witlb. long-temt mental :illness, is seeking volunJteers to help amswer the tdephcme, socialize and help with the crisis intervf~ntion. network at ow· new :residential house .and drop-in center at 407 Maim~. Starting Oct•ober 1, the house will be open from 8:30 am to 8:30pm seven days a week. Volunteers are mee:ded to work two hom shifts dUJring these htDurs. I<( ..,. ..,. w 0 0 ~'-"' (!) <CO-"' . (/) 1- a:u;-0~ :s a. 0 z <( .-::: ai ::Jcnuja..E~ ::J. a."'~~ "' Crisis i.ntJ~rvention training v.ri.ll be provided for all vollunteers beginning Tuesday, September 15,7:30-9:00 pm at the First Meth<Xlist Clrurch. There w:i:tl be 9 consecutive Tuesday nights of trJlining wlnich ends November 10. -' i- Please call Ron Sund!by.e (843-7032) to sign up or for additional iiJJfOimation. zUl 0 ..... (..'1 l~ject Acceptance was. founded in 1974. It is one of the few membership-run clubhouses fm the mentally ill in U1 u:: the natti.on. We are supported by grants from thf~ United Way, Social and Rehabilitaticn Services, a connmmity Development Blo•;kgrandandan Emergency Shelter 0 :;:: fL 0 \- .::;. c:; (;'} ,.i) *\- CJZ :;:: __________________ SINGLE MEMBERSHIP $1: HOUSEHOLD MEMBERSHIP $2: Send to: PNA c/o Suzanne Perry 535 Indiana Lawrence, KS 66044 c::J c::J i tC ([ L1 tr.l tr.l < 0 8 ~co ""'" @ :I: 0 ~ \0 tZl z ::c >- f...'! :rUUl U1 f;"'i -: "! 0:: 0 ADDRr~S:. ;(' z.z 0 i- 0 ~ ~~ E-<CJ ~~~ ~3: Utn 25c::;~ ~-- G"'J wm::.::: \ ~ ..l) r-1 ~ 5 6 q a: u * MEMBER SliD' i' -D o::.i" i o::.i" 0 r·-~.! .,-\ PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION (-·~ 0 Gr.ant. NAME: _____________________ PROJECT ACCEPI'ANCE w J:', z~Z :::L3W ~..-i~ ,..... •.:• <:!: G.- t··") _j �Your Input Needed! Meeting Thursday night, September 8th, at Pinckney School. Pinckney Neighborhood Association needs your input for it to work, without your help PNA can not be sure it's the voice of the community. So please, attend the meeting and let your opinion be heard on issues which include: - Thousands of dollars in CDBG funding to be determined on for the neighborhood. - Election of new officers and volunteers. - Information on low interest loans or possible grants. PNA looks forward to your attendance and more importantly your ideas this Thursday night! CDBG Funding for 94/95 Lawrence City Commission approved funding on July 31st. It is now available for a variety of projects and uses in the our neighbor-hood $28,080 Sidewalk Repair 8,000 Constant Park lights 6,249 Clinton Park 5,480 Coordinator 2,015 Operating Expenses New grant requests are submitted in December so please call with your ideas and suggestions. Canvassing Project Complete CALENDAR TURSDAY SEPT. 8 and OCT. 6 Throughout the months of June and July many of you have noticed an individual milling about the streets of Pinckney. That individual was me, John Pepperdine. Hired by Pinckney Neighbor-hood Association or PNA, I was instructed to investigate Pinckney Neighborhood Association Mission and report on The purpose of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association the conditions shall be to promote understanding with the City of of the Lawrence: to improve property, living conditions, and to neighborhood. improve communications within the Pinckney Although this Neighborhood; and to promote good public relations was originally as effort to receive large trash truck loads were taken to Community Development Block recycle or the dump. The trash Grants it progressed into a general department also told Pinckney that canvassing and survey. Three key neighbors were calling thru out the next week, more than twenty factors were in my reporting on requests for special trash pickups. behalf of PNA; infrastructure A special thanks goes to the streets, sidewalks, and curbs, houses volunteers that helped load the trash in disrepair or abandon which would trucks, Merle Jackson, David be eligible for assistance, specific Morgan , Brett McCabe, and Steve problems or areas of concern Smith. Also a thank you to Tolly mentioned by residents or myself. Wildcat-Smith and Wayne WJldcat At this point all of the infonnation for taking pictures of the efforts. has been gathered and is now ready The response from the neighbors in the area was great everyone had to be analyze by PNA. My final something out. Next June the clean report for this project will be up will be considerably different, available shortly. If your wish for a PNA will not use CDBG funds to copy of this report please let me pay the trash trucks or pay for the know at the meeting September 8th. news letter announcing the date and details. PNA will instead use volunteers and make arrangements for the free special pick up offered by the city. This will mean more The June all-neighborhood clean up was extremely successful. Over six help will be needed to coordinate PNA Meeting at Pinckney School AT 7PM PNAClean Up �the following; volunteers to help neighbors that can't lift the items to the curb for pick up, volunteers to help load the trash trucks, and help in getting fliers and annouce-ments out. From the response that PNA had of people putting trash out we would expect a large pool of volunteers, please call and let us know. Letter From the Pres. Dear Neighbors, Well the summer is com-ming to a close, school is back in session and it's time to get the PNA back in to full gear. First lets review what has happened this summer for PNA. Brett McCabe resigned as coordinator in July. PNA would like to thank Brett for getting the neighborhood excited with his news letters and ideas, the cleanup was successful do to his involvement. John Pepperdine is the new coordinator, John Has working for PNA as assistant to Brett since June. With Brett's resignation John took over PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION 501 TENNESSE LAWRENCE, KS 66044 John has been working on the canvasing project since June. The first draft will soon be available. Welcome aboard John. PNA was successful in the applications for CDBG funds this year (see CDBG Funding in this newsletter). PNA needs help in putting together proposals for next year the deadline to submitting the proposal is Dec. 1994. John PepperdineCoordinator, Carol Klinknett Treasurer, and Steve Smith Pres. attended a training session sponsored by the CDBG Dept. We can help with the applications but we need your suggestions as neighbors. PNA will need to bold elections soon (October). The current officers and advisory board have served their terms. This is not something to be taken lightly. New blood is necessary to keep Pinckney involved with the whole and not just a "select few." If you would like to become involved or know someone who would let me know,l would be glad to explain the duties of each office. The more people that attend meetings, offer input, and become involved the more PNA can accomplish. I know there are a lot of concerns that have been raised that we simply can not get done unless more people volunteer to help. This will be a critical year for PNA as organization, we have accomplished many things in the last two years that have enhanced the area, but to keep going we need your involvement. I hope to see you all at the September 8th meeting (Pinckney School, 7pm) Your Neighbor, Steve Smith, Pres. PNA PINCKNEY HOTLINES (9am to 9pm please) Pf'esident Steve Smith Treasurer 841-4490 Carol Klinknett 842-7081 Coordinator John Pepperdine 832-8143 Voting memberships in PNA are $!=individual & $2=family J BULKRATE U.S. POSTAGE PAl 0 Permit No. 170 Lawrence, KS 66044 �PINCKNEY HOTLINES (9am to 9pm please) President 841-4490 Steve Smith Treasurer Carol Klinknett 842-7081 Coordinatot· John Pepperdine 832-8143 Voting memben;hips in PNA are: $1 =individual and $2=family CDBGBOARD SEAT OPEN CALENDAR THURSDAY Oct. 6th and Dec. 7 PNA Meeting at Pinckney School starting 7pm PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MISSION -The purpose of the Pinckney Neighborhood A ssociotion shall be to promote understanding with the city of Lawrence: to improve propeny. living conditions. and to improve communications within the Pinckney Neighborhood. and to promote good public relations. ~ NU'1DI01UIOCD October 1994 A CDBG Advisory Board seat needs to be filled by a Pinckney resident If you would like to apply for the seat please contact Steve Smith. The Board is responsible for approving all CDBG funding request. By filling this seat you can help make Lawrence a community and not just a city. CDBG IDEAS? We now have the opportunity funding, now all we need are the ideas to submit for approval. These funds are not just for curb or sidewalk repair, be creative and send us your ideas. Some possible ideas are: Trees or other •:egetatlon planted throughout the neighborhood. LanJscaping for parks. Flood and sewer repair. YOU CAN HELP PINCKNEY October 6th, 7pm Pinckney Neighborhood Association needs your input Thursday night, October 6 at Pinckney School. The meeting will start at 7pm and all residents of Pinckney Neighborhood are encouraged to attend it (anyone north of sixth street, between Tennessee Street and Iowa). Of course we hope for everyone to be there. we especially would like to see Pinckney residents WEST of MissiSSippi to show up Thursday. Remember, we all live in Pinckney and we all should decide its future. YOUR REPRESENTATION IS IMPORTANT! Important issues will be discussed at the meeting such as CDBG funds and ideas, federal assistance programs (winterization and home improvement), PNA officer nommations, but what is most important, your voice will be heard. * We PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION 50! TENNESSEE LAWRENCE, KS 66044 BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 170 Lawrence, KS 66044 apologize for the September newsletters late anival :md hope you received this one a little sooner before the October meeting. The next meeting afte1· October 6th will be December 7th Wednesday night at 7pm. If you have any suggestions for better times or nights fo1· meetings contact John Pepperdine, at 832-8143. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES WORK but only if you participate! PNA would like to respond to the suggestions of our neighbors by setting up a neighborhood watch program. These programs are the most effective crime fighting tools our neighborhood has at its disposal. If you're concerned about the rising crime rate and wish to get involved then contact John Pepperdine or attend the next PNA meeting. All we need is your phone call for the list and John would be happy to help organize the program as well as set up an informational meeting by the Lawrence Police Department. �! I l!wy~. " livin~ hi~I<Wf hllfl J,..,.I'II"TY'IIh·li '" tluot l''"'"f'll' •·an ],..,.,.,1\<' K""""~· ~ho!o•l"""' ,..t!y tlayK nf ·n,;, rvrnt mn~tly f,,. ""''" "" l.>~wr<'nt••, K11n~"" <luriu~t th,. tin"'f"'l;,,] ff'l•m lHf,•l '" 11\lo!'i '"'"'"" kroown u ~m,.,.,Jin~: K"n""" ],..,,.,,.,. Kan""'' Hllrl Kaw•"'ll' r ...J..y On IAnl'rl'n<"l'. Kmua• '""'""'· ..,.,,.. ,..,.••,. nf t\u• o·vo•nt~ .. hio·h I'"'~ ]'!"'''' in th" !l:a"~"" Tnrit"'r •nd .f. I•:I.IHtiDGE IIOTF.L QIIANTHII.I.'S HAJJ) UV1Nt: liiRT<iRY Civil \t'.r l'nuf,.,J..ut\1•~' .t,.f,.nt t:;~,t ..r tJ,.. l.ivin,:hi'lh•ry n<•l unlyall•tWIIII P'""'"" In 1f'antfll<'1•ai><<UI1Jlarfio·nl"'r'"ventnrtim,. At fiv,. mim1\!'1' ,.ft.., fiw.., indo,. no,rnin~, •t,.•lt" c•m~ In lo~~wrrn•· .. urolik" it h,.,[ .. ~~• "l'l,..,.t...d •ny"Wh,.,.,. rimin~~; tit~ WilT l"><'fMI". th,.nt In liM' M!! uf th.-ir .,.,,,., In b..u .. r nnol.. r~latul w),,.r ~<nrl ·n,.,,.~nnri l"~t"•lritynfK•nullwll•lnl"' hnwthinjl:'l'h•J'I""".-.1. olt"'lrny.. rf 10nrl 160 nn11m1rrf 11\IUWII BIRTH OF THE CIVIL WAR t Th. Ci'il Wu J;.J '"" "•" in Aprii lfll>l for rrsitlent. uf ICanu•, it •larted 11i1 Y"•u• llllrlin in 1855 with tii... Wak•ru ... War" .rumul th~ n•m., ,,r Ff'1"'f"1111" Civil War <'ttnlinu.-.l with thr La•rena.- in St.t,. Yflnll.l l'ro-lliii~'"I'J'• ••··kin,;,>fl.awt1"ncf!nnM•y2t, •nrl !.nth J••prt" .,,.,,.,J,."ttny,.rl. IR!">(I •h••n tJw. FTI'"-.c:.t•lf' llntd [_,.w~ruo·e r'"' Twn w.-.."k... th .. ~···kin!. .,f T.a•l"'""m'"· pr..-•J,.w<'IY m.-n r•itlt""IIJ',.ltn}r• in,.. ulh<'m IJnu~J,.,. Cmmty 11n<l un!y lwtori•Y" llfll'rlhllt ,~. ... n.. uJ ....rm...·ltJ..,.~..t....kpl•..., {\ ••i•il'"'"' .. n.. nh•·Ho!y tHkin,;p!llt't::,unf! ,,f ,,..;,:t,J,.,, H,:htin~ '"'i~thl><•r uw.-r th<' ;,.~,,,. .,f 1''"1'''11) ri,:ht~ v.. r~n~ .-ivil ~ip:!tt ... n ... loilth .,J rt ... Ch·il War ,.,.,It pl>tl"<" in K.. nu~. t.. t "" nl\1" 11tt•p:nuu!1~<ly lutHI,..cntJw,·rllkr,f NEIGHBORHOOD Sh.- ••w reb\oilt by Shalnr Eldridtr drt·larins th.1t r:aeh tim~ th .. hutd .....,. de11ln•red •nnthrr &tury would be: •dtl..r!. •'•'J>I<nth.-unrfo•r,;n-Kindr•iln..d,tlll"bnnK:nf th.;fi,..•.cl builoJi"f; in K111U•U (Thr EldriJ,::r 11uh'l), -mlollay in ruinale ... tltan fnur hnuno 1.. t.. r. Th.-m<>!IIUnthinJ...b!.. h•rl"'n"d. ,\11~1•1 21, \QQ6 wi1! 1-M' thr !33rd Then nn Au~"t 2l, 1863, Qu•ntrill'a r~~ide"' m•de the Eldrirlse !Intd the foeu1 nf thdr IIIIAt'l "" r....TM"IN'!. Atth•t lime :~hew ... f!un .. id,.rrd th,. fine~! hnildins in K.. n..11. •n;,; .. ,.'""•rr •iQu,.ntrilr• r-id nn lo~~wN-n<'~. F.¥enth~th<':wuulrln•tl11l:IJ'dt>wn . • ~Y tlud willliv~ Th" ITctld bttilt aft,.r Qu•ntn11'• R11irl 1htod until 1924 wh~n th .. thrn iteppd .Side ID make mom for ttM> builrfin,; of 11 nt'W Eldridse llntd whi,.h JtiU •t•nd• tt..l.ay. When midweftl downtnwn area& besan In '~~ _ rl,.t,.riolr&l.- and dnwntnwn htttl'll fdl fmm J'.ul>f, the lu.td Clllrl<' dtme In bcin,; put In lwr kner.t. On July I. 1970 ~~~., du~e-d hrr tloHII'JI, hut 11ftrr 11 Mlturt tl'lll uf 16-yl'llnl, nn p,.,.,,ml,..r.:lt, j')Hf>, "'l'f~n~ tu li{,. ''""" n,;11in playin,: Jt,.t impt~rlnnt ru!O' in th .. •·· ..-,:;i.':·:, ntlw• ~'"'" tllk .. ,·Jnim l,.tft,.l,.•,:umin~~:"fthi~ hntwn<l<>•t•wnr J .~ ........ NEXT PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING ~ BULK RATE PAID Lawrence, KS 66044 Perm!! No. 170 nl nl NEIGHBORHOOD ~~ :3~ •c:, ~~ ·u g~~ V>} ...:: u 0 0 .8 .<:: ., ., c: .2' z .,.. .,:. ~ ., ~\· ..... l'" ~I· .... !':-? ..... .,......It ~<r r..;i:.l~:. 501 LDUISIA~! J.i•,WRE~fCE "1': ~'r 't "!" - ''t ,•. 1--.::-:1 .: ;.r .:-~:~: ~::::. .KS ~ t; :lr ~· ·): ..,. : • : :~: ~H::: ·1 : ·~~-~ ST 6f.,iJ·1".1-:,!.~'3;;- i .( .( T :t.; ~::: ,!.· !· .~:i z~.c 1:<. r: n -:: J ,·~ n 1: ~ ao 3 TOPICS for September meeting: L STORM WATER DRAINAGE We've had many meetings on this problem with neighbors in the 2nd & Mich area. The city has now hired engineering firm Evans, Bierly, Hutchison to design storm sewer improvements. We're planning a meeting with them to be certain they know how bad the problem is and what info our own walks through the whole drainage basin have revealed as additional needs. Thanks to our on the spot reporter, Lynn Hedges, we have already talked to the workers as flags are going up and measuring of existing pipes is being done. They want to have a meeting with us to hear what we know. So, once more,,_Sc.c·Y"\ neighbors who have had so much trouble with floods and the city come to one more meeting. We may be getting close to a real solution. I want to advise you that the City Commission has authorized staff to negotiate an engineering design contract with Evans, Bierly, Hutchison for the design of storm sewer improvements for the 2nd/3rd/Michigan/Arl<ansas system. This area is the number one priOrity in the recently approved Stormwater Master Plan capital improvement list. Part of the contract will require public meetings to explain design options and related issues. Once those schedules are established, you will be notified. We look forward to working with you on ihese improvements. >- -"' <.> c: a: remember: cast your ballot on or before Nov. 5! OCTOBER30 WED 7PM SUITE G, LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Lower level, Enter west (new) entrance Take elevator or stairs down, Suite G U.S. POSTAGE -E lq~~ t~nmmunity. tl) "'c: ""., ~l Bring $ to the Carol Klinknett 500 Indiana St. Pinckney Treasurer Lawrence, Kansas 6604 4 •It,. ... 4th St.?? history Yearly dues are only $1 per person - $2 per household. September meeting or Mail checks to: "•nd -~·-·· vote Hospital Suite G Drainage • Skateboards? Hospital Expansion DECEMBER 4 Wed 7 pm Pinckney S,y._,; School Issues MF.F.T PRINI":lPALS of FREE STATE HIGH & PINCKNEY Association rn-te-1-- I>: 1 f!:: t.<. !,../brJ.a_'::'!· ·')Y/t:/ f !,_.~..,.-· Pinckney Neighborhood · '·-'"- t:..Y>U-t _S<.__;-tu · We are a group of neighbors who care abou. preserving and improving th.e quality of life and services in our neighborhood. JOIN US, and Jet us know how we can help you and your are Pinckney. w•• 1"!"1<""11 wn111rf tli~. in inf•my, OCTOBER30 WED 7PM 11111t'!t oo.th•ntiun uvr~ th" yo·atl'l. On M•y 21. !11!'>6. wlojJ,. luuwn 11~ tlw FtC'" St.1l~ Hotld, proo-~l11v ..ry fm-.: .. ~ ..,,,J., intu [.awrenre II> d,.,.tn•)' h.. rt..,.,:•u,.,. ~h~ lnJrtve•~>••nfr hnv~ fur ... ttl<:'lll rnmin,; tu Kall!IIIR in the nnm,.,,(,!J., F'r...-Stiii!'C.IIIIW'. ! ... wr.-n,..,, th .. c·.. nt~r .. r Fr- St•te lll'liviti,.., • h11vrn frnm .1U 11 ..1 "'""bad, • fni"T'YtT NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS ,.., ..,,.,,.,. T.. rrilrori .. ! Hay~ •ml ·n,,. {;,.llr~!oiuJ'!. >tnt! 11\ Vi,·k<thttrJ!:I~~tlollnt.O<IAJ'II""~[j,.r. i••nnlr" durin~ K""""~ ,Jmhtl'! tl"' Ciwi! W~<t, tlw E!<lricl~~;•· ll"to•l. h h"~ h"''" krwwn hy" numl><•r h[ n"rn''"• ft<'t' St,.kllo•t,.J, Elo!Titl~:.••llmJII4',M1111 Hntt•l E!<lti<l~··· hut it ;.. ~tilltlw ~ .. ,.,,. w,, lW"<'IIUI<"Uit•kmtnH'IJ"Jayluowk.-r'lw fW'"'"'· hut it at.... ,.,., .._.!';..,J lloHI wit!Jj., a f,.,.. ].,..,,... tll .. ir !Jv,.~ ><11ultl rn>l utJ,..,·Jumji:,.,l f<>r"V••r MuNnfth,.n•"iol••nt" -.!irr.... t iut.. !,..d J... [;.. ~inr;tlMttlw ....... ..t...ut '" ,..,,! J..., ... ,~.. tho•rt' lm~int• ..,. ~tilt .,,.,·npyin,; th•• "'"""' "1'"1 thut it lin t!w o·wrnin~ uf Au~l~l 2(1, lflh.1, tn bo-o! nnl knnwin,; J.,,..,.,.,, .., r•·~i•l,.nt~ w,.nl Respectfully, ~:~:~ City Manager �NOlVIINATIONS BEING ACCEPTED Positions for PNA President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary will be open for Pinckney residents to fill in December. If you or anyone you know are interested, please contact the current President Steve Smith at 841-4490 or John Pepperdine at 832-8143. Nominations will be accepted at the October 6th meeting and will continue to be accepted by PNA until the day of the election. A CDBG adviso•y seat is also available to interested Pinckney residents to fill nnd just like the PNA positions you should contact Steve. Please, consider applying these positions and have an impact on your neighborhood. A change in leadership is crucial to Pinckney to remain innovative and representative of the community it serves. DON'T LET PINCKNEY STAGNATE- GET INVOLVED! ATrnNTIONHOMEOWNE~ Up to $20,000 available with only $50 I month payback payment. No interest. If you need home repairs look at the qualifications, you might qualify. Call PNA Coordinator or the City of Lawrence Department of Housing and Neighborhood Development at 832-3114 if you are interested. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: FAMILY SIZE 2 * If you applied last yem·, please apply again. Our files may have misplaced you. 4 5 LAN REPORT 6 7 Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods or LAN has concern about to process the results of HORIZON 2020, the plan now being drafted to serve as policy guidelines for how Lawrence will grow through the year 2020. There are great debates about whether neighborhoods or development Interest will have tlieir v1sion of Lawrence incorporated. Read about the process. Go to the meetings. It is now being written. Join your voice to help shape the document that will determine how Lawrence will be in the future, how our neighborhood will turn out. 8+ LAN is encouraging all neighborhoods to update their neighborhood plan. PNA has one, but it's old. Volunteers to help update PNA plan would be greatly appreciated. Then we will have a solid guide so that HORIZON 2020 will know for sure how we perceive our neighborhood and what we hope to retain and what we hope to add to in the future years. Only we can shape and define our neighborhood and now is the time to do it, so that as HORIZON 2020 is being written, neighborhood visions and ideas and concerns will be included. • Hope you read the L1wrence Joumal Wolid article September 19th, "KPL Prepares to String New Powe1· Line." If m1yone is inter~s1ed in following up this good news with a celebration at a picnic o1· other get together, let us know. RECYCLE AT PINCKNEY SCHOOL A recycling bin is now available at Pinckney School for aluminum items such as crushed or crumpled cans and all other aluminum items (pie tins, foil, etc.). The bin is located on the north side of the gym and all proceeds go directly to the school for their PTO project. .., 50% OF MEDIAN INCOME 14,300 !6,300 !8,3 50 20,400 22,050 23,650 25,300 26,950 * The Grant Review Board may make exceptions to the above limits when the applicant has unusual needs or hardships. THANKS MERLE! PNA would like to thank Merle Jackson for his years of hard work in helping us and the neighborhood. Through Merle's and many other peoples efforts PNA has done some great things for Pmckney. He 1s pictured below between Steve Smith (left) and Brett McCabe (nght) during the clean up drive earlier this summer. �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MISSION -The purpose ofthe Pinckney Neighborhood Association shall be to promote understanding with the city of Lawrence: to improve property, living conditions, and to improve communications within the Pinckney Neighborhood, and to promote good public relations. December 1994 Wednesday, Dec. 7th at 7pm Neighborhood Watch Meeting at Pinckney School The fear of crime is a growing problem in our neighborhood. We should feel secure in our homes and on our streets. To address those concems, the PNA is initiating a Neighborhood Watch program. These programs have been ve1y successful in significantly reducing crime where implemented. An of!lcer !rom the Lawrence Police Department will make a presentntion at the December 7th PNA meeting about the program. The ot1lcer will also speak to things we can do individually to reduce our chances of being a victim of crime. The Neighborhood Watch program will only be as strong as the pmiicipation by residents. We urge you to attend this impot1ant meeting. Michael Wm. Dann 842-1814 Elections for PNA Don't miss the dections for PNA otTicers on December 7th. PNA positions open for the election will be President, Vice President. Secretary, and Treasurer. Pm1icipate in the election of PNA onlcers and help decide the leadership ofPNA fnr the ne:-;t tvM years. * Anyone interested in Bike/Pedestrian Paths in Pinckney Neighborhood contact Steve Smith at 841-4490 for information regarding possible development. �PINCKNEY HOTLINES (9am to 9pm please) President Steve Smith 841-4490 Treasurer Carol Klinknett 842-70RJ Coordinator John Peppen.line 832-8143 Voting memberships in PNA arc: ${=individual and $2=family CDBG Money at Work in Pinckney W e(ln.esday Dect:~mber 7th PNA :Meeting at Pincl1~ney School starting 7pm The next meeting will be held January lOth at 7:30 pm at Pinelmey School. Funding was approved by the Community Development Block Grant Advisory Bonrd and work is now beginning nn sidewalks in the Pinckney neighborhood. Specificnlly, sidewalks in the l\.1llowing areas will either be built or improveJ: Indiana from 5th street to 2nd street and 5th street !rom Michigan to Califomia. These improvements will take time so please be patient. Feel tl·ee to call any of the Pinckney hotlines if you hnve any questions. PNA i,: here to help and we invite your suggestions as well. CDBG Proposals for 1995 December I st is fast approaching and PNA is gearing up to submit the !allowing proposals to the CDBG adYi sory hoard: • Neighborhood Watch signs to be placed throughout the neighborhood. Lighting for Clinton Park to deter crime. • • Sidewalks on 4th street for safety and Pinckney itlli'astructure developml~nt. • Administrative budget for PNA. PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION 501 TENNESSEE LAWRENCE, KS 66044 BIIi,f: .~,m lJ S fl1JSTAGE BliENCE KS PERim *******************CAR-RT-SORT PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENT 164 7 NO i~T Fn\IOOD DH LAWRENCE KS 66044-1042 ~no **COOl 2* �V. Help us put ighborhood Watch Signs & W hers in several areas of Pinckney Please call to volunteer for these signs to be placed in your part of Pinckney, and to serve as a person who will actively repo•t any problems or graffiti, etc. in our neighborhood. (842-3154) Let's keep our neighborhood and parks safe, and take an neighborhood we active part in want to live making our area the kind 0~ '0 1-- of (!) 0 [!! 0 e0> <( in. E (L City staff Mayor John Nalbandian 2006 Riviera Ct,66047 Home: 841-6012 Most city staff members can be reached at city hall, 832· 3000 .. Vice Mayor Bonnie Augustine 1029 Wildwood Dr., 66049 841-1988 (W); 842-1484 (H) ]o Andersen 1402 N.Y., 66044 842-2533 (H) 1lfeeting Notes Allen Levine 720 Miss., 66044 842-428~ . · Bob Moody 703 N. Third, 66044 841-5946 (H) Date afMeering: July 25, 1996,7 p.m. Location: Lawrence Memorial Hospital, SuiteG Meeting served as an introduction of the Community Health Facility (CHF) project to the Neighborhood Association, led by George Osborne and Tolly Wildcat. Members of the project design team present were C.L. Maurer of Landp!an Engineering, and Nadia Zhiri, Steve Harrington, and Hunter Gibbs of Gould Evans Assoc. 111 The next meeting, scheduled for Thursday, August 15 at 7:00p.m .• will provide the chance for all concerns to be formally voiced by members of the Neighborhood Association to the (CHF) Building Committee. 2. ~ Questions posed by members of the Neighborhood Assoc. present included the following:_ a. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the CHF development occurring on this site? Why wasn't the site chosen on the west side of town? b. Will drainage off this development add to the water problems already occurring along Michigail and 2nd Streets? Can they talk to someone in the utility department to help address this drainage problem? c. Will landscaping berms be built high enough to actually provide a visual screen? ~) Will lights on the site not cause brightness problems for those living immediately adjacent to the site? e. Will there be enough parking on the site in order that cars will not be parked along the streets? How does the CHF project tie into the long-term development ofrhe Hospital? Can someone from the Hospital talk them about long term issues? g. Can a member of the Neighborhood Association be on the Building Committee? Why wasn't a member of the Neighborhood Association placed on the Building Committee from the beginning? h. What about traffic problems in the neighborhood during construction? Can there be parameters ..-::=-, included in rhe specifications that can help lessen any adverse effects? r Can there be Strong coordination with the landscape architect? J. Can as much parking as possible be shifted onto the north side of the building'? k. Can the mechanical equipment be moved closer to the building? c=D to c_s,) 1. 2. ~ ~ """""'--::::: .·.·, ·:,.,.,.... Ill E 0 Rezoning hearings for this site to occur this evening for the Planning Commission and September l7lh. for the Ci~:J:..,_Commis~ion. The request is toga fram an RMl zone to an ROl zone. \{tzst..<'.J.;- c\e>..ple c.u.r jCr"""la.~. .~ ., J- fVJ;IM"'' CJ) ; . . . . • ·.·;§·. ~ ~· I ; -< ..,, ~Xl:> ll . ~ . n~: cjf~i ~·- iL·~t.~_~ I • .e''·---" .·. -...''' ~ 0 ;{ . 1~J. ! ;;. ~ 0 ..: " ... ""'§ ~ :.:::l zc 1 z ~ ~ 0 <{ 0 .. ~ Q) ~ c.> " "' ~ ·g ;,; 0 -a ~ A Z "' f-< ......; c--4 ~ g. 0 ·: (/)" '§ ~ ~ g 8 0 l3 z "'8 ~ ~ "' -< z a~ z ~ "'g ~ £"tu "' :;; u; 1U ] ~ "'0 " ·;; "' J d" ~ ] .!if-< "0 ~ '+< 0 ~ Vi i'l ~ ;g~ ..... "' 0 I] 1~ £ ~ 6 r<i s c.> !l ~ j s " ~ .. Oil ·~ ::r:: ·-"' '+< B .s .s .9= "' "' f-< :2 .... E!:: § .... ~ ~ 0 iU " :g s t3 "' Q 0 8 l:l0 ...< f-< "' IJ') ~ " " 0 _,... P-< ~~ § 0 s u 0 ""'0 ::r:: .... "0 " .2 ~ :1 ~ 8" 6" 0"" oO s 0. Q •;J ~ "' f.:~ OJ) .,."" "" ·-] s" 0 ·~ ~ ~ ~=~ .,.: E-<=~...1 0 ~ ~ 8 .3 "'"' ..s .... .....0 '+< 0 0 0 f-< 8 ..s "' ·~ ·~ 0 .g r.a ;,; ~ ~ f1j ~ ~~ 5 "'" 0 £~ ~il .sg ~~ " Q ~ ~ ~ ~ .... ·;; il >-. g ~] ~ .. z~ ~ ·00 ~ ~ 1-< 0 ] ] ·~ g: .§ e ..... iii '.:· li :g gj "' ] A '+< I .a"' "'"' "' 43"' !l • <t: ~ j . ~ '<!' £ .!l: < § Next meeting scheduled for September 11th at 1:30pm in the GEA conference room. 1 I 'l ' .. ·•,1,';·.'4>· ·..... ,_:.,.,.... "J '~-·~ 's· ... ··~ --~-~5 ,~ ,c.·~ ~ ..,, "' ... =-:::::.. ..= ~ :s: "=' ~ ,. :CI:_:;...s: = ~~ ::J ~: ~ ~-:·<j ·~ ~ ·.~-~~: Gould Ev:m! Asscx:iates, LC Copies of the site plan to date were handed out to those present. Members of the Gould Evans team have summarized cornme"nts from the meeting as follows: ---;;pr <{ .a <(E Discussio11: 1. ... ., ··~·-'ii:..''~·~ .. ,;s:; :ll ] .. ;~ ~. ~ = j,~ I~ Neighborhood Meeting Community Health Facility c ""··;!! ..• "'C>"•'.<.> ·=~!i=l"' ~.is. E'! e -·.::1 .&~ .!e 0.. a. <ll Zi I City Commission '0 0~ USE THESE PHONE NUMBERS TO CALL CITY FOR INFO OR HELP. Or call PNA Coordinator Tolly Smith Wildcat, 842-3154. l;: c 0 ·~ ·:; I '~,:!_J· J.~~j·~ • .:a . .'"', .....~.··. z~ - ·~ "' ~ ~ ~ "'' ~ ~~ l~ p:: :~·~ ~~ it S.:.~ ~.~ '..J.Z �HAND ADDITfON -- H~ P~ G~ PRIORrTIE$, PliRC!.HA5E OF HOli$E$ Fm;t time homebuyers (individualslfiunilies) considered first. fndividuaJs!Families with minimum three year residency in l.aMence or three year work histmy in l.aMence. The housing IIl1N be the principal residence of a qualified low-income individuaVfiunily at time of purchase. IIIncome~ IBastd onMe<ianFamiy Income: !Family Size 80% ofMedian (Low Income:) I I 24,550 ' 2 28,050 4 35,050 5 37,850 6 40,650 7 43,450 8+ 46,250 ~:tc Purchase of these houses is subject to resale or recapture provisions as noted below: 1. Resale provisions include making the housing available for subsequent purchase only to a qualified low-income individuaVfamily to use as their personal residence and ensuring that the housing will remain affordable, through deed restrictions or covenants, to a reasonable range of low-income homebuyers. Resale provisions remain in effect for ten years following the closing date of the sale. H~O-w~~ iMv-f~P~ The HAND Addition is a partnership of the City of Lawrence, Lawrence Home Builders Association, Tenants To Homeowners, Inc. and participating local financial institutions. The project includes building 30 three-bedroom homes on 10 acres near the southeast corner of 24th 2. Recapture provisions include recapturing the subsidy on a prorata basis based on the length of time the homeowner has owned and occupied the house. The subsidy \viii be forgiven 5% per year for each full year of owner/occupancy. The anniversary date will be the closing date of the sale. tree! and Haskell f\venue. Qualified Application deadlin -October 31, 1996 Return completed applicatiOn side to: will construct the homes by Summer, 1997, applicants selected from a '1ottery" will purchase the homes for $70,000- $75,000. The City will finance the project's development costs (including the design and building of new sewers, streets and sidewalks), the Home Builders Association using three different ranch-style models, and local financial institutions will provide Minirnnn dov.npayment of5% ofamiual gross household income or $500, ilichever is greater Applicant IIl1N complete or have completed approved homeo\Wernllp training. Tenants To Homeowners, Inc. P.O. Box 306 Lawrence, KS 66044 (913) 842-5494 an attractive interest rate for selected applicants. "' -· ~ ""Q ,..... ~ ::3 n ~ ~ £S ~ (IS Q ~ "'< ""' ::3 ~', Q ::3 ~ ~ ~ Q ..,~ :, ~1 N b' c: ...~ "0 lt ::r s· ::l n [ 0 {JQ ~ :::1 ::c ... § a. g, "" n 0 --- a. ::r c: :::1 0 :::1 ... [Ja... Ul '? s :? g' ~ 3 g,._ g ~ li ~ !< ~ () c ~ "' !?" ~ "' ...."'w �IV. HISTORY Let's mark our history The tours and lectures were timed so closely to history that it produced th" eerie realization of how those Lawrence felt in 1863 as they awoke to 400 riders bringing death and fire to Lawrence. Paul Steuwe, history teacher at Lawrence High, talked about John Brown and Quantrill. The near dawn walking tour through Quantrill's route by Steve Jansen, Director of Watkins Community Museum, made you vividly aware how at dawn no resident of Lawrence is at his or her best. By the time Katie Armitage lectured at lunch on"Widows, Orphans & Survivors," you realized that by that time, four hours We have some CDBG money to mark historic spots in our neighborhood, so let's talk history. We have some $ for research, approx. $3,000 for markers. Also, We can bring some money to uncover a brick street underneath the asphalt. Pinckney history to life, as Old West Lawrence and East Lawrence have done so Ours was one of the first well. Come help us plan and re-discover our history. areas the first settlers, who came to ensure· that Kansas would be free of slavery, came. A church, made of hay bales piled into a large triangle, was built somewhere near 5th & Louisiana, and later moved to 6th and La. Langston Hughes went to school at Pinckney School. The first Brewery in after Quantrill rode imo town. the residents realized their lives were changed forever. Women had watched their husbands die and their homes and town burn. On Sunday, with cannons firing in tribute and salute, and re-enactors in black veils and historic dress, a memorial service was held by the River for the survivors of Quantrill's raid. Lawrence was here; a portion remains still, the old stone building near the hospital and trailer courts. Come to the meeting and help us plan how to make Pinckney history visible. At our last PNA meeting, Thanks to Katie Armitage, Pinckney neighbor and history, who brought us so much knowledge about the history of our neighborhood. Also Katie brought an early settler and abolitionist, Julia Lovejoy, to life during the week of historic lectures and tours and re-enactments, "Civil War on the Western Frontier." You may have seen a horse drawn carriage bring citizens to Katie's historic home on Ohio St. during the week of August 21 after her historic talk. We want to thank Rob Phillips of the Eldridge Hotel for sponsoring this historic week of horse drawn carriages transporting Lawrence residents back in time and to and from lectures on our amazing history. Many say the Civil War began here. One of the brochures, with Lawrence history, is printel! here in case you were too busy to experience this week of history, or are new to Lawrence. We hope each year near the same time, near the time of Quantrill's bloody dawn raid on Lawrence, August 21, this "Civil War on the Western Frontier" re-enactment will come again. c: .:: _.·.. .'~'l::.~::p-:r:i~i ...c: ., :5 ""c: "' "' ~ c: "' c: ::.::. ~ 0 ,J: ~ "' l,'d-.;! c: 0., "' "... " .::"" ""[:~;, ;; c: "' "' .;,:! " "' ., ~ 00 .,c:"... "'" ~[.. j"' c: ·;; .,e... :; "" 0 3: These Re·-Enactors are walking history books. They are not merely dressed in costumes of the time period. They know and teach the history. We look forward to learning more from them next year. The stagecoach rides and horse drawn carriages through town and through our neighborhood made us aware of that time when travel was quieter than our cars. The only moment regret, was the stagecoach wreck. Not many states but Kansas had two stagecoaches wreck in one week. We salute the bravery of the driver, Glen, and the brave spirits of those contemporary Pioneer women & men who rode the stage that day and lived history a bit too realistically. Maybe by next year Pinckney neighborhood can have more historic markers up, letting us and all know the part Pinckney played in Lawrence history . Come to our meeting and help us plan and learn the history. These are some photos of scenes from Civil War on the Western Frontier, all in Pinckney parks, Constant and Burcham: �III. SKATEBOARL •• <G IN BURCHAM PARK??? LE1 _;; KNOW IF THIS IS THE VIEW OF THE KANSAS RIVER YOU WANT TO SEE WHEN YOU VISIT THE PARK: The city manager ok'd this lease or use of the park for skateboarding. The plywood ramps are adjacent to the river, small slopes of sub-standard plywood hills with an orange plastic fence around jt - Not the most scenic view of the Kansas River. but this is what you see now. Rusty nails, rotten wood and torn up and half constructed boards are now the landscape. Seems a real danger to small kids who might play in the park. and certainly even to the skateboarders themselves, and possibility a real liability issue for the city. Fred DeVictor has acknowledged the facility, sponsored by Let It Ride, is unsafely built and substandard, yet no change has occurred for almost a month. DO WE WANT THESE PLYWOOD SKATEBOARD HILLS AS THE VIEW OF THE KANSAS RIVER IN OUR NATURAL PARK?? Let us and the city commissioners know. HISTORIC RESEARCH & MARKERS Let's discuss our history, and research more or it. Then we can decide which history and character deserve a marker and what· style markers we'd like to sec in the neighborhood. I'd love to sec natural rocks placed vertical with carved names or events at the top. and some plaque or text in metal describing the hi~tory in more detail. In Clinton Park. behind Pinckney School, I'd love to have markers with Langston Hughes name. but also with several of his poems. Maybe we can rename this park "Langston's" or Langston Hughes Park. Clinton, I learned recently, is the name of a town where early settlers to Lawrence had come from. So, maybe a name change for this park wouldn't be impossible. "Br;ng mt' all of your dreams, You dreamers. Bring me all of your 1Ieart melodies That 1may wrap them In a blue-cloud cloth Away from the too rough fingers Of the world." ~n1\\i.t\ 1\l so~t 1-\L"tivt~ ~ ~c\\, son. t\\ te\\ 'j<lu' l>-) "'"'~'~ J . 0 J..AWRENCE jQURNALMWORLD • 1'\~Ces -o~it'n PUBLIC FORUM Small-town flavor W~tC· ~n<l.\i\e .M1 ~· ·~. 88 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1996 I-JIG s\'\1nte!S, )\nG 'QOatGS tot\\ u\). 1\ t'\\C (\oOt)-SIC no o.t\"'t o 'i)ul a\\ t'nC t\11\e se ucen a c\ill\'oi\\ ~n, 1~nd teacni\\ \anUl\\ s, )-SIC tutnirl cotllets.' , . ne d~t\<. - e< ooll\ II\ t ~n<l 5011\etlll\ ·. o't 'QCCI\ nO 1.II\" "t. '\<J'netc tnete .,n can't 1ou tutll uac\<.50, 'o01 • n t'\\C stel's •qou set co""' 0 \)01\ " , 'tS \<,inGet natO· ·ouse 1ou ,In" I I)Oflt 'j<lu \a\\ no-o~rot \ se sti\\ 1\oin' none1, \<e stl\\ c\\11\'oin' o (at 11\e air\t ocen n 0 o.~u·~ 0 ocr'l'\:1\ stilt, tile lot 11\e ai\\t ocen n \ts "naG '.:lc\(5 in \t, ~-'11·~ 0 cr;<t~\ s'.:lit. - To the editor: l.awrcnce is on the verge of JosM ing much of its smaHMtown char;u:ler and values. Friendliness, neighborlincss 1 a srnse of comtnunity ant! placC', and identity are all disaJJ~x·aring. 'l'his is what hapM pens to a community's quality of life when it becomes just another g1<1y, boring suburb. Nonetheless, small. town valuC'S can he retained to some degree if friendly encoun· tcrs arc encouraged by a lively, pcdcstri~tn·frit•ndly downtown surrounded by vibrant older neighborhoods. It docs, however, take active !,'l.lidance by the public to l'nsure that streetscapcs are designt.>d to facilitate interpersonal communication. The first step is to begin a second phase of the Main Street Progrant We must go beyond placing banners at iiltersections and hire an historic preservation architect specifically for downtown to coordinate a comprehensive program. This person could encourage building owners to restore the original brick and wood facades and could even help draw up the plans. A fund could !Jeestablished to prnvidC' low-interc~t loans and gr<~nts to building owners. New rcgul<tUons can he adopted to rC'quin.• that the exteriors of new buildings br- compatible with ncnrhy ~tmcturcs. The skateboard facility was the only anachronistic element of the Civil War on the Western Frontier, when Civil War Re-cnactors brought the l863 time period back to life in Burcham Park ncar the time of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence. To preserve the quality housing stock in olt.ler neighborhoods, a l'rogram needs to be developed to Joster owner occupancy of dwellings. A majority of units in at lC'ast two older neighborhoods a.re no longer owner occupied. ·1 his leads to the program of landlortlMspeculators demolishing houses they have let run down claiming that they can't be rehabilitated. Low-interest loans need to bt• made available to permit restoration of both owner-occupied and non-owner-occupied houses. Regulations can require that the exteriors of new houses be compatible with nearby houses predating 1940. Although change is inevitable, we can help guide our futu,re and preserve some of the small tOY'(ll character of wonderful 'old Lawrl'JtLc. Clark H. Coan, :l:lllnd. �Thanks owner), Lumley, rains. sale of Kansas Thanks also to the Holiday Inn for being a good neighbor. At PNA's request, they donated rooms for several families so they could escape their own mud and mold and cleanup operations for a short while. For those nights, their children hopefully did not cry in fear when the Kansas thunder rolled The thunder from those spring flooding rains brought a in again. frightening night to our neighbors and their kids. A 7 foot wall of water came from 2nd St. and could have drowned them in their basements, where they had gone to escape when the tornado sirens sounded. They came upstairs just in time to escape the 7 feet of water that floods their basements nearly every year for 30 years when the worst rains come. Hopefully the city will address their life and death situation soon. II. Hospital expansion We'd like to know the long range plans. How much more will LMH grow, what plans for west side? Community Health Facility Expansion, on east side of Hospital We've had several well attended meetings on this issue. (We notified residents living near the expansion by leaflets.) Neighbors points of concern about expansion are listed later in newsletter. We can still have input on these potential problems, like excessive lighting, lack of landscaping buffers, that previous hospital parking lot expansions created for neighbors. George Osborne, PNA President, will be on Building Committee to work with architects, Gould Evans, to address neighbors concerns. Let us hear from you. Zoning change to accommodate this Facility was approved by 28 THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1996 Planning Commission, despite PNA President & Coordinator's request for more time to discuss the issue in newsletter & with Pinckney residents. Seemed like a reasonable request to us, and to one Commissioner, Mary Geese. Thanks to her for her support for the neighborhood position. But other planners ok'd zoning change, although construction won't begin for a year or so. Demolition of three homes in that block east of hospital will be done soon. Contact city (owners) if you could rescue these three homes. We appreciate planners directions to the city to notify neighborhoods sooner in the future so they can be aware of major zoning changes, etc. See more info I live on West Second : Street, and on my mail~ later in newsletter. CITY OF LAWRENCE CAN HELP HOMEOWNERS SAVE$$$ ON ENERGY BILLS The City of Lawrence has money available to pay for weatherizing homes in the city. Improvements can include: • Attic Insulation ~ ...l l'Q < ...l :;; ~ "'~ E-< "' 00 E-< lii A 4th STREET??!! Expansion west of Michigan so 4th will be main entrance to Hospital. But do those KPL poles have to be so close to homes? City says this street has I 00 ft. right of way, will have 5 ft. wide sidewalks - but still do those KPL poles have to be so close to homes? 4th St. Neighbors were notified, and had a meeting in May with engineers & city (PNA was not notified). Neighbors reported however that they did not want input from neighbors, only to tell them what was about to happen to their street & yards. (The project takes a great portion of yards & north side has large power line poles very close to homes.) You can call KPL for a free reading of EMF at your home since poles are now so close to you. CALL IF YOU WANT A REPRESENTATIVE FROM ENGINEERING FIRM & CITY AT OUR OCT MEETING TO DISCUSS 4th St & 2ND STREET (East of hospital expansion, improvement). (842-3154) 8 plus tS:r ·-O,.,OIITUIIIITT Incomes will be verified. Application deadline is September 13, 1996. Application forms are available at the office of Housing & Neighborhood Development in Room 08 of City Hall. For more information call 832·3000, Ext. 3114. ~ ~ 0 !:>: ~ ~ ~ ~ 0 = !:>: ...0 ~ z Q box this morning, there Maximum Income $24,550 $28,050 $31,550 $35,050 $37,850 $40,650 $43,450 $46,250 ;> SOUND was a note saying that they're making Second Street wider. I've never heard anything about this. Is it true? J.Vhen~ it supposed to iulppen? Terese Gorman, city engi: neer, said that although she didn't know who put the signs out, she did know that the city had no plans to widen West Second Street. There are no plans to widen any of Second Street that I'm aware of, except north," she said, referring to the continuing recon· struction of North Second Street. Family Size 1 2 3 ~ = ... • Weatherstripping of Doors 2. Mobile homes are not eligible for assistance . 3. Annual gross family income cannot exceed the following guidelines: ~ 0 Q • Storm Windows Grants for these improvements will be made to eligible homeowners. No repayments for this assistance is required. Grants will be awarded on a first--come first served basis. Eligibilfty requirements for this assistance are: 1. The home must be owner/occupied with no more than two dwelling units. !:>: jOURNAL-WORLD OFF 11 FREE J ENERGY SAVING IMPROVEMENTS to those giving spirits, Stan Zaremba (Zarco Phillips 66 Station Williams Natural Gas Co. & others, who helped our neighbor Barbara replace her van after a tree Jell on it during those flooding spring Only in Kansas would this source of Jundraising be there for us: The 336 sacks of horse manure wood chips. That's pioneer spirit & style good neighbor policy if I ever saw it. ~ ~ Comprehensive Rehabilitation Loans for Housing Rehabilitation The Housing and Neighborhood Development Department of the City of lawrence has a limited amount of funds available for its housing rehabilitation comprehensive loan program. These loans may require monthly payments. This loan money may be used for foundation repair, wirin~ plumbing, painting, roofing, and minor interior repair. Applications for the program year August 1. 1996 through july 1. 1997, will be accepted through March 31, 1996. Basic eligibility requirements are that the recipient must be an owner~occupant of the property, the property must contain only one or two dwelling units1 and the property must be located within the City limits of lawrence. Gross family income from all sources cannot exceed the following: Family Size 1 2 3 z 8 plus Gross Annual Family Income S24,550 S28,0SO S31,5SO $35,050 $37,850 $40,650 $43,450 $46,250 Mobile homes are not eligible. Applicants will be evaluated after April 1, 1996, and a list of potential recipients will be established. Applicants will be notified of the status of their application after all applicationsJI have been evaluated. Additional information may be obtained by ca!ling the telephone number below. Application forms are available at City Hall, Room 08 or by calling (913) 832~3114 or 832-3113. �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS September 1998 Welcome to Pinckney Neighborhood! Tills may come as a surprise, but everyone that receives this newsletter lives in the Pinckney neighborhood. Because Pinckney is so spread out, we wanted to be sure and invite you to participate in the Pinckney Neighborhood Association (PNA). PNA is your mouthpiece to the city, a means to address local concerns, and a way to improve your neighborhood. Come join us at the meeting on September 26th at the hospital! Pinckney Neighborhood Association Fall Meeting The next meeting ofthe PNA will be Saturday, September 26, 1998. The meeting will be held at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, in Conference Room D in the basement of the hospital (just take the new elevators across from the gift shop). The meeting will begin at 3:00p.m., immediately after the dedication ceremony for our new historic sign (see paragraph below). There will be a brief business agenda, followed by a presentation from Tenants to Homeowners. Please plan on attending! Historic Sign to be Dedicated Please join us for the dedication of our newly installed historic sign in Constant Park! A brief ceremony has been planned at the site ofthe sign (the corner of 6th and Tennessee. facing Tennessee) to welcome it to our neighborhood at 2:30p.m. on Saturday, September 26th, immediately prior to the fall PNA meeting. Historian Katie Armitage will be on hand, as will PNA ofl1cers. City officials have also been invited. The sign gives a brief description of Pinckney's colorful history, and shows historic and modern maps of the neighborhood. It was designed and installed by our neighbors at Art & Sign. Walk by and take a look at it! A Message from the President Welcome to the Pinckney Neighborhood Newsletter. My name is William Tienken and I am the president ofthe PNA. I moved into the neighborhood back in February of 1997 on Michigan Street. I really enjoy living in this neighborhood with its delightful parks and great neighbors. At times, I feel as though I'm living in a small town, but with the good things of a city. I've lived in Lawrence for five years and have no regrets. On February 14, 1998 I went to my very first neighborhood meeting and nominated myself for the position of president of the PNA and got the job. Needless to say, I was quite surprised at myself for wanting the position. Since then I've had the opportunity to work with some really great people. Allow me to introduce you to the other PNA officers. Andrea (Andy) Knickerbocker is the vice president of the PNA. She has put lots of work into the PNA and deserves a round of applause for the work she has put into the development of our new sign that will make everybody aware of the history ofPinckney Neighborhood. Karen Noll is the treasurer and has also put a lot of work into the running ofthe board. Karen will be leaving us at the first of next year for family reasons, and we wish �her well. That means we will need a new treasurer. Think about it and let us know ifyou are interested in the job next year. At our meeting on the 26th we will be accepting nominations for a new secretary. Karen has been pulling double duty as both treasurer and secretary, and doing a wonderful job at it, but she needs a break! I want to invite all to the next Pinckney Neighborhood Association meeting. Who knows what you might get out of it? Look what I got! Tenants to Homeowners to Speak at Fall Meeting A board member from Tenants to Homeowners will be present at our fall meeting to speak about their organization, and to present information regarding their HOOT program- Home Owners Out of Tenants. Tenants to Homeowners helps folks untangle the complicated and sometimes overwhelming steps to home ownership. Anyone wanting to know more about how to move from being a tenant to a homeowner is urged to attend. j~P!SU! SJ!Ul~p ~~S j'lJ9Z .I~qm~:)d~g UO .8U!l~~Ul IJUJ .mo ~.IOJ~q rill!s ;:,polS!lJ M~u .rno ~.1)n:>!P~P d];}q O:J SJ0Cfq[1Jpu .IUOA l{l!M J~ql~1JO:J) l~~ k 1 I .it< 'j ' ,[' :,. ::, .. :.. ) ~ •\ 1,\ I,'\ ', ~·.: ., )l t! •·; ' • l j ' l . ' \ ',_<( ' II' I .\ 'II 'i \:· •" !' OH 'ON l!WJ9d vv099 S>l 'aoueJMlll OIVd 38VlSOd ·s·n 31Vtl >11ns SM;}N poolpoqllJ[.i3pN A;}Ulj[;:>U!d �BUlK RATE US. POSTAGe PAID Per'"'t No. 170 Lawrence, I<S 66044 II I 501 LoctiSi<1"'-' St. Lcow~eYIC<' Ks. 66044 r ! t ~ ' If ll Pinck News PINCKNEY FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS Join us for an evening of history about our neighborhood, Pinckney, with Katie Armitage, local historian , tour guide & our "new" Pinckney neighbor. �PINCKNEY FRIENDS & NEIGHBORE JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF HISTORY ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, PINCKNEY, with KATIE ARMITAGE, local historian, tour guide & our "new" Pinckney neighbor. JUNE 19 PNA meeting 6:30-8:00p.m. Suite G Lawrence Memorial Hospital ( If enter at new entrance to hospital (3rd & Arkansas St.), take stairs or elevator to lower level, then right to Suite G, near courtyard . If enter at 325 Maine, take elevator to lower level, walk through-fountain area to corridor on west, Suite G. ) Pinckney's had some rich history including Langston Hughes, famous poet who went to Pinckney, a retired Civil War General who lived in a tree house and teepee near 5th & La., Judge Means, a Brewery in 1870, ETC. COME and learn more. We got funding for historic markers for our neighborhood. Katie's talk will be a good beginning to discover and mark our history. JUNE 21 NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP. Put items by curb by Friday 6 a.m.. (Trash Trucks begin their drive through Pinckney at 6a.m. until finished) Any large items OK except concrete.( Couches, refrigs, tires, etc. OK) Limbs, wood, etc. must be bundled & weigh what you wouldn't mind lifting (no more than 70 lbs.) Pinckney Neighborhood Association is a group of your neighbors trying to preserve and improve our neighborhood. Join us & Let us know how we can help you. (Call Tolly 842-3154 or George 843-2893) Storm Water Drainage- With neighbors in 2nd & Mich. area we held meetings, walked the drainage area, and helped the city pass the new ordinance. SO SORRY it didn't keep those 6 FEET OFWA1ER out of your basements near 2nd & Mich. We're counting on and hoping to work with planners to make sure this new drainage system alleviate flooding. CURB REPAIRS. Let us know if the City doesn't make needed curb repairs near you. THERE'S$$$ FOR HOME REPAIR. Call us (842-3154) or the Lawrence Housing Dept. (832-3109 Marjene) for great grants. VERY GOOD DEALS AVAILABLE IF YOU QUALIFY. We'll help cut through red tape. EMERGENCY GRANTS for roof leaks, heaters, etc. & major home repairs. Volunteers for Neighborhood Watch, Block "captains" to get your block organized??( Call 842-3154) �VERY IMPORTANT MEETING ABOUT FLOOD PROBLEMS Et CITY'S PLAN TO SOLVE THEM. HOSPITAL SUITE G 3PM SATURDAY MAY 24 CITY /Engineer's PLAN TO SOLVE FLOOD PROBLEMS ·INVOLVES YOUR BACK YARD LET'S TALK BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION MEETING TUESDAY MAY 27 7PM CITY HALL. COME TO DISCUSS HOW YOU AND NEIGHBORS FEEL ABOUT PLAN SHOWN BY ENGINEERS AT CITY HALL LAST WEEK (YOU SHOULD HAVE REC'D A LETIER NOTIFYING YOU OF THIS MEffiNG{ACTUALLY CITY ENGINEERS NOTIFIED YOU OF THE PLAN, NOT THE MEEETING.) Final approval of plan will come MAY 27 TUESDAY NIGHT CITY COMMISSION MEETING when ENGINEERS present the plan to city Commission. We will have chance to talk at that meeting too. We want to discuss plan to solve flooding and know what neighbors want, and be sure we understand what engineers recommend before that time. COME NOW AND TELL ALL YOUR NEIGHBORS TO COME: LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, SUITE G---ENTER WEST{ NEW ENTRANCE, DOWNSTAIRS TO SUITE G .. SATURDAY MAY 24 3 PM (WE MET EARLIER, TUESDAY 7 PM, APRIL 22) PINCKNEY NEIGHBORS IN 2ND Er MICH, 2ND·& ARKANSAS AREA MAY 24, 1997 ..... .. J ._ ..... . !. �BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE Pinckney N e.ighborhood News PAID Lawrence, KS 66044 Permit No. 170 ~·Hl.HC E,\'ifE, :?. '&ri\1;~'TZ PO BOX ?OH t~Jl!j:~:,~'·~~:N-t~l~,:l NEIGKBORHOOD r-"~:-~ 6 f~:.(: 1·~ ,:1 P KG l ~l'l (~ rt TRAY ~ �Pinckney Neighborhood Newsletter Spring greetings to all Pinckney neighbors! I am sending this newsletter to introduce myself and to let you know about several Pinkney events that will occur this spring so that you can pencil them in on your calendars. Let me start with introductions. My name is Sara Taliaferro, and I am the new Pinckney Neighborhood coordinator. You can contact me or leave a message for me at 842-4051. Please do not be shy about leaving messages; this number is for Pinckney business, and I will gladly return your calls. We have been updating our mailing list, as you will notice if your name actually appears on this flyer. Please call me with changes if (1) any of your neighbors are not getting a newsletter but want to receive one, (2) I desecrated the spelling of your name, (3) you received a newsletter addressed to 'neighbor' and want to receive it in your name, (4) I have incorrectly addressed a newsletter or am sending mail to an empty lot. Hospital Parking Lot Meeting We have scheduled a meeting on the 18th of April at 2:00 PM to discuss the proposed parking lot for Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Robert Trepinski of LMH will be available to discuss the design plan and explain such particulars as proposed drainage, lighting, and landscaping. The meeting will take place at LMH in Conference Room D. ** Pinckney Community Dance A community dance is being planned at the Pinckney school for all Pinckney and Old West Lawrence residents. Although the dance is family oriented, it is delightful but not necessary for you to arrive escorted by children! It will be on May 22nd from 6:30 to 9:30 PM. Pinckney Neighborhood Association will have a refreshments table of some kind, and the proceeds will be donated to the school. Since you are all members of PNA, please let me know if you would like to donate your time, the use of a popcorn machine, a cooler for ice cream bars, an ieee machine, cookies, or your ideas. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS April 1111 Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day8AM to Noon at 711 E. 23rd. Receiving paints and paint related products, household cleaners, automotive products, pest control products, household batteries. Call 832-3030 for questions or appointments. April 18 111 Lawrence Memorial Parking Lot Meeting 2PM at LMH in Conference Room D May 22nd Pinckney School Community Dance 6:30 to 9:30PM June 5111 Pinckney Neighborhood Spring Cleanup (details in next newsletter) In Memory Pinckney Neighborhood Association has made a donation to the Lawrence Preservation Society in memory of Nancy Shontz. Nancy was a neighbor who will be missed by many. Her incredible energies were directed toward the good cause and the community good. May she inspire us to fill the void that her death has caused. Housing Issues **There is a two-story dwelling at the proposed LMH parking lot site that will be torn down unless someone would like to purchase and move it. LMH is willing to work with any interested parties, but any would-be rescuers should act fast. This construction project will be discussed at the April 28 1h Planning Commission meeting, and if it is approved, construction would start as soon as is possible. Are you a tenant who is interested in being a homeowner? There may be funds available to the Pinckney neighborhood for homes through Tenants to Homeowners. If anyone is interested, please contact me soon. �Pinckney Neighborhood Association PO Box 125 Lawrence, KS 66044 �PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS QUESTIONNAIRE Please take a little time to answer this questionnaire to help me in developing our neighborhood goals for the future. I will use this information to apply for funding or grants to help our neighborhood, to pass on our needs and concerns to city commissioners, to plan guest speakers for our general meetings, and to find service providers to address our concerns. And, as always, please call me with any questions or thoughts. Even 1ittle matters' are important when they are a part of our everyday lives. Postage is paid for the return of the questionnaire; just tape it shut and drop it in the mail. You are welcome to answer this anonymously. You can also write you name and number if you would like me to call you to discuss any neighborhood topics. Please rate the following topics by circling the phrase that best matches your level of interest or concern about the topic: I am concerned about deteriorating conditions in my neighborhood and would like to see them improved. Very Concerned Somewhat Concerned Neutral Not A Problem On My Street I feel that noise is a problem in my neighborhood (Barking dogs, loud music, traffic noise, etc.). Very Concerned Somewhat Concerned Neutral Not A Problem I want to conserve or improve properties in my neighborhood for their historic, architectural, or aesthetic value. Very Interested Somewhat Interested Neutral Uninterested I am concerned about neighborhood safety and would like to develop a block network for support with such things as neighborhood watch, lighting improvements, and storm safety. Very Interested Somewhat Interested Neutral Uninterested I am concerned about car traffic issues on my street such as speeding, heavy traffic, or nonresidential vehicles. Very Concerned Somewhat Concerned Neutral Uninterested I am concerned about environmental issues such as recycling and alternative or renewable energy supplies and would like involvement in these issues at a neighborhood level. Very Concerned Somewhat Concerned Neutral Uninterested I would like Pinckney School to become even more of an accessible community center that involves and includes the whole neighborhood in community activities and services. Very Interested Somewhat Interested Neutral Opposed This list of questions is not comprehensive; please write in any concerns or thoughts that I have not mentioned. �SCHEDULE OF EVENTS May 22"" Pinckney Sclwol Community Dance · • · · _,;1.\il"Zfi'·!<:fc;_\·. BULK RATE 4- "'\;:." Pmckney Neighborhood Association,..,," . PO Box 125 ~ M ~;:toLawrence, KS 66044 '"' c .AY 1999 '£•; ;:;; 0£(·. _ r :· , -~ ...; Q;:(c;J'-:';~":./ June 4" Pinckney Neighborhood Spring Cleanup u.s. POSTAGE PAID Lawrence. KS Permit 1170 ---- .... •.".". ,...... ·' ,, ".~;~,~~··:--· ., \l•ti.''r June J2'h Tenants to Homeowners First Time Home Buyer Workshop }"'I. I ~~f: i•, I~ I· .I·_; ! ";..' ·' June 12" Fountain Walk June 19"' Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day Jwze 23'J Product Reuse Open House PINCKNEY COMMUNITY DANCE ! Coordinator..•. Hello ? A community dance will be held at Pinckney School from 6:30 to 9:30PM this Saturday, May 22nd. All Pinckney neighbors are invited ! Sonny Heller's Music Box will D.J. the event. Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association will be selling hot dogs and chips, Pinckney School will sell drinks, and PNA will sell cookies. All proceeds go to the Pinckney School. If you would like to donate a batch of cookies, please call me at 842-4051. We hope to see you there to meet neighbors and have fun! I have been delighted to hear from so many of you after sending out the last newsletter. I do have a confession to make; one weekend I went out of town, and I got so many calls that I think a message or two got lost. If you called me and I never returned your call, I apologize--no snub was intended. Please call back ! It is my pleasure to hear from you. HOUSING ISSUES Rental Rehabilitation Program The Housing and Neighborhood Development Department (HAND) of the City of Lawrence wants to assist property owners in rehabilitating five to ten rental dwelling units. Pinckney is one of the targeted neighborhoods. Units occupied by low income families or vacant units which the owner has agreed to rent to Section 8 eligible and qualified tenants will receive priority. For more information or to request an application packet, please call the HAND office at 785-832-3100. You can also call Sara at 842-4051 for more details. Accessible Housing Funds may be available to build a totally accessible home in our neighborhood some time later this year. Would someone in your family benefit from living in a home designed for their particular needs ? I want to see if we have any interested families in our neighborhood so that if the opportunity does arise, we could apply. Sidewalks Would you like a sidewalk on your property ? There are some funds available for sidewalk installation on individual properties. Please call Margene Swarts at 832-3117 for information. �NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS Neighborhood Questionnaire You will notice a questionnaire enclosed in this newsletter. I want to know what our neighborhood needs, and who better to inform me than all of you, the neighbors of Pinckney ? So fill it in to help me better serve the neighborhood. My many grateful "thank you's" in advance! GOOD PINCKNEY NEIGHBORS Rehabilitation Project Brook Creek neighborhood needs volunteers to work on a house rehabilitation project being sponsored by HOOT. They will accept carpenters and contractors, and they will be happy to accept any 'short term apprentices' as well. If you would like to help perform this good deed and get written up in our newsletter, please call me. It is a volunteer effort that will pay off twice, because a rehabilitation project will be chosen in our neighborhood and volunteers from other neighborhoods will come over to help. A Bigger 6th Street... The City Commission has postponed a vote on extending the fifth lane (turning lane) on 6th Street farther east. This extension was proposed in an effort to address traffic flow problems. Some opposition to this plan has been expressed because landowners along 6th Street do not want the street widened, especially if this means loss of property along the street. Concerns have also been expressed because this stretch of 6th Street includes both residential and school zoned areas, and some fear this plan would compromise both residential aesthetics and school safety. Old West Lawrence Neighborhood has asked for Pinckney input, so please call me with your ideas, concerns, and views so I can represent you in subsequent meetings about 6th Street. When LMH Lights Up .... Robert Trepinski of Lawrence Memorial Hospital would like to thank all of you who expressed thoughts on the proposed LMH parking lot. He also wanted me to share information about lighting of the lot. No vertical stanchion lighting will be used. They will install "Ballard lights," which are 3Yz to 4Yz feet tall. Such lights are already in place in other parts of LMH property. Block Representatives We would like to develop a group of block representatives to help bring neighborhood needs to Pinckney Neighborhood Association meetings. Would you like to volunteer to be that person? We would love to see all of you at meetings, but a block representative could stand in for others on a street or in an apartment complex. Call 842-4051 to volunteer! Another volunteer opportunity exists for someone who is interested in attending Tenants To Homeowners meetings. It would be great to get more Pinckney residents involved, perhaps even as directors. Meetings are the third Tuesday of every month at the United Way Center, 2518 Ridge Court, Room A. Meetings start at 6:30PM. Fountain Walk The Free State Walkers, along with Lawrence Parks and Recreation, Community Mercantile, Paradise Cafe, and Free State Brewery, are sponsoring a fountain walk on Saturday June 12th to raise money for the Teddy Roosevelt Fountain renovation. You can show up at the South Park Recreation Center, just south of lith Street on Massachusetts Street any time between 8AM and !lAM. The walk ends at 2PM. You can walk for free, make a donation, or register to win an award. For more information, please call Bob Lewis at 841-6657, or Kathy Horton at 749-1558. 'Y2K' In The Neighborhood Lots of hype surrounds the approaching Year 2000, and it may be confusing to us everyday folks to know how we may or may not be affected. Do you have a phone, a microwave, medical prescriptions ? Then you probably need some practical, no-nonsense information about the Y2K issue. We are planning a neighborhood meeting some weekend in July or August. We will have a guest speaker to give us some insights as to how individuals can prepare themselves to ensure an easier new year. More details will be posted in the next newsletter. Neighborhood Cleanup Our neighborhood cleanup for individual households will be June 4th. This gives you the week (weekend prior) to clean out your attics, closets, basements, and garages and free yourself of all the stuff you no longer want (and you are pretty sure no charity will want either!). This does not include any hazardous waste (see Pinckney Environment section of newsletter). The city will send around special trucks for washers, dryers, hide-a-beds, and old tires, so you can set those out too. We will be organizing another neighborhood cleanup in the summer for target areas such as Tommy Constant Park. Burcham Park, and Clinton Park. Let me know if there are other areas we should target for this second neighborhood cleanup. PINCKNEY ENVIRONMENT Brush Collection From now until November 13th, anyone can take truckloads oftree branches and brush to the Forestry; of Parks and Recreation at 1110 Haskell (from the intersection of II th and Haskell, travel north on II tt .':t -~t past Consolidated Lumber--the Forestry Division is located on the south side of II th. A truck load costs $2.00, and the collection site is open from lOAM to 4PM on Saturdays. Not only. will you beautify your own yard by cleaning up brush and branches, but you will be contributing to the beauty of greater Lawrence; the wood will be recycled into mulch in city landscaping. Hazardous Waste- Product Reuse It is easier than ever to show your concern for the environment by safely disposing of hazardous wastes in Lawrence. You can bring hazardous wastes to the Collection Day event on June 19th (or the 3rd Saturday of any month) from 8AM to Noon. The collection site is at the Douglas County Public Works Yard at 711 E. 23rd St. If you are unable to bring materials at that time, please call 832-3030 to arrange a drop-off appointment. They accept used engine oil, paint, cleaners, disinfectants, pesticides, furniture polish, photo chemicals. pool chemicals ... you may be surprised at the list. And did you know that every Wednesday following the monthly Collection Day, you can attend a Product Reuse Open House at the Public Works yard and pick up any of the above materials for free? These products are for individual use only and should be disposed of properly. The city redistributed over 13,000 lbs of donations last year. Join in the good effon! �The Pinckney Neighborhood Association welcomes you! All properties except the parl<s are private, so we ask that you please enjoy this historic area from the street. Walking time ...... TENNESSEE STREET 545 TENNESSEE. Canceller Francis Snow buill this home about 1903. he also built three other houses facing 6th street. 511 TENNESSEE. Banks House, built about 1866. LOUISIANA. Dillard House, in 1890 by Jesse Dillard, a former Virginia slave and a selftaught Lawrencian. His daughter Mary, a KU grad., taught poet Langston Hughes when he was a boy. 516 LOUISIANA. Gardner House, built 1884. 519 LOUISIANA. Hadley House, built 1875. 504 Louisiana. Built about 1884, apparently by Tomas Dee, a bricklayer, who lived there with his wife and bookeeper son. 516 w 6th. 509 TENNESSEE. Horton House, built about I 870. TURN LEFT (WEST) ON 5TH STREET. =·;;:~""' '';7;~--.-,,,M'<J! SE CORNER OF 5TH ~:::...~~._,,~AND OHIO STREETS. -~;:;;, ?"""~'}'/i\'"';'"'"f:~(., Site of the first meeting LLl· ..... ·,~~ · "".' house m Lawrence, known . "_ ·..;;·-~. ..i1 r;;\ ___ 1 . i•a\ · '{~')l!~j-: - , ~ik -•' ...,.:', , · 'r as the" Hay Tent" . Plymouth Congregational a·· Church was orgamzed here 1- in 1855. 501 LOUISIANA. Barker House, built in 1872. Later, the Judge Hugh Means family lived here. One and a half story cross, exposed russ in gable. 500 LOUISIANA. Tucker House, built in 1888. Folk Victorian Dwelling with carpenter lace trim. 5th STREET (behveen Louisiana and Indiana), Site of Hugh Cameron's tree house,\907-1908. Cameron a settler and soldier who lived on a wooden platform built in a large maple tree. In the creek bank below the tree,he dug out a kitchen and dining room and roofed it. He installed a telephone and planned to install electricity. TURN RIGHT (NORTH) ON OHIO TURN LEFT (WEST) ON 5TH STREET AND STREET. WALK TOWARD DEAD END. PROCEED TO INDIANA STREET; TURN RIGHT (NORTH) ON INDIANA. OHIO STREET 425 OHIO. Built by A.H. Foote, an attorney. Remodeled in 1982. 433 OHIO. Built in 1912 by Gustave Graeber of Graeber Bros. Plumbing. Prairie style dwelling with end gable. 501 OHY '· Shaw House, built in 1908. Episc<Jpallian Bishop Thomas built in 1865-66. ltalianate Style house represents rebuilding that occured after Quantrill's raid and the end ofthe civil war. 51 I OHIO. Griffith House, built 1888. Stick style, irregular gables. Local Register of Historic Places. 519 OHIO. 1910 two-story, four bedroom stucco. l-Ias original trims and leaded glass bookcase inside. 529 OHIO. Huson House, built ~~\!!!,:'--- 1868. Samuel K. Huson was a physician, postmaster, and mayor in Lawrence. WALK SOUTH TO SIXTH STREET AND TURN RIGHT (WEST). 646 LOUISIANA. Pierson House, built 1889. Mr. pierson owned a flour mill at 6th and Vermont. TURN NORTH ONTO LOUISIANA STREET. LOUISIANA STREET 533 LOUISIANA. Russell House, built 1902. Queen Anne style. 531 LOUISIANA. Russell House, built 1909. Folk National style. 530 LOUISIANA. Denham House, built 1869.Brick Vernacular style. 523 LOUISIANA. Osbum House, built 1885. DRAFT COPY INDIANA STREET 304 INDIANA. Zimmerman House, built 1872. Mr. Zimmerman was a contractor for the Kansas River dam. Nicknamed "The Castle on the Kaw", the house is now on the National Register of Historic Pia 312 INDIANA. Post-Victorian two stof) stone basement. :h full 345 INDIANA. Queen Anne style house with gables. 0 fHER POINTS OF INTEREST 401 INDIANA. This house, built for a Mrs. Meyers by the famous vaudvillian George Walker of Williams and Walker, features bay and stained glass windows and a quarter sawn oak entry. Alice Peabody Sears, a survivor of Quantrill's raid, lived here. 408 INDIANA. Built in the late 1890's. 424 INDIANA. Folk Victorian style. 521 INDIANA. National style gable front and wing. 525 INDIANA. National style gable and wing. PROCEED TO 3RD STREET, THEN TURNLEFT (WEST). WALK TO MISSISSIPPI STREET AND TURN LEFT (SOUTH). 340 N. Michigan. Built in 1871, National Register of Historic Places. Originally Judge Timothy Stephen's 160-acrc farn1. MISSISSIPPI STREET 501 MISSISSIPPI. Built around 1858. Limestone. One of oldest houses in the Pinckney Neighborhood. TURN RIGHT (WEST) ON 5TH STREET AND PROCEED TO ILLINOIS STREET. WALK NORTH ON ILLINOIS STREET. ILLINOIS STREET 323 ILLINOIS. Van 1-loesen House, 1870's. Van H. was a McCormick implement dealer. Note outbuildings. i\ two-room playhouse, now in Watkins Museum, had its own mailbox and street address. 345 ILLINOIS. VanHoesen House. Rear view ofWalruffBrewery, 1867. 2ND AND MAINE. WalruffBrewery, founded by Gern1an born C.J. Walruff in 1867 By 1879, the brewery was probably the largest in Kansas, producing a volume of 5,000 barrels. Prohibition finally killed off the brewery in 1885. The building was then used for leather tanning, a business owned by McCarter Byrd. �"8661 ll! 86 ~3u )U 4lBOp srq .JO OWl) oru )P. 'U' M 80'1 )B paA!Il'"qtv '( i,l uos s,o3Jooo ·A.Jnqsnus o~1ooo JO '"l't3nup 'U!MpOOQ A.tnqsttBS "SJV\l "'ll 'lB.\\ HAP ~u!Jnp t:uuu uo!un Ol!l U! poAJOS "H .,liWlO!I SBSUB)I 11 ;}l{l 'UOJ~WU:J tf3HH ("lS<lJ;JlU! JO SlU!Od J<lq}O Moqs 0} dum <~ql UO p<lOBjd SJOqru,\s pUB 'p;l)p13Ul ;JlllOl ;Jl;JjdUlOO <~ql ql!M durn ;Jql]O UO!Sl<!A J<llB<lU 13 'pooqJoqqil!<lU <lql U! p<lA!J OqM. <!jdO<!d JO S<llnP!d <lABq Jl!M. UOp:><!S S!q.I) ( r,:,;;~;~EV1 WALKING TOUR The Pinckney Neighborhood is one of the oldest in the city. It bears the former name of 6th Street. Until 1912, 6th street was named Pinckney Street after a Revolutionary war hero. First Pincknt:y School �..,~f,~~T. PINc.\--1J. . I NEIGHBORJ[QUD Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. PO Box 125 Lawrence, KS. 66044 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS October 9' 11 Tenants To Homeuwners' Pinckney NA Volunteer Workday October 9'11 : River Valley Celtic Society Festival At Burcham Park 11 November 7' : PNA Appreciation Day, 2PM L MH, Conference Room D November I 3'11 : Neighborhood Cleanup BULK RATE ] U.S. POSTAGE PAID Lawrence, KS 66044 Permit No. 170 : MARGENE SWARTZ FO EOX 708 LA\'i'RENCE KS 66044-0708 Pinckney Neighborhood Newsletter Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Andrea Knickerbocker, acting president, vice president Jody Brown, Secretary William Tienken, Honormy President Rosalie Mclv!aster, Treasurer Sara Taliaferro, coordinator (842-4051) Pinckney Neighborhood's Tenants To Homeowners Project Tenants To Homeowners has purchased a home in our neighborhood that they will renovate and sell to an eligible family. I have organized a small group of volunteers to work on the house on Saturday, October 9th, but I would be delighted if any of you would like to add your names to the list. We will be cleaning, cutting bushes, weeding, seeding the lawn, planting flower beds, washing windows, hanging up storm windows, and bagging and setting out miscellaneous trash items. The house is located at 218 Alabama Street, and I hope you will stop by and see the house on Saturday. If you would like to work for an hour or so, or bring your guitar and play a song for us, bring flower bulb or root stock donations for the yard, bring over freshly baked cookies, or just stop by to say hello, we would be delighted to see you! There is a rumor that a news crew may stop by at some point-who knows? We will provide food for volunteers. Like a good "stone soup," the more folks who are involved, the better the project will be, so please call me if you would like to help out for a bit (842-4051 ). The Tenants To Homeowners Board is looking for eligible families to buy the two-bedroom house, and they will give priority to families who are looking for a handicapped accessible home. We would ideally like to sell the home to a family in the Pinckney neighborhood. If you are interested, call Alan Bowes at 842-5494. It would be wonderful to have a family in the house by Christmas! Neighborhood Appreciation Day We are having a good year as a neighborhood association. So we would like to celebrate with an informal reception on November 7th at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Conference Room D at 2:00PM. We will have refreshments and some show-and-tell items (such as a map of the proposed utility department project). Everyone who is a member of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association (and you are a member if you live east of McDonald Drive and west of the river, and south of 1-70 and on the north side of 6th Street) is invited. And we celebrate everyone who sent in their questionnaire, called about neighborhood concerns, offered photos or history, participated in neighborhood cleanup, attended meetings, volunteered on projects, wrote letters to the city, organized neighborhood watches, shared their opinions, represented us on various board and committees throughout the city, or served on our neighborhood association board. We have a good community of neighbors that live in our ranches, two-st01y homes and mansions, cottages, apartments, townhomes, duplexes, and mobile homes throughout Pinckney. By November we will have completed a walking tour brochure and held our second neighborhood cleanup. This year we have also worked with the city to maintain the new storm drainage ditch between Michigan and Arkansas Streets and to give attention to some neglected homes. We had a community dance with Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association and the Pinckney School. We have a successful Tenants To Homeowners Project in our neighborhood. I have left out countless notes and calls and minor victories that you have made: to help keep the neighborhood network alive. We look forward to seeing you in November to celebrate our neighborhood! �Pinckney's Fall Neighborhood Cleanup We are having our fall cleanup on Saturday, November 13t". This cleanup will give you another opportunity to clean out houses and garages and set out such things as appliances and old tires without having to make special arrangements with solid waste disposal. You can also set out yard waste such as bagged leaves and bundled sticks. For our fall cleanup we will also organize crews to walk through Clinton Park (meet there at 9:00AM), Burcham Park (meet there at II :OOAM), and Tommy Constant Park (meet there at I :OOPM). Please either call me or show up if you would like to be on one of the cleanup crews-or all three if you are ambitious! We are still working out details with the city, but it looks as if yard waste will be picked up on Monday, November 15th ifthe weather is favorable and Monday pickups are still being run. Household items, especially appliances and tires, will get picked up Friday November 19t11 • Tenants To Homeowners Board of Directors The PNA Board extends a special thank you to Marguerite Risley who has represented the Pinckney Neighborhood on the Homeowners Out Of Tenants (HOOT) Board of Directors and will end her term this year. She has been a wonderful and responsible advocate for neighborhood concerns, and we are sure the board will miss her. We really appreciate her caring work. It is our pleasure to announce that John Pepperdine will join the board in October to learn the ropes before Marguerite steps down at the end of the year. John is a former neighborhood coordinator and has nonprofit board experience, and we welcome him as our new representative. HAND Advisory Board The Pinckney Neighborhood Association is looking for people who would be willing to serve on the HAND (Housing and Neighborhood Development) Advisory Committee to represent neighborhood concerns (of all neighborhoods, not just Pinckney). The HAND Advisory Committee combines two former housing and neighborhood issue advisory groups, the Community Development Block Grant Advisory Committee and the Housing Advisory Council in order to increase citizen participation and make the program more effective. The l-lANO Advisory Committee consists of eleven members: five members represent CDBG target neighborhoods (of which Pinckney is one), a member from the landlord community, two members from the CDBG practitioner's panel, and three from the community at large. The mayor appoints individuals for three-year terms. This is a very important position to our neighborhood, and we would be very pleased to recruit a good individual (or two!) from our neighborhood. City of Lawrence Notes The Department of Public Works wants to see that roadside ditches are functioning properly, and they need your help. Landowners are responsible for mowing and removing debris from ditches. The City is responsible for reconstruction of ditches and existing driveway culverts. If you need to install a new driveway culvert, you will either need to submit a plan with a drawing to the city, or you can pay the City to install the culvert. If you are aware of any obstruction that disturbs drainage ditches, or if you have Questions or comments, please contact Public Works at 832-3027. You can also call me ( 842-4051 )to make me aware of problem areas so that we can bring this to the city's attention. As you may know, the City of Lawrence is planning a city "fixed route" transit system. If you want to see details of the proposed routes, they will be available at the Lawrence Public Library reference desk and at the City Manager's office on the fourth floor of City Hall. If you have any comments on the proposed routes, you can send written comments to Aaron Bartlett, City Transportation Planner, Lawrence/Douglas County Planning Department, City Hall, PO Box 708, Lawrence, KS 66044. As of September, Lawrence City Commission meetings will be aired only on City Cable Channel 48 and not on Sunflower Cable Channel 6. The City of Lawrence held two public meetings on future recreation needs of Lawrence and the Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Plan. Deadlines for comments were at the end of September, but if you have comments, you can still send them to Lawrence Parks and Recreation, Fred LeVictor, PO Box 708, Lawrence, KS, 66044; call 832-3450; or e-mail at fdevictor@ci.lawrence.ks.us. Mention that you realize you missed the deadline; they are planning to conduct surveys and interviews with youths as well. Check out the new Prairie Park Nature Center! It is located at 2730 Harper Street (from Haskell Street, turn east onto 27th Street and travel six blocks to Harper Street; turn south and the Nature Center is on the east side of the street). �Pinckney Neighborhood Newsletter SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board William Tienken, President Andrea Knickerbocker, Vice President Jody Brovvn, Secretmy Rosalie McMaster, Treasurer Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator (842-4051) Eve1y Saturday Brush collection from 10Alvf-4PM at Forestry Div., 1110 Haskell St. August Il" First Time Home Buyers' Workshop United Way Center. 9:45AM-I PM August 21 81 Y2K Guest Lecture, ]JAM August 2F1 Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day, 711 E. 23rd St., 8AMto Noon August 25 111 Product Reuse Open House, 711 E. 23rd St. (832-3030) www. recycle. ci./awrence. ks. us 111 October 9 River Valley Celtic Society's Festival Y2K Information Seminar The Pinckney Neighborhood Association is hosting a Y2K information seminar at Lawrence Memorial Hospital at 11:00 AM on Saturday, August 21st in Conference Room D. Our guest speaker will be Jerry W. Manweiler, the Chairman of the Lawrence-Douglas County Y2K Community Compliant Information Task Force. Dr. Manweiler is the Vice President of Information Technologies and the General Manager for Fundamental Technologies, LLC. He will talk about common sense ways for individuals and families to prepare for the 'Y2K problem'. On January 1, 2000, computers that are not Y2K compliant will 'perceive' the 00 in the date 01-01-00 as meaning the year 1900 instead of the year 2000. A more immediate problem will occur on September 9, 1999, which some computers could perceive as 9999, meaning no data. Even if you do not have a personal computer, your life could be potentially affected by non-Y2K-compliant computers. Dr. Manweiler will not advocate that we "build a bomb shelter in the back yard", but instead will have very practical advice. There will be time after the talk for a question and answer session with Dr. Manweiler. First Time Home Buyers' Workshop Tenants to Homeowners, Inc., Housing and Neighborhood Development-City of Lawrence, and the Lenders Committee are presenting a workshop that provides a step-by-step guide to buying a house in Lawrence. This free workshop will be held at the United Way Center, 2518 Ridge Court in Meeting Room A from 9:45AM to I :OOPM on Saturday, August 14. Everyone is welcome; the presentation is geared toward low income buyers. There will be four parts to the seminar: the decision of buying a house, the mortgage process, personal budgeting, and home maintenance. Preregistration would be helpful, but it is not required. Alan Bowes ofTenants To Homeowners will facilitate, and Jackie Foley of Commerce Bank and Deanna Dibble ofReMax Professionals will give presentations. For more information contact Tenants To Homeowners at 842-5494. YouthFriends YouthFriends is a program of The Lawrence Partnership for Children and Youth, Inc.; Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Douglas County, Inc.; and The Lawrence USD # 497, and they would like to count you among their volunteer team! Volunteers use special interests or hobbies to connect with a child or group of students, or spend time with a youth reading, tutoring, or eating lunch. YouthFriends holds a brief orientation for volunteers. New volunteers can make a minimum commitment of one hour a week for four weeks, and the program is very flexible. If you are interested, call 842-5006 orEmail youthfriends@.hotmail.com. Pinckney is one of the participating schools, so your community efforts could be in your own "backyard"! �BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE Pinckney Neighborhood News PAID Lawrence, KS 66044 Permit No. 170 NEIGHBORHOOD Draft of Walking Tour Brochure enclosed! Draft of Walking Tour Brochure A few changes need to be made, information added, and a decent map will replace the scrawled version you are seeing, but we are in the final stages of editing the brochure. I would like any comments, suggestions, history, or pictures that Pinckney neighbors may have to offer. By September 1st we should have a completed version in place at the historic sign in Tommy Constant Park, so you can trade in your draft version for a shiny new complete one. If your house is featured and pictured, please let me know ifl can have your permission to print it as shown. I will try to call everyone, but I welcome your phone calls if you take the incentive before I do. Thank you in advance for your help on this! Celtic Happenings This is a fall event, but in case we laze our way into fall without an early fall newsletter, I will give you the scoop now. The River Valley Celtic Society will be having a festival at Burcham Park on Saturday October 9, 1999, starting at SAM. They 111 will be setting up on Friday the 8 • For an admission of$7.00, attendees will be treated to various musical groups and booths, but perhaps no Highland games. Burcham Park's immediate neighbors might be interested to know that the music should stop around l 0:30 PM, and cleanup will be on Sunday. ,. �'1-~'V-e.~£ PIAic~.j. .. BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE J NEIGHBORHOOD SCHEDULE OF EVENTS J PAID Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. PO Box 125 Lawrence, KS. 66044 Februwy 5th: PNA General Meeting and Elections March 111": First Time Homebuyer 's Workshop, Tenants To Homeowners, 9:45AM To 1:00PM, United Way Center, 2518 Ridge Court, Room A. Law~ence. KS 66044 Permit No 1?0 'iO .:1,1 Attention Pinckney Neighbors! Anyone who lives east of McDonald Drive and between I-70 and 61h Street is a Pinckney neighbor and can receive the newsletter and participate in any neighborhood events such as cleanups. Do you have a neighbor who is not receiving a newsletter but would like to? Do you have news that might be of neighborhood interest? Please call Sara at 842-4051. �Pinckney .. ,dghborhood Newsletter: Ja ... aary 2000 Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board Andrea Knickerbocker, acting president, vice president Jody Brown, Secretmy William Tienken, Honorary President Rosalie McMaster, Treasurer Sara Taliaferro, coordinator (842-4051) Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting The Pinckney Neighborhood Association will have a general meeting on Saturday, February 51h at 1:00PM at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Conference Room G. We will hold elections for the positions of president and secretary of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board. Also, students from the Kansas University School of Architecture will be presenting plans for a new home that will be built on the lot at 216 Alabama Street (see 'Breaking Ground' article below) in cooperation with our neighborhood association and Tenants To Homeowners. Please come vote for-and then congratulate l-our new officers. Never been to the hospital for a meeting? From the East or the West entrance, proceed into the middle of the building to the elevators. Take an elevator down one floor, and when you get off the elevator, tum right. Walk down the hall and look for signs! Hope to see you there! Many Thanks! The renovation project at 218 Alabama Street is moving along rapidly, and we would like to thank those people who have contributed their time and efforts so far. We held two neighborhood cleanup days in the fall, and the following people showed up with lots of elbow grease and good company and did an outstanding job. Hats off to Andrea Knickerbocker, Michael Holtz, Mark Jakubauskas, Katie Armitage, Clayton and Gwen and Gordon and Claire Blodgett, John and Carrie Pepperdine, Charles Jones, Lee Skinner, Stu, David and Kathy Slade, and David Unekis. Thank you to Ken and Kevin Armitage for the little tree. And Alan Bowes, the Executive Director of Tenants To Homeowners, has done an incredible job lining up contractors and helping with the renovations. But our thanks do not end there. Several contractors have provided services and goods, often at a reduced price, to make this project a success so far. Loren Harris and Harris Foundation repaired basement walls, footings, and foundations; David Simmons and Alternative Construction trimmed out the porch, installed a door and windows, installed floors and underlayment in the kitchen and bath, built a deck, and tuck-pointed the exterior foundation; Sneegas Plumbing installed drains and sewerline; JJ's Repair rebuilt the soffit and fascia and painted trim; Rainbow Gutters installed gutters and drainspouts; Anderson Rental provided a floor scrubber; paint and floor enamel from Sherwin-Williams; floor finishing supplies from Coast To Coast Hardware; and vinyl floor covering for the kitchen and bath from Georgia Carpet Outlet. All of you have contributed to the transformation of this little house. We are not quite done, but it is becoming a home. Thank you. Breaking Ground In mid December, Tenants To Homeowners (HOOT) approached the Pinckney Neighborhood Association with a proposal to build another accessible home in our neighborhood. HOOT planned to work with the Kansas University School of Architecture to build an affordable and accessible home, but needed a vacant lot for this project. Since HOOT owns the lot for 218 Alabama Street until the renovation project is completed, and since the site is a double lot, they wanted to build the new house on this lot (216 Alabama St.). They have worked with the city and have all the approvals they need. By February they will have a set of plans for this accessible home. This project is the Masters thesis of the architecture students involved in its plannin~. They would like to present these plans to the neighborhood association at our February 51 meeting to get our approval and answer any questions about the project. �._._f>._~r. PlN,+-1- ,._ PRSRTSTD U. S. POSTAGE I N'E.lGHBORHOOD PAID LAWRENCE, KS PERMIT #170 PO Box 125 Lawrence, KS. 66044 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS May 19'": May 20'": Open House, 216 Ala. St., Noon-3P M Community Street Dance at Pinckney School, 6:30-9:30 PM June 3'd: PNA General Meeting, 10 AM, at LMH, Kansas Room July 8th: First Time Homebuyer 's Workshop, Tenants To Homeowners, 9:45AM To 1:00PM, United Way Center, 2518 Ridge Court, Room A. A~!:jo~e wvw L~ves ee~.st MARGENE SWARTZ of McDo~e~Lvl Dr~ve e~~c{ betwee~ 1-7-o e~~c{ e~ "P~~e-R~e!:j ~e~gV\bor e~~Dl e-e~~ 1)e~rhe-~-pe~te ~~ e~~u ~e~gV\borvwovl eve~t.s ole~ ~a. street Ls; stAe-V\ e~s tV\e 0tV1 �Pinckney Neighborhood Newsletter: May 2000 Pinckney Neighborhood Association Board John Pepperdine, President David Unekis, Secretary Rosalie McMaster, Treasurer Jody Brown, Vice president Sara Taliaferro, coordinator (842-4051) Message From The President on behalf of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association, I would like to invite your participation in deciding how the Association should operate and what its goals should be. Certainly, we are not without ideas or enthusiasm but would always welcome further comment and involvement. The purpose ofPNA is to improve the quality oflife for everyone in the community. This may include coordination of federal grant money to improve sidewalks and sewers or help for individuals to attain affordable housing. PNA is your voice to the local, state, and federal governments when neighborhood issues arise. The Association is active with other neighborhood associations in Lawrence to oversee development of the city and county. As you can see, PNA is active but needs your input; neighborhood associations function best when the entire neighborhood is involved. Please feel free to contact me at 840-0983 or Sara Taliaferro, our coordinator, at 842-4051 if you wish to become more involved. Or simply be on the lookout for notices dropped off at your home with opportunities to help. Again, I look forward to your input and support of the association. John Pepperdine President, PNA Community Dance! The Pinckney School is hosting a community street dance with a D.J. on Saturday, May 20th, 6:30PM to 9:30PM on the playground. The dance is sponsored by Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association, Pinckney Neighborhood Association, and Lawrence Memorial Hospital. A raffle will be held for prizes and gift certificates with a drawing at 9PM. This is a community dance, so all ages are welcome. You do not have to have children in the Pinckney School to be invited, so adults unaccompanied by a child will still be admitted! We had great fun last year, so we hope you join us this year for even more fun! Refreshments will be sold at the dance, and profits will be donated to Pinckney School to fund other community events. Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting The Pinckney Neighborhood Association will have a general meeting on Saturday, June 3rd at 10:00 AM at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in the Kansas Room (take old elevators-just inside from east entrance-to lower floor, tum right as you get off elevators). Our main agenda topic is traffic safety. From our questionnaire last year, we kriow that such issues as speeding, pedestrian safety, and easy access to and from 6th Street are a big concern to people in the Pinckney neighborhood. We will present a plan that Old West Lawrence Neighborhood has assembled concerning 61h Street and wishes to present to the City of Lawrence with the support of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association. Other traffic safety issues can be raised during the meeting for consideration. Please come and help shape policy on an issue that affects us all! Affordable Housing Many of you have been watching progress of the new building project at 216 Alabama Street and the renovation project at 218 Alabama St. Now you will have some opportunities to check out the projects! An Open House is scheduled on May 19th from Noon to 3PM at 216 Alabama St. Independence, Inc. will include 216 Ala. in an accessible homes tour on June 1oth and 11th (contact them for details at 841-0333). Tenants To Homeowners will have another Open House at some later date. Tenants To Homeowners is still soliciting applications for 218 Alabama St. Call Alan Bowes at 842-5494. Do you have property or home in the Pinckney neighborhood that you would be willing to sell to Tenants To Homeowners? Please call Alan Bowes at 842-5494 to find out details and tax information. �vv099 S)i '38N3tlMVl BOL X08 ·o·d Sltl'v'MS 3N38tl'v'V\I ~-;::::::::i:' ... ~_...........-.--···--· ·~~~ -- .... . . . . _._..,_,.. . .... ....., ....~ __.........~,~'"'- .. ,_,,~ vv099 S>l 'aouaJMEll ... ~...-v-~ ..... ~.'\~-7~­ . ~-- . ....,r--·_..,~- -........... ............... ~ _.;._ gu xos ·o·d ·ussv pompoq46!8N f;au)jOU!d ~~ ~ --.-~"'""'"~ -~ ··~ .......-~......__,_,.,....... ......,... -. --- �L;ic+4~~ ~ NEIGHBORHOOD Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. Neighborhood Cleanup PO Box 125 Lawrence, KS. 66044 In anticipation of the 4th of July, Pinckney Neighborhood will have a special solid waste pickup on June 30th. The city will send around trucks to pick up old appliances, tires, and bulky items--but no hazardous materials. Anyone between I-70 and 6th street and McDonald Drive and Tennessee Street will get pickup. Please call Sara Taliaferro at 842-4051 if you have any questions. On Saturday, July 15\ anyone interested can help pick up debris in Clinton Park (9 AM), Constant Park (10 AM), and Burcham Park (11 AM). Volunteers at the fall cleanup did a great job giving a little extra care to our community parks. We look forward to your help and company on the first of June! SCHEDULE OF EVENTS June 3dh: Special Pickup for neighborhood Cleanup ****Housing Rehabilitation loan and grant applications due******* July 151 : Walk the Parks Cleanup Day July 8th: First Time Homebuyer's Workshop, Tenants To Homeowners, 9:45AM To I :00 PM, United Way Center, 2518 Ridge Court, Room A. July lith: Music Festival at Burcham Park, Noon To JO:OOPM July Itfh: Household Hazardous Waste dropoff from 8:00Am to Noon, at 711 E. 23'd Street Housing Rehabilitation Funds are available through the city for resident homeowners with modest incomes who wish to rehabilitate their homes. The deadline for one of the programs is June 30th for this funding year. If you are interested or have questions, please call Sara at 842-4051 or Margene Swarts of the Department of Housing and Neighborhood Development at 832-3117. - Gr~111f &'''~trtle411 The Pinckney Neighborhood Association recently received a neighborhood grant from the City of Lawrence to have two historic signs made. One sign, to be located near the comer of 5th and Louisiana Streets, will give a description of Lawrence's original hippie, abolitionist Hugh Cameron. Mr. Cameron resided for a time in a tree home along the creek. The second sign, located in Clinton Park, will include information on the Civilian Conservation Corps stonework in the park. :H:e1p! The City of Lawrence has hired a Neighborhood Programs Specialist, Cindy Nau. She has sent us a neighborhood survey to find out how we get information about city programs and services and what kind of information we would like to receive. If you are willing to fill out this one-page questionnaire, please give Sara a call at 842-4051. /)UJte 2000 dfewfjlette'C.: e.,Lean.u.p cfi.me! �:\"EifiliHOilltOOI) Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. P.O. Box 125 Lawrence, KS 66044 OCTOBER2000NEWSLETTER SCHEDULE OF EVENTS October I5' 11 : PNA General Meeting, LMH, Conference Room Gat 2:00PM October 20'11 : Fall Neighborhood Cleanup; door-to-door pickup of solid waste and brush Breast Cancer Awareness Dance, 8PM to Midnight at the Ho!idome October 2 1"': Hazardous Waste Collection, BAM-Noon, 71I E. 23'd Street October 22"d: Adopt-A-Park Cleanup, I:OO PM at neighborhood park ofyour choice (see article) Until Nov. II'": Brush Collection, Saturdays from IOAM-4PM, 1 I 10 Haskell Street-- $2.00 a load Voluntary Annual Newsletter Subscription Rate is $2.00 �General Meeting Pinckney Neighborhood Association's Fall General Meeting will be held at 2:00PM on Sunday, October 15th at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Conference Room G (take new elevators downstairs; turn right and look for signs). We will discuss family friendly neighborhoods and neighborhood blight as well as regular business. Cleanup For Halloween! On Friday, October 20 th , we Wl'11 have our Fall Cleanup. Please have all items curbside Thursday night. The City's Solid Waste Division will send special crews around to pick up old tires, appliances, larger trash items and such. The City's Forestry Division will send around chipper trucks for brush. Please pile brush separately from other items, and pile brush with cut ends together at one side of the pile. If it rains, brush will be picked up the following Monday (the 23 rd). Hazardous household items will not be picked up. If you have any questions, please call Sara at 8424051. Pinckney Neighborhood Associat~on John Pepperdine, President Jody Brown, Vice President David Unekis, Secretary Rosalie McMaster, Treasurer Sara L. Taliaferro, Coordinator (842-4051) Adopt-A-Park! Join your neighbors in cleaning our parks on Sunday, October 22nd at lPM! Meet Charles Jones (841-4598) at Constant Park, Steve Braswell (841-6902) at Clinton Park, or John Pepperdine (840-0983) at Burcham Park. It is a small time donation, but it sends a message that we support our favorite neighborhood parks. We look forward to walking with you. Please Note .. .. Our neighborhood coordinator, Sara will not be available between ' October 21st and October 28 th . You are welcome to leave a message on the Pinckney answering machine. If you need immediate assistance on a neighborhood matter, please contact president John Pepperdine at 8400983. Oe tobeF 1~ 8Fea.rt Ca~teeF llwaFel(e.r.r lfo~tt!v. �PRSRTSTD U. S. POSTAGE PAID :\t:JCHJJHIIUJOOil LAWRENCE, KS PERMrT #170 Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. P.O. Box 125 Lawrence, KS 66044 NOYEMBER2000NEWSL£TTER ,. ,. * + * * * + * ,,. * * * r. * * * * * * "' * * * * * + *EC RLOT * * B 0 ''i 0 M.J\RGENE SWARTZ PO BOX 70B LANHENCE KS 6(1041-·0'lOB PKG l TRAY 5 1.11 •• ,II" u... ,! •• IIi" m,>l[lum, uf •• 1.11 .. I!' .l.r mfl SCHEDULE OF EVENTS November 1i": PNA General Meeting, LMH, Conference Room D at 4:00PM Until Nov. 1t": Brush Collection, Saturdays from 10AM-4PM, 1110 Haskell Street-- $2.00 a load U/e lfeec/ fltJa/ U/e /furl fltJiif' tJftir/tJI(.f tJI( .ftJ!f(e «fetJ!f(tirj l.f.fae.f {.ree tir.ft'rle). 111(1 «Je are etJfleettirj !f(e!f(tJ~t'e.r alfd .f"to~t'e.f tJf tfe, tir Ptireilfe/1 (eaff t~a). Voluntary Annual Newsletter Subscription Rate is $2.00 �Pinckney N eighbJrhood Association N ovemb,._.f 2000 Newsletter John Pepperdine, President Jody Brown, Vice President Rosalie McMaster, Treasurer Dave Unekis, Secretary Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator Redefining Family in Single-Family Zones Ordinances to change the number of unrelated people living in a house in an area zoned single family from 4 to 2 will be discussed at a special Planning Commission meeting on November 1". At our last board meeting and general meeting, it was decided that PNA would lend support to the ordinances. If you wish to share co1111nents before this meeting, please call Sara at 842-4051. We will discuss the ordinance at the November 12'h meeting. 6th Street Issues PNA and Old West Lawrence NA have been sponsoring a plan for triangular green areas along the edge of 6'h street that announce the presence of the two neighborhoods. The Planning Commission brought forward plans for the triangular areas as well as an alternative plan for green islands in the middle of Sixth Street. The island or boulevard idea adds turning lanes to 6'h Street. We need your opinions about the plans, since this will affect everyone in Pinckney. Please attend the November meeting for information and for a neighborhood vote. Please call Sara at 842-4051 if you cannot attend the meeting but need information or have op11uons or votes. New Ordinance on Disorderly Houses Lawrence City Commission adopted a new ordinance concerning properties where such activities as excessive noise, litter, underage alcohol consumption, illegal parking, and urinating in public are a recurring problem. This applies to all types of housing and common areas such as garages, and the nuisance can take place inside or outside on the property. Occupants, including tenants and guests, and owners can be cited. For more information, contact Dave Corliss, assistant city manager and director of legal services, at 832-3403, or E-mail dcorliss@ci.lawrence.ks.us. Wanted Volunteer drivers are wanted to deliver meals for the homebound elderly, one day a week between 11:15 .\M. and 12:15 PM. All it takes is a kind heart, a car, and a valid driver's license. If interested, please contact Mary Gillaspie or Kim Wittman of Douglas Count Senior Services at 8420543. Thank you! Stormwater Pollution Prevention The City of Lawrence has a draft ordinance addressing stormwater pollution prevention that includes instructions to residents to keep pollutants out of the drainage system. Neighbors have expressed concerns about debris and litter going down the storm drains. It is surprising to learn that pollution from homes is greater than that of industrial waste. That is contrary to what many of us would suppose. This means that we can have a very great impact on the environment just by what we do in our yards. To be kind to our neighbor, the Kaw River, such things as litter, debris, household waste, yard waste, pet, waste, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, household hazardous waste, industrial waste, petroleum products and soil should be kept out of the drainage system. We will discuss the ordinance in future meetings and newsletters. If you have any questions about the draft ordinance, please call Chad Voigt, Stormwater Engineer in the Department of Public Works, at 832-3037. Also, Sara Taliaferro has a copy of the draft. Free Paint---But Hurry! The Product Reuse and Household Hazardous Waste facilities at 711 E. 23'd has latex paint that they have bulked, packaged, and labeled. Call to schedule an appointment at 832-3030. But hurry! This offer only lasts through October! The facility is closed from November to April. F all(ing) Leaves ... Are you busy raking and bagging those fall leaves? Have you tried the compostable yard waste bags? Fiber compostable yard waste bags are available at: Cottin's Hardware and Rental, 1832 ;-.Iassachusetts Earl May Nursery, 3200 Iowa Payless Cashways, 3434 Iowa Target, 3434 Iowa Westlake ,\ce Hardware, 601 Kasold and 711 W. 23"' Street Walmart, 3300 Iowa Street These bags can be set out for yard waste collection on Mondays, and the city can recycle the whole bag and its contents. �.,...~wn;'''·'f·~,,. . PRSRTSTD U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 542 . Lawrence, KS ;-if:llliiiiOHilOOil Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. P.O. Box 125 Lawrence, KS 66044 MAY 2002 NEWSI.JITfER MARGENE SWARTZ PO BOX 708 LAWRENCE, KS 66044-0708 tfteof Da.t (Jrq- 1(~((/ lf~{f~bDFhDDrf ((J~b~t'te,, , , Mrf O(J/If~ trJ tfte cft~tirf Pte~tie/1/ SCHEDULE OF EVENTS June 1'1: Pinckney Neighborhood Picnic, Noon to 2 PM, Clinton Park on Fifth Street July l3 1h: Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting, Burcham Park Shelter, I 0:00AM In case of rain, please check website for alternative location (or call Sara at 842-4051). We will discuss fundraisers for our park projects (a neighborhood garage sale, for instance). Voluntary Annual Newsletter Subscription Rate is $2.00 Pinckney Neighborhood Association May 2002 Newsletter John Pepperdine, President Jody Brown, Vice President Jerome Ratzlaff, Treasurer Cynthia Pierard, Secretary Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator Pinckney Neighborhood Has a Website! The Pinckney Neighborhood Association has its own website, thanks to the efforts of our webmaster, Kendall Simmons! Check it out at www.pinckneyneighborhood.org. You can read this year's newsletters, subscribe to our online mailing list, and check out our calendar of events. We will have the walking tour online soon, thanks to Kendall and to Gary Samuelson. We will expand the offerings and content, and develop a neighborhood history section. Please bring your comments and suggestions to meetings or contact us online. And we all want to thank Kendall for an excellent website-her great work and neighborhood support is gratefully appreciated! �On Saturday the 26'", all who are interested can meet in Clinton or Constant Park at 10:00 AM and in Burcham Park at 1:00 PM to walk the parks and pick up litter. Bags will be provided! And please cheer for the MS Walk volunteers as they pass by on their route (see article)! Finally, you can spend the weekend collecting brush for pickup on Monday, April28'h! Mulford's Tree Service (841-6981) has kindly offered to help with our brush pickup and has given us a neighborhood discount. Please stack brush in several small piles right at the curbside, butt ends of branches all facing the same way. Please make certain that no vines, weeds, or foreign objects are mixed into the branches. We do have some money set aside for the brush pickup but are also accepting donations. It is hard to predict the amount of brush, and thus the cost, of brush pickup. If you arc interested in making a donation, please send a check to Pinckney Neighborhood Association at P.O. Box 125 or call Sara at 842-4051. ~~ Annual Neighborhood Picnic! We will have our annual neighborhood picnic at Burcham Park on May 24'h this year from 11 AM to 2 PM. Our theme is "Pinckney on the Kaw," and we will have activities and presenters to explore our relationship and history with the river. First, if we have a national security alert code of yellow or lower, we will meet at Burcham at 11 AM and walk over for a tour of the water treatment facility at 3'd and Illinois streets. We will eat lunch at noon-please bring your own picnic lunch and table service. Also bring a dessert or dish to share if you so desire. We will provide ice, some drinks, and desserts. We will have speakers and presentations: possible topics include the wetlands area project in our neighborhood, the 19 51 flood, river travel at the turn of the last century. We also will have a canoe trip to Eudora, a 3.5 hour trip, if enough people are interested. The cost is $30.00 for 2 adults. Please call Sara at 842-4051 if you want to rent a canoe. grapple with respecting those more transient members of our neighborhood while ensuring respect toward the 'addressed members' of the neighborhood and thoughtful use of shared spaces. Those who have attended recent general meetings know that PNA and Project Acceptance (407 Maine Street) have been discussing 'good neighbor' issues, and several people brought up issues of encounters with inebriated individuals throughout the neighborhood. If a concern arises with behavior of members on the property of Project Acceptance, please contact Sharilyn Wells, Director, at 843-1266, and leave a message stating the date and nature of the concern. If a disturbance occurs on your property, or if you are approached by someone who makes you uncomfortable, please notify the police. Please also notify Sara at 842-4051. Out intention is not to harass anyone, but rather to discover the nature and extent of issues we experience in relation to our homeless population. We also want to deliver a message that no one is invisible within our neighborhood, and everyone deserves to give and receive respectful treatment. An in-depth article and follow-up report will appear on our website in May. Go to the site at www.pinckneyneighborhood.org News Briefs *MS Walk, a fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, will be held on April26'h in Lawrence. Both walkers and other volunteers are needed. The route runs through Pinckney Neighborhood with Burcham Park as 'headquarters'. For more information, please check msrnidamerica.org or call Emily Zung at 832-1731. Homeless in Pinckney *Pinckney School is having its S'h annual Street Dance on tl1e school playground blacktop on Saturday, May 17th from 6:30 to 9:30PM. The neighborhood is invited! If you can donate cookies to sell at the concession, please contact Jim Immel at the school (832-5800) as soon as possible. As Lawrence discusses a new open shelter providing services to homeless individuals in our community, the Pinckney Neighborhood has been contemplating its own homeless population. Homeless people visit Pinckney for services at such providers as Bert Nash, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Project Acceptance, and Health Care Access. They also sometimes live in our woods and parks. We often *Household Hazardous Waste Program has expanded hours! While you are doing that spring cleaning, why not make your home safer? To make an appointment, call 832-3030 to drop off unwanted paint, pesticides, cleaners, old mercury thermometers, and batteries. There is no fee to households. Do your bit for a clean earth! �PRSRTSTD U.S. POSTAGE PAID LAWRENCE, KS PERMIT #1 :\J:I<:IIIUHIIIOOil Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. P.O. Box 125 Lawrence, KS 66044 c. OCTOBER 2002 NEWSLETTER . . * PKG 1 * ** * ** * * *~'.Jc * * * f: ?I** -k * * * * * * * * *ECRLOT* *BO 50 MARGENE SWART~ PO BOX 708 ·.. ._.. . . . TRAY 5 LAwKENCE KS .. 6b044-070;,8 ' -::•· It ,;r f"aff ;1/e~fttboi<-bJol C~M«(J t//l(e/ -A~trf eo/l(e t() tk f"aff ~el(ef<'af ;tfutlltf t() rft:rea.~~ ()rue- l(tttU l(e~hbof<-lv()od fi<-tj/eet Md afi<-0/()~ed rle~fot/l(el(t tit tk l(e~fttb()f<-bJod, ... SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Oct. 25th: Pinckney Neighborhood Fall Cleanup. All objects curbside Thursday night for Friday pickup. Oct. 26t": Pinckney Neighborhood Association General Meeting, 10:00 AM at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Room G. Nov. 9th: Tenants To Homeowners home-buying workshop, 9:45AM-1:00PM, United Way Building, 2518 Ridge Court. Voluntary Annual Newsletter Subscription Rate is $2.00 Pinckney Neighborhood Association May 2002 Newsletter John Pepperdine, President and Acting Vice President Jerome Ratzlaff, Treasurer Cynthia Pierard, Secretary Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator www. pinckneyneighborhood.org Pinckney Neighborhood General Meeting The Pinckney Neighborhood Association will hold its fall general meeting at 10:00 AM Saturday, October 26, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Room G. For those of you not familiar with the hospital, enter either from the east or west entrance and walk to the elevators in the center of the main corridor. The meeting rooms are one floor down. Beat right as you exit the elevator. As you approach a 'T' hallway, you will see signs for the meeting rooms. Room G is to the left. We have some important business to accomplish at this meeting. First, Jody Brown, our Vice President, has moved to North Carolina with his wife Meg and son George. Although we celebrate their good fortunes in moving to North Carolina, they will be missed. With Jody's departure, we need to hold a special election to fill the Vice President's position. Steve Braswell has offered to run for the position. Anyone else interested in the position please call Sara at 842-4051 or show up at the general meeting. The vice president's duties include �attending four to six board meetings a year as well as the four general meetings a year. PNA by-laws will be available fm the new electee. Our second order of business is to hear a presentation by Michael Morley on a site plan for a development project proposed for a tract of land at the southeast corner of Third and Illinois Streets. The project would require rezoning of the tract of land. We greatly appreciate Mr. Morley's goodwill in approaching PNA for input and information sharing on this project. Our third order of business is to discuss a neighborhood grant we have received for a beautification project of an area adjacent to one of our historic signs. All present can help pick out a park bench and discuss plantings for the site. And willie we are thinking about long-term neighborhood plans and projects, now is a good time to discuss the Community Development Block Grant application we will submit in December. Ideas for future projects come from letters, E-mails, phone calls, and suggestions at meetings, so this is a good time to let us know what you would like! We will review this year's proposals for those of you who missed reading about it in the newsletter or discussing it at the general meeting last year. Pinckney Neighborhood Fall Cleanup! It's time fm our fall cleanup! Pickup will be Friday, October 25'h, so please have your pickup items curbside Thursday night. For those of you who normally have alleyway pickup, we suggest you set items curbside for this event. Solid \v'aste Division of the City of Lawrence will pick up any nonhazardous household materials. They will also send around a truck for old tires. If you ha,re questions about how much can be placed curbside and what items are acceptable, please call SWD at 832-3032. Please tell them this is for the special PNA cleanup. Lonnie's Recycling will pick up anything metal. This includes old appliances, bicycles, vacuum cleaners, and even old hair dryers. Please make the metals pile separate from other items. If you have metals for pickup or have questions about what can be left out, please call Lonnie's Recycling at 841-4855 and tell them you are with the PNA Oct. 25'11 cleanup. For this cleanup, brush must be cut into three-foot sections and bundled. Solid Waste employees will pick brush up along with other nonhazardous waste. We will have chipper truck services at our spring cleanup. North Lawrence 'Steals' Pinckney Houses Please pardon the sensationalist headline! I am quoting a joking comment made by North Lawrence's coordinator, Star Straf. The story is in fact a happy one. Tlus spring, Robert Trepinski told general meeting attendees of Lawrence Memorial Hospital's plans to extend their employee parking lot on the southwest corner of the 300 block of Arkansas Street and to create a green area on the southeast corner of Michlgan Street. Neighbors at the meeting said the only lingering concern from the last parking lot project was that a house was torn down to create the space. PNA hated to see this happen to the two houses on the current project site. Mr. Trepinski took thls to heart and worked hard to find new locations for the houses, and both homes are now on foundations in North Lawrence. LMH also worked with neighbors to address concerns of lighting, privacy fences, hedgerows, and runoff. LMH plans to leave the corner lot at 4'" and Michlgan as a landscaped green space and had existing trees preserved on the two properties. We are grateful to Mr. Trepinski and LMH for being thoughtful to the neighborhood's concerns, and we are glad that these older homes were preserved. Kudos! News Briefs * Construction is well underway on the new Radiation Therapy Wing of Lawrence Memorial Hospital and is projected to be completed early summer, 2003. Children, if your parents really enjoy heavy equipment, please make certain that they stay safely outside of the fence as they watch. * A new sidewalk is being installed on the west side of the 500 block of Illinois! And a brick sidewalk has been repaired on the north side of 4'h Street between Mississippi and Illinois Streets. Got a section of sidewalk that is a good candidate for repair? Please let us know, and we will apply for repair monies if any become available. �Pinckney Neighborhood Spring Picnic! It's time to have fun! We are having our second annual neighborhood picnic on Saturday, June 1", at Clinton Park (North of Pinckney School). The picnic will be from Noon to about 2 PM. Please bring your own picnic lunch and service, and we will have desserts to share. If people want to bring a croquet set or horseshoes along, or perhaps a musical instrument to play, please feel free to do so! We will have information about the neighborhood activities and citywide programs that might be of interest. Our guest speaker, Bill Tuttle, will give an informal talk beginning at 1:00 PM about Langston Hughes and his childhood ties to Lawrence. Bill will also talk about pertinent local history. It will be a lively and interesting talk, not to be missed! Please call Sara at 842-4051 if you have questions or wish to donate a dessert! Pinckney Neighborhood Cleanup The Pinckney Neighborhood Spring Cleanup was a success! And some of you may have noticed that the City of Lawrence did send a chipper around even though we had advertised they would not. It was a last minute change, but we were very pleased that they did it and sorry we could not have advertised it earlier. We had appealed to the city to offer brush cleanup along with our spring cleanup because we have brush remaining from the January ice storm. Thank you to Parks and Recreation's Forestry Department for this wonderful service! As for future cleanups, the fall cleanup should include brush pickup if our CDBG application is approved (see next article). We plan to ensure that EVERY Pinckney Neighborhood Cleanup includes brush. We recognize that not everyone has access to saws, limb loppers, and the like, but clearing of branches and limbs is an ongoing necessity in an older neighborhood like Pinckney. We have drafted a letter to the city asking to include brush-clearing services in conjunction witl1 our spring and fall cleanups. We will have a copy of this letter available at the neighborhood picnic, along with a petition for people to sign if they are in support of the letter. ~i _, @~ Community Development Block Grant In April, the Lawrence Neighborhood Resources Advisory Committee made their recommendations for federal Community Development Block Grant funds allocated to the City of Lawrence, and the portions that pertain to Pinckney are outlined below. Our request for funding as outlined in our CDBG application is indicated in parentheses: Public Service Funds: Pinckney Neighborhood AssociationOperating Expenses ($3,939) $2,754 Coordinator ($4,200) $3,800 Neighborhood Cleanup ($600) $600 Capitol Improvements: Clinton Park Restoration ($12,000) $5,000 The $5000.00 is to hire a landscape architect to develop a master plan for a park restoration. We applied for Capitol Improvement funds through the city of Lawrence as well. We hope to acquire funding over the next few years to build a new shelter house; refurbish the rock wall; replace the existing restroom in the park; and upgrade the water, sewer, electric, sidewalks, and playground equipment. We will continue to explore funding sources for this project. Thoughtful Lawn Care Are you planning to apply fertilizer to your lawn this year? There are many choices for fertilizers and herbicides for your lawn, and making decisions about these products may be difficult. The City of Lawrence's Recycling Division has a brochure to help you decide what to apply, how much, and when to apply it. The brochure, called "The Rookie's Guide to Fertilizing in Douglas County," can be yours for the asking by calling 832-3030. By taking care in applying fertilizer to your lawn, you are being a good neighbor! Proper application means a healthy lawn for you and clean water for our community. �.; ...~·,\t\1-! 1'1\f'l,·l PRSRTSTD U.S. POSTAGE I PAID . LAWRENCE, KS PERMIT#1 I '(J-;J(;JIJl()JlJI()()J) Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. P.O. Box 125 Lawrence, KS 66044 APRIL 2003 NE.WSL.E.TIE.R SCHEDULE OF EVENTS April 25'h: Pinckney Neighborhood Spring Cleanup. All objects curbside Thursday night for Friday pickup. April261h: Pinckney Neighborhood Parks Cleanup, 10:00 AM at Clinton and Constant Parks, 1:00PM at Burcham Park. Hearts of Gold Ball at Lawrence Memorial Hospital,fimdraiserfor the cardiac unit. To volunteer to help on Saturday or Sunday, please call Jenee Armbrister at 841-6553 or (785) 594-8447. April 281h: Pinckney Neighborhood Brush Pickup. May 10'h: Tenants To Homeowners home-buying workshop, 9:45AM-1:00PM, United Way Building, 2518 Ridge Court. May 171h: Pinckney School's annual community Street Dance, 6:30-9:30 PM Cookie donations wanted (see brief). May 24'h: Pinckney Neighborhood Annual Picnic! 11:00 AM until1:30 PM at Burcham Park Shelter. Lunch starts at Noon. Voluntary Annual Newsletter Subscription Rate is $2.00 Pinckney Neighborhood Association Apri12003 Newsletter John Pepperdine, President Steve Braswell, Vice President Emily Zung, Treasurer Cynthia Pierard, Secretary Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator www. pinckneyneighborhood.org Pinckney Neighborhood Spring Cleanup The Pinckney Neighborhood Association will hold its Spring Cleanup on Friday, April 25th and Saturday, April 26th with brush pickup on Monday, April28'h. On Friday, the Solid Waste Division of City of Lawrence will pick up all nonhazardous household materials and old tires, and Lonnie's Recycling will pick up any metal items. Metal items include old appliances, bicycles, vacuum cleaners, and even old hair dryers. Please pile metals separate from other items. If you have metals for pickup and have questions, please call Lonnie's Recycling at 841-4855 and tell them you are with the PNA cleanup. If you have questions about how much can be placed curbside and what items are acceptable for City pickup, please call SWD at 832-3032. Please tell them this is for the special PNA cleanup. �Pinckney Neighborhood Association Newsletter Next meeting: February 3, Wednesday 7 p.m Upcoming meetings: March 31, 7 p.m and June 2, 7 p.m All meetings take place at Pinckney School. Enter from the back parking lot. Come to the meetings and/or send in the questionnaire (on back). Or just send money! COME TO OUR MEETINGS oriel us hearfromyou. Dues are only $2/household, but you don't have to be a member to attend meetings. Just come or send money! If you don't like coming to meetings, mail the questionnaire (on back) to us so we can know some of your ideas, concerns, problems your area of the neighborhood is having. Maybe we can help connect you with other neighbors having similar problems so together you can find a solution, or we can get the city to help. OFFICERS ARE: Joe Hewitt, Pres.; Steve Smith, VP; Susan Pogany, Secretary; Carol Kinknett, Treasurer; Tolly Smith, Coordinator. WE NEED A REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE CDBG ADVISORY BOARD. The Board decides who gets $$ from the government. You would get to know city service groups as you help decide. Meets Thursday nights from January through March. Call immediately if you can serve: 842-3154 or 841-4490. AT THE LAST MEETING WE: + voted continued unanimous support for PNA efforts to get KPL to reroute high current power line away from homes; + voted to set up Pinckney Defense Fund at Douglas County Bank for donations. Funds will be used for correspondence needed to get ordinances, citizens and governments informed, etc.; + voted to ask for CDBG funds ($ available from city for neighborhood projects} for: (1} sidewalks; (2} paving of alleys; (3} to get more historic homes on city or national register; money to research and submit proposals; (4} playground equipmentlorolderchildrenforCiinton Park(5} PNAoperatiing funds and coordinator salary. · Write or Call your City Commissioners. Let them know if you want them to use their powers to respond to citizen concerns over powerline siting near homes. Watch for Jan. 26 and early Feb. commission meeting agendas - come and support us! Donate$ to help PNA fight KPL. Send to: Pinckney Defense Fund, Douglas County Bank, 9th and Kentucky, Lawrence, 66044, or enclose$ with your questionnaire. Make checks out to Pinckney Defense Fund. Vote In City Commission Upcoming April Election. Support candidates who will support neighborhood concerns. We'll try to have candidates come to our meetings and issue endorsements in next newsletter. Horizon 2020. The city is now preparing the plan that will guide and guard future development in Lawrence through the year 2020. Neighborhoods are involved in this process of what we want Lawrence to be, what we want our neighborhoods to be. Pinckney Neighborhood Association attends the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods to define how increased traffic, business, zoning, etc. will impact on neighborhoods. Tolly Smilh Wildcat, coordinator, is on the Neighborhood Committee of 2020 to help shape future policy. Get the Lead Out. If you have lead paint in your home, call us and we can try to connect you with others who have already dealt with this problem. Compare stories on city help, FHA, doctors, removers of hazardous materials, lawyers, etc. Call8423154 or the city Community Development Dept. for help. Having Sewer Problems? The city has told us that their new sewer project should correct some of the problems Pinckney residents may be having, if those problems come from an overused sewer rather than from individual basemenVhome sources. Survey teams and flags are up; project will be for 1993. Call George Williams (832-3123} for further questions or complaints. Trying to buy a home (for first time, or first time In 5 years) and need help with a down payment? Need $to fix up an existing home? The city has money for you (maybe}. Call Larry Hamm (832-3114 or 832-3122} for info. Have Big Junk to Throw Away but can't get It to the Cutb Where City Will Pick It Up? (The cily picks up extra large things if they're at the curb, if you call them for special pick up.) If you have other stuff, we'll have two neighborhood cleanups (tentatively May 11 &June 19}. Call Joe Hewitt (842-0749} if you need hauling. We'll have trucks & need some volunteers too. Pinckney Neighborhood Association BUlK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID Pennh No. 170 Lawnmce, KS 61104-4 �WILL WE IT BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FRO:a- UR FRIENDS OR WILL IT BE BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR THE POWER COMPANY'? Watch for Jan. 26 and early Feb. city agendas. Pinckney and power line issues should be on the agenda, continued from Jan. 19 City Attorney's report. Come and support us, or write or call commissioners and let them know if you want them to pass an ordinance guaranteeing homeowners would have input into the power company's way of doing business. Since many scientists find that living near power lines Increases yours and your children's risk of getting cancer, we've been trying to persuade KPL for the last 10 months not to build their 115 kv power lines along 5th Street. KPL's proposed line would go past nearly 100 homes (some only 20 feet from it), two schools, at least one daycare center and a playgroundlpark. Pinckney proposes that KPL build the line along the railroad where it would have proximity to no homes. To us this makes sense in terms of KPL's own policy guidelines , to consider intrusiveness when they choose a route. We've worked with KPL, the city, the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) who "regulates" utilities. PNA/KPL. The working assumption of our many meetings with KPL (August-October) was that if the costs of the railroad route would be comparable to their 5th Street proposal, KPL would build the Railroad Route. After 4 months of talks, we did bring the cost down only to learn that cost was not the only factor keeping KPL from building the line. They also fear precedent. · THE CITY. After 10 months of requesting that the city help us, the City Attorney will tell us that the city does have jurisdiction to use its home rule authority in matter concerning power line siting. (They already do use it when they mandate that new construction has to have underground wiring. We've only wanted them to pay equal attention to power lines and their effect on health and property in older neighborhoods.) Now we must urge the city to pass an ordinance that (fJ }\_ would ensure that homeowners have a chance for public hearings on power fine issues that may endanger their property value and their health, and that the city cares as much for its older neighborhoods in matters of power line siting as It does for the new ones.City Attorney report will be Jan. 19, but watch for power line/Pinckney issues on Jan. 26 and early Feb. Commission agendas and come to the meeting and let the city know who has the power. They need to see that all of Lawrence is concerned about this; this ordinance will help everyone, not merely Pinckney. The Power Company can and does do the same thing wherever they want with no one to regulate them or make them listen to their customers. We think the city must use their power to ensure that public hearings and citizen concerns over health and property values become a part of KPL's decision-making process. KCC. PNA will appeal the KCC ruling that denied us a hearing. We feel the public deserves a hearing of the evidence behind our formal complaint against the Power Company. It's not over yet, folks! We're not quitting because we love our neighborhood and we see higher current on all other power corridors In town and don't want it on ours. Once upon a time when all this began KPL said they would not do anything that Pinckney neighbors would not like. We want to held them to that company spirit. HELP US! jLetters to the editor Power line plea This letter originally appeared in a recent issue of the Lawrence Journal- World. To the editor: We in Pinckney Neighborhood who have fought the proposed Fifth Street power line for the last 10 months were interested in the Jan. 3 USA Weekend magazine cover story on magnetic fields and their affect on human health. Perhaps the author could have done a better job of explaining why persons living close to power lines may face a greater risk from magnetic fields than persons whose major exposure to such fields is from household appliances. Those whose exposure is main· ly appliance·related have a choice; those living next to a power line have no cholce. Those · who worry about EMF exposure can stand back a few feet when their microwave is in operation. They can choose not to use a hair dryer or electnc blanket. But when a hig~voltage power line is placed directly adjacent to your home agai.nst your wishes, you are denied the choice to limit your exposure. The author calls the scientific studies to date "inconclusive'' and looks forward to the results of more research. This wait·andsee attitude is all well and good - unless a high voltage line is about to be built next to your house. Residents of the 100 homes along Fifth Street do not have the luxury of sitting back, calmly awaiting the results of the next study, and the next, and the next. So far. more than 40 studies have strengthened the EMF·health risk connection. (In fact, the latest study, released just three months ago, showed !!-44 times the expected leukem1a rate in kids living next to power Unes.J :'\1anv scientists believe the "\\'eaght of evidence" from all these studies is already suffi· cient to warrant local and national policies to mitigate El\iF exposure. The residents of Fifth Street cannot understand why Kansas Power and Light will not agree to move this proposed 115,QOO..volt line to an alternate route along the railroad which avoids aft homes while accomplishing the company's power needs. For months, KPL t0ld the neighborhood and the news media that the extra cost of the alternate route was the onlv obstacle to its construction. ~0\\~. even the staff of the Kansas Cor· poration Commission agrees that the cost difference between the two routes is only about $100.000. This is peanuts for a behemoth like KPL. We ln Pinckney vow to con· tinue our efforts against the Fifth Street power line. He hope our supporters will join us at city hall in the next few weeks when we will again urge the commis· .sion to broaden existing or· dinances to include oversight o{ power line siting. Susan Pogany, 520 La .• secretary, Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. -----------------------------------:------~----MAiL THiS iN! LET U5 Kl'iOW WHAT FRVdlEM5iiUCAS ·toU r-iAVE, OR ~"if:kT i.1Ct~=:~l ","OU '.VANT ":'"O·C:VE. Send to: Tolly Smith, Coordinator, 501 Louisiana Street, Lawrence, KS 66044 Your name and address I enclose$ _.Please specifywhatthe money is for. If dues ($2), do you want itto be used for general neighborhood business or for power line rerouting efforts (specifically for the Defense Fund)? What really bothers be about where I live, in my block or area is - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In my area I am concerned about crime abandoned vehicles in yards other. ____ Yes! I support the efforts of PNA to reroute power lines away from homes. ____ Yes! I'd like to be more Involved in neighborhood work and have just been waiting for this questionnaire to get me going I The work I'd like to help with is: ____ distribute newsletter personally _ help get city to ____ help get more homes on the historic register help with neighborhood cleanup ____ help let people know what city funds are available for fixing up homes or making down payment on first home. ____ I need help with care for the elderly. (Do you know about Visiting Nurses? Call Social Services at the hospital or call Senior Center for services/help they have.) ____ I will need help with labor (raking leaves, shovelling snow, etc). and can't find it. ____ I will help with work people need done (raking, snow removal, etc.) ____ I will probably need help with hauling big items away when Cleanup occurs. �_t 411 Valentine's Day - Meet with neighbors Pinckney Neighborhood Association invites you to join us\. on Valentine's Day Saturday, February 14, 3-5 p.m. near the fountain area in Lawrence Memorial Hospital (Ent~r West side of hospital, take stairs or glass elevator down. If fountain area is busy, we'll meet in Suite G, nearby. for the romantic, the hungry or the history buffs, or the neighborly Share bread and history -- "Love Bread" - heart shaped bread baked by Katie Armitage - join us. For the history buffs: til 1. Report on history of our neighborhood (from the River on the North, Tennessee St. on the east, and Iowa on the west..) We're getting historic signs to make us all aware that ours was the first area of settlement when Free State emigrants came here in 1854, had lst Brewery, Langston Hughes and other great residents. Report from Katie Armitage & Tolly Smith Wildcat 2. Election of new officers: President and Vice President. Longtime loyal serving Treasurer, wants to resign. Madeline Finch will run for Secretary. join us ·We need some new energy . . and new faces to keep making our neighborhood a better place to live. ..,. We need volunteers for CRIME WATCH in your area. 3. Skate board park- safety issues and location. What do we want in OUr parks? Let's ta Ik. The city is considering building a real (safe) skateboard facility, and will debate its location. We're concerned about safety issues at Burcham park of the existing homemade structure. Do we want to see the river when we go to Burcham Park (2nd and Indiana St.) or see a skateboard facility (plywood or plastic)? Do we want our river{nature park to have the river as its focus or a skateboard facility at the river's edge? Burcham has always been a river park for canoe teams and events, quiet walks by the river, july 4th band concerts, playground for kids, fishing, Civil War on the Western Frontier Days, etc. New benches and grills are there now. Do we want it to become a major skateboard center? Is this secluded area safe? Will traffic and trash increase? 4. Report from the 2nd and Michigan area folks (flood area west of the hospital) about surviving Flo~ds & how the city's drainage plan is working for them. They have been meeting with the city, engineers, and each other (30 or more neighbors) to make their way through the flood waters of despair and mud into the light of a dry day the city has offered them with the Drainage plan. Do they feel the plan will work? Do they need help moving their stuff out of their backyards which will now become drainage ditches? Anyone want to volunteer to help move fences, shed, flowers, etc.??? Call 842-3154 to volunteer. All stuff in backyards must be moved soon or the city will bulldoze it to begin work on underground and overground drainage plan (re-building Nature. This will be a man-made version of the original creek that was there before it was filled in and homes were built on top of it.) �PNA has worked on key projects and had many meetings this year, with areas of the neighborhood with problems. We also got $ and got Parks Er Rec to install some benches atld grills. Coordinator has met many times with 30 or more residents from 2nd Er Michigan area. PNA helped them help themselves. We can help you or your area too if you have concerns of problems (call 842-3154) We also got$ and got Parks and REcto install benches and grills in Burcham. JOIN US We're just a group of neighbors working to keep our neighborhood a great place to live, and make it better. We can help with problems and get you connected with the solutions. Membership dues: only $2 per household $l(individual (Per year!) THE CITY HAS $ FOR HOME REPAIRS OR EMERGENCY REPAIRS. CALL THE CITY FOR INFO: 832-3109: Lawrence, city of: Housing and Neighborhood ... or Pinckney neighbor/coordinator 842-3154. I'll help you get through the paperwork. NEED living assistance of some kind? Call. There is Help. Tenants to Homeowners 842-5494 Habitat for Humanity 83 2·077 7 Mother to Mother Visiting Nurses Home Care Support Services 841-4663 Trini1y Respite Care (getting groceries, house help etc.) 842-3159 Douglas Coun1y Senior Center Lawrence's Indian Center (food, help with other services, for all citizens) Social Service League Store(cheap clothes, ETC.) 905 Rhode Island St. 843-5414 Bert Nash Mental Health 843-9192 (very affordable therapy ETC) City Housing and Neighborhood Development- home repairs, energy efficiency 83 2-3109 BULK RATE US POSTAGE PAID Pe•mn No 170 Lawrence KS 66044 NEIGHBORHOOD Pinck News join us on Valentine's Day tf Heart shaped bread and loving history of our neighborhood, Pinckney both baked by Katie Armitage J. 1\ A * 11 J: A 'l. 1 ~~ l~ ~ -1. ~ '* r ~ 1i 'II. ·~o. :i -.; .~ ·A ~ -;t ;t I~c F~JJ)T -n- " no .:, o W\ HG E tH, ;_; :M\!l'l' Z t'l'.~ G 1 PINCRNE.Y NinGHBORHOOD RE:S li!E:tl'I' TJ1:Nf I Pi) BOX '10 (l Ll'tVIRENCE KS 660 H ·-0 70 tt (-l �Pinckney Positions! Elections were held at the February Annual Meeting. Welcome to Dale Nimz, our new secretary and board member! And thank you on behalf of the neighborhood to Steve Braswell for the gift of your service in another term as Vice President! The Pinckney Neighborhood Association has two positions opening up within the next couple months. First, Sara Taliaferro, the Pinckney Neighborhood Coordinator, will be stepping down. The position is a paid volunteer position with a salary of $10.00 an hour for no more than thirty hours per month. The PNA board will run an advertisement for the position within the next month. Preference will be given to Pinckney Neighborhood residents. The second position is that of our neighborhood's representative to the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods. Steve Braswell has been our LAN representative, with Sara as an alternate. Steve is willing to continue as a rep., but we need two more representatives/ alternates. The Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods is a great place to hone your community advocate skills and learn more about community history and issues. Please contact John Pepperdine at 8400983 if you are interested in either of these positions. ~~~ Affordable Perkins Development Tenants To Homeowners is negotiating with the City of Lawrence to change the terms of agreement signed by a previous bidder that would establish a benefit district for street improvements around 3'd and Illinois Streets. They would like Alabama Street to not be constructed and to have the city help pay for some of the 3rd Street improvements (TTH would need to pass the rest of the cost onto the house prices). The three lots that would face Alabama will have access through an improved easement (alley) in the rear of the lots. TTH does not want to cut down the trees that currently provide a nice barrier between the Medical Arts parking lot and the development. ~~~ Lawn Waste Recycling Pinckney Neighborhood is one of three neighborhoods chosen for a yard waste recycling program this year, and Mollie Mangerich of the Waste Reduction and Recycling Division of the City of Lawrence talked to PNA about the program at the last meeting. Any neighbors who want to participate in this program will receive free recyclable paper lawn waste bags throughout the year. The Recycling Division started the program to promote the use of cans, carts, or paper lawn bags for lawn waste. If plastic bags are used, city staff has to cut open the bags to collect the lawn waste, and a separate truck must collect the plastic. Mollie noted that if you treat your lawn with Clopyralid-containing herbicides, please do not set lawn clippings out to be recycled. Instead, leave the clippings on the lawn (grasscycle), or contact the Lawrence Household Hazardous Waste Facility at (785) 832-3030. If you have questions, please call Diana Sjogren (a Pinckney neighbor!) at the Waste Reduction Division (832-3030), E-mail the division at recycling@ci.lawrence.ks.us, or visit www.LawrenceRecycles.org. ~ ·.••·R"'""c•,, /..._·-....... ,l:rc.unonuooo Pinckney Neighborhood Assn. P.O. Box 125 Lawrence, KS 66044 APRIL-MAY2004NEWSUITT£R ! /·:'<):~-.,___ ___ ·-. . .-.. • '· : / PAID LAWRENCE, KS PERMrr#1 / ,..... '-........._...,.~ .... '-- - •...: ................ - foo? r; I <"-1.>.. ~- -........__ PRSRTSTD U. S. POSTAGE '·-0 }..' ' 1 6ci.7' ~· ........ . _1 ~ * k * * -f * * * * ., ***'**************ECRLOT**BOSO I '~NE WARTZ; ·.:.. .: . ~i:T)AiF" LAWREJ.fCE -.. . . :,·.. · .;;Q,/aox::-wa I ,... j... PKG 1 TRAY 5 ~ ..... _'\'fCE KS A:i6044-0708 It 1~ t/(l(e, fot<- tk ~t<-t1f #e(fMot<-Mocl tJfe_aJrt(l aJrcl tk #e(fh;bot<-Mocl Piel(ie/ Voluntary Annual Newsletter Subscription Rate is $2.00 Pinckney Neighborhood Association April-May 2004 Newsletter ~~~ John Pepperdine, President (840-0983, E-mail jcpcpperdine@sunflower.eom) Steve Braswell, Vice President Emily Zung, Treasurer Dale Nimz, Secretary Sara Taliaferro, Coordinator www.pinckneyneighborhood.org News Briefs * Constant Park May Day Garden Party will be held Saturday, May 1 at 10:00 AM. It will be held at 521 Tennessee Street. Plant exchange-bring a "starter" plant from your garden to trade! If you drive, please park in the Constant Park parking lot on the northeast corner of 6th and Tennessee Streets. Please call Laura Burger (749-3516). if you have questions. * Pinckney School is having its 6th annual Street Dance on the school playground blacktop on Saturday, May 8th from 6:30 to 9:00 PM. The neighborhood is invited! Admission to Moon Walk and Obstacle Course is $6.00 per child, payable at event. Dance will be held in the gym in the event of rain. If you can donate cookies to sell at the concession, please contact Gayle Davis at the school (832-5800) as soon as possible. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Ma)' 1: Cons/an/ Park May• Day• Cardm Party, 10:00 /LtV!, 521 Tmnessee Street (see briefin.ride) Red School Rockin')amboree, uwn:m·e Community N11mry School, 645 Alabama Street. Call842-0064 for ticke!J. May 8: Pinckney Neighborhood General 1\-feeiingy 10:00 ./1M at uwrence Memorial Hospiial, Conference Room A -Easl. .1nmtal Picnic Planning. Neighborhood Watch Update. Tenants To Homeotv~~ers l:'lrst Time Homeowr.m Training Class, United W")' Center, 2518 Ridge Courl, 9:45AM lo 1:00PM. Phone: (185) 842-5494 Pinckney School~ Annual Coi!JI/JJIItity Simi Dmm, 6:30-9:00 PM. Cookie dona/ions wanted (see btief). M")' 21: Pinckney Neighborhood Spring Cleanup. All objects mrbside Thursday nightfor Friday pickup. M")' 22: Pinckney Neighborhood Parks Cleanup, 10:00 AM at Clinton, Con.rfant, and Burcham Park.r. M"J' 29: Pinckney Neighborhood Annual Pimic! 11:30 AM until 1:30PM at Clinton Park Shelter. umch starts at Noon. �Pinckney Neighborhood Spring Cleanup The Pinckney Neighborhood Association will hold its Annual Spring Cleanup on Friday, May 21. The Solid Waste Division of the City of Lawrence will pick up all nonhazardous household materials and old tires, Lonnie's Recycling will pick up any metal items, and Mulford's Tree Service (841-6981) will pick up brush. If you have questions about how much can be placed curbside and what items are acceptable for City pickup, please call SWD at 832-3032. Please tell them this is for the special PNA cleanup. Metal items include old appliances, lawn mowers, vacuum cleaners, radiators, motors, bicycles and even old hair dryers. Please place metal in piles separate from other items. If you have metals for pickup, please call Sara at 8424051 to be placed on a list. Please stack brush in several small piles right at the curbside, butt ends of branches all facing the same way. Please make certain that no vines, weeds, or foreign objects are mixed into the branches. Mulford's will chip the brush, so brush does not need to be tied in bundles. On Saturday, May 22, all who are interested can meet in Clinton, Burcham, or Constant Park at 10:00 AM to walk the parks and pick up Jitter. Please bring gloves; bags will be provided! Steve Braswell (841-6902) is organizing the Clinton Park Cleanup, Laura Burger (749-3516) is organizing the Constant Park Cleanup, and Sara Taliaferro (842-4051) is organizing the Burcham Park Cleanup, so please give them a call if you want to help. ~~~ Annual Neighborhood Picnic! We will have our annual neighborhood picnic at Clinton Park on May 29 this year from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM. We will eat lunch at noon-please bring your own picnic lunch and table service. Also bring a dessert or dish to share if you so desire. We will provide ice, some drinks, and desserts. Our theme this year is "Pinckney Through The Years" in honor of Lawrence's 1 150 h Anniversary year. Activities include a conversation with Katie Armitage about Pinckney and Lawrence 150 years ago. We will also talk about Pinckney's entry in the September 181h Lawrence 150'h Birthday Celebration Parade. Would you like to be involved in picnic planning, food donations, activities, or programs? Please call John (840-0983) or Sara (842-4051), or come to the May 8 General Meeting! ~~~ Neighborhood Watch At the February General Meeting, Officer John Barta presented a neighborhood watch program and answered neighbors' questions. Officer Barta first gave practical tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of crime. He mentioned locking doors even when at home, providing exterior lighting on your property, never leaving your garage door open, and trimming shrubs around doorways and windows. He suggested never giving personal information over the phone. If you receive a harassing phone call, say nothing and hang up. If the phone call is threatening, hang up and immediately call the police. Always know 24hour places to access phones when you are traveling about town. Officer Barta then answered neighbors' questions. If someone witnesses drug trafficking activity, call the Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) at 830-7458. Also call Crime Stoppers at 843-TIPS whenever an incident is witnessed. The police department needs specific information. Simply calling to say that a neighbor is a suspected drug dealer is not useful information for Crime Stoppers. But it would be helpful, for example, to call if you saw a red Ford escort with tag #ABC123 pull up and make a drug exchange. Officer Barta explained the acronym CYMBAL to remember car description information that would be helpful to police: Color, Year, Make and model, Body style, Accessories or damage, and License plate number (even partial) and state it is from. Neighbors mentioned a turnoff loop on Iowa Street where people routinely parked, got into other cars, left and returned a short time after. The Pinckney Neighborhood Watch agreed to review this site and talk more about monitor's reports at the next general meeting. Neighbors mentioned problems with loose dogs, especially pit bulls spotted roaming. Officer Barta said pepper spray can be effective in temporarily deterring a dog in case of an aggressive approach, and then immediately call to report the loose dog. Call police dispatch (832-7509) and ask for an animal control officer. Animal control officers are available 7 AM to 8 PM Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM Saturday and Sunday, and are on call 24 hours. A police officer may answer during oncall times since it is difficult for someone to get there quickly enough to catch the dog loose. Dog traps can be set up on neighboring properties, but animal control must have written permission from the landowner to do this. Also, if the officer do pick up the at-large dog, the owner is cited, and fines include a pickup and impoundment fee, but currently the dog must be released to the owner if the owner shows proof of ownership and current rabies vaccines. Since the general meeting, several blocks throughout Pinckney have been organizing to address concerns. John Pepperdine has talked to Drug Enforcement Officers and city officials, and he talked to the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods about drug dealers in neighborhoods. LAN has agreed to support various neighborhoods' efforts at community policing and will investigate strategies to combat the problem. Plans for a neighborhood watch section to the Pinckney Neighborhood web site will be discussed at the May 81h meeting. ~~~ Time Traveling In Pinckney Neighborhood At the northernmost end of Maine Street, past the hospital and beside the mobile home park, a three-story stone structure stands, its side wall facing the street. On its east side, an old wooden loft door perches above a more modern garage door. This building is the former stables of the Walruff Brewery (it sits on private property, so please view it from the street). If one were standing near the stables in the 1870s, the view would include the massive three-story Lawrence Brewery and Beer Gardens. The main brewery contained a drinking parlor on two floors where one could buy a five-cent draft. Outside, in the five-acre beer gardens, a patron could play croquet, practice marksmanship at the shooting gallery, swing on swings, relax while lawn bowling, or simply eat, drink, and watch the peacocks strolling the grounds as a brass band played. Canopied tables held "pickled herring, boiled ham, rye bread, pretzels, and Swiss and Limburger cheeses .... One member of Such's Brass Band, which played at beer halls and gardens across northeast Kansas, told of returning from Kansas City on the Fourth of July and receiving a note to go immediately to the Walruff gardens. He grabbed his horn and caught up with the band. "It was all drink and eat, blow, and sweat in sufficiency," he remembered." 1 ~ ~' The brewery, built and owned by Christian Joseph ("Joe") Walruff, opened in 1867. Business boomed, and Walruffs brewery had no competition. He suffered a setback in 1870 when his 24-hour bath house caught fire, and the brewery burned down as well before the volunteer firefighters could find the horses and hitch them to the fire wagon. Joe Walruff brought in his brother John as a silent partner and rebuilt the brewery. John assumed complete ownership in 1872. The brewery produced 2,000 barrels of beer a year and supplied Walruffs 23 Lawrence saloons and five wholesale liquor dealers. Beer was shipped south on the Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Railroad line. Thousands of bushels of barley needed for brewing were grown locally, and additional grain was hauled from Iowa and Nebraska. Prohibition initially did not deter beer sales. The beer was touted as a new medicinal "Extract of Malt" beer. Eventually, though, the Jaw caught up with him, and legal battles went all the way to the Supreme Court. John Walruff finally quit and left Lawrence. The building became a tanning factory in 1889. McCarter Byrd bought the tannery in 1903 and lived upstairs with his wife, seven daughters, and one son. He ran the tannery for 48 years. In 1964, all but the stable was demolished. 1 Kansas Breweries and Beer 1854-1911. by Cindy Higgins. �1'1'1''1''1'"111" 'I" ~IW'l'l"ln "ll"ll"'ll'! I #.I.IW83d 1}1 '3:3N:mM.VI W:Vd l!>V.LSOd ·sn <I.LS .L'BS'Bd PINCKNEY NEIGHBORHOOD GENERAL MEETING AUGUST 14th, 2004 Lawrence Memorial Hospital Meeting Room B In the basement 10:00am We will discuss the Clinton Park Renovation Plan Pinckney Neighborhood's part in the Sesquincentennial Activities We will discuss what Pinckney would like to have in the Area Plan �NEIGHBORHOOD HA~~f\~p.qu.~ WA~T~ C.t,~ANU.P. f\U.q U.~T ~1~r, ~QQ4. P.Rql;' qff 11:3.Q~~ SAMPLE ITEMS OF ACCEPT ABLE WASTE FOR PICKUP Pesticides, Paint cans, varnishes, Paint Thinner, motor oil, antifreeze, household cleaners, polishes, Household Batteries, Gasoline, Weed killer, Pest Controls, Turpentine, Stains, wood preservatives, photo and hobby chemicals, car batteries PAY All items must be labeled with either the Manufactures label or Hand Written Label identifying the waste (i.e. "Used Paint Thinner"," Bleach"). All spillable solid waste must be in a closable container (i.e. "Rat Poison", "Moth Balls") All liquid wastes will need to be in secure, spill proof containers. For more Information, Please call or check out the website. The PNA volunteers reserve the right to refuse to take any of the wastes and request that the property owners contact the city and set up their own drop off appointment. Lawrence Waste Reduction and Recycling Department P.O. Box 708 Lawrence, K~s 66044 785.832.3030 http: I I recycle.ci.lawrence.ks.us lhouseholdhazardous.shtm <..)_uestlons regardtng waste should be sent to SAMPLE ITEMS OF the Lawrence Waste Reduction and Recycling NON -ACCEPTABLE WASTE Department. To Schedule a pick up, Pinckney Residents should call Emily Zung @ 832.1731 FOR PICKUP Unknown material, Ammunition, Asbestos, Compressed Gas Cylinders, Computers, TV's, Electronics, Explosives, Infectious Waste (Medical), Radioactive Waste (Smoke Alarms) �PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID LAWRENCE, KS PERMIT#l 1,11., ,11,, II. '"\.,l,l •. ll\,,,\,,,\11 ... 1..1.,1 ,\.I .,., *.br<-7n:"".....------ * ~*~**************************ECRLO~ ~ ~ MARGENE SWARTZ CITY OF LAWRENCE PKG l TRAY :i or current resident PO BOX 708 -JAtffiENCE KS 66044-0708 R /NOV£M13£R N£WSl£TT£R www. pinckneyneighborhood. org Cans, Carts, and Compostable Bags at the Curb Yard waste has been collected separately from trash in Lawrence since 1993. Since the~ our community composting program has diverted over 85,000 tons of yard waste. Beginning in 2005, the City's Solid Waste Division asks you to no longer use plastic bags for curbside collection of grass, and leaves. This will: • Increase collection efficiency by reducing collection time • Improve worker safety in many ways, such as reduced traffic congestion • Yield higher quality compost by reducing plastic contamination Waste reduction methods such as mulch mowing and composting let you avoid much of the bagging and dragging, while improving your home soils. Call the Waste Reduction and Recycling Division for more informatio~ or to get started with a $10 compost bin with instructional book: (785) 832-3030. Also please be careful not to treat your lawn with an herbicide or weed & feed that contains the active ingredient Clopyralid. If you do or have done so this year, do not set your clippings out for Monday collection ... simply mulch mow them instead. www .LawrenceRecycles.org -- 832-3030 Make plans to attend Lawrence's 4th Annual Home Energy Conservation Fair and Douglas Co. Sustainable Homes Tour. Sunday, October 17th, 2004 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Douglas County Fairgrounds, Building 21, Lawrence Featured Speakers: Russ Rudy, "The Energy Doctor" Marge Padgitt, "The Chimney Lady" Bus tours ($5) of Sustainable Homes leave the Fairgrounds at 1Oam and 2pm AUTOS/EXHIBITS WORKSHOPS FOOD Sponsoredby TheCityofLawrence Recyclingand Resource Conservation AdvisoryBoard More Info: www.LawrenceRecycles.org or (785)832-3030 ~ Note from Sara Taliaferro I want to thank all of you for the privilege of serving you as your coordinator for the last five and a half years. Pinckney is one of the best neighborhoods in Lawrence' It is truly unique and special, and the people who live in Pinckney make it that way. It has been a pleasure to get to know so many of you and work with you over the last few years. You all taught me a great deal, and I will continue to advocate for older neighborhoods, especially Pinckney, in honor of that debt. I am preparing for a new 'coordinator' job as I anticipate the arrival of twins, a job that will be much more challenging but no less rewarding, but I will miss working with all the fine folks in Pinckney! Best wishes to all of you. �NOVM£B£1t 20tl1 G£N£RAl M££TJNG ROOM G AT lAWR£NC£ M£MOR1Al HOSPlTAl l"~""AM A Tenants to Homeowners, Inc. Will Begin Building Affordable Home in Pinckney! Tenants to Homeowners, Inc. is a local nonprofit that works with neighborhoods to build affordable housing opportunities, often with infill construction. Currently TTH, Inc. is developing the six lots that are bordered by Alabama, Illinois, 3rd and 4th streets in the Pinckney Neighborhood. We have a working plan for the northwest lot and welcome any neighborhood input. This home will be built using insulated concrete forms. They have several advantages over traditional stick built construction-they are more quiet, safer in hazardous weather, and more energy efficient-a big benefit to keep housing affordable as energy prices rise. The best thing about ICFs is that from the outside you can't really notice any difference. So we will choose a veneer that fits in nicely with the neighborhood. This plan is exceptional on the inside as well. It is a humble one bedroom design that makes very efficient use of several multipurpose spaces. The plan has the ability to be versatile for a number of different family needs. The design is also universally accessible and is a great example of how accessibility can be achieved in a small space. Anyone who is interested in seeing this plan may contact TTH, Inc. at 842-5494 and we'd be happy to share it with you. We will be breaking ground as soon as we can complete our two current rehabs and we look forward to participating with the Pinckney Neighborhood on this home and the next 5 lots that will be individually designed to meet the needs of the low income home huvers we work with. I~ 1 I. I N£W N£1GHBORHOOD COOR'DlNATOR Gwen Klingenberg 4900 Colonial Way Lawrence, KS. 66049 glklingenberg@sunflower.com -...-~-~ 838-9197 --MNCKN£V N£1GHBORHOOD Of'F1C£RS ~- John Pepperdine - President Emily Zung - Treasurer Steve Braswell - Vice President Dale Nimz- Secretary �PINCKNEY NEIGBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTEI~ P.O. BOX 125, LAWRENCE I<:S. 66044 Steve Braswell - President- 841-6902 pinckneyneighborhood .org April, 2006 Gwen Klingenberg - Coordinator- 838-9197 SPRING CLEANUP! Spring Cleanup is upon us again. The neighborhood will be cleaning up our parks on Saturday, May meet at Clinton Park, Constant Park or by the Creek at 1O:OOam. Steve Braswell is the contact person for Clinton Park- 841-6902 Ruth Lichwardt is the contact person for Constant Park by the river- 841-5419 Marilyn Roy is the contact person for the creek at 5th and Indiana- 838-3057 6th. Please ANNUAL Saturday, May 27th, 2006 at 4:00pm at Clinton Park 5th and Illinois We will provide hot dogs, soft drinks, paper plates and utensils. Please bring your favorite dish or dessert to share with your neighbors. The City of Lawrence has approved approximately $250,000.00 for improvements to Clinton Park. These include new restrooms, a new shelter house, new playground equipment and additional walking paths. The Pinckney neighbors have been working with Lawrence Parks and Recreation to help plan these improvements. Come to the picnic to get an update on this improvement project and to also let Parks and Recreation hear from the neighborhood on how we want this plan to be carried out. H.O.P. Area Plan Hillcrest, Old West Lawrence, and Pinckney have been working on an area plan around 6th street. We have downzoned three single family homes to a single family zoning along 5th street. And the City Commission has assigned us the job of taking a look at the bigger picture around this area to consider a zoning change for other properties in which the existing buildings do not fit the .zoning that they are in. Anyone interested in this process please contact Gwen Klingenberg at 838-9197 or Michelle Leinenger at the Planning Department- 832-3150. Building Boom ht Pinckney An exciting new building project is under way in the Pinckney Neighborhood by Tenants To Homeowners through the Lawrence Community Land and Housing Trust Program. If you haven't been by the 3rd and Alabama area recently, you really need to. TTH is currently at work on a pair oftwo-story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath townhomes at 908 and 910 W. 3rd St. The goal is to keep construction costs down by building two units rather than a single family dwelling on the lot. These townhomes are across 3rd Street from the other 6 lots that TTH has been building on over the last year. Three of these homes are complete (31 0 Alabama, 307 and 309 Illinois) and have been sold. �When complete, these homes will be sold as land trust properties to income-eligible individuals and families. This program ensures that these homes will stay permanently affordable, one buyer after another. The land trust is good for neighborhoods because it helps create owner occupied, sustainable neighborhoods. The ground lease provides a mechanism for the land trust to ensure that owners occupy their homes and resell their homes at an affordable price. Therefore, the subsidy remains and continues to revitalize our neighborhoods. If you are interested in TTH Land Trust Program, join them for the next First Time Homebuyer Workshop on May 13,2006 from 9:30-1:00 at the United Way Center (directions on their website at www.tenants-tohomeowners.org) or call TTH at 842-5494. Elections Elections were held at the PNA Annual Meeting February 25th. Ruth Lichtwardt was reelected Vice-President and Marilyn Roy was elected Secretary. Steve Braswell remains President but the position of Treasurer is unfilled. If you would like to get more involved with the Pinckney Neighborhood Association as Treasurer or Membership Coordinator call or email Steve. Have any articles you want in the newslettm·? Wish to advertise in you neighborhood newslette1•? Please contact Gwen Klingenberg at glldingt•nberg@snnflowt.~r.<~om or 838-9197 Next Newsletter in Jmte Next PNA Meeting, Saturday July 22, 2006 Lawrence Memorial Hospital OOLQ-vt099 S>i 3~N3HM\fl 80LX080d 3~N3~MV'l .=jQ AJ.J8 ZLtJVMS 3N38~VV\I 099 .ll81a-£................. ~.£ 11"'1'1''1'"11'1"1'''111'''1'''111''1'1"1 I 1 I 111''11' I '11'1 . :1 \I L. -·------·-zvgu 11V>Jl:l3d S>i '30N3l:IM\fl QIVd 38VlSOd'Sn illSlliSI:ld ({W~fJlfHI 1717099 S>i 'eoueJMBl 96~ xog ·o·d ·oossv poot.poq4D!9N J\eu>jOU!d � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association Subject The topic of the resource Pinckney Neighborhood Association (Lawrence, Kan.) Description An account of the resource Bylaws, correspondence, newsletters and minutes from the Pinckney Neighborhood Association in Lawrence, Kansas. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lawrence (Kan.) 1980-2006 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PinckneyNewsletter_Apr1980-Apr2006_Final.pdf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Johnston, Pattie Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Pine, Kenneth Location The location of the interview Lawrence (Kan.) Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211747">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211747</a> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:56:45 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 127 kbit/s (audio) 1621 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kenneth Pine World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pine, Kenneth Description An account of the resource Kenneth Pine was in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. He served as a replacement in Italy and was assigned to the 276th Infantry Company I in France. He also served as a military policeman. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on June 30, 2006, Pine talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Pine was born in Lawrence, Kansas, on September 1, 1924. He attended Liberty Memorial High School and the University of Kansas. He took part in the Army Specialized Training Program at the KU to become an engineer. He then took classes at the University of Nebraska before being sent to Camp Robinson in Arkansas and Camp Rucker in Alabama. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Johnston, Pattie Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant France 1941 - 1946 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-06-30 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Kenneth_Pine WWII Interview Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/kenneth-pine-wwii-interview_202008">https://archive.org/details/kenneth-pine-wwii-interview_202008</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Transcripts for this project are available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211747">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211747</a> Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. United States -- History, Military. United States. Army. Lawrence (Kan.) -- Oral history. World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Grubbs, Brian Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Plank, Fred Location The location of the interview Baldwin City (Kan.) Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212784">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212784</a> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:32:59 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 127 kbit/s (audio) 1623 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fred Plank World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Plank, Fred Description An account of the resource Fred Plank was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He was first assigned to the Infantry (411th Division), and then transferred into the Army’s 382nd Field Artillery, where he served as the ammunition sergeant. He was medically discharged in 1945. Interviewed by Brian Grubbs on June 22, 2007, Plank talked about his military experiences during the Second World War. Plank was born in Garden City, Missouri on August 18, 1919. He went to basic training at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana and then went to school in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Plank passed away on October 22, 2016. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grubbs, Brian Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Mount Pleasant (Iowa) 1942 - 1945 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-22 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Plank_Fred WWII Interview Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/plank-fred-wwii-interview">https://archive.org/details/plank-fred-wwii-interview</a> Obituary: <a href="https://obituaries.ljworld.com/obituaries/ljworld/obituary.aspx?n=fred-plank&amp;pid=182126229&amp;fhid=20441">https://obituaries.ljworld.com/obituaries/ljworld/obituary.aspx?n=fred-plank&amp;pid=182126229&amp;fhid=20441</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Transcripts for this project are available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212784">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212784</a> Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. United States -- History, Military. World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews. United States. Army. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/5d3d133537e0d6c27c0680dae9199639.jpg c4e5274add2fba0e9ac7c015c6b3d0d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource History of the Lawrence Public Library Subject The topic of the resource Libraries -- Kansas -- Douglas County Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) History -- Kansas Biography -- Kansas Description An account of the resource Resources related to the history of the Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, Kansas. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter to Lawrence Public Library Board of Directors Regarding Gifts from Theo. Poehler Mercantile Co., 1906 Subject The topic of the resource Libraries -- Kansas -- Douglas County Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Description An account of the resource A letter from Sophie Poehler acknowledging receipt of a letter from the Lawrence Library Board of Directors in which they accepted the gift of books and furniture from the Theo. Poehler Mercantile Company. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Poehler, Sophie Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Lawrence Public Library Historical Records Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906-04-09 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource We believe that this item has no known US copyright restrictions. The item may be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. We encourage anyone who may have more information about our items to contact us at custserv@lawrencepubliclibrary.org. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource TIFF Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LPL_TheoPoehlerLetter_1906-04-09 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Douglas County (Kan.) 1906 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Johnston, Pattie Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Proctor, John "Jack" Location The location of the interview Douglas County (Kan.) Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218572">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218572</a> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:00:31 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 127 kbit/s (audio) 1626 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John "Jack" Proctor World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Proctor, John “Jack” Description An account of the resource John “Jack” Proctor was drafted into the United States Army (Eighth Air Force). He was originally trained as a gunner and engineer on the B-17, but then trained and worked as a gunner on the B-29. He was discharged in October 1945. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on August 23, 2007, Proctor talked about his military experiences during the Second World War. Proctor was born on June 6, 1922, in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Pennsylvania. After being drafted, he trained in Salina, Kansas. He then went overseas to Saipan. Proctor received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. Following his service, he worked at Beech Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. Proctor passed away on October 3, 2007. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Johnston, Pattie Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <span>Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands)</span> 1941 - 1945 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-23 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Proctor_Jack WWII Interview 20070823 Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/proctor-jack-wwii-interview-20070823">https://archive.org/details/proctor-jack-wwii-interview-20070823</a> Obituary: <a href="https://www2.ljworld.com/life-events/obituaries/2007/oct/05/jack_proctor_sr/">https://www2.ljworld.com/life-events/obituaries/2007/oct/05/jack_proctor_sr/</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Transcripts for this project are available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218572">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218572</a> Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. This interview can be used freely for purposes beyond educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. United States -- History, Military. World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews. United States. Army. World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area. Air Pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, American. United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th -- Aerial Gunners -- Biography. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/0764cd2467e86f43eab8f610de0a464d.jpg 866bf1e41c9e6be9a59ad0a89196d75d https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/5a224a2fdb85a190950d80c20319c4dc.jpg 257a99b3d54336f20ab4170201c33260 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fitzpatrick-Postma Postcards Subject The topic of the resource Postcards Lawrence (Kan.) -- History Description An account of the resource This collection is comprised of postcards collected by Lawrence, Kansas, residents Charline Fitzpatrick and her daughter Sally Postma. The collection focuses on resources related to the history of Lawrence, Kansas, including scenes of buildings, events, and people in Lawrence, as well as commercial advertisements for businesses located in Lawrence. The collection was loaned to the Lawrence Public Library for scanning and inclusion in the Digital Douglas County History project by Rosalea and Peter Carttar. Scanning and metadata creation for much of the collection was completed by Kylie Hewitt during the summer of 2016. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Postcard Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcard of an Ice Gorge on the Kaw Subject The topic of the resource Ice on rivers, lakes, etc. -- Kansas -- Lawrence Kansas River (Kan.) Description An account of the resource Postcard with a black and white photograph of an ice gorge on the Kaw River on the front. Photograph depicts the river covered in ice sheets, the bridge can be seen in the background and Bowersock Mills can be seen on the left. At the bottom of the photograph "861 Ice Jam, Kaw River, Lawrence, Kans. Jan. 16, 1910" is printed in white ink. On the back is a note to Mrs. S. Hail in Topeka, Kansas from her child R.H.H. in Lawrence, Kansas . Note discussed when "R" is going to leave after the term is over. Postmarked January 23, 1910. Information on when the postcard was acquired is on the back, 5/21/1978. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource R.H.H. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fitzpatrick-Postma Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1/23/1910 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource We believe that this item has no known US copyright restrictions. The item may be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. We encourage anyone who may have more information about our items to contact us at custserv@lawrencepubliclibrary.org. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Still Image Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Postcard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 7_River_Ice_to_Tornado(cp_14a) 7_River_Ice_to_Tornado(cp_14b) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Kaw River (Lawrence, Kan.) 1/16/1910 1/23/1910 5/21/1978 Abstract A summary of the resource. Postcard with a black and white photograph of an ice gorge on the Kaw River on the front. Acquisition information on the back. A note is written on the back. Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 1/23/1910 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Album 7: River Ice to Tornado Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Photograph Print Drawing Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Acquired by Charline Fitzpatrick or Sally Postma on May 21, 1978. https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/896b33c059760f9700767cd6737d806d.jpg f9e27136525bc9b8f8cc87d40b3f1c84 https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/bf9dc31d09e06b734e1ed58227cd8f9c.jpg e27822a81c71281d6b3f2764b9dcc131 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fitzpatrick-Postma Postcards Subject The topic of the resource Postcards Lawrence (Kan.) -- History Description An account of the resource This collection is comprised of postcards collected by Lawrence, Kansas, residents Charline Fitzpatrick and her daughter Sally Postma. The collection focuses on resources related to the history of Lawrence, Kansas, including scenes of buildings, events, and people in Lawrence, as well as commercial advertisements for businesses located in Lawrence. The collection was loaned to the Lawrence Public Library for scanning and inclusion in the Digital Douglas County History project by Rosalea and Peter Carttar. Scanning and metadata creation for much of the collection was completed by Kylie Hewitt during the summer of 2016. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Postcard Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 5 9/16" x 3 1/2" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcard of Simmons Hospital Subject The topic of the resource Hospitals -- Kansas -- Lawrence Historic buildings -- Kansas -- Lawrence Description An account of the resource Postcard with a black and white photograph of the Simmon Hospital on the front. Photograph shows the building's front with trees around it. At the bottom of the photograph is a black strip with "Simmons Hospital. Lawrence, Kansas." is typed in white ink. A white border is around the entire photograph. "801 Ohio" is written in blue ink on the bottom border. On the back is a note to Miss Edith C. Johnson in Topeka, Kansas from R.J.W. in Lawrence, Kansas. Note discusses how R. sprained their ankle in baseball and had to go to Simmons Hospital. Dated May 3,1909. Postmarked May 4, 1909. On the back along the left side "Alfred Lawrence, Photographer, Lawrence, Kan." is typed sideways in black ink. Note: Postcard is labeled with the wrong address. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource R.J.W. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fitzpatrick-Postma Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence, A. (Alfred), photographer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5/4/1909 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource We believe that this item has no known US copyright restrictions. The item may be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. We encourage anyone who may have more information about our items to contact us at custserv@lawrencepubliclibrary.org. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Still Image Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Postcard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 4_Windmill_to_RR_Depot(cp_84a) 4_Windmill_to_RR_Depot(cp_84b) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Simmons Hospital 805 Ohio Street (Lawrence, Kan.) 5/4/1909 Acquisition date unknown Abstract A summary of the resource. Postcard with a black and white photograph of the Simmons Hospital on the front. Manufacturing information on the back. Note on the back. Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 5/4/1909 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Album 4: Windmill to RR Depot Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Photograph Print Drawing Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Acquired by Charline Fitzpatrick or Sally Postma. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Pye, Deborah Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Radke, William "Bill" P. Location The location of the interview Lawrence (Kan.) Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211748">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211748</a> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:02:50 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 127 kbit/s (audio) 1625 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource William "Bill" Radke World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Radke, William "Bill" Description An account of the resource William “Bill” P. Radke served in the United States Army (Infantry), 88th Division, Fifth Special Forces Airborne. Interviewed by Deborah Pye on November 8, 2006, Radke talked about his military experiences after the Second World War. Radke was born in Ohio in 1928. He enlisted in the Army in 1945 and went to basic training in New Jersey. Radke has an extensive 30-year military career. From 1947 to 1948, he was in the TRUST Troopers in Trieste, Italy. After Officer Candidate School (OCS), he went to jump and Ranger school in the 1950s. During the 1960s, he served as the commander of Special Forces Thailand (46th Special Forces Company). Radke passed away on August 16, 2017. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pye, Deborah Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Italy 1945 - 1964 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-11-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Radke_Bill WWII Interview Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/radke-bill-wwii-interview">https://archive.org/details/radke-bill-wwii-interview</a> Obituary: <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary.aspx?n=william-p-radtke-bill&amp;pid=186445575&amp;fhid=24990">https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary.aspx?n=william-p-radtke-bill&amp;pid=186445575&amp;fhid=24990</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Transcripts for this project are available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211748">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211748</a> Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. United States -- History, Military. World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews. United States. Army. Lawrence (Kan.) -- Oral history. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/c5a3e9da15474b150b7e3e0d7ad3f230.pdf 4e337652dbeda16a1ff4c8746a0f1d24 PDF Text Text 1 1 2 CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS 3 4 LAWRENCE FAIR HOUSING ORDINANCE 5 50th ANNIVERSARY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT 6 7 8 9 10 11 Interview of Richard Raney 12 October 19, 2016 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 �2 1 (16:30:45) 2 MR. ARNOLD: Today is October 19th, 2016. I 3 am local historian Tom Arnold interviewing Dick 4 Raney at the Lawrence Public Library for the City 5 of Lawrence Fair Housing Ordinance 50th 6 Anniversary Oral History Project. 7 At the time the ordinance passed in July, 8 1967, Mayor Raney was serving as a city 9 commissioner and as the mayor of Lawrence and as 10 11 mayor he signed the ordinance. Mayor Raney, I would like to start off by 12 having you tell me a little bit about your early 13 background, including what brought you to Lawrence 14 and what you were doing here in the mid 1960s. 15 MR. RANEY: I was a middle 30s pharmacist, 16 owner of three drug stores in Lawrence. Beyond 17 that, decided to run for the City Commission and 18 served four years, did not choose to run for 19 reelection. I got sort of busy. 20 (10:23:33) 21 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. And you had told me 22 before that you came to Lawrence to attend K.U. 23 and then stayed, or had you moved here before 24 that? 25 MR. RANEY: I really stayed, came here from �3 1 Osborne, Kansas, my hometown, and skipped my 2 senior year in high school, thinking that World 3 War II might be demanding of my presence and that 4 maybe a year at K.U. before getting drafted would 5 be helpful. 6 before I matriculated. As it is the war was over a month 7 (10:24:06) 8 MR. ARNOLD: 9 MR. RANEY: 11 (10:24:09) 12 MR. ARNOLD: 14 15 And was your degree in pharmacy? 10 13 Okay. In business. In business, okay. And so you opened the pharmacy after you graduated? MR. RANEY: Yes, three, actually in the first decade of my being here. 16 (10:24:19) 17 MR. ARNOLD: Okay, great. Where did you live 18 at the time or -- I know you had mentioned that 19 you, after you were married you and your wife 20 moved into a neighborhood up near Iowa. 21 MR. RANEY: We lived across from the 4-H 22 grounds for the first year and a half of our 23 marriage. 24 '54, Rich in '55, and moved to our current 25 address, my current address, 5 Westwood Road in Then we had two children, Michelle in �4 1 Lawrence. 2 (10:24:53) 3 MR. ARNOLD: 4 Okay. And was that in an all-white neighborhood at that time? 5 MR. RANEY: 6 (10:24:58) 7 MR. ARNOLD: Oh, certainly. Okay. And would you, how would 8 you kind of characterize Lawrence at that time in 9 terms of the degrees of segregation and some of 10 11 12 the observable discrimination? MR. RANEY: Well, certainly economically and residentially very segregated. 13 (10:25:15) 14 MR. ARNOLD: You had mentioned that as a 15 pharmacist many African-Americans were customers 16 of yours because of your willingness to work with 17 them and provide them credit as needed and that 18 that gave you some insights into the 19 African-American community and their struggles. 20 Can you describe that a little bit? 21 MR. RANEY: Provided me with quite an 22 education. There were four other drug stores in 23 downtown Lawrence at that point in time, and, 24 having a very tiny little drug store to begin 25 with, I was finding it very difficult to establish �5 1 clientele, and some blacks came in and needed some 2 credit, I offered them, and they were uniformly 3 punctual and reliable and friendships formed as a 4 result of that relationship. 5 (10:26:11) 6 MR. ARNOLD: So how would you describe some 7 of the struggles that they faced in the 1950s and 8 the levels and types of discrimination? 9 MR. RANEY: 10 lack of opportunity. 11 a black serving the public in downtown retail 12 Lawrence at that point in time and for a number of 13 years following that even. 14 country. 15 (10:26:43). 16 MR. ARNOLD: Just what we think as a classic The top jobs, there was not It was a low wage And so for many 17 African-Americans were they in that era, in the 18 '50s, denied even access to certain businesses and 19 -- 20 MR. RANEY: There were no haircuts, no food 21 service. There were no downtown restaurants, 22 maybe out of city limits restaurants, that would 23 serve a black. 24 (10:27:04) 25 MR. ARNOLD: And I assume it was observable �6 1 by the housing segregation that that kind of 2 discrimination carried over into housing as well 3 at the time? 4 MR. RANEY: Well, and just a principle that 5 blacks will not be served food in a restaurant in 6 Lawrence. 7 think in 1957, that was still true. When Wilt Chamberlain came here, I 8 (10:27:27) 9 MR. ARNOLD: You mentioned that you served 10 from '65 to '69 on the City Commission. 11 inspired you to run in 1965? 12 MR. RANEY: What I thought there were certain 13 delinquencies Lawrence as a community was not 14 offering the broader community base, certainly a 15 swimming pool among them. 16 fair housing aspect and yet that became a very 17 important item on my agenda before long at all, so 18 if I had a single incentive to run for the City 19 Commission it was to tend to level the playing 20 field. 21 (10:28:10) 22 MR. ARNOLD: Great. I thought less of the You had, we had talked 23 also earlier about at your pharmacy kind of a 24 cross section of community leaders and others in 25 the town would gather there for breakfast and �7 1 you'd talk about the issues of the day. 2 kind of issues come up in your discussions then? 3 MR. RANEY: Did these You know, not so very much. When 4 these things were formalized in terms of votable 5 issues, whether it be just the commission or the 6 larger community in the case of the swimming pool, 7 then those were issues almost exclusively talked 8 of, but prior to that time, memory fails me, I 9 don't -- we had a lot of fun but I don't know what 10 we talked about. 11 (10:28:54) 12 MR. ARNOLD: Okay, fair enough. 13 served from '65 to '69. 14 run again? 15 You only Why did you decide not to You had mentioned just -- MR. RANEY: I was busy. I had the drug 16 stores here and interests in Emporia, Coffeyville, 17 Fort Scott, Ottawa. 18 (10:29:10) 19 MR. ARNOLD: 20 21 Right. Were you pleased with what you accomplished during your four years? MR. RANEY: Oh, I would love to have been 22 able to serve longer, but I think my primary 23 mission had been at least partially served. 24 (10:29:28) 25 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. I'm going to get, before �8 1 we get into a more detailed discussion of the fair 2 housing and your time on the City Commission I 3 just want to ask you again some general questions 4 about what Lawrence was like in that era. 5 would you describe, you know -- you've talked a 6 little bit about the kind of discrimination that 7 was apparent but how would you describe kind of 8 the tenor of race relations between the white and 9 the black community at that time? 10 MR. RANEY: How Well, I think it was best 11 described by a industrialist that occurred, a 12 meeting occurred even after I was off the 13 commission and the industrialist said that when a 14 patrol car cruised East Lawrence all the black 15 children waved at the policeman and some black in 16 the back of the room said, well, if you didn't 17 wave you got hit over the head. 18 MR. ARNOLD: 19 MR. RANEY: 20 Huh. And that probably well described a fundamental problem. 21 (10:30:33) 22 MR. ARNOLD: Right. Now obviously by the 23 late '60s, early '70s, racial tension kind of 24 broke out into some unfortunate violence in 25 Lawrence but -- �9 1 MR. RANEY: 2 MR. ARNOLD: Well, --- earlier in the decade, in the 3 '60s, did you sense that kind of building 4 frustration and tension within the black 5 community? 6 MR. RANEY: Not prior to '65. By '67 7 anti-Vietnam sentiments were running very, very 8 high, particularly at the university level, 9 because those were the students most affected. 10 They were going to Vietnam and too many of them 11 were getting killed. 12 (10:31:10) 13 MR. ARNOLD: And did you see, did you have a 14 sense that there was kind of an intersection 15 between the two issues, that of the race issues 16 and the Vietnam protest issues? 17 18 MR. RANEY: As a tertiary thing but not a primary. 19 (10:31:24) 20 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. And how about the 21 protests at the university? Obviously, you know, 22 reflected issues related to Vietnam and probably 23 kind of a reflection of national racial issues, 24 but as a local issue and the concerns of local 25 African-American residents what would you say were �10 1 some of their key frustrations in that time frame? 2 You've mentioned the swimming pool as one. 3 MR. RANEY: Basic services. They were 4 remiss. I think the large, larger, older black 5 population were not particularly expecting that 6 kind of thing. 7 to understand better segregation, what was 8 happening to them that their parents might have 9 accepted but they wondered whether they should The younger people were beginning 10 accept those things. 11 (10:32:20) 12 MR. ARNOLD: Right. And it's interesting you 13 bring that up but one of the previous 14 interviewers, or interviews that I conducted the 15 interviewee mentioned that the high school was 16 kind of a hot bed of racial frustration among some 17 of the African-American students. 18 sense of that or observe any of that? 19 MR. RANEY: Did you have a It permeated the entire community 20 and it focused around the high school. There were 21 some very articulate black voices being heard and 22 stimulating, well, the need for one black 23 cheerleader seemed to be outrageous in certain 24 areas of the white community. 25 reasonable when most of the starting football It seemed very �11 1 players, or at least half of them, were black and 2 they couldn't have one black cheerleader. 3 MR. ARNOLD: 4 MR. RANEY: 5 (10:33:11) 6 MR. ARNOLD: Right. It was purely offensive. Yes. We mentioned a little, 7 talked a little bit about the pool, but in 1960 8 there was an initial protest by a number of 9 African-Americans over denial of access to the 10 Jayhawk Plunge, which was a private pool, but 11 frustration that there was no public pool 12 available to them and that they couldn't have 13 access to the private pool. 14 what was the reaction of kind of people generally 15 in Lawrence over those protests and was there 16 concern that this was the beginning of a larger 17 movement that would continue? 18 MR. RANEY: Did those protests -- I don't know that the thought was 19 it was going to be a larger issue in the future. 20 It was a very painful issue focused on that very 21 thing. 22 whatever it was called, and denied blacks the 23 option of paying their 25 cents and swimming and 24 the community had some articulate voices 25 supporting the lady's being able to discriminate A lady owned the Jayhawk, or the Plunge, �12 1 on that basis. 2 thesis. Others rose up against that 3 (10:34:28) 4 MR. ARNOLD: What would you say in general 5 terms was the, were the primary impediments to 6 bringing about change or any, or groups within the 7 community that were most resistant to change and 8 what their motives were? 9 MR. RANEY: I don't know that they were 10 groups as such. I think the Klan existed in 11 Lawrence at that point in time. 12 minimize the Klan's influence on community affairs 13 and yet maybe the Klan had some influence, but 14 there were articulate voices that were as 15 segregationist as Alabama ever dreamed of being. 16 MR. ARNOLD: 17 MR. RANEY: 18 (10:35:09) 19 MR. ARNOLD: I would like to Huh. Georgia or Mississippi. Right. And would you say that 20 was just kind of a cross section of the community 21 among some people who had particularly -- 22 MR. RANEY: 23 MR. ARNOLD: 24 MR. RANEY: 25 Well, I would think --- racist points of view? -- numerically those segregationist voices were few, but they happened �13 1 to be loud. 2 MR. ARNOLD: 3 MR. RANEY: Okay. And in some cases quite 4 influential in the affairs, in the affairs of the 5 community. 6 (10:35:29) 7 MR. ARNOLD: And others may have been 8 reluctant to stand up to them or speak out against 9 them because of fearing of being singled out or 10 11 ostracized or targeted? MR. RANEY: Well, it didn't seem like there 12 were enough integrationists being heard at that 13 point in time. 14 (10:35:45) 15 MR. ARNOLD: Right. One group that that 16 seems to have gotten involved, as we look at some 17 of the community organizations that were fighting 18 discriminatory practices, were often associated 19 with the university faculty members, students. 20 what extent would you say that the presence of the 21 university in Lawrence helped to spur change by 22 making people more aware of some of these issues 23 and why they needed to be reversed or changed? 24 25 MR. RANEY: To I think the best example of that would be Franklin Murphy, then the chancellor of �14 1 Kansas University, later the president of UCLA and 2 then president of the Los Angeles Times, but at 3 the time he was here he had gathered the 4 restaurant owners of Lawrence together and made a 5 pronouncement that if they didn't start serving 6 blacks as they served whites, that the K.U. Union 7 was going to start serving T-bone steaks at a 8 price that they couldn't compete with and suddenly 9 almost all the restaurants in Lawrence opened up 10 their doors to the black community. 11 (10:36:56) 12 MR. ARNOLD: Right. And the impetus for that 13 meeting between him and the restaurant owners has 14 actually been related to us. 15 Chamberlain, Homer Floyd, Charlie Tidwell, and, 16 oh, the other name is escaping me, a fourth 17 athlete. 18 chancellor and threatened to leave school -- They actually went and met with the 19 MR. RANEY: 20 MR. ARNOLD: 21 22 23 24 25 It was Wilt Yeah. -- if he didn't address that issue, but it sounds like -MR. RANEY: Gale Sayers was a member of that group. MR. ARNOLD: But it sounds as if that had a real meaningful impact. �15 1 2 MR. RANEY: Economics became an issue with regard to the restaurant owners. 3 (10:37:34) 4 MR. ARNOLD: Right. Do you remember any 5 specific incidents or problems that might have 6 motivated some people to start taking action and 7 addressing issues, such as, I mean, obviously that 8 meeting of the athletes with Chancellor Murphy was 9 one example, but does anything else come to mind 10 in those early years of things that really stirred 11 some people to action, particular events? 12 MR. RANEY: I think just getting the 13 attention of the white community, the vast 14 majority of whom were not objecting to the 15 integrated nature of this community, that the 16 community should be more integrated just came to 17 mind. It was not a preconceived thing. 18 MR. ARNOLD: 19 MR. RANEY: Right. But it seemed so reasonable to 20 the vast majority, not to everyone, and to those 21 that didn't seem to accept that, they seemed to 22 have the loudest voices. 23 (10:38:40) 24 MR. ARNOLD: 25 That's interesting you mention that because I don't know whether you recall but �16 1 at the time the Human Relations Commission was 2 working on the Fair Housing Ordinance, before they 3 actually presented it to the City Commission a 4 signature drive was conducted to try and get 5 people to sign a statement that they supported 6 integrated housing in Lawrence and over a thousand 7 people signed it, so a pretty substantial portion 8 of the population of a relatively small town. 9 Would that then not have surprised you that that 10 number of people were willing to speak out? 11 MR. RANEY: 12 since forgotten it. 13 at that. 14 MR. ARNOLD: 15 MR. RANEY: You remind me of that. I'd long I don't think I was surprised Yes. That someone had the energy and 16 the integrity to make that petition a petition was 17 maybe the surprising thing. 18 (10:39:30) 19 MR. ARNOLD: Right. And it's interesting, if 20 you look at, and the city has actually plotted 21 out, because the signatures or the names of 22 supporters that was published in the Journal-World 23 included their addresses and the city plotted out 24 where all those addresses were and it was actually 25 quite widely dispersed throughout Lawrence. It �17 1 makes it appear that there was pretty widespread 2 support for those kinds of changes, which must 3 have been encouraging to those of you who thought 4 such changes were needed. 5 MR. RANEY: 6 (10:40:00) 7 MR. ARNOLD: I'd almost forgotten about that. Yes. Did you ever feel any 8 pressure as a member of the City Commission from 9 some people, or even as a business owner who 10 worked with the, you know, who welcomed the black 11 community as customers, did you feel pressure from 12 certain segments to not be as willing to make 13 changes that would be beneficial to 14 African-Americans or to do business with 15 African-Americans? 16 MR. RANEY: Not so much doing business but 17 incorporating African-Americans into your service 18 core, whether it be a waiter, a waitress, someone 19 behind a cosmetic counter or somebody mixing a 20 chocolate ice cream soda. 21 community was noticeably missing and they wanted 22 jobs but they knew better than to apply. 23 (10:40:54) 24 MR. ARNOLD: 25 That's where the black Interesting. You had mentioned, and I found it fascinating because it's maybe not �18 1 a recognized element of the story of Tiger 2 Dowdell, who obviously was tragically shot in some 3 of the violence, but that he had worked for you at 4 one point? 5 MR. RANEY: 6 MR. ARNOLD: 7 MR. RANEY: He was our evening deliveryman. Okay. Very popular with the girls that 8 he hauled across the campus with our delivery 9 vehicle. 10 (10:41:17) 11 MR. ARNOLD: 12 said? 13 MR. RANEY: 14 (10:41:21) 15 MR. ARNOLD: 16 Because he gave them rides, you Yes, free rides. Great. Did you have other African-American employees? 17 MR. RANEY: 18 (10:41:25) 19 MR. ARNOLD: Yes. And did you feel any pressure or 20 take any criticism over hiring, having, you know, 21 racially mutual hiring practices? 22 MR. RANEY: Certainly no criticism directed 23 at me. 24 frightening to be affected that way. 25 I probably was a little too big and too (10:41:46) �19 1 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. In addition to your 2 position on the City Commission, as well as your 3 role as obviously a fairly prominent businessman, 4 were you involved in any other community 5 organizations that tried to promote ends to 6 discrimination or address discriminatory 7 practices? 8 9 MR. RANEY: commission. Not prior to my service on the Post-commission I was on the Ballard 10 board, Headquarters [Counseling Center], 11 Cottonwood, KANU, the university radio station, a 12 number of university committees. 13 (10:42:24) 14 MR. ARNOLD: Right. Now, when we talked 15 earlier, and again, you don't need to mention any 16 names whatsoever, but you had mentioned one 17 incident when you were having lunch at the 18 Eldridge Hotel of hearing something that kind of 19 helped to motivate you to want to serve -- 20 MR. RANEY: 21 MR. ARNOLD: Tremendously. -- on the City Commission and 22 make a change in the community. 23 that story to us? 24 25 MR. RANEY: Can you relate This is fully a year before I declared my candidacy, and I ran away from the �20 1 drug store once or twice a month and was able to 2 have lunch at the Red Slipper Room in the Eldridge 3 Hotel. 4 The place was very busy and the maitre d' 5 said there was one table of four with two guys 6 sitting there and he would check with them and if 7 it was okay with them if I sat with them, and I 8 sort of knew them and I sort of didn't but they 9 were two leading Lawrence industrialists, and 10 speaking of the swimming pool in this regard, not 11 the Fair Housing Ordinance, "the darkies could 12 swim in the river; they didn't drown very often 13 anyway, did they?" 14 lady who wanted to eliminate or deny blacks access 15 to her swimming pool. 16 despair. 17 I didn't want them to grow up that way. And that was defensive of the It gave me a sense of I had two young children at that time. 18 (10:43:46) 19 MR. ARNOLD: So definitely that was, when you 20 decided to run for the commission incidents like 21 that were in your mind and were symptomatic of the 22 sort of changes you wanted to bring about? 23 MR. RANEY: Some two years later perhaps, and 24 I was then newly elected to the commission, 25 Chancellor Wescoe brought me a letter that one of �21 1 those two men had addressed to the chancellor and 2 saying exactly the same thing: 3 just have them buy their own swimming pool if they 4 want to go swimming? 5 do anything about that?" 6 that's about 80 to 90 percent of the reason I ran 7 for the commission." 8 (10:44:30) 9 MR. ARNOLD: Well, why don't we And he said, "Dick, can you And I said, "Well, Interesting. You had also 10 related to me an incident where someone came to 11 your pharmacy one day and made kind of a veiled 12 threat about the Klan possibly not being happy 13 with some of the things you were doing. 14 just relate that again? 15 be mentioned. 16 MR. RANEY: Can you Again, no names need to Well, that was about it. He was 17 a dedicated customer and patient and I was 18 surprised that he addressed me on that score 19 because he knew me well enough to know where I 20 stood but he told me candidly that some of the 21 Klan members were terribly disappointed in me, 22 they were my patients and customers in many cases, 23 and he said, "Dick, would you like to see a list 24 of them?" 25 I said, "No, I think I'll be very happy to sleep He pulled a list out of his pocket and �22 1 very tight tonight and not know their names." 2 I'm sorry I didn't. 3 (10:45:32) 4 MR. ARNOLD: 5 MR. RANEY: 6 MR. ARNOLD: 7 And was that -I didn't look at that list. Was that while you were a member of the City Commission or -- 8 MR. RANEY: 9 MR. ARNOLD: 10 MR. RANEY: 11 Now Yes. -- was that before? Yes, that was, yes. That was when we were dealing with those issues, -- 12 MR. ARNOLD: 13 MR. RANEY: 14 (10:45:44) 15 MR. ARNOLD: Right. -- fair housing, swimming pool. So clearly there were some 16 people in town who weren't necessarily happy with 17 the direction things were -- 18 MR. RANEY: 19 (10:45:49) 20 MR. ARNOLD: 21 22 Terribly unhappy. That's disappointing to hear but not surprising, I guess. When you became a member of the commission, 23 you've already mentioned the swimming pool, but 24 what particular issues were you most concerned 25 about and most hopeful that you could bring about �23 1 2 positive change? MR. RANEY: You know, I don't think I had a 3 long-range view beyond those issues we've already 4 visited concerning. 5 streets, but these were mechanical things. 6 a gifted city manager, Ray Wells. We were interested in better We had 7 Ray, incidentally, was a spiritual guide in 8 our efforts to create the Fair Housing Ordinance 9 and the swimming pool. He offered us lovely 10 guidance. 11 manager, knowing what he thought we should be 12 thinking about in terms of improving this 13 community. 14 Ray was a far-seeking, far-looking Ray was a mechanical guy, too. He knew the 15 pressure behind all the fire hydrants in town, so 16 he wasn't just a dreamer, he was a technician, and 17 excellent in both regards. 18 (10:47:15) 19 MR. ARNOLD: Great. How would you 20 characterize the receptivity of the commission at 21 the time in April, 1967, when the Fair Housing 22 Ordinance was brought up to you? 23 with a fairly open mind or were there set 24 positions already do you think? 25 MR. RANEY: Was it greeted You know, with the passage of �24 1 that ordinance I was amazed, I think all of our 2 commissioners, amazed at how little organized or 3 even how little outspokenness there was denying 4 the validity of that as a thing the community 5 should be about. 6 probably quietly didn't like for it to happen but 7 they didn't articulate a case, nor did they try. 8 (10:48:15) 9 MR. ARNOLD: I think there were those that Was fair housing would you say 10 an issue that was at all on your radar or 11 something that you felt like was a concern of the 12 public or were you, did you anticipate that that 13 was an issue that was going to come up to the 14 commission? 15 MR. RANEY: I don't know what my anticipation 16 might have been or any of our commissioners. With 17 near unanimity, when addressed to this as a 18 problem, with near unanimous consent the 19 commission agreed that that was a problem that we 20 had. 21 anticipating that. 22 our capacities, but once it was presented to us 23 people that objected were, almost all the people 24 that objected were just a few realtors, and only a 25 few of them. I don't know how far-sighted we were in I wouldn't want to exaggerate �25 1 (10:49:17) 2 MR. ARNOLD: There was actually a group 3 called the Lawrence Fair Housing Coordinating 4 Commission, I don't know whether you remember them 5 at all, but they were kind of -- 6 MR. RANEY: 7 MR. ARNOLD: Very little. -- an umbrella organization of 8 the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, the United 9 Church Women of Lawrence. I know probably as a 10 city commissioner you may have met periodically 11 with some of those kinds of community groups. 12 you remember any of the particular issues or 13 concerns that they would bring up to you or was 14 fair housing one of them or it so long ago that 15 it's difficult to remember? 16 MR. RANEY: Fair housing was one and there 17 were other issues but I would be remiss in 18 thinking that I remembered much. 19 (10:49:54) 20 MR. ARNOLD: Do Okay. Obviously the Human 21 Relations Commission played a pretty important 22 role in both constructing the ordinance and then 23 in making the case for it to the commission and 24 they had just had it presented to them as a 25 proposal by this Fair Housing Coordinating �26 1 Commission in January and then presented it to the 2 commission in April. 3 the relationship between the City Commission and 4 the Human Relations Commission in that time frame? 5 Was it a group you all trusted their judgment? 6 know it was a number of fairly prominent citizens 7 in town who were -- 8 MR. RANEY: 9 How would you characterize I Well, Fred Six articulated the Human Relations Commission's goals eloquently. 10 Fred was a bright young attorney then, later 11 became, as we know, a Kansas Supreme Court 12 justice. 13 such an articulate, understandable, reasoned way 14 that you would have to be pretty stubborn not to 15 listen carefully. Fred presented his commission's views in 16 (10:51:02) 17 MR. ARNOLD: Very good. And he was really 18 the primary author, and I asked him how that fell 19 into his lap. 20 secretary of the Human Relations Commission or the 21 fact that he was an attorney, but he ended up 22 being really the primary author of the ordinance. 23 24 25 It was either because he was the MR. RANEY: I don't think we changed one word in the ordinance as he presented it to us. (10:51:24) �27 1 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. And it was interesting 2 that he modeled it after, and I don't know whether 3 you recall this, but a great deal of it was 4 modeled after Iowa City, -- 5 MR. RANEY: 6 MR. ARNOLD: 7 MR. RANEY: We thought we were the No. 2 city 8 in the country. I don't know that we were, but we 9 felt that we were. 10 (10:51:38) 11 MR. ARNOLD: Iowa City. -- Iowa, because -- Yes. Well, so you don't recall 12 that there was any effort to wordsmith or fight 13 over any of the wording, it was pretty well 14 accepted as it was written? 15 16 MR. RANEY: I think exactly as it was written. 17 MR. ARNOLD: 18 MR. RANEY: 19 (10:51:53) 20 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. That's my memory. There were a couple of things in 21 the ordinance that I just wanted to ask you a 22 question about. 23 was unusual compared to other similar ordinances, 24 but one of the penalties for a violation was 30 25 days in jail. One was, and I don't think this �28 1 MR. RANEY: 2 MR. ARNOLD: I don't remember that. I was just going to ask you, 3 that sounded like something that maybe the real 4 estate agents would have found a little 5 controversial. 6 7 MR. RANEY: Some of my protagonists might have enjoyed my being in jail at least 30 days. 8 (10:52:20) 9 MR. ARNOLD: Another thing that was in the 10 ordinance, and this was kind of interesting, it 11 was sort of a, kind of a positive appeal to the 12 good will of the people of Lawrence but it said, 13 "The City of Lawrence is a center of culture whose 14 democratic principles are being constantly 15 observed by foreign students and visitors from all 16 over the world," and then it went on to kind of 17 justify, use that as a justification for why we 18 should have fair housing in the city. 19 kind of larger consideration something that the 20 commission viewed persuasively? 21 MR. RANEY: 22 (10:52:57) 23 MR. ARNOLD: Was that I think so. So really the city's reputation 24 was, besides just doing the right thing the city's 25 reputation was certainly something of concern? �29 1 MR. RANEY: We represented the flagship 2 university in the state of Kansas and for honestly 3 several states around and that we should as a 4 community be so far behind an enlightened 5 university attitude was offensive to many of us 6 wanting to call Lawrence our home. 7 (10:53:25) 8 MR. ARNOLD: 9 10 And I don't know whether you recall but both, I think it was Vice Chancellor Surface wrote a letter -- 11 MR. RANEY: 12 MR. ARNOLD: Jim Surface. Jim Surface wrote a letter to 13 the commission at the time supporting the 14 ordinance and saying it conformed with the 15 university's housing policies at that time, which 16 had gone through their own process of evolution 17 till they had finally embraced nondiscrimination 18 in university housing, but also Ted Owens, who was 19 then the basketball coach, wrote you all a letter 20 and said how important this was to him because 21 when he went out to recruit athletes he would 22 promote Lawrence as a city which would be 23 desirable for them, and particularly selling it to 24 their parents, desirable to having their student 25 athlete attend the university there, so was the �30 1 university's support important to you all in the 2 process? 3 MR. RANEY: Oh, very much so. As a sidebar 4 to that, I later appointed Ted, with support of 5 the commission, to the Human Relations Commission, 6 and I imagine 35 to 50 faculty members, many of 7 whom I didn't know, came to me with their support, 8 and maybe of those 50 only two of the 50 would not 9 support the ordinance. 10 (10:54:43) 11 MR. ARNOLD: Interesting. You made a comment 12 that was quoted in the Journal-World, I think at 13 the time that the ordinance was presented to you, 14 in which you praised it as, quote, a magnificent 15 piece of work, so obviously you personally were 16 quite pleased with the product that the Human 17 Relations Commission had brought up to you. 18 you think that was a reflection, again, kind of 19 the open-mindedness of the commission or a 20 recognition of the quality of work that the Human 21 Relations Commission had done in putting it 22 together? 23 MR. RANEY: The commission was a gifted 24 commission, in my judgment, and I think with 25 perhaps only one minor exception on the City Do �31 1 Commission that that was felt. 2 (10:55:32) 3 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. When the commission held 4 hearings or -- and I know none of your meetings 5 were devoted strictly to this issue, but in going 6 back and reading the newspaper accounts, at one 7 meeting you all heard the proponents and then at a 8 separate meeting the mostly real estate business 9 representatives came in to speak in opposition. 10 Were you simply persuaded by one case over the 11 other or -- 12 MR. RANEY: I think even in the case of the 13 real estate community, and I don't think the 14 majority of that community was represented by 15 those opposed to the ordinance, I think the basis 16 for their objections were so shallow, in our 17 judgment, simplistic and out of date that they 18 were easily overlooked. 19 unanimous, always supportive of the ordinance, and 20 in a way trying to assure realtor X that this 21 wouldn't ruin him. 22 (10:56:49) 23 MR. ARNOLD: Right. I think our votes were I'm going to mention 24 some names to you of people who may have played an 25 important role, just to help stimulate your �32 1 memory, and tell me, you know, what your 2 impressions of them were and the role they played. 3 We've already talked about Fred Six, but another 4 person who's been mentioned as helping to sell the 5 case was Glenn Kappelman, who was a realtor 6 himself and a member of the Human Relations 7 Commission and was very supportive of fair 8 housing. 9 you? 10 11 Do you recall how he may have influenced MR. RANEY: An elegant, lovely human with all of the right instincts. 12 (10:57:26) 13 MR. ARNOLD: Another person that was brought 14 up by Fred Six who he thought played an important 15 role just because he was such a prominent local 16 businessman was Mike Getto, who I guess owned the 17 Eldridge at the time? 18 MR. RANEY: 19 His, Mike Getto, Sr.'s, father-in-law owned the Eldridge. 20 MR. ARNOLD: 21 MR. RANEY: 22 MR. ARNOLD: 23 MR. RANEY: Okay. Billy Hutson. Okay. And then his, Mike Getto's son 24 served two years on the City Commission with me, 25 and I still maintain a friendship with him. He �33 1 lives in California. 2 fellow commissioners are all now gone. 3 (10:58:05) 4 MR. ARNOLD: I think the balance of my That's too bad. Another name 5 that comes up frequently is a leader in the 6 African-American community who also I think helped 7 to make the case for the need of the ordinance, 8 because he was a victim himself of housing issues, 9 was Jesse Milan. 10 MR. RANEY: Jesse was a well qualified 11 educator, articulate, deserving of a place on the 12 commission. 13 think Lawrence suffered as a result of that. He ran and did not get elected. 14 (10:58:36) 15 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. I Another individual who 16 came forward was Homer Floyd, former K.U. athlete 17 who at that time was serving as the director of 18 the Civil Rights Commission for the State of 19 Kansas. 20 21 MR. RANEY: A gifted young man, not only on the football field but intellectually. 22 (10:58:53) 23 MR. ARNOLD: Very good. So it sounds as if 24 there was very much of a cross-section of support, 25 which must have given you confidence as you moved �34 1 forward, and fairly narrow opposition that clearly 2 was not convincing to the commission at the time. 3 MR. RANEY: Well, we made a lot of friends 4 from that effort that we probably would never have 5 made otherwise. 6 (10:59:16) 7 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. I'm going to ask you one 8 fairly specific question and if you simply don't 9 recall this that's fair, but there was actually a 10 newspaper article that mentioned a meeting at John 11 Emick's' home with the city attorney and some 12 other city commissioners in late June in which 13 there was some discussion of possible changes to 14 the ordinance, and do you recall that at all? 15 MR. RANEY: 16 MR. ARNOLD: 17 MR. RANEY: 18 part of that meeting. 19 MR. ARNOLD: 20 MR. RANEY: 21 MR. ARNOLD: 23 MR. RANEY: 25 Okay. I don't think I must have been a Yes, I'm just -Now, Commissioner Emick served the commission beyond my term. 22 24 I don't recall that. Okay. So it might be that that was after my tenure, I'm not sure. (10:59:59) �35 1 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. Would that have been 2 unusual, that business meetings were being held 3 informally like that? 4 MR. RANEY: Yes. I'm surprised that it 5 happened, because that would be unheard of in my 6 -- 7 (11:00:07) 8 MR. ARNOLD: 9 Okay. There was also some mention that a couple of people suggested that the 10 ordinance should have been put to a public 11 referendum. 12 that or did you ever feel any pressure to do that? Was there ever any consideration of 13 MR. RANEY: 14 MR. ARNOLD: 15 MR. RANEY: 16 Not, not by this commission. Okay. There might have been voices outside, but not in this commission. 17 (11:00:31) 18 MR. ARNOLD: So no discussion among 19 yourselves that you would ever have considered 20 doing that? 21 MR. RANEY: We were so unanimous in our 22 thinking, both appointed commissions and elected 23 commissions. 24 (11:00:42) 25 MR. ARNOLD: Very good. Did you have any �36 1 concerns about what the public reaction would be, 2 whether there would be any negative reaction 3 towards that, or did you feel -- 4 MR. RANEY: From the drug store/soda fountain 5 point of view there was very little mention made, 6 very little. 7 (11:01:00) 8 MR. ARNOLD: 9 Good. So given the passage of the Fair Housing Ordinance and the fact that there 10 didn't seem to be much overt opposition to it 11 would you say, and I think we've already kind of 12 touched on this, but if you could just elaborate 13 on your thoughts, that the community in general, 14 other than some small group of voices, was fairly 15 receptive to change? 16 MR. RANEY: I think they were almost 17 inattentive, nonplussed. 18 only affected those people in the commercial area, 19 residential, commercial area. 20 private homeowners, it didn't affect a person that 21 had a spare bedroom that they would rent to a 22 student. 23 MR. ARNOLD: 24 MR. RANEY: 25 You see, this ordinance It didn't affect Right. So unlike the swimming pool, which affected taxpayers, affected your sense of �37 1 race being in the swimming pool with a black body, 2 that affected a much larger segment of the 3 community. 4 (11:02:10) 5 MR. ARNOLD: Right. And since you bring up 6 the swimming pool, it was later in 1967 that the 7 bond finally passed to build the public swimming 8 pool but that was, I think, on the third attempt. 9 MR. RANEY: 10 MR. ARNOLD: Yes. What would you say was the 11 nature of the opposition that caused it to fail 12 the first two times? 13 it simply the public not wanting to put forward 14 the money, or a little of both? 15 16 MR. RANEY: Was it race concerns or was I think it was 80 percent race and maybe 20 percent economics. 17 MR. ARNOLD: 18 MR. RANEY: Okay. I enjoyed my interaction with 19 merchants. 20 microphone. 21 addressing individual merchants and putting the 22 mic. in their face and saying, "Aren't you 23 supportive of the swimming pool?" 24 dare say no. 25 The radio station gave me a I went up and down the street (11:03:03) And they didn't �38 1 MR. ARNOLD: And I was going to ask you, the 2 next question is what do you think finally turned 3 the corner in late '67 when that bond initiative 4 passed? 5 but, what finally got it over the top? And you said it passed fairly narrowly, 6 MR. RANEY: Well, I think the community 7 conscience prevailed. 8 coming thing, evidenced by the previous 9 rejections. I think it was a slow This, as I recall, got a tremendous 10 turnout from the Lawrence public. 11 they had a little stake in this election. 12 (11:03:42) 13 MR. ARNOLD: Good. Everyone felt And you mentioned you 14 going around with a microphone to put some 15 business owners on the spot. 16 other efforts of proponents to try and get out the 17 vote and to convince people to vote in favor? 18 19 MR. RANEY: Do you remember any Well, I don't remember anything specifically. 20 (11:04:01) 21 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. A few months before the 22 bond passed, I think in the late summer of '67, 23 the city rented a swimming pool in West Lawrence 24 and made it available to the public as an 25 integrated pool. Do you remember any of the �39 1 2 specifics behind what motivated that? MR. RANEY: Well, no. I think it was a 3 suggestion that was easily accepted as a good 4 idea. 5 and it was such a partial solution as to not be 6 thought of as any kind of a solution really. It was a very hot summer, I recall that, 7 (11:04:43) 8 MR. ARNOLD: 9 Okay. There's actually a story that's related, and I think it's in Rusty 10 Monhollon's book, about the '60s in Lawrence in 11 which sometime late in that summer there were 12 threats by some African-American youth towards 13 violence based on a number of their complaints but 14 one of which was not having access to a swimming 15 pool and so there was some suggestion in his book 16 that the commission might have acted because of 17 concerns that they wanted to head off violence. 18 Is that your recollection at all? 19 MR. RANEY: 20 (11:05:11) 21 MR. ARNOLD: No. Okay. Do you have a sense that 22 after both the passage of the Fair Housing 23 Ordinance, the passage of the swimming pool bond, 24 that that had kind of created momentum towards 25 addressing other aspects of discrimination and �40 1 segregation in Lawrence? 2 was a growing amount of community support? 3 MR. RANEY: I don't think I had much of a 4 sense of anything. 5 what had happened. 6 MR. ARNOLD: 7 MR. RANEY: Did you sense that there I was just willing to accept Right. And that was to me the 8 representation of progress. 9 to go from there. 10 (11:05:53) 11 MR. ARNOLD: Right. I didn't know where We already talked a 12 little bit about some individuals who kind of 13 played an important role in both promoting the 14 Fair Housing Ordinance. 15 individuals that come to mind, either in that 16 respect or in the civil rights movement in general 17 who were promoting change, or in the swimming pool 18 issue? 19 sure you have an opportunity to recognize any 20 other individuals who you thought played a 21 positive role. Do you recall any other Anybody else who -- I just want to make 22 MR. RANEY: You've certainly touched on some 23 important ones. 24 lovely human, a colleague of Glenn Kappelman's. 25 Cliff was very supportive and in the insurance and Oh, I remember Cliff Calvin, a �41 1 real estate business and there were a number of -- 2 Bob -- oh my. 3 memory. Bob Charlton was another supportive 4 person. Up and down the street. 5 Marks, owned Mark's jewelry store. 6 Weaver quietly supported. 7 number. 8 were many. You're stretching my ancient I think Julius I think Art Yes, there were a I'm sorry to only name a few, and there 9 (11:07:10) 10 MR. ARNOLD: Great. Let me just see if -- 11 we've kind of covered a number of things. 12 wanted to talk to you a little bit about national 13 events, such as, you know, things like in 1968 the 14 assassination of Martin Luther King. 15 that, particularly as we got into the late '60s 16 and there was turmoil in the country, and some of 17 that may have spilled over into some of the unrest 18 in Lawrence? 19 perceptions of larger national issues and how they 20 influenced what happened in the community? 21 I just Did you see How did you see the community's MR. RANEY: Interesting as a sidebar, our 22 commission was meeting with some aggrieved black 23 citizens in the building on Massachusetts, the 24 senior center, and someone came in the room and 25 whispered in this lovely black lady's ear that �42 1 Martin Luther King had just been killed. 2 there to protest her father, who had been on the 3 garbage truck for 20 some years, never allowed to 4 drive the truck. 5 accident he was always on the back end of the 6 truck, now he was too old to be jumping up and 7 down off that truck and back on, and wondering why 8 her father was where he was. 9 (11:08:34) 10 MR. ARNOLD: 11 MR. RANEY: 12 MR. ARNOLD: She was Even though he'd never had an Huh. Yes. And you had mentioned I think 13 when you were interviewed by Rusty Monhollon, that 14 -- and you actually brought up that meeting in 15 which the word came to the community that Martin 16 Luther King had been assassinated and you said in 17 the book, or he quoted you as saying that when you 18 saw the reaction of the members of the 19 African-American community that was there that 20 night, that you came to the realization that 21 things were about to change in Lawrence. 22 just elaborate on that a little bit and kind of 23 characterize their reaction and what you saw in 24 their eyes that led you to know that this was a 25 groundbreaking event that was going to lead to Can you �43 1 2 changes? MR. RANEY: Well, it was to me visceral. I 3 couldn't point to a single thing except what kind 4 of a commission would not address that girl's 5 father? And we did. 6 (11:09:32) 7 MR. ARNOLD: Good. And I think often it's 8 the little things like that that end up adding up 9 and making a difference over time. 10 Were you surprised, and this would have been 11 mostly after your tenure on the City Commission, 12 but were you surprised at the kind of unrest and 13 violence that broke out in the late '60s and early 14 '70s in the city and on campus? 15 MR. RANEY: Well, really not surprised 16 because the nation was rising up against the 17 Vietnam War and we had a concentration of people 18 that age group who were going to be vitally and 19 perhaps terminally fatally affected and so 20 emotions ran very high, not at all surprising. 21 MR. ARNOLD: 22 MR. RANEY: 23 Yes. Keeping a lid on somehow was the challenge. 24 (11:10:25) 25 MR. ARNOLD: Right. And I've talked to a �44 1 couple of members of the, I don't know whether you 2 remember Ron and Don Dalquest, -- 3 MR. RANEY: 4 MR. ARNOLD: 5 I do. -- members of the Police Department, and they -- 6 MR. RANEY: 7 MR. ARNOLD: Twins. Yes, they are. And they 8 described the challenges they faced in a very 9 small Police Department -- 10 MR. RANEY: 11 MR. ARNOLD: Very small. -- that was trying to handle 12 this unrest and some of the descriptions that I've 13 read of the violence, you know, gunfire in 14 Lawrence. 15 place and did order seem to be highly tenuous for 16 the average citizen, that you kind of lived in a 17 bit of fear? 18 Did the city seem like a very dangerous MR. RANEY: It didn't affect me that way. I 19 bet it did some. 20 bulletproof, and maybe if I had been my age now I 21 would have been more concerned. 22 I was young enough to be In terms of affecting the larger community, I 23 can't hardly believe that we felt that way. We 24 knew the affected population and almost had to 25 stand aside, didn't know how to remedy -- �45 1 MR. ARNOLD: 2 MR. RANEY: 3 (11:11:41) 4 MR. ARNOLD: 5 Right. Just kind of had -- -- that war. Yes. Kind of had to let it burn itself out and let the, -- 6 MR. RANEY: 7 MR. ARNOLD: Yes. -- let the frustrations be 8 unleashed and then hopefully order would 9 eventually be restored. 10 Do you feel like as a long-time member of the 11 community that after that very difficult period 12 was over did it play in an unfortunate way any 13 positive role in continuing to promote change in 14 Lawrence? 15 16 MR. RANEY: I'd have to study that as a question. 17 MR. ARNOLD: 18 MR. RANEY: 19 (11:12:12) 20 MR. ARNOLD: Okay. I don't have a ready answer. Yes. I think often change is 21 incremental and sometimes difficult to measure 22 other than, you know, things like the swimming 23 pool obviously was one that was very visible and 24 affected people immediately, but many other 25 changes, like probably to the Fair Housing �46 1 Ordinance, -- 2 3 MR. RANEY: There might have been a few dozen other incremental changes so slight as to -- 4 MR. ARNOLD: 5 MR. RANEY: 6 (11:12:34) 7 MR. ARNOLD: Right, yes. -- be hard to remember. Right, right. In reflecting 8 back on the role you played as a member of the 9 Lawrence City Commission for four years what 10 accomplishments are you most proud of? 11 MR. RANEY: Oh, I think those two. I think 12 my public service career is wrapped up with those 13 two. 14 (11:12:59) 15 MR. ARNOLD: Very good. Thinking back on 16 that fairly tumultuous period and the struggles of 17 people to bring about change, what do you think 18 young people today can learn from that and take 19 away as lessons in terms of promoting social 20 change and community activism today to try and 21 make Lawrence, or any community, a better place? 22 MR. RANEY: Well, I'm pleased that we're so 23 far advanced from where we were in the era that 24 we're talking about here today. 25 are mountains yet to be climbed, but, oh, we're in Certainly there �47 1 better shape now and progress is yet to be made. 2 (11:13:49) 3 MR. ARNOLD: Right, yes. One thing that's 4 fairly evident in going back and looking at how 5 the fair housing issue worked its way up to 6 finally getting to the Human Relations Commission 7 and then to the City Commission is that it was 8 very much or in very many respects kind of a 9 bottom-up community-based movement that involved 10 organizations, as I mentioned before, the NAACP, 11 the League of Women Voters, there was a group 12 called the League for the Promotion of Democracy, 13 other groups like that. 14 kind of community-based social activism is a way 15 to bring about positive change even though it can 16 sometimes take a long time? 17 MR. RANEY: Do you believe that that Well, I certainly thought that in 18 that era past. I was an enthusiastic member of 19 the Elizabeth Ballard Center, North Lawrence, Penn 20 House, Cottonwood, Headquarters. 21 properly motivated and represented advances in our 22 community as an attitude, so yes, I'm enthusiastic 23 in that sort of effort. 24 (11:15) 25 MR. ARNOLD: Those were Are you still involved in any of �48 1 those -- 2 MR. RANEY: 3 MR. ARNOLD: 4 MR. RANEY: 5 (11:15:07) 6 MR. ARNOLD: No. -- types of efforts? I became too long of tooth. But I'm sure you probably are 7 still associated with people who are, and I know 8 you represent a member of the community who's had 9 a long history of trying to bring about positive 10 11 change. MR. RANEY: Well, with the help of my 12 grandsons we still enjoy contributing to all those 13 things we can manage. 14 MR. ARNOLD: 15 end of my questions. 16 the opportunity if there's anything we didn't 17 cover or any other stories you remember that you 18 want to have the opportunity to relate while 19 you're here I open the floor up to you for 20 anything you'd like to add. 21 MR. RANEY: 22 have enjoyed it. 23 MR. ARNOLD: Great. Well, I have come to the I just wanted to give you Tom, it's been a good visit. I Thank you. Well, great. Well, thank you 24 very much, and again, thank you for participating 25 in our project and thank you for the important �49 1 role you played in bringing about the Fair Housing 2 Ordinance in Lawrence. 3 MR. RANEY: 4 MR. ARNOLD: 5 MR. RANEY: 6 MR. ARNOLD: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Minimal. Minimal. All right, sir. Good luck. Thank you very much. ***** � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource City of Lawrence Fair Housing Ordinance 50th Anniversary Oral History Project Subject The topic of the resource Discrimination in housing -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- History African Americans -- Segregation -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- History Lawrence (Kan.) -- Race relations -- History Description An account of the resource <p>On July 18, 1967, Lawrence mayor Richard Raney signed into law Ordinance 3749, which provided fair housing protections to the citizens of Lawrence and predated the passage of the federal fair housing ordinance by almost a year. The purpose of this oral history project, sponsored by the City of Lawrence to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ordinance, is to document and capture the memories, roles and issues surrounding the passage of Ordinance 3749.</p> <p>In May 1961 the Lawrence City Commission established an interracial Lawrence Human Relations Commission (LHRC) to “further amicable [race] relations” and “investigate…practices of discrimination” within the city. Separately, in 1964 various community organizations, including the NAACP and church groups, formed the Lawrence Fair Housing Coordinating Committee (LFHCC). Working together, the LHRC and the LFHCC submitted a proposed fair housing ordinance to the Lawrence City Commission in April 1967 seeking to address discriminatory practices in the sale and rental of homes in the city that effectively perpetuated patterns of racial segregation. Although strongly opposed by the Lawrence Real Estate Board representing local agents, the Fair Housing Ordinance passed the city commission on July 18, 1967. As its stated purpose the ordinance aimed “to provide for the general welfare of the citizens of Lawrence by declaring discriminatory practices in the rental, leasing, sale, financing or showing and advertising of dwelling units, commercial units or real property to be against public policy, and to provide for enforcement thereof.”</p> <p>Approval of Lawrence’s Fair Housing Ordinance predated the signing of the Federal Fair Housing Act by nine months and preceded passage of the Kansas Fair Housing Act by nearly three years. This landmark piece of civic legislation, promoted by a diverse group of concerned residents of a university town that viewed itself as an example of American values to outsiders, including foreign students, and aspired to embody the ideals of its Free-State legacy, addressed discriminatory practices in housing, providing means for victims to seek redress and imposing penalties on violators. The origins, development and importance of this citizen-inspired movement warrants examination and interpretation as the city approaches the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Ordinance of 1967. <br /><br />Interviews for this project were conducted by Thomas Arnold in the summer and fall of 2016.</p> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available City of Lawrence (Lawrence, Kan.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Relation A related resource <p>Click <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lawrenceksaudio/sets/50-years-of-fair-housing-in">here</a> to access the audio recordings of the interviews in this collection.</p> <p>A selection of the interviews were also recorded on video. Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzt8e_efB6wWS-BHMpGWKW46fyHPtfKPZ">here</a> to access the video recordings of the interviews in this collection.</p> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Arnold, Tom Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Raney, Richard Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview of Richard Raney Subject The topic of the resource Discrimination in housing -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- History Segregation -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- History Lawrence (Kan.) -- Race relations -- History Ordinance 3749 (Lawrence, Kan.) Jayhawk Plunge (Lawrence, Kan.) Description An account of the resource Oral history interview with Richard Raney, who was the mayor of Lawrence at the time the city's fair housing ordinance was passed in July 1967. This interview was conducted by Tom Arnold on October 19, 2016, as part of the Lawrence Fair Housing Ordinance 50th Anniversary Oral History Project. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Raney, Richard Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Lawrence Fair Housing Ordinance 50th Anniversary Oral History Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available City of Lawrence, Human Relations Division (Lawrence, Kan.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/19/2016 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Arnold, Tom Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The public may freely copy, modify, and share this Item for noncommercial purposes if they include the original source information. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fitzpatrick-Postma Postcards Subject The topic of the resource Postcards Lawrence (Kan.) -- History Description An account of the resource This collection is comprised of postcards collected by Lawrence, Kansas, residents Charline Fitzpatrick and her daughter Sally Postma. The collection focuses on resources related to the history of Lawrence, Kansas, including scenes of buildings, events, and people in Lawrence, as well as commercial advertisements for businesses located in Lawrence. The collection was loaned to the Lawrence Public Library for scanning and inclusion in the Digital Douglas County History project by Rosalea and Peter Carttar. Scanning and metadata creation for much of the collection was completed by Kylie Hewitt during the summer of 2016. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Postcard Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcard of Bridge Street during the 1908 Flood Subject The topic of the resource Kansas River (Kan.) -- Flood -- 20th century Description An account of the resource Postcard with a black and white photograph of a scene from the 1908 flood on the front. Photograph features a flooded area of Lawrence near the bridge of the Kaw, a young boy is walking in the water in the foreground, sandbags are stacked in the background and a large crowd of people are further back by the bridge. Below the photograph is a white border with "Scene on Bridge Street, Lawrence, Kansas, 1908 Flood. Photo by H.W. Foster." printed in black ink. On the left side of the border "1908" is written in pencil and on the right side of the border "L.R." is also written in pencil. On the back is a note to Miss Gertrude Gerhard in Denver, Colorado from Lizzie Read in Lawrence, Kansas. Note states that this photograph depicts what Lawrence looked like during the flood and that the writer feels bad for the people in North Lawrence. Dated and postmarked July 2, 1908. Note: Bridge Street is now North 2nd Street. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Read, Lizzie Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fitzpatrick-Postma Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Foster, H.W., photographer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 7/2/1908 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Fitzpatrick, Charline Postma, Sally Carttar, Rosalea Carttar, Peter Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource We believe that this item has no known US copyright restrictions. The item may be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. We encourage anyone who may have more information about our items to contact us at custserv@lawrencepubliclibrary.org. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Still Image Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Postcard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 6_Motels_to_River_Ice(cp_155a) 6_Motels_to_River_Ice(cp_155b) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant North Second Street (Lawrence, Kan.) 7/2/1908 Acquisition date unknown Abstract A summary of the resource. Postcard with a black and white photograph of a scene from the 1908 flood on the front. Note written on the back. Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 7/2/1908 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Album 6: Motels to River Ice Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Photograph Print Drawing Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Acquired by Charline Fitzpatrick or Sally Postma. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Johnston, Pattie Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Rehmer, Kenneth Location The location of the interview Lawrence (Kan.) Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212318">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212318</a> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:11:27 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 317 kbit/s (audio) 10317 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kenneth Rehmer World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rehmer, Kenneth Description An account of the resource Kenneth Rehmer served in the United States Army (607th Graves Registration; 3rd Platoon, 78th Division) during World War II. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on August 23, 2003, as part of the Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project, Rehmer talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Rehmer was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Yates Center, Kansas. He enlisted in the Army in February 1942. He was inducted at Fort Leavenworth and completed basic training at Camp Lee in Virginia. Rehmer spent over a year working as a truck driver on the Alcan Highway in Canada. He then went to Fort Warren, Wyoming, where he was assigned to the 607th Graves Registration. He then went to Europe. While there, he established cemeteries in France, Belgium, and Germany. Throughout the interview, he discussed creating cemeteries and identifying fallen soldiers. Rehmer passed away on August 21, 2005. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Johnston, Pattie Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Belgium France 1942 - 1945 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003-08-23 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Rehmer Interview Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/rehmer-interview">https://archive.org/details/rehmer-interview</a> Obituary: <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30562134/kenneth-j_-rehmer">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30562134/kenneth-j_-rehmer</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Transcripts for this project are available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: <a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212318">https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212318</a> Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society may also have interviews associated with this project. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. United States -- History, Military. World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews. United States. Army. Lawrence (Kan.) -- Oral history. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/2270da7645bf6ed0ce76b7c46e619c36.pdf d30907553b068631a2445be18bed7cc7 PDF Text Text Tape 15: Interview with Tiburcio Reyes, Sr. Interviewer: Helen Krische Date of Interview: 2006 Length of Interview: 37:13 Location of Interview: St. John the Evangelist Church, Lawrence, KS Transcription Completion Date: September 13, 2020 Transcriptionist: Emily Raymond Proofreader: Silvia Peralez Helen Krische (Interviewer): There we go. Alright, I think we’re rolling. Alrighty. Um…these are just some, some pictures that I’ve gotten from other people and – Tiburcio Reyes, Sr. (Interviewee): Uh-huh. HK: What I do is I make a copy of them and then I ask them to identify people that are in the pictures so that we get a handle on who’s who – TRS: Uh-huh. HK: But, um, when you bring your pictures in that’s probably what I’ll do too is just – TRS: Okay. HK: I’ll make a copy like this, I’ll scan them into the computer. TRS: Uh-huh. HK: But I’ll also make a copy so that you can write the names of whoever the people are on there, so…and you’re welcome to bring those in either later today, or tomorrow I’ll be here all day long, too. So you can just bring them in whenever you’re ready. Um…so I guess that basically what this is about is that we’re just trying to get information from people about, you know, the first, the first, uh, Mexican-Americans that came here to Lawrence. And I know a lot of them came in on the railroad, and – TRS: Right. HK: Was that – was that the situation with your parents? TRS: Yes, my dad come to the railroad Union Pacific, work on the Union Pacific in Sackerville. They – he was born in Ranger, Texas and they…they come up to the railroad. And he went to school in Sackerville, which is on the other side of Emporia. And then they moved up here, Mom and Dad. Um…and they married and I was born in Wellington, Kansas in 1942. So they came here in 1943, say a year after I was born. They come to Lawrence and that’s where we reside ever since. HK: So he was born in Texas, your father. 1 �TRS: Right. Yes. HK: And what was his name? TRS: Tiburcio. Joe. Tiburcio L. Reyes, excuse me. HK: And your mother? TRS: [hard to decipher name – Felicia maybe?] Garcia was her maiden name, and she’ll, uh, you’ll have information on my marriage, she’s a Garcia. They had – my grandfather – they had eleven children, which my [unintelligible] mama was six girls and five boys, I believe, on my mom’s side. And Dad, he was an only child that we knew of. He was adopted, also. So he was adopted from his father’s…his name was…Espinoza was his last name. HK: So that was his adoptive father? TRS: No, yeah, no, the one that adopted. The adoptive father is [Lino?] Reyes. HK: Ok, so his real father was… TRS: Right, yeah. Manuel Espinoza. Adopted I guess when he was a year old. HK: Okay. Do you know from what area of Mexico they were originally from? TRS: No, I don’t, not on my father’s side. Now, my mother’s side, my aunt will have all of that. They was, my grandmother and grandpa was from San Juan de Los Lagos, from what I understand. So that’s where I know they’re from. But as far as Dad’s concerned, no I never got into that – that – knowing where his dad come from. I knew that he was born in Texas, and they raised him in Sackerville. And he went to school in Sackerville. HK: So he spoke English. TRS: Oh yes. HK: Did he speak any Spanish growing up? TRS: Yes, Dad spoke fluent Spanish, so did Mom. And I speak Spanish and my oldest sister and I speak Spanish. I got a younger brother and younger sister that don’t…comprehend it hardly at all. HK: Do any of your children speak Spanish? TRS: They’re starting, they’re trying to learn now, which is something of a lost art. We talked about that. We lost our language back in, back when I was come over and was going to school here because they didn’t use it…we had a Spanish class, but not that much, so most of it was 2 �English. So we kind of lost contact with our language. Which now it’s a good start bringing it back and learning it, so I got a grandson’s taking Spanish in school, my daughter’s trying to learn little by little, you know, trying to converse more in Spanish too. Yeah, we lost all that when I was – like I said, from my younger sister and younger brother, they, I was fortunate, we lived with my grandmother and grandfather for a year or two, me and my sister, so we was young enough that we had to speak both languages, cause that’s what they – mostly they communicated with us in Spanish, and that helped a lot. And I used to run errands for some older ladies here in town when I was – on the east side. I’d go to the grocery store for them, and so I had to learn – I learned how to speak – and if I didn’t know I called grandmother and my mom up and we’d get it lined out for me there. I was very fortunate that way. HK: Where does your family live here in Lawrence? TRS: Where do we live? HK: Mm-hmm. TRS: We lived – we lived on, uh, that I remember was on New Jersey Street [unintelligible]. But mostly on the east side. New Jersey Street and we lived on Pennsylvania, 745 Pennsylvania, I remember that, that’s when I was going to junior high school, I think. Grade school we lived on 814 New Jersey, I believe, it was right in that area there. And then we moved to Rhode Island Street just, uh, before we come to North Lawrence in the ‘50s. And then we went to North Lawrence and then been there ever since in the 1950s Mom and Dad opened the El Matador Café. HK: Oh, okay. TRS: Which has been there now, we’re going on 50 years. It’s gone on for 49, almost 50 years now. They opened it in the ‘50s when I was in school. HK: Okay. That’s my favorite one, yeah. [laughs] TRS: See, Grandfather and Uncle Leon originally opened the Tropicana. And then it changed hands. He went out, my uncle got out, and my mom operated it for my grandfather for about a year or so, in the middle ‘50s. And that didn’t work out, so we went and bought the building where the Matador is at now, and Mom ran the kitchen at the 1040 Cafe. Our mayor then who was John Emick [A Google search brought up Emick’s name in the Lawrence city records], liked Mom’s cooking, and…he got her into there and we ran the kitchen there for a year or so. And that’s when we bought – they purchased the building. HK: Where was that located at? TRS: The 1040 Cafe was right across from where McDonald’s is now. It used to be a, was it the college motel? There was a motel in there also. Right on the corner there of, uh, Michigan and 6th Street. 3 �HK: Oh, okay. TRS: Where the old Dillons store used to be. Before the Dillons store went in there, there was a car lot on the corner, 1040 Café and then the Jayhawk gas station on the north side of the road before Dillons was. They operated that when I was in high school… HK: That – that was just American food? TRS: No, she done both. We done both. She – Mom was a very good cook, she was a fry cook, dinner, she would bring up dinner and everything. So we had everything. On football game days I remember we had a turkey, she cooked roast pork, roast beef, we had steaks, you know the shrimp, I remember fried shrimp, fried oysters, T-bones, KC [Kansas City] strip. They had a beautiful broiler there, ‘cause I been cooking since I was 12 years old with Mom. And they had a great broiler. They had a broiler that you could bring the meat right up underneath the flame, instead of having it on top of the flame. I always liked it when the…all the grease stuff falls down there. Lotta people like the smoke in it, but you know, I loved that broiler. It was a great broiler… HK: Is that building still there, or not? TRS: No. It tore down when Dillons put their store in there. Dillons put their grocery store in there. And that’s when they tore it down. And we – we’d been out for a while, we’d been over to start a restaurant in North Lawrence. HK: Now was that, was that the same time that Michigan Street BBQ was on that street? TRS: You know, I don’t remember it being there at that - I think it was, I don’t remember when the year that Michigan St BBQ was there. I know what you’re talking about. Uh…I think it was…I wanna say it was there, yeah. I don’t remember the years exactly, but I do remember Michigan Street Barbecue being there. HK: Okay…okay. So when did they open up El Matador? TRS: You know, I’m not real sure about that. Once they, in about 1956, uh, ‘cause we bought it when we went over to 1040. I can research that, find out the exact dates, but I can find out through…I guess when we started paying taxes on it. And it’s right around 1956. I got married in ‘57, I was young and so I remember that. We was already at the restaurant. So we was already there. And we’d been open for a while. So I’m gonna say ‘56, ‘55-‘56, somewhere in that area. HK: So this was a whole family-operated business? TRS: Mom and Dad started, and I been carrying on. I got a daughter works for me now. And grandkids. HK: So you currently – 4 �TRS: Yeah, I currently own it and operate it. Yeah, with my – with my daughter and my grandkids. HK: Okay, great. TRS: So we’ll keep it going, hope for another 50 years. It’s a great meeting place for family, I remember my mama always liked the family together, so we’d do all Thanksgivings, Christmas dinners over there. We’d have like 35, 45 people for Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinner, you know. HK: I love the way that the menu is geared toward the people who eat there all the time, you know. TRS: Our oldest name on the menu was Fire Chief Miller. Do you remember him? HK: No. TRS: Fire Chief Miller was our fire chief back in the ‘50s. And he started being a customer at the Tropicana when we ran it before we moved to 1040. And that’s the reason, that’s why they got their name on the menu. Mom would say, well, Fire Chief Miller, or so-and-so, that’s what they’ll order is this. And usually they ordered it, the same thing every time they come in. Dr. Reed, and Dr. Branson’s up the hill, you do what they want to order…they more or less order the same thing all the time. HK: So the Dr. Branson Special. TRS: Mm-hmm. We have, uh, have one man that had three names on there. Three specials. But he was a regular customer for Mom and Dad for years and years and his name was Mr. Bradley. Frank Bradley, who was also their bookkeeper. And through the years he would change his special to another special, so Frank Bradley one, two, and three, which is the only one that has three names on there. So I’ve kind of continued it, you know, I didn’t do it for a few years after I took it over, but I starting getting a lot of people asking about getting their name on the menu. I said, well… HK: That’s a great piece of history. TRS: Yeah, it is, lot of people in there…lot of good customers. Lot of regular customers came through the doors. HK: Well, back to when you were growing up, um…what school did you attend? TRS: I went to New York School from the front door to the back door, first through the sixth, and then I went to Central Junior High School. Then I went to Lawrence High. HK: Okay. And how did you, did you experience any type of prejudice while you were going to school, or… 5 �TRS: Yeah. It was sad, you know. I don’t think that so much in grade school…uh, it wasn’t that much, maybe ‘cause we was young, and everybody, you know, there wasn’t a difference. It started when I was in – went to junior high school. Course I was in the seventh grade. I was very gymnastic, I loved gymnastics. And I was very good. And I went in – seventh grade I was put on the gymnastic squad…but again, then I come back and then for my junior year, my next year, the eighth grade, I came back and they wouldn’t, when I started [combing?] my hair. You know that ‘50s look, and I had to have sideburns, you know, so I was kind of…and, uh…it was really sad, you know, because I did enjoy the gymnastics squad. So that and, uh, I had some problems with some school kids, school…cause they was on the football team, just stuff like that. We had a little few problems with them, you know. It was more evident in there. Then, then in high school the coach, our coach there…I shouldn’t say his name…but we had, me and a colored friend of mine, just a friend, we was in gym together and one of the – the gym teacher got sick and went to the hospital. And we had a student teacher come down from KU hill. And he said, “Why are you guys” – he’d just set everything up, bars and rings and everything – “but I’m giving you three hours, so I can see what you guys do, ‘cause the teacher’s sick and I want to know what you guys do.” [unintelligible] He walked over to us and pulled us off to the side, said, “I want to talk to you two guys.” We said, “What did we do?” [laughs] He said, “[unintelligible] I want to know what you guys are doing making Fs. You see, you guys shouldn’t be on the gymnastics team.” Well, the school told him. And he said: “Well, first of all, unless you excel” – the effort; I don’t know what he called it, effort or excel – “then you don’t get a better grade.” You know. But also you can’t do anything to excel unless you have somebody to spot you and help you get past it. That’s where you’re left in limbo. But, it’s sad that some guys couldn’t do anything, but I guess cause they – they applied themselves more or something. I don’t know, you know. But he says: “Well I can’t rectify what has been going on for years,” he said, “but I can give you a better grade this semester.” And I meant to go back and find, and I had another teacher, very prominent, known teacher was, uh…we was talking about immigration, that’s funny, this comes up right now too [laughs]: “Should we shut our borders to immigration?” And he popped off and said – I don’t know whether he thought it was funny or what, but he said: “No…well, you know, I’ll accept Mexico cause we do need somebody to run our laundries.” [prolonged pause] TRS: Very prominent coach. Very, very well-known coach. So it kind of struck a sour note with Joe. [laughs] And I never forgot it. I never forgot it. So there was. There was. I don’t think it was as bad here in Lawrence as it was in other towns. I have relation in Newton, Wichita and I had been, I worked for an outfit out of Wichita and I was up north and I heard something about it and we weren’t treated very well up there. But we went in and worked and I hauled tile for an outfit. We was in a town up north, there, Bellville or something like that. Anyhow, up north, and we went in this restaurant. And, of course, I was with four other guys, five of them, and the waitress went back to the kitchen and was asking if I could be served. And I told the guys, I said, “We may not get served here, guys,” cause I could see her. I said, “I think she’s asking permission to serve me,” and they looked back and said “By God, I think she is too.” Said, “Well if you don’t get served none of us gonna get served, you know, so we’ll all leave.” I got served, we got served, but…was about five years ago. Yes, and uh, like I say, Lawrence I don’t think was as bad as a lot of places. Do you, I remember when there was a Santa Fe lunch down here where I 6 �remember blacks sat on one side, whites sat on the other side, right across from the Santa Fe depot, there was two counters. HK: Really? TRS: I could sit on any side I want to. [Laughs] HK: There you go. What about other businesses downtown, when you went, like, to the movies or to any of those places downtown? TRS: Ah…in some places sometimes…and I, you know, even sometimes in this day and age you still get it. I’ve had it happen to me at businesses where I go to a store and shop around and somebody will follow you around the aisles. My son has had it happen at Jayhawk Bookstore, few years back, just recently, about two weeks back, and his brother-in-law was with him. And, uh, my son worked for KU and he was walking around the bookstore looking at something and, uh, my, his brother-in-law noticed this guy following them around the aisles and he asked him: “What was that going, what was that all about back there?” He said: “What do you think?” And he said: “You’re kidding me,” he said, “I’d never have thought that.” He said, “Well, you wouldn’t. You wouldn’t know it. You don’t know the feeling.” [laughs] But it’s true. And it does. And it is. And there’s something you have to know, being, you know, uh, you have to feel it, have it happen to you to know what it feels like. Yeah, it has been. There’s still some, yeah, in Lawrence. I like Lawrence; I wouldn’t live anywhere else. I’ve lived and went a lot of places, I’ve been quite a few places. HK: Going back to your father working for the railroad, did he help any of the other people that were coming in new from Mexico working on the railroad, did he assist them at all? TRS: You know, I think they had, yeah, they had some friends and stuff, but it was, you know, back then, I don’t think it was near as much as it is now of the new people come in – people come up to the railroads, things like that while working, you know, branching out. [unintelligible] Lawrence [unintelligible] branch out. Dad got away from the railroad, went to work construction, got in the restaurant business, things like that. But, um, they, you know, they, Dad and Mom was always helping somebody, but I’m not gonna say it was all anybody else coming up from Mexico. Cause, I didn’t, I don’t remember that many people coming into Lawrence at that time. Course, you know, I was young, so I don’t know. HK: Did they go to St. John’s Church, or did they – TRS: No, they didn’t. They did not. My grandmother and grandfather went to St. John’s. Dad was a Baptist. Mom was baptized Catholic but she followed Dad’s religion. We was all baptized in the Catholic church. My grandparents baptized all my family in the Catholic church. HK: Did your dad do any other kind of work besides work construction and work in the restaurants? 7 �TRS: Ah, he was an instrument repairman at the Odell Music Store for quite a few years. He picked that up, and he done some instrument repair work. So that – HK: So he was a woodworker too? TRS: No, an instrument repair, like the flutes and – HK: Oh, okay. TRS: Saxophones, trumpets and everything, they – he re-reed them and re-cushion and just, you know he repaired them, so he knew what he was – got into that. I don’t know how he got into that, but he did, I remember him doing that for a long time. We was kids, young kids, you know, so… HK: And how many were in your family? TRS: We had four. Two brothers, two sisters. HK: Okay. Do they still live in Lawrence? TRS: My brother lives in California. And he went out there in the 50s and joined the Marine Corps and he stayed out there ever since. My two sisters and I live here. One lives in, my sister lives in Baldwin and Overbrook, my other sister lives over here off of 27th St. [Unintelligible] District. And I live in North Lawrence. HK: Okay. And when you were growing up, what was the healthcare like for you? Did your dad have insurance, or… TRS: Ah, you know, I don’t remember whether Dad had insurance…he did…we had Dr. [Margaret? Dr. Ray Clark?], so they was very good. I don’t know, I really can’t say that he had, I know they didn’t have health insurance in later years. I really don’t, I don’t remember any health insurance at all. It could have been when he worked with – he worked at KU Hill for a while, the janitor there. But no, I don’t remember health insurance. HK: So there wasn’t any kind of dental care? TRS: No, we just, whenever we – when I needed a tooth pulled. [laughs] But no, other than that, no. But we had a very good doctor [Dr. Margaret? Dr. Ray Clark?] was very close to Mom and Dad, so I never had any problem there at all. HK: And, um, your mom when you were growing up, did she, she obviously did all the cooking and…did she make your clothes, the girls’ dresses anyway? TRS: No, Grandmother did make all of our clothes and stuff. Shirts and stuff like that, I remember that. No, Mom didn’t do any much of sewing, but she would cook. She was always a cook. She worked at, oh, God, various cafes: [Gilkerson’s Café?] downtown, the [Crown?], then 8 �she worked for Jim Star, which is Jim’s, uh, Jim’s Drive-In, I think in North Lawrence was what it was years ago before they went into business herself. She had always cooked, had all these cooking jobs. HK: So did you have your grandparents living with you while you were growing up, or – TRS: No. HK: Did they have a separate house? TRS: They had a separate home. They had a separate house. My – we had the opportunity to go live with them for a while, me and my older sister. Dad and Mom, I – got sick and they was away for a while, so we had to go, we went to stay with my grandparents. I’m gonna say a year or two, I remember it was a couple years. We were young. HK: Did you learn a lot while you were living with your grandparents, any of the traditional ways? TRS: Any what? HK: Any of the traditional Mexican ways that you didn’t learn from your parents? TRS: Well, no I don’t know, I guess I remembered everything just, you know, growing up with them. I knew my grandfather made wine, I wished I’d learned the recipes! And grandmother made, she made very, she was always an excellent cook. So we had tamales around Christmastime she made, I’d help her grind corn and she had a very strict way she had to do it. Other than that, everything made from scratch. Excellent cook. HK: So what would be a typical meal? TRS: You know, [unintelligible] beans and potatoes and fried fish and spiced pork with pepper and course my grandmother and even aunts, they…fresh tortillas made, you know, at mealtimes instead of going to Dillons. [laughs] I got to have ‘em brought in from Kansas City now, but there’s no way you can. All enough to run a restaurant, yeah, fresh tortillas and fresh peppers made in a bowl. Pepper with your eggs, something like that. There really was a, they’ve always said the joke at home at my house was “Dad, if you had to live on fried potatoes and beans and tortillas and pepper, you’d be happy.” [Laughs] He’d be happy all the time, so… HK: Did your parents raise a garden? TRS: My parents didn’t. My grandfather, he gardened a lot. Big gardener. Very big gardener. He always gardened a lot. But Mom and Dad never did. HK: What kinds of vegetables? 9 �TRS: Oh, he had strawberries, he had some strawberries, and he moved to North Lawrence, had pear trees, apple trees, plum trees and everything. But he always raised peppers. He always had peppers, tomatoes and, um, strawberries, um, onions of course, everything, you know, just a typical garden. I don’t, uh, remember what else. Corn, corn, you know, we planted corn, you know, sometimes had watermelons. HK: So did you as grandkids have to go over and help with the garden, or… TRS: We didn’t, you know, I don’t think he had us around there too much…we made more mess…but when I got older, when Grandpa’d go off to Mexico I’d have to tend to help the garden stuff. I was real close to my grandparents and my grandfather, yeah. HK: So did they go back to Mexico quite frequently, or… TRS: No, they – they went a few times earlier in the days, uh, when I was a kid. Um, but one of my aunts married and moved, they moved her to, she moved to Mexico with her husband. Consequently, my grandfather brought three of the older children back to the United States in the late ‘40s, I’m gonna say, from Mexico. He went down and brought them back with him and then later on in the year he was instrumental in bringing the – his daughter back, which was [their?] mom, and the rest of the family in, uh, I’m gonna say, in the ‘50s. He brought her back and with the rest of the family. I can’t name exactly how many kids they had, when he brought them all back. [Unintelligible] My cousin and her family back in the ‘60s. Grandpa did help a lot bringing them to the United States. HK: And did they all settle in Lawrence? TRS: Mm-hmm. Most of them, now probably have some in Topeka. Most of them in this area though, most of ‘em in the area here, in Topeka and Lawrence. HK: Where’s your wife from? TRS: My wife? Mine’s from here, Lawrence. HK: From Lawrence? TRS: Yeah, I’ve been married three times. HK: Oh, okay. TRS: My first wife was from, um, Bazaar, round the area where my dad was raised at, from Bazaar, and my second wife was from Arkansas. And my third wife was from here, Lawrence area. I’ve been married three times. HK: Well, in talking with some of the other people, they said that it was so hard to find anybody here in Lawrence ‘cause everybody was related to each other; that they had to go to Topeka or Kansas City or… [laughs] 10 �TRS: Yeah, you gotta tell your kids, now so-and-so, that’s your cousin. [Laughs] HK: So you had to really be careful there. TRS: Everybody’s more or less kinda related here in town, related to everybody. HK: Well, what do you think of the, um, children of today? Do you think that they’re carrying on the traditional ways, or do you think that they need to revisit the traditional ways? TRS: Well, you know, I think that that changes with all, everybody I think, you know, the times change and everything. I think they’re trying a lot, but I don’t think there’s as many, as much, what do I wanna say…in all – all the families, you know, and some families carry it on to their families. And, of course, you know, you get involved, like my family went in the restaurant business, so you get involved in your different way of life. People have different occupations and you know, different things they get into, so, you know, they’ll get off into doing that. I think we lose track of a lot of traditions over the years. I think we’ve lost track of a lot of tradition over the years. I think that’s, uh, that’s like the language, you know, we should have kept it up. Our grandkids, my children, all of our children should have been speaking Spanish a lot more but, we didn’t, and we did, we lost that, you know. But it’s nice that they’re trying to pick it up now. They’re trying, you know, it’s good to try. HK: Are you familiar with the Days of the Dead? TRS: Not exactly familiar with it and how they honored the Dia de Los Muertos. I’m not really, it’s like our Memorial Day, I think. HK: Well, I think it’s All Saints Day. It’s, um, the first part of November. TRS: Hmm, okay. HK: When they have all the saints. TRS: I kinda [laughs] kind of relate that to the Cinco de Mayo sometimes, with that – that was kinda my, oh, there’s this story, it’s funny, we gotta turn that thing off. [laughs] HK: No, let’s hear it! TRS: Cinco de Mayo, you know, these guys, we go celebrate Cinco de Mayo. [Unintelligible] I don’t know, I think it’s Mexican independence – no, that’s February 16th or 15th. Well, you know I’m not real sure. I call it the Budweiser Holiday. [laughs] So, when I got on the bandwagon, I had my girlfriend, my cousin, get on the computer and print out what the Cinco de Mayo is. You know, what happened on that day. [Unintelligible] So I’d lay ‘em around so everybody would know what they were celebrating. HK: That’s funny. 11 �TRS: What are you celebrating? [laughs] Not real sure… That’s like the Dia de los Muertos. I’m not that [unintelligible]. HK: I know that it’s sort of having a resurgence recently, I know that there’s a lot of – and it may be because of the immigrants – the new immigrants coming up from Mexico and bringing it with them, that tradition. TRS: I heard, some friends I knew from Mexico, they said no, everything’s celebrated down there. It’s kinds like that, it just a certain place I guess, you know, like around [Pueblo?] you know, but it’s not a big holiday down there or anything like that. HK: So going back to the immigration question [both laugh]…I’m not gonna be as bad as your high school, but, um, do you have any thoughts on that? TRS: Yes, I, you know, I know it’s a sad situation, but they’re looking, this country was made on immigrants and immigration, and people looking for a better life. Freedom. And that’s where our foundation is. And there’s nothing different with these people, they’re looking for a better life for their families because poverty is very bad in Mexico. We know that, and it’s, I don’t know, you just don’t know how to do it, they’re gonna come up here and work. I think that the sad thing is, they’ve been doing it for years and years, they should have had a – and a lot of them don’t want to live here. Lot of them like their homeland. Lot of people like their homeland. Which is like me, I’ve lived here all my life in Lawrence, so I, maybe that’s why I like Lawrence, I wouldn’t wanna go anywhere else. But the poverty, they came here looking for a better life. And they’d like to work, and some of ‘em would like to work and go back home. [Unintelligible] the older I get. But if they’d fix up a way that they could work, if they want to become citizens that’s fine, you know. But [unintelligible] saying and we know that we have, 9/11 woke us up, that there’s a lot of bad stuff coming across the borders that, you know, need to be in check too, but people are willing to work, I’m sure are willing to get a picture, an ID, so they can have a right to work and make money and take care of their families. And I think there should be a way to do it. I think this, government, bureaucrat, all that stuff will go, you know, the amnesty things and stuff like that I think it’d work but they need to get, uh, some kind of documentation to help these people. And I’ve always said, if they’re here to work and to do good, they’re, they’d be willing to get the ID with their picture, but the way it’s going now is not good. Not good at all. It makes them feel like criminals, and if you help somebody, you’re gonna, they’re gonna criminalize that, make you a criminal for doing that. If you’re helping illegals, they wanna put [5,000? 10,000?] after so many times, it’s 3-10 years in prison, just cause you helped, like I say, one of my people, you know. And there are a lot of people that are doing bad, they know that as a – being a construction worker myself, I know there are companies that treat ‘em and work ‘em very much like dogs. And then they don’t pay ‘em, or say: “Hey, I don’t got no money, you know, you’re out. Turn me in, what are you gonna do?” You know? And that’s sad. That’s sad. But this is in all – there’s stuff like that goes on all the time, and it’s not right, but it happens. And a lot of them are working without insurance and things like that. And all they’re doing is making a – one thing I will guarantee you one thing, these people that come up here don’t forget their families back home. Like a lot of people that leave home here, go off somewhere else, “Bye Mom and Dad, send me some money would you please? I’m out of money again.” But these people, every week 12 �the money goes back to their families. They don’t forget about home, you know, whether it’s brother, sisters, mom, dad, whatever, or family, you know, wives and children. HK: You said your brother was in the military. Were you in the military? TRS: Yes. I was in the Army. HK: Where did you serve? TRS: I served in the Army. HK: Did you stay in the United States during your – TRS: No, I was in Vietnam. And he served in Vietnam before me. He come back the year and I went over the year after. HK: What years did you serve? TRS: I was there from January 15, 1966 to January 15, 1967. He was there in, uh, ‘65 to ’66, I’m gonna say. He come back before I went over. HK: So you were there when it was starting to escalate? TRS: Mm-hmm. I got a cousin served also, he was in the Navy. HK: Well, um, is there anything you want to add to this? TRS: I can’t think of anything, we went through quite a bit. [laughs] No, I can’t think of anything. HK: I think you told us all the information about your dad, and, your parents and your grandparents, and – TRS: Hopefully that’s everything. I’ll try to find some pictures. I got some pictures of my grandmother and grandfather and my dad and I, the family together. HK: Oh, that would be great. TRS: And, some pictures of Mom and Dad. HK: Okay. Fantastic. Alright, well let me turn this off. END OF TAPE 15 13 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Yarda Oral History Project Subject The topic of the resource La Yarda (Lawrence, Kan.) Mexican Americans -- Housing -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- History -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Kansas -- Lawrence Description An account of the resource La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided by the Santa Fe Railroad for Mexican-American railroad workers in Lawrence, Kansas; located near the Kansas (Kaw) River, the neighborhood was largely destroyed by a major flood in 1951. In 2006, Helen Krische, archivist at the Watkins Community Museum, began an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. The project was resumed in 2019 by Nora Murphy and Emily Raymond. The interviews primarily feature the children of the railroad workers who migrated to Lawrence in the early 20th century; they describe daily life, social activities, and living conditions in the Mexican-American community in Lawrence from roughly the 1920s through the 1970s. 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Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Krische, Helen Raymond, Emily Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Reyes, Tiburcio, Sr. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data MP4 Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 00:41:25 (video) 00:37:13 (audio) Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 95 kbps 3323 kbps Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tiburcio Reyes, Sr., La Yarda Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Reyes, Tiburcio, Sr. Description An account of the resource Tiburcio Reyes, Sr. was interviewed by Helen Krische in 2006 as part of an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided by the Santa Fe Railroad for Mexican-American railroad workers; located near the Kansas (Kaw) River, the neighborhood was largely destroyed by a major flood in 1951. Tiburcio grew up in East and North Lawrence; his father was one of a number of Mexican-American railroad workers who settled in Lawrence before 1950. Tiburcio describes his family's migration from Mexico to Lawrence, and their work to establish the Tropicana and El Matador restaurants in North Lawrence; at the time of the interview, Tiburcio owned and operated the El Matador Cafe with his daughter and grandchildren. He discussed his military service during the Vietnam War, and his thoughts about immigration. Tiburcio also discusses experiences of discrimination and segregation faced by the Mexican-American community in Lawrence. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Krische, Helen Raymond, Emily Peralez, Silvia Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lawrence (Kan.) 1920s - 1970s Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 (video recording) MP3 (audio recording) PDF (transcription) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 15-TReyesSr-2006.mp4 (video) 15-TReyesSr-2006.mp3 (audio) 15-TReyesSr-2006.pdf (transcription) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Watkins Community Museum (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video and audio recordings of this interview, go to <a href="https://archive.org/details/15-treyes-sr-2006">https://archive.org/details/15-treyes-sr-2006</a>. The <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">Watkins Museum of History</a> also holds items related to this collection. <a href="https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/resources/5295">Additional research on the La Yarda community</a> is held at the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published with the permission of Tiburcio Reyes, Jr., on behalf of Tiburcio Reyes, Sr. This work is the intellectual property of the Watkins Museum of History, Lawrence, Kansas. The public may freely copy, modify, and share this Item for noncommercial purposes if they include the original source information. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived La Yarda Oral History Project Subject The topic of the resource La Yarda (Lawrence, Kan.) Mexican Americans -- Housing -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- History -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Kansas -- Lawrence Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview unknown Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Rimes, Marjorie H. Location The location of the interview Topeka (Kan.) Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:41:36 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 317 kit/s (audio) 10319 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marjorie H. Rimes World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rimes, Marjorie H. Description An account of the resource Marjorie Rimes lived in Topeka, Kansas, during the Second World War. Interviewed as part of the Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project, Rimes talked about life during the war. She discussed the war effort at home, rationing, and communicating with soldiers overseas. Rimes passed away on February 21, 2007. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource unknown Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Topeka (Kan.) 1941 - 1945 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource unknown Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Rimes Interview Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/rimes-interview">https://archive.org/details/rimes-interview</a> Obituary: <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cjonline/obituary.aspx?n=marjorie-h-rimes&amp;pid=86674020">https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cjonline/obituary.aspx?n=marjorie-h-rimes&amp;pid=86674020</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society may also have interviews associated with this project. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States. Lawrence (Kan.) -- Oral history. Kansas -- History. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) World War, 1939-1945. Veterans. Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource In 2003, the Lawrence Public Library partnered with the Dole Institute of Politics and Haskell University to capture the histories of Douglas County’s World War II veterans in the Lawrence Remembers the World War II Years Project. From 2005 to 2007, the Lawrence Public Library, the Watkins Museum of History, and the Kansas State Historical Society also embarked on a similar endeavor, the Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project, which was funded by the Kansas State Legislature. This collection contains many of the video recordings and more information about the interviews conducted for these projects. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Johnston, Pattie Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Robinson, Walter Stitt Location The location of the interview Lawrence (KS) Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data VHS Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:59:28 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 222 kbit/s (audio) 2468 kbit/s (video) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Walter Stitt Robinson World War II Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robinson, Walter Stitt Description An account of the resource Walter Stitt Robinson, Jr. served as a Captain in the United States Army (82nd Airborne Division) from 1941 to 1945. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on March 26, 2007, Robinson talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Robinson was born in North Carolina on August 28, 1917. He graduated from high school in 1935. He then received a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College in 1939 and a master’s degree in history from the University of Virginia in 1941. He was drafted into the Army in November 1941. He completed basic training at Camp Croft in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He went to Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning and worked as an instructor at Fort McClellan in Alabama. Robinson then went overseas to the European theater of war. He took part in the invasion of Southern France in 1944, the Battle of the Bulge, and the airborne crossing of the Rhine into Germany in 1945. He was discharged in 1945 and received the Bronze Star. Following the war, in 1950, Robinson received a PhD in history for the University of Virginia. He then taught history at the University of Kansas from 1950 until he retired in 1988. Robinson passed away on July 2, 2014. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Johnston, Pattie Kansas State Historical Society Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant France, Southern Belgium 1941 - 1945 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-03-26 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Robinson,W._Stitt Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/robinson-w.-stitt">https://archive.org/details/robinson-w.-stitt</a> Obituary: <a href="https://warrenmcelwain.com/obituary/walter-stitt-robinson/">https://warrenmcelwain.com/obituary/walter-stitt-robinson/</a> The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection. Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html">https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm</a> Walter Robinson was also interviewed as part of the Kansas Veterans History Project; the video recording of that interview can be accessed at <a href="https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.04468/">https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.04468/</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project Subject The topic of the resource World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. United States -- History, Military. World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews. Kansas -- History. United States. Army. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Belgium -- Bastogne. Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/a757fccfbf52c89a378b76a42cdc0c9a.pdf ab500b903c7363c0b6014aff774e425d PDF Text Text Tape 19: Interview with Frank Romero Interviewer: Helen Krische Date of Interview: 2006 Length of Interview: 47:20 Location of Interview: St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church Transcription Completion Date: Transcriptionist: Emily Raymond Proofreader: Ellie Rumback Helen Krische (Interviewer): And this is basically a consent form. And um, sign right there. And I’m Helen Krische and this is Heather Bolyer. Heather Bolyer: Hi. HK: I don’t know if you know any of the Krisches. Frank Romero (Interviewee): [Murmurs.] Yes, how is he doing? HK: Well, you know I haven’t really talked to him. FR: You haven’t? HK: [laughs] I haven’t had a chance to – FR: You sound like my family. HK: Really keeping me busy. FR: Yeah, there is twelve of us living [murmurs]. HK. Okay. Now, first thing I need you to do is write your name here. And this basically gives the museum permission to use the tape in both the video and the audio tape. And we have to do some other things. Right here, it says if you want, this one is if you don’t have any restrictions on the use of the information and down here is if you do have restrictions and what those restrictions are. You can X, put an X by either one of those. Down here is your contact information. Sign, sign once again there and then your address. [long pause] A copy of this will also probably go to the Kansas State Historical Society. Um, because we will eventually ask them for a grant to transcribe the tape. And usually when we do something like that they want you know copies of, so…that, but for the most part it will be used for research purposes either that or else or used as exhibits for publications perhaps. There has not been anything written in Lawrence Mexican-American when they do a publication, and you know, like during the interview if there is any time that you want to stop and take a break or, you know you want to stop it completely and don’t want to talk any more to me that’s fine too, if you don’t want to answer any of my questions, that’s fine too. You know, just say I don’t want to answer that. That is cool with me. So, all right? �FR: All right. HK: Okay, and we will give you a copy of the consent form too before you leave. I’ll give this to Heather. Heather is a witness on this too. [HK laughs] All right. First of all, the questions that I usually ask are about your parents, and where they came from in Mexico. If you know their names and when they first came to the United States. FR: Well my dad’s brother, my dad’s name was Gonzolo [unintelligible] and my mother was named [unintelligible] Ramirez, and my dad’s uh, mother, and her last name was Rivas. I don’t know that we kept…this is when they celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. HK: 75th? FR: Yeah. HK: Wow. FR: Like I said, my dad was born in Veracruz, Mexico in 1904. He moved to the United States at age seven. And my mother was born in Mexico City in 1908, and she came to the United States at age fourteen. They were married April the 2nd, 1924 in Topeka. And the couple moved to Humboldt in 1939, and they have lived in Lawrence since 1943. HK: Wow. FR: And these, they are the parents of Jimmy Hernandez, Frank Romero, Tony Romero, Peter Romero, Gonzalo Jr. Romero, Becky Stevens, Rick Romero - all of Lawrence. Then they had Tina Guerrero, Alberta Gutierrez, Teresa Martinez, and Laurie Aguilar (sp?) - all of Topeka. Their son Joe Romero is deceased. They have 39 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren, and 7 great-[great?] grandchildren. And Gonzalo Romero retired in 1969 from the Santa Fe Railroad after 46 years of service. And then my mother Melina used to homemake. HK: Oh. FR: Kinda tells you their story. HK: Yeah, it sure does. How many children were there altogether? FR: Uh, thirteen. HK: Thirteen. FR: And Joe, he – he died. HK: Mm-hmm. And where are you in the birth order? FR: I’m second. �HK: You’re second? FR: Yeah. Jimmy is first. I’m second. HK: Okay. FR: [Murmurs] And out of the, out of – out of the six sons that they had, four of them served in the United States Service. The Army. HK: Oh. Is that WWII? FR: Frank, during the Korean War - that’s me. And Peter, and then Joe, and Gonzalo Jr. served in Vietnam. That’s about, uh – and they crossed the border, and I think my dad said they paid either 10 cents or 25 cents. HK: To cross the border? FR: To cross the border from Laredo. HK: Oh, okay. FR: Back in 1910 it was. And, uh, then they say, he told me that, uh, they lived in, kind of, barracks there till they were assigned what to [unintelligible] – where to come to. HK: Uh-huh. FR: They came to, uh, Lawrence, Kansas. HK: So he joined the Santa Fe Railroad right away? FR: Yeah. HK: Yeah. Did they recruit him while he still lived in Mexico, or…? FR: I think so, or they were looking for workers and laborers and they’d cross the border. [Murmurs] from there they would ship ‘em, ship ‘em [murmurs]. HK: Uh-huh, uh-huh. FR: He worked for [murmurs]. HK: So did he, did he live in, uh, the Santa Fe apartments? FR: Right, here in Lawrence. �HK: And you all did, did you…? FR: Well, till we grew up and went our own way, where we grew up. A good playhouse there. [HK laughs] A good playground. HK: You always had lots of – FR: We had a lot of company there. All kids of all ages. HK: Uh-huh. FR: And, the, the good part about it – it was only about a block away from, uh, [laughs] from the dump. And whenever we needed a toy or anything else, we’d go over there and find toys or – or find wood to make toys with. Like I say, we had a lot of, uh, lot of children there, our age. And, uh, we had hills, we’d make caves in the hills. We had trees, climb trees and make slings – cut, cut, you know, slingshots there. Yeah, we had a – had a good time. And I, um, went to school. When I first started kindergarten, I didn’t even know how to speak English. [Murmurs] I remember very clearly, I remember asking my cousin to tell the teacher when I wanted to go to the bathroom [both laugh]. So, that’s uh, that’s [murmurs]. We had good times. There, the, uh Chavez boys [murmurs] the picture of section houses. Pretty similar to what it used to be. HK: Uh-huh. FR: I don’t know if anybody’s ever brought the pictures up here. HK: Yeah. Huh-uh. I haven’t seen it. FR: Well, I’ll tell you what, when I, when I leave here, I’ll think about it. It’s – it’s quite large. HK: Oh, okay. FR: It’s, uh, it’s, uh…that’s where we all came from. HK: Yeah. Well, maybe we can take a picture of it with the camera. And that’ll be – FR: Kind of [murmurs]. HK: Okay. That would be fantastic. FR: I think this is, uh, Frankie Chavez. HK: Oh, okay. What do you remember about the apartments? How were they – FR: Well – HK: Laid out, or – ? �FR: Well, they was laid out in a row. Two rows. And, um, everybody that lived there, they had, um, two or three rooms. So, and, uh…it was big enough, long enough to raise quite a few families in there. HK: Uh-huh. FR: So, they’d put families in there, got – they had two rooms or three rooms. There was a lot of families in there. HK: Uh-huh. FR: And, uh, like I said…it had outdoor toilets. And then, uh, before the dump filled everything up there in the back, we had a lake up there. HK: Oh. FR: It wasn’t a very, very big lake, but it was a good-sized pond. And, uh, in the wintertime it would freeze up, and we’d, uh, we’d go out there and play ice hockey. HK: Uh-huh. FR: We’d try to fish, there was some fish, [murmurs]. Awful [both laugh]. [Murmurs] HK: Uh-huh. FR: Like I say, in 1951 the flood come through there. I was in the service at the time. But the city, they had filled it up twice... Third time. HK: How did they heat, heat the apartments in the winter time? FR: Uh, wood stoves. HK: Wood stoves. FR: Yeah. The, uh, the guys that worked on the railroad, they’d, uh, bring the old ties. They had big stacks of ‘em. And at certain times of the year they’d, uh, they…they’d get, they had some kind of uh, a saw that they hooked up to a back tire of a Model T with. And it had a big blade on it. And, uh, they’d cut these, the ties. And, uh…to, uh, it was big enough for the, for your stoves. We’d put ‘em on [unintelligible]. During the day, when they were leavin’ we’d chop these blocks [murmurs] size sticks. That was our heating for a long time. I remember we had coal, we used coal quite a bit. I remember laying in bed and laying on the sofa when my bed was [unintelligible]. I’d wait till early in the mornings. Mother would get up and I’d lay in bed and just kind of laid back till she’d get a fire burning, burning. [both laugh] It was something else. HK: What did she cook on? What did your mom – �FR: She had a wood stove. The old-time wood stoves. She was always cooking, [murmurs] every Monday, every Monday was washing day. Well, not only her but all the people - all the women that lived in the yards there would only wash on Monday. [Murmurs] wood stove and big tubs, put ‘em up there and heat the water and, uh, get to washing clothes. The clothesline poles in the back. Those clothesline poles were dangerous. HK: Yeah. Yeah. FR: Because [laughs] as kids we used to play hide and seek, and at night time, at night time we’d run down through there and if somebody would forget to put one of the sticks up that hold the wire up – HK: Clothesline you? FR: Choke. HK: So, when the women did the laundry, it was all, it was like a cooperative effort, they all came together? FR: No, no, everybody was in front of their apartments. HK: Oh, okay. FR: Little, a little, in front of the [unintelligible] yard there, there was a good-sized yard, most of them. [Murmurs] going through the yards and [scratching sounds, murmuring]. It seemed like everybody wanted to wash on Mondays. HK: Okay. So, did they, um, did they have one huge pot of boiling water, or did they each have their own? FR: No, they – everybody had their own. HK: Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. How did they get their water? FR: They had a – an old pump. Crank it, and water would come out. HK: Mm-hmm. Was that City water, or, do you know? FR: I hope so. [both laugh] HK: Do you know? FR: I think so. It was pretty clear. Nobody, no one ever died from it. [HK laughs] HK: I guess that’s a good sign. �FR: It must’ve been city water. HK: Did your parents raise a garden during the summertime? FR: Oh, yeah. Everybody raised a garden. Everybody raised a garden. Alongside the railroad tracks. [Murmurs] We always [had/hired?] some guy, come through with a horse and plow, plow all that up, everybody had to [murmurs]? My dad [murmurs]. HK: Someone mentioned that they used to have guards around the garden so that people wouldn’t steal. FR: Mmmm…No. HK: No? FR: No, I think somebody was thinking about, uh, back there in the war years, they had a prisoner of war camp across the railroad tracks. HK: Uh-huh. FR: And they had guards there. They had German prisoners there. HK: Uh-huh. FR: But, uh, that was something else too. [murmurs]. HK: Did you ever interact with the prisoners? FR: No, but you could see ‘em out there playing basketball. They would go out during the day and work. HK: Uh-huh. FR: [Murmurs] I never heard. HK: So did – did the kids do anything, uh, for entertainment other than ice hockey and…and dumpster diving? [laughs] FR: Well, like I say, we had those hills there, and, uh, [murmurs] birds [murmurs]. We’d dig holes in the – in the hillsides and make caves, and every once in a while we’d get a cave – cave in on us. HK: [laughs] Did you swim at all? FR: Uh, the only time we’d swim was in the river. �HK: Okay. On the sandbars? FR: Uh…yeah, yeah. HK: That’s pretty dangerous. FR: Oh, tell me about it. There was about three – about four of us out there, and we started diving off the sandbars [murmurs] to the middle of the river [murmurs]. And I dived off. And I hit the bottom. HK: Oh. FR: Yeah. The sand [murmurs] the current got hold of me. I thought I was gone. One of the guys was, seeing that I was in trouble down there, he grabbed me and pulled me out. I never went back in. HK: That was enough for you, huh? [laughs] FR: That was it. HK: Did anyone ever drown there, or…? FR: Uh, there was a little boy. I think he was, uh, one of the Mendoza boys. [Murmurs]. HK: Got caught up in the current. FR: Well, he – he kinda, it kind of, the river was up and [unintelligible]. HK: Uh-huh FR: He went swimming back there in the back [murmurs]. HK: Well, what would happen if anyone became ill? Was, uh, did they go get the doctor, or did your mom do home remedies? FR: Uh, Dad, Mom would, uh, wake up Dad, and Dad would do up…uh…sometimes he’d go somewhere to some house where they had a telephone. [murmurs, back there in the yards?] Any time of night he would come. [Murmurs] Seemed like had a satchel had all kinds of pills in it [murmurs] give you a pill and [murmurs] got well. HK: Yeah. Was, do you know if he was, like, contracted by the railroad to be the primary doctor? FR: No, I don’t think so. �HK: Or – or was it just who the people chose? FR: Yeah, yeah. [Murmurs] He had his, uh, I think he had his office behind, on the corner [murmurs]. HK: Did you as children get to go to town very much, or…? FR: Uh [clears throat] we went to, uh, [murmurs]. See the [murmurs]. I don’t even remember how much it cost. [Murmurs] I mean, today’s standard. HK: Yeah. Yeah. FR: But every Saturday [murmurs]. HK: Did you experience any prejudice when you went into town, or…? FR: Oh, I kind of [murmurs] Mexican family. Place up at North, North Third street [murmurs] I think it’s called [murmurs]. To top it off, now it’s owned by uh, a Mexican family now. [both laugh] We stood – HK: Kind of ironic. FR: We went, we went in there, stood in line [murmurs] and finally got to where, you know, they give you a chair, or a table, to sit, and then they said “No, we can’t serve you, can’t serve Mexicans.” So, we came out [unintelligible]. HK: Sure. FR: So it happened that the guy that owned the, uh, the manager at that time, his mother used to work at the post office, that’s where I was working. But she never mentioned it and I never [murmurs]. HK: Huh. FR: [Murmurs, pretend?] HK: Yeah. Where did you go to school at? FR: Uh, New York. HK: New York School. And did you, um, what was that like? FR: Uh, I went to school till the, uh, fourth grade. HK: Okay. �FR: Then, uh, my dad, uh, transferred into [murmurs], they had a reduction [murmur] section. So we had to transfer into Humboldt. We stayed in Humboldt for almost three years. HK: Mm-hmm. FR: And when I came back, when we came back, I was in ninth grade at that time. HK: Did you go to the high school here, or…? FR: Yeah, I went to... HK: Liberty Memorial? FR: Liberty Memorial, yeah. After [murmurs, granddaughter]. HK: Oh. FR: She went to [murmurs] high school. HK: Uh-huh, uh-huh, so did everything look familiar to you? FR: It’s all, it’s all [murmurs]. HK: Uh-huh. FR: [Murmurs] Yeah, I used to live in the yard, what they called section housing. HK: Uh-huh. FR: When I was going to Central, I used to, they’d give you an hour at twelve o’ clock, [murmurs] run back and we used to run from Central back to the yard, and eat, and run back to Central. I used to make [murmurs]. Every once in a while, I’d [murmurs]. Jump on his bike [murmurs]. The hard time was when the weather [murmurs]. HK: Yeah. Did, um, did your mom do a lot of sewing when you were little, and making your clothes, or…? FR: Oh, yeah, she, uh, well, I had to uh…I had to, uh, I had a – two pair of pants and, uh, two shirts and one I wore one day and then I’d wash, especially when I was got to where I was admiring girls. HK: Yeah [laughs]. FR: I had to wash – I had to wash that fast, that shirt at night. You know, and have the - have the other one ready. �HK: Uh-huh. Did she make, uh, dresses, the dresses for the girls in the family? FR: Uh, I – I guess she did. I guess she did. I remember when I was going to – I started working over at, uh, at, uh, Woolworth. I was about, uh, tenth grade. I got enough money – during the war years, we had to have, you had to have stamps to buy, to be able to buy a bike. Anyway, I bought, I saved enough money to get me a bike, and, uh, that’s what [murmurs], if I was going to finish high school, that’s what I would need. [Murmurs]. HK: So, you’re pretty industrious. FR: Well… [Helen laughs] I, uh, it seemed like I always wanted to make something of myself. HK: Yeah. FR: When I got out of school, I, uh, I went to work for the railroad. HK: The Santa Fe also? FR: Yeah, no, I went to, it was Union Pacific. And…uh, I met uh [murmurs] Bertha Bermudez? Her dad worked on the railroad. We had, let’s see, a section going, going towards the [murmurs]. He stopped and talked to me. Her dad said: “Do you go to school?” I says: “Yeah,” I says, “I graduated.” He said: “What are you doing here?” He said: “You go to school [murmurs] more [something beeping in background] the more I got to thinking about what he said [murmurs]. And it so happened that, uh, they had in the – the paper about [murmurs] letter carriers for the post office, they had a test [murmurs]. HK: Uh-huh. FR: Well, I took the test and I passed it, but my Army service took [murmurs]. And, uh, like six months later [murmurs]. I said yeah. [Murmurs]. Retired from the post office. HK: Oh. How many years did you work for them? FR: Uh, I think there’s 34 altogether when I retired [murmurs]. HK: Uh-huh. Did you enjoy it? Were you, were you one that walked and carried the mail, or did you…? FR: Well, I started out walking. And I had a couple, two or three different routes that I’d walk, and then I finally got the one where, where I was at home. HK: Uh-huh. FR: Well, I started, uh, I served the mail [murmurs]. So from then on, I – I drove, put the mail in, opened the box [murmurs]. �HK: Uh-huh. What section of Lawrence did you work in? FR: North Lawrence. HK: North Lawrence. FR: [Murmurs] HK: Oh, okay. Well, that’s being developed, isn’t it? FR: Pardon? HK: That’s being developed now. FR: Yeah. Lot of new kids out there. [Murmurs], ball park open there. HK: Do you still keep a garden? Do you have a garden over there? FR: No. HK: No? Not a gardener. [Laughs] FR: No, it’s cheaper, it’s cheaper – it’s cheaper to buy what you need than it is to try to raise a garden. Buy all the plants and all the fertilizer and gotta keep the bugs off of ‘em. It’s cheaper just to buy…my wife, my wife likes to [murmurs]. HK: How did you meet your wife? FR: Uh…she, uh, she was born in Lecompton. And then, uh, her father and mother decided they was gonna go back to Mexico. So, she went, they - they went back. So, uh, she must [murmurs]. Anyway, and, uh, when she was about, uh, about fifteen or sixteen, her grandfather said, “Well,” [murmurs] Her father decided that she was getting old and old enough to get married so they had to bring her back. [HK laughs] So her grandfather went back and got her and two brothers [murmurs] when she was, when she was eighteen, that’s when. Then when I went into the service, she couldn’t – she couldn’t write any Spa- she couldn’t write English. And I didn’t know enough to write Spanish. So I got me a dictionary. English to Spanish. HK: Uh-huh. FR: So I started picking out the words that I wanted to, wanted to – to say, and that’s the way I learned to write [murmurs] read and write in Spanish. I can read and write it, but not, you know, real good. Just enough to get by. HK: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. �FR: [Murmurs] Anyway, all the time I was in service we wrote letters. The first letter took me about an hour, an hour and a half. And after that, [murmurs] HK: Yeah. Does she – she apparently speaks English now. FR: Oh, yeah. Too much. [both laugh] HK: Too much? [laughs] HK: What do you think of, uh, the new immigrants that are…coming here today? FR: You know, these, a lot of ‘em are educated. It’s either the, when they, my parents and the other [murmurs] they were all laborers. And, uh they [beeping noise] didn’t have much education. HK: Mm-hmm. FR: And some of the guys that are coming over, they already got their education [murmurs] themselves. But, uh, I don’t know, there’s a lot of... Myself, I think that the only thing that has to be done [murmurs] the guys that are hired. I see a lot of ‘em working up there roofing and stuff like that. Those jobs are hard. But, uh they [murmurs]. HK: Yeah. FR: I don’t know, they…it’s hard to, hard to answer because they’re – they’re taking jobs, jobs away from, from, uh, the kids, but our kids don’t want those kind of jobs. HK: Yeah. Yeah. FR: They don’t, they don’t want those kind of jobs. So [murmurs] I know my grandkids [murmurs]. Kids they have [murmurs]. HK: Yeah. Do you remember, um, well let’s see…when were you born? FR: In ’29. HK: ‘29. So you were right at the start of the Depression, so do you – do you remember anything? FR: The only – only thing I remember is my mother hated – hates rabbits. [HK laughs] She hates rabbits. I guess that’s, uh, Dad, and…I guess, what they ate most of the time. Rabbit. HK: Uh-huh. FR: Must’ve been a good rabbit season. I remember when we was in Humboldt, they would, uh, [murmurs] my dad and this other gentleman would go out in the fields and they wouldn’t even �take a rifle or anything… just a stick. It snowed enough that the rabbits had a hard time. Kept jumping and running. HK: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. FR: And they’d just club ‘em. Put ‘em in the sack. [Murmurs] That’s why Mom would [murmurs]. She was a – she was a good mother. HK: Yeah. FR: And, uh, I remember, uh, [murmurs] during the Depression. These guys, they’d call ‘em hobos, and, guys on trains [murmurs]. They’d stop [murmurs] get something to eat, and [murmurs]. Good thing they liked frijoles [laughs] And tortillas. But, you know, these guys would always, they’d eat, and then they’d head to the wood pile and chop wood. HK: Oh. FR: Never turned anybody out [murmurs]. Always had, always had plenty to eat, seemed like. HK: Uh-huh. What would be, um, like at your, uh…what would be a typical meal that your mother would fix for you all? FR: Well, uh, beans was always there. HK: Mm-hmm. FR: And rice. And, uh, spare ribs, pork chops [murmurs] everything together, kids started growing up and…[murmurs]. Tamales at Christmastime. Everybody would get together and make tamales. Just, uh, something [murmurs] tamales at Christmastime. HK: Did you exchange gifts during Christmas? FR: Uh, yeah. Well, you know, not too big. But I do- what I remember most of all is when we lived at the yard, um…every Christmas, uh, the Salvation Army would come and drive down there [murmurs]. And they would have a bag and they would have a toy. And, uh, an apple or something [murmurs] one of the kids that lived there. I don’t remember they ever missed anybody that was going to school. [Murmurs] I remember that. [Murmurs]. Who turned our names in, I have no idea, but I do know that, uh, that was a welcome sight. HK: Yeah. And did your family belong to St. John’s? FR: Uh, yeah. They went, – they came to church here. HK: Mm-hmm. FR: Uh, we all [murmurs]. �HK: Did you always walk to church? FR: Uh, you know, on, that’s another thing that, uh, Christmas [murmurs]. Go to midnight Mass. HK: Uh-huh. FR: Uh, from the yard, you walked, you walked to church. And it’d wind up at about, like, one o’clock, and we were all walking back. That’s, uh…oh, you know [murmurs] where Dillons is? HK: Mm-hmm. FR: Well, back then it was across the railroad tracks…it was about a quarter of a mile. HK: I heard that, uh – FR: You wanna, you wanna take the shortcut, you just, uh, go under the railroad tracks. The – the railroad cars. Instead of coming out on, uh, on, 8th Street, we’d come out on 9th Street. HK: Uh-huh. FR: Every once in a while you’d go under there, and, uh, a train [murmurs], and, uh, it’s kind of a chance. HK: Yeah, some of the other people talked about going underneath the cars to take the shortcut, and… FR: It was awful dark down there. HK: Yeah. FR: It was awful dark. HK: Did anyone ever get hurt doing that? FR: No. I was, I remember one night I was going home, like I say, there was a dump back there and, uh, during the day, trucks would come by. And every once in a while, something would fall off. Anyways, there was this one night I was coming back from the movies, must have been about 11 o’clock. And, uh, [unintelligible] I got as far as the Poehler building. And over there, there was something on the – there was, it was just waving like this. [murmurs] “My God, what do I do now?” ‘Cause I had to go by. HK: Uh-huh. FR: I got my courage up and I went up there, and what it was – was a piece of big paper had fell off of the truck and wrapped itself around one of the switches. �HK: Oh. [laughs] FR: And that’s – the wind, it had it going like this. [HK laughs]. HK: Thought you were seeing ghosts or something. FR: Oh, I tell you. Talk about ghosts. One night, uh, I was coming back down that same street, [ten?] people used to [murmurs] beer joint at that time. I got to the, the alley between, I think it was on Pennsylvania, the corner of 8th and Pennsylvania. HK: Uh-huh. FR: I was, uh, when I got to the alley I turned there, and, uh…I was coming home and a woman come out of that alley with a big old black dog. So, I kinda slowed down, and, uh…I hollered to her, I said: “[Murmurs].” To the corner and she must have been, oh I’d say, from here to the wall, and, uh, like I say, I was slowing down. This woman turned the corner, went, uh, south on Pennsylvania. And all the dogs on – on the end of that block started howling. And, uh, when I got to the corner I looked up to see if she was there, but she was gone. HK: Hmm. I’ll be darned. FR: But the dogs on the other end of the block, they were cryin’ I suppose. I don’t know what it was, but I still had about a half mile to go. And I was, it’s funny to think about. Funny things happened to me out there. HK: Yeah, yeah. So, were there very many people living, still living in the Santa Fe apartments when they, when uh, the ‘51 flood destroyed them, or…? FR: Uh, my dad and mother was there. And, uh, I’m not sure if the grocery store was still there. Like I say, I was in the service at that time. HK: Uh-huh. FR: [Murmurs] Anyway, after the ‘51 flood [murmurs, rebuilding?] everybody went up, come up, come up town and [murmurs]. HK: So your parents moved to, uh, where did they move? FR: They moved over there to, uh, 920 New Jersey Street. They moved up [there?]. Mom loved [murmurs]. HK: When your dad was working for the railroad, did he have any kind of, um, supplemental jobs that he did? FR: Um…no, well, after he retired he kind of mowed yards [murmurs]. �HK: Mm-hmm. FR: Sometimes I would [murmurs, having kids?]. And having gardens. HK: Yeah. Did he ever sell his produce to other people, or…? FR: Uh… HK: It was just for the family? FR: Yeah, yeah. HK: You have any, um, memories of your dad, um, you know like, did he talk about his railroad work, or…? FR: Uh, no, he – he, uh, he kind of drove a truck over there for a while. And, uh, we had a, [murmurs]. He loved to fish, loved to fish. It was [murmurs] go over there, it was always behind [murmurs] started biting in about 20 minutes [murmurs]. Used to go over there and they stay there four or five hours. But, uh, he constantly fished. Uh, [murmurs], catfish probably weighed sixty pounds. HK: Wow. FR: I don’t know how he got it on there. He’d put it up on [murmurs, top to bottom?] pushing [murmurs]. Yeah. I remember, I remember, he never showed, I would say, showed too – too much affection. Uh, the only time he showed me affection was, uh, sick or something [murmurs]. [To himself?] HK: Well, he did really good for providing for his big family. FR: He did, he did. He did. HK: Especially in difficult times. FR: He must have did a good job. [laughs] ‘Cause all the boys he had, and all the girls he had, they never got in trouble. HK: How many did you say there were altogether? FR: Thirteen. HK: Thirteen. How many boys and how many girls? FR: Uh, I think it’s, uh, seven boys and uh, six boys and seven girls. �HK: Seven girls. FR: Yeah, yeah. All of ‘em done well, so [murmurs]. HK: Yeah. Definitely. FR: [Murmurs, both laugh] But, uh, other than that [murmurs]. HK: Well – FR: And, uh, if we did something wrong, Mother would say: “Just wait till your dad gets home and I tell him.” [HK laughs] And, you know, sometimes she would and sometimes she wouldn’t, and sometimes when she did, we’d already forgotten about it. [Both laugh] And we still got it. HK: Do you remember your parents helping any other people that, um, like other railroad workers that were just getting started? FR: Well, the only time that, uh, that I remember them helping was uh, when these, uh, like I said, it was, uh, workers from Mexico would come, and they went [murmurs] it was on a kind of contract. Then, uh, they’d get there about November. They’d wear just, like, shirts or something. [Murmurs] Guys that lived there would get old coats [murmurs]. HK: Did they stay at your house at all? FR: No, they had their own room. Uh, like I said, there were these things, these, uh, yards, they had sometimes, they rented rooms [murmurs]. HK: Oh, okay. FR: That’s where they lived. HK: Okay. Did they fix their own food and all that? FR: Yeah, yeah. A lot of good men [murmurs]. HK: Well, I guess with the outline of the yard is still there, I mean, the concrete slabs – FR: The concrete slabs are still there. HK: Yeah. I need to go down and take pictures of it, so…kind of see where, how the layout is. FR: Like I say, that picture [murmurs, Charlie?] Like I say, they were, very, very close to – HK: Well, if you bring it, we’ll take a picture – FR: Okay. �HK: So that way we can… FR: Are you gonna be here this afternoon? HK: Yes, I’m gonna be here. Are you gonna come back for the get-together thing at 1:30? Around 1:30 they’re supposed to have a bunch of the people that I’ve already interviewed, are gonna come back and just kind of sit around and talk, so… FR: Around 1:30? HK: Uh-huh. FR: Uh, I’ll come back at 1:30. HK: Okay. Well, pretty close. [Laughs] FR: I’ll bring, I’ll bring – I’ll bring it up. HK: Okay. That sounds good. FR: Everybody I know [murmurs]. HK: Okay. Alrighty. FR: Like I say, we’re pretty close. [Murmurs] Chavezes, like John [tape cuts off at 47:06] END OF TAPE 19 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Yarda Oral History Project Subject The topic of the resource La Yarda (Lawrence, Kan.) Mexican Americans -- Housing -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- History -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Kansas -- Lawrence Description An account of the resource La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided by the Santa Fe Railroad for Mexican-American railroad workers in Lawrence, Kansas; located near the Kansas (Kaw) River, the neighborhood was largely destroyed by a major flood in 1951. In 2006, Helen Krische, archivist at the Watkins Community Museum, began an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. The project was resumed in 2019 by Nora Murphy and Emily Raymond. The interviews primarily feature the children of the railroad workers who migrated to Lawrence in the early 20th century; they describe daily life, social activities, and living conditions in the Mexican-American community in Lawrence from roughly the 1920s through the 1970s. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived La Yarda Oral History Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Watkins Community Museum (Lawrence, Kan.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 2019 2021 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource These works are the intellectual property of the Watkins Museum of History, Lawrence, Kansas. The public may freely copy, modify, and share this Item for noncommercial purposes if they include the original source information. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Krische, Helen Raymond, Emily Rumback, Ellie Bolyer, Heather Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Romero, Frank Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data MP4 Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 00:51:28 (video) 00:47:20 (audio) Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 89 kbps 3356 kbps Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frank Romero La Yarda Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Romero, Frank Description An account of the resource Frank Romero was interviewed by Helen Krische in 2006 as part of an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided by the Santa Fe Railroad for Mexican-American railroad workers; located near the Kansas (Kaw) River, the neighborhood was largely destroyed by a major flood in 1951. Frank lived with his parents and siblings in Lawrence's La Yarda neighborhood. Frank describes his family's migration from Mexico to Lawrence, and the living conditions in La Yarda. He describes childhood pasttimes, and experiences with school and healthcare. He discusses his family's affiliation with the St. John's Church congregation. He talks about how he met his wife, and the role the Spanish language had in their courtship. Frank also describes his work as a mail carrier in North Lawrence. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Krische, Helen Raymond, Emily Rumback, Ellie Bolyer, Heather Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lawrence (Kan.) 1920s - 1970s Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP4 (video recording) MP3 (audio recording) PDF (transcription) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19-FRomero-2006.mp4 (video) 19-FRomero-2006.mp3 (audio) 19-FRomero-2006.pdf (transcription) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Watkins Community Museum (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the video and audio recordings of this interview, go to <a href="https://archive.org/details/19-fromero-2006">https://archive.org/details/19-fromero-2006</a>. The <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">Watkins Museum of History</a> also holds items related to this collection. <a href="https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/resources/5295">Additional research on the La Yarda community</a> is held at the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published with the permission of Amy Chavez, on behalf of Frank Romero. This work is the intellectual property of the Watkins Museum of History, Lawrence, Kansas. The public may freely copy, modify, and share this Item for noncommercial purposes if they include the original source information. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived La Yarda Oral History Project Subject The topic of the resource La Yarda (Lawrence, Kan.) Mexican Americans -- Housing -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- History -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Kansas -- Lawrence Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/10530226c00bbaddc8df0802506a7ff0.pdf dcf9f9cfbbc4520f862b26b558fa5ac1 PDF Text Text Tape 25: Interview with Pedro (Pete) Romero Interviewer: Helen Krische Date of Interview: May 23, 2006 Length of Interview: 47:18 Location of Interview: St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church Transcription Completion Date: 2021 Transcriptionist: Emily Raymond Pedro Romero (Interviewee): When I got more information, then – then I was able to put it down, uh, as true figures. Helen Krische (Interviewer): Okay, so you sketched all of this of the yards? PR: Yeah, so that’s – so that I would have something to kind of go by so that I could, uh, uh, relay the…the, uh…um…what I thought it looked like to the artist. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: The artist eventually, to do the painting. HK: Mm-hmm. Okay. PR: But, like I said, I – I got some pictures here, and…this – this is, uh, one of the pictures. Okay, let – let’s go back to this. HK: Okay. PR: It was – I – I got some, I forgot to bring it – I got some pictures – HK: Mm-hmm. PR: That I took with a camera. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: I forgot to bring ‘em with me. HK: Oh, those would be – PR: I tell you what, I was running late, but…um, um, you – have you seen the – the picture of the buildings, well, what they looked like? HK: The only thing I have are these that Buddy brought me. PR: Okay – �HK: And let me scan. PR: Okay, there – there – there is an artist’s picture, of – the – HK: Really? PR: This artist, a guy by the name of Frankie Chavez. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: He – he’d, uh, he’d painted the, uh, what the building looked like. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: He got – he got a lot of the – he got a lot of the information from me. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: I was able to get it to him, and…lot of the people liked it, lot of the older people said that was pretty much what – what it looked like, uh, we – we couldn’t, nobody had any pictures of it. HK: Then. PR: And I even went to the, uh, Topeka, to the Santa Fe, uh…railroad there, and they couldn’t help me out, and I went up to, uh, the…what is it, the Kansas Historic…place in Topeka. HK: Kansas Historical Society, yeah. PR: I went there and they couldn’t help me, I went to the City, here in Lawrence, uh, they – they was able to show me some maps. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: Some, uh, maps back in the 1940s, but none of the maps had this, uh, Santa Fe yards in it. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: It showed the tracks, which ran – I think east and west – HK: Mm-hmm. PR: But there was never a picture of – of this…of this, uh…Santa Fe yards. HK: Yeah. That’s great. �PR: Well, and like I said, this is what I kind of showed the artist what – what, what I kind of looked at. And then – and then here, here – back in 1951, the flood. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: It’s an old, it’s an old reprint, it’s kind of bad but you can see the – the building. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: The building was under the water. And…if you can use any of these pictures I’d be glad to – HK: So was this – this building, or – ? PR: Yeah, yeah. HK: Okay, so it’s just – PR: Um, I kind of wish I could have bought the, uh, the drawing. I mean, the drawing is, it’s great, it’s all in color – HK: Mm-hmm. PR: It’s uh, but this is the – gosh, I don’t even – this was the building [murmurs]. This was kind of looking at the building like – HK: In the back of it, yeah. PR: Like this. HK: Uh-huh. PR: It was kind of looking in it. But, um, like I said, I’m – I really haven’t got too much to, uh, I just thought I’d bring you what – what I had. HK: Sure. PR: And this – this is an old picture of the old Santa Fe depot there. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: At the time of the flood. HK: The flood. �PR: Uh… [long pause, pages turning]. This picture here…this picture here, uh, was looking, uh, east about – about a quarter, about a quarter of a mile down these railroad tracks was where the – where the apartments were at. HK: Oh, okay. PR: The Santa Fe apartments. HK: Okay. PR: And…and…now, I – I’m sure you – you can look through some of these pictures, but I’m sure you’ve probably… [long pause, pages turning] HK: Well, this is a different one I haven’t seen. Now, this one I do have a copy of. PR: Yeah. HK: Yeah. Got a copy of this one. Um…this one I don’t have a copy of. [Long pause, HK murmurs, pages turning]. Now where is this looking from, or…? PR: Um, that is looking, um, east. HK: Okay. PR: Of – of the, uh, the Santa Fe, apart – this was all during the 1951 flood. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And the railroad tracks ran right up this way. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: They were up above; all that was flooded. It was funny because my parents, uh, the 1951 flood came and I remember we waited till the water went down and then we went back in, and tried to clean up the apartments. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: So we could move back in there. The Romeros, the mud [murmurs], that the water had left. HK: Mm-hmm. So did you live in – in these buildings? PR: Uh…yes. Um…I really would like to have had you see the drawing, the artist’s drawing. HK: Yeah. Formatted: French (France) �PR: [Murmurs] Um… HK: Buddy is supposed to be making a copy of something, and I don’t know if it’s that drawing or maybe it’s, is it? Okay. PR: I have, um, I have a big artist’s, uh, drawing at home. HK: Uh-huh. PR: And then the – the ones that I gave Buddy and Irene are – are the smaller – HK: Okay. PR: Are the smaller ones, but I got the big – HK: Oh, okay. PR: I got the big one and it’s beautiful; I got it all framed up and all that. It’s a real pretty picture. But, uh, if there’s any way I can help you, I’d be glad to. HK: Yeah. PR: I real – like I said, there’s not really much, too much that I got. I got a few pictures. HK: Well, I might scan these. PR: Yeah. HK: And, do you know the names of all the people in them, or – ? PR: Yeah. HK: Okay. PR: Pretty much. HK: Yeah, I think that… PR: I can’t remember – oh, I got a sinus headache. HK: I’ll bet, so this weather is really bad. PR: Yeah. �HK: Yeah. This one I already have a scan of. Yeah, I’ve been trying to get people to identify the people in the photographs for me, so [laughs] sometimes it’s been successful and sometimes it hasn’t, so… PR: I – I got a picture here; these are my brothers, here. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: Uh…I – I, I really like this picture here a lot because it’s got so much detail about what – what the Santa Fe…what part of the Santa Fe buildings looked like. Um…we had to…okay…where is it, come on…there was a – this – this was the end of the building here. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: This is the end of the building right here. HK: Okay. PR: [Murmurs] And back in the back, in these two, I think it was corn, a cornfield. Now right up above here was the railroad track, the Santa Fe railroad track. HK: Okay, and there’s…the Santa Fe depot, is that – PR: No, no. HK: No? PR: The – the Santa Fe depot was farther; I believe, if my directions are right, west. HK: Okay. PR: It was farther west. I think the train runs east and west – HK: Uh-huh. PR: I think so. HK: Yeah. PR: Well, anyways, uh, this – this was kind of a – it looks like it’s corn. HK: Uh-huh. PR: And then back here, they, uh, somebody at one time had a – a corn…uh – uh, bin. HK: Mm-hmm. Formatted: Spanish (Spain) �PR: It was, I think there was about two of them. This is one of them, where they stored the popcorn. Popcorn. And then this – this was on the tracks, this one, the – the, um…I don’t remember what it was called, tank or something like that [murmurs]. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: But anyways, uh…we had a water pump. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: We had a water pump right where…there – there used to be two, there used to be two units, this one here and then there’s one right across, and – and this, the pump was right in between – HK: Middle. PR: Right between both of them. HK: Neat. Can I scan this too? PR: Yeah, yeah. You can – would you like to take the picture out of it? Take the picture out of it. HK: It would probably work better. We were trying to do one inside a frame this morning and it just didn’t – PR: Yeah, yeah. HK: So, um, Pete, if I could, this is a – this is a, uh, consent form, uh, for you to sign. Um, to do the oral history with. And it basically just says that you give all the rights to, um, the recording, to the museum, and a copy of it may go to the Kansas State Historical Society. PR: Okay. Yeah, like I said, I’m not very good. I’m – HK: Well, you know – PR: On tape and all that. HK: Yeah. We can just, you know, do an audiotape, that’s fine too. And if, you know, if you ever want to stop during the interview, just let me know and we can just stop. PR: So, what kind of questions would you ask me? HK: Okay, well, I have a list of questions here that I kind of go down. PR: Could you kind of go over them with me right now before – �HK: Sure. Do you want to look at ‘em? PR: Yeah, I’m – I’m not even properly dressed [laughs]. [Long pause] What – what if you don’t know some of the answers? HK: That’s fine. Usually I just, you know, I don’t really just ask question after question. I just kind of, we just kind of talk and, um, usually the information comes out, I don’t even have to ask, because, you know, when people start telling you their story, then it’s just kind of natural that a lot of those questions are already answered, so… But if there’s any of them that you don’t want me to ask you, that’s fine too. So… You can just tell me: “I don’t want to answer that question,” and I [laughs] – that’s fine. PR: So, I guess the purpose of me coming here was to, you know, be interviewed and all that. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: But mostly I just kind of wanted to help you out on any old pictures of something that I had. HK: Yeah, but you have – you have memories too, of – PR: Yeah. HK: Since you lived there, you know, you can, um, you have firsthand experience. PR: Do – do I have to be – because I’m being – if I’m photographed, will – will it be shown with me in my old…[laughs]. HK: We don’t – we don’t have to run the camera, that’s fine. PR: Okay. HK: We can just do it with the – I have a tape in here, so we can just do it with the audiotape. PR: You know, one of these days, like I said, I’m not very good at this, but one of these days this is kind of what I – I – I wanted to do. HK: Hmm, okay. [Long pause] PR: You know I – I’m kind of better when I’m by myself and – HK: Mm-hmm. PR: I’m just writing notes down and thoughts [murmurs] and all that. �[Long pause] HK: You have all your information down here, don’t you? PR: Well, yeah, I got some information, but like I said, I – I never did finish it. This is something that I wanted to do, and – and I never finished it. But, you know, at least I got – I got started a little bit on it, so, you know, I can pass it on to my grandkids and things like that. HK: Yeah. PR: But I – I really never, that’s as far as I got. And, I mean, there’s so much more. But like I said, sometimes, I’m – I’m better when I’m, you know, by myself and just jotting down, you know… HK: Sure. [Long pause, pages turning] Okay. So I might just, um, scan this too. Just for information about your family. Would that be okay? PR: Yeah, I guess so. Is – is everybody that’s interviewed, are they gonna be used? I mean, are they gonna be, uh, um…[murmurs] Everybody that has an interview will be, uh…in the newspaper or whatever you – HK: Well, not necessarily in the newspaper. What we’ll do is that we’ll keep a copy of the tape at the museum. And then we’ll also send a copy of the tape to the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka. And, um, then eventually out of this, I hope that we can do a story, like in the, um, the Kansas magazine – that’s the publication of the Kansas State Historical Society – about Lawrence, because, I mean, things have been written about Topeka, things have been written about Kansas City in the Argentine district, but nothing has been written about Lawrence and the Mexican-American community that started here. And so I was trying to, um, get together enough information so that Lawrence, the story of Lawrence would be heard too. PR: Yeah. HK: And, um, because I went to – I went to Spencer Research Library up at KU to try to find information and they didn’t have anything. And then I went to, um, to the Kansas State Historical Society to see if they had any information about Lawrence and they didn’t, so it’s kind of, um, Lawrence has been forgotten, I think. PR: Yeah, it really has. Um – HK: And then Buddy called me and asked me if I would do something for the fiesta, because it’s the 25th anniversary. PR: Yeah. HK: So… �PR: Okay. I – I tell you what I’d like to do with this. HK: Okay. PR: Uh, I was kind of doing a project here with this person. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And…I told ‘em that I would never use this. HK: Oh, okay. That’s fine. PR: Until – until I completed this. HK: Okay, that’s fine. PR: It was kind of a project between me and the other person. HK: Okay, that’s fine. PR: Okay. But, okay, I – I would be happy to help you do this. HK: Okay. PR: Um, like I said, there’s one or two questions that I may not be able to help you with. HK: Okay. PR: But I think my brother’s getting interviewed too, so – HK: Okay, alright. PR: In the next couple of days, so – HK: Okay. PR: Yeah, so I’ll be glad to help you with this. HK: Okay. So… PR: I – so do you ask me these questions or I write ‘em down or what? HK: Okay. Did you sign the consent form already? PR: Oh, okay. �HK: ‘Cause we need to do that before we get started. For – PR: Okay. Ink? HK: Ink. Yes. I have ink. [Laughs] PR: Okay…interviewee, that’d be me? HK: Mm-hmm. PR: You know what? My name is Pete. I go by Pete, but my real name is Pedro. [Long pause] Today’s five… HK: 23rd. PR: 23rd, ‘06. I’d better put my last name down. HK: I’ll give you a copy of that before you leave. PR: Okay. [Long pause] Okay. HK: Alrighty. Fantastic. Oh, you need to put your name up here at the top. PR: Oh. HK: In that blank, there. PR: Okay. Um, print? HK: That’s fine. [Long pause] PR: Okay. HK: Alrighty. Okay. So I’ll just start out asking you a little bit – PR: Okay. HK: Um…uh, we can identify ourselves. Um, I’m Helen Krische, and… PR: Uh…Pedro Romero. HK: Okay. And, um, I’m gonna start this out by asking a question about your – your parents, where they came from, and how you happened – the family happened to end up in Lawrence. PR: Uh…my – my father was from Veracruz. And my mother was from, um, uh, Mexico City. Formatted: Spanish (Spain) �HK: Mm-hmm. And how they ended up in Lawrence. PR: Oh. Uh…they – they wanted a better jobs. And they – they knew friends that had came to the U.S. and, uh, they heard that there was jobs here in this country, so that’s – they came here to this country looking for – for jobs or work. HK: Mm-hmm. Did he start – did your father start out working on the railroad, or…? PR: Uh, yes. Yes. He, um…um…I believe that, uh, the, uh, U.S. government, uh, needed workers for the railroad, so, uh, they went down there to, uh, Mexico to find workers and they – they brought ‘em over to this country. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: I think that’s how my parents, uh, got into this country, with the help of the U.S. government. HK: Mm-hmm. Do you know what year that was, or around what time that was? PR: Um…[long pause]. I’m gonna say maybe, uh, 1917. HK: Okay. I think that’s one of the earlier families – PR: Yeah, oh, yeah. The – the first ones. HK: Yeah. PR: And – and can I tell you more? HK: Sure, yeah. Just, you know, we don’t have to set, you just tell me whatever. PR: Well, they, uh, my mother and dad both – I believe the year was 1917. And my dad was real young, and my mother was even younger. I think my mother was about 6 years younger than him. Uh, they married in, uh, 1921, I believe. Um…they raised thirteen kids. HK: Wow. PR: Thirteen kids, and that’s…I think I’m probably about the middle – about the middle child. HK: Mm-hmm. What were their names? PR: Um…Gonzalo Romero and Avelina Romero. Um…[murmurs] my dad, uh…had one sister. And…his mother, uh, I believe his – his real dad died. So he – he had a stepfather by the name of, um…what’s his name…God, I can’t remember [murmurs]. Felix. Felix Chavez. HK: Oh, okay. �PR: And that – that was his step – that was his stepdad. So, somewhere along the line, he – his real dad must have been named Romero. HK: Did they, uh, did your father speak English before he came to the United States, or was that something that he – he learned while he was here? PR: Um, it was something that he learned while he was here. He was – him and my mother were always embarrassed by – by their English. So they – they spoke to us, they spoke to us in Spanish. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: But, yeah, my – my dad learned – my dad learned English, but, you know, because he had, uh, you know, because he…his whole life centered around the English language. But, uh, he was more comfortable with the Spanish language. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: My mother – my mother never did learn, uh, to speak English very well. She would speak it, she would speak English, but, uh…she – she was never comfortable with – with speaking English, but we grew up, you know, both on, on…we grew up Spanish first of the language, then English second. HK: Mm-hmm. So were all the children born in the United States, or were some of them born in Mexico before they moved here? PR: No, we were all born in – in, we were all born in Kansas. HK: Oh. PR: Uh, we were all born in different towns, though, because my, uh, my dad, uh, would, uh, get orders from the railroad to go to different – different towns to help…with the – with the railroad tracks. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: So I think we lived, like, in Humboldt, we lived in Baldwin, we lived – I think we even lived in the Kansas City area for a short time. Um…but I guess mostly all our life was here in Lawrence. But we did – we did move around. But even though we – we did move around, my brother – my older brothers and sisters would – would tell me about some of the places we – we lived. Some of the towns we lived in, but I – I don’t remember. The only place I remember here is in Lawrence. HK: Mm-hmm. �PR: That’s the only place I remember. But they did tell me, though, that we moved wherever the railroad sent my dad, wherever they needed. HK: Mm-hmm. So did he just work exclusively for the Santa Fe railroad, or did he work for other railroads too? PR: No, no, he just worked for the Santa Fe railroad. He – he worked on the crew – on the track crew. Um, it was rough, it was rough, they worked outside all the time. I remember as a kid, that my dad, I remember Dad coming home with his rain – his rain jacket on, and I remember during the wintertime, um, when it snowed they – they…called my dad. They would go after my dad to, uh, go to work to clear the tracks out. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And it was funny because at that time, they didn’t have telephones. HK: Yeah. PR: So the only way that they could – they could get in touch with the men was somebody from in town, the depot, would go up there. And it must have been a good experience – HK: Yeah. PR: To go to these different, uh…uh…places where the men lived, because at that time I don’t think that too many Mexicans had telephones. I’m pretty sure they didn’t, so the only way they could ever get in touch was to go out there. So… HK: Huh. Did he work – did he work all year long on the railroad? PR: Yeah, he worked for 46 years. Um, there was a time, uh, probably back in the 70s or 80s, that he could have retired, but they – they lost track of his records – HK: Oh, my gosh. PR: They lost track of his records, so in – in order to, I guess get his full benefits, he had to work – he had to work 46 years. HK: Oh, geez. PR: But it – it was, it was a tough life on guys [murmurs]. I really admired my dad for – for…for working that many years. HK: Yeah. Did he – did he just, did he have any other side jobs, or any other – PR: No, no. Uh, he didn’t. The Santa Fe gave him a patch of ground right beside the tracks, and, they gave the men, and the men would go out there and plant gardens. �HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And I remember as a kid, be hot out there and we’d be out there with our dad and help him plant tomatoes and peppers and sweet potatoes and all that. And it was funny because we’d be out there helping our dad and some of our friends, our age, would come down and want us to go play. Go play with them, but we couldn’t do it because our dad wanted us there in the garden. My dad was pretty strict, a good man, a good…but he was pretty strict with us. We always – we always wanted to go play with our friends, but we couldn’t ever do it. HK: Yeah. PR: And – and that – that was about the only, that was about the only side job that – about the only thing that he did, really. He didn’t have a side job, not that I know of. HK: Mm-hmm. How did – how did he, um, make out during the Depression years? PR: Well, I – I think they did okay because they – they lived there at the apartments. HK: Uh-huh. PR: And the apartments were free. HK: Uh-huh. PR: They were free, I – they had water, but it was from the pump. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: They – their light was, I think it was from this little, uh…kerosene lamps. HK: Oh, uh-huh. PR: Kerosene lamps. Um, that was their light, um…their heat was with coal. They used to have the – the kitchen stove was, uh, coal-fed, the, uh, we had the potbelly stoves there, and that was our heat. I – I remember, I remember wintertime, boy, I don’t see how we survived. I don’t see how we survived, but we did. I remember as little kids, there was a bunch of us. Uh…as kids, we, at nighttime we’d get up there and huddle around the…that potbelly, uh, stove and stay warm, you know. Gosh I remember that potbelly stove being – being about as red as – as – that purse there. And, um…um, for…food, my parents raised pretty much everything that we ate. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: Um, his job was always – I believe his job was always secure with the railroad, because they all – the railroad was the only transportation, you know, at that time – �HK: Uh-huh. PR: So his, I think his job was pretty secure. Um, food-wise, everything, we – he, uh, raised chickens, uh…I think he even had a hog or two. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: Um…for meat. For vegetables, he had this big garden and they stored a lot of the stuff. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: For the – for the winter time they [murmurs]. Canned tomatoes, peaches, um…pears. But, a lot of the stuff that they – that we ate during the winter time was – was canned. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: So – so but they always, they always had something, they always had something to eat. I remember we used to eat the heck out of chicken. [Both laugh] Chicken, chicken was always, chicken was always there. HK: It’s stable. PR: Yeah, really. HK: Yeah. PR: I, uh, I’m really interested in completing this [murmurs], but like I said, I – I’m better, you know, when I’m – when I’m by myself and [murmurs] special things, certain things happened that bring me back to these memories. HK: Yeah, sure. PR: And I linger on these memories and I – I want to jot them down and to express the feelings that I had about that time, so [murmurs] complete that. HK: Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, your mom, did she – of course, she made all of her – she made tortillas for bread and, um… PR: Yeah HK: Did she do a lot of sewing for the kids, for their clothing? PR: Right, yeah. Uh…yeah, my mother, she did, um, she – she did all the cooking…she…did a lot of the clothing. HK: Mm-hmm. �PR: I remember the girls, my sisters, would always get these real pretty flour dresses, you know, made from the – HK: Flour sacks. PR: Flour sacks and things like that. And, um…my mother, well – our – our main ingredients of food was instead of bread, we used to eat tortillas. So she made tortillas all the time. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: She made tortillas all the time. I mean, she made ‘em, I think, in the morning, and she’d make ‘em again in the afternoon, so we – we’ve always had [murmurs] tortillas. We ate a lot of frijoles. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: Potatoes and things like that. HK: So what would be a typical meal at your house? PR: Um, a typical meal would be, uh…then? HK: Mm-hmm. PR: Oh, tortillas and frijoles. Potatoes. For meat, it – it was usually chicken. HK: Chicken. PR: So that – that was pretty typical. HK: Did you have meat every day, or was it sort of a once or twice a week thing, or – ? PR: Um, okay, I think it was maybe…I’m gonna say, I’m gonna go back about chicken on, you know, I’ll go back, I think maybe chicken, maybe a couple of times a week. The – the rest of the time, uh, my parents bought a lot of, like, uh…bologna meat and maybe pork chops, whatever. I guess my parents would always get whenever on sale, the pork chops. But yes, we – we – we had our share of, uh…of good healthy food. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: We, I can never say we went hungry. I mean, you know, there was probably a lot of times we didn’t like what was being served, but, I mean, it was there for us to eat if we wanted to eat, so… �HK: Sure. Did you – did you as a child go downtown much; did you go, like, to different businesses and…? PR: Um…yeah, we – I tell you what, I lived there at the Santa Fe apartment till I was…I think it might have been the sixth grade. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And we all – we all decided, we all decided it was a…it was a joy to – to go into town. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And we – we’d go to the movies. Um…our, the school – the school was in town, so you know, we all went to New York School. And the Santa Fe – the Santa Fe apartment – well, we call ‘em the Santa Fe yards. We did. Somebody else might call it the Santa Fe apartments, but we called it the Santa Fe yards. We, to get to – to the town, we had to go over the tracks. Had kind of a steep little hill, and that was the first set of tracks. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And between – in between that track there and other tracks, it must have been about, I’m gonna say at least five or six sets of tracks that – that we had to cross in order to say we were in town. Once we got past the tracks, we would say we were in town. [HK laughs] But, um, there – there was a road, there was a – a road where the – where the trucks and whatever needed to get back in there used it [murmurs], but we always used the – we would always get to town by crossing the tracks, either walking across the tracks or crawling, uh, crawling underneath the track, underneath the boxcars. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And a lot of times when we did crawl under the boxcars, you know, the engine would, you could hear it start and the train would jerk and [murmurs], but we’d get out. We were so used to – to crawling underneath the – the – the train tracks. The trains – HK: Did anyone ever get hurt? PR: No, nobody ever did. We did that a lot. That was, we probably did that as much as – there was always, there was always trains there, so we – we – we did a lot of crawling underneath ‘em. And every once in a while you know the train wouldn’t be there where you could stand up and where you could walk across the tracks, but a lot of times the tracks – the – the trains would be there, so we had to crawl, you know, crawl underneath ‘em to get, you know, into town. Um, we did that as long as I can remember. Going to school, yeah, I don’t know how we did it with our schoolbooks and all that. But, uh…we used to do it, and, oh…all – all of the stores that, uh, my parents went to, um, like I said, my – my parents raised a lot of the food that they needed. We were talking about the Depression. They – they did a lot of their – their food raising. But then, uh – uh – they also did a lot of, uh, grocery shopping. �HK: Mm-hmm. PR: Um, in town. In town I’m talking about streets like, um, uh…9th and New York…9th and – let’s see – 9th and New York. At 9th and New York there used to be a little store called Johnson’s Grocery Store. And then, um, let’s see…and then there was another store, uh…another store…on 8th Street. We used to call one “The Little Store” and it was kind of a one flat deal. And then we used to call – we used to call the – the other store “The Big Store” because it was a two-story house [murmurs]. HK: So these were just little neighborhood grocery stores. PR: Right, yes. We did – we did a lot of the, uh…one of the reasons why we went in town was to go to the store, or go to school, or go to our church, St. John’s Church, which – which I think must have been, I’m gonna say, from the Santa Fe yard to the church, I’m gonna say it was about a mile. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: It might have been more, maybe a mile and a half. But we used to, we used to walk that…on Sundays. We would all walk down to – we all walked to church. And it would be cold [murmurs]. We used to go to the movies. Our parents would give us, like, what was it, fifty cents. You could – you could always see a movie and buy popcorn and all that stuff for fifty cents. And, um, other times we came into town was, well…we – we’d play baseball. We’d play baseball at the South Park. We’d play, uh baseball at the Municipal Stadium. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: It’s right there, right off – HK: Hobbs Park, yeah. PR: Yeah. But we – we – we came into town quite a bit. We always envied the – the kids in the city. Yeah, we – we’d always envy them kids ‘cause they – we were ashamed. We were ashamed to be living at the Santa Fe apartments because, you know, the Santa Fe apartments, um, uh…everybody, all our friends had – all our friends – some of our friends, now, the ones that lived in town, they had addresses. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: House addresses, and we didn’t have one like that. HK: Hmm. PR: Uh…there – there must have been – there must have been an address for that. Otherwise how could we have gotten our mail? �HK: Yeah. PR: But, um, we always envied our friends in the town because, you know, they – they, uh, they had – they had an address and all that, and all we were – we were just the, uh, the Santa Fe yards. HK: So did you experience a lot of prejudice? PR: Um… HK: In Lawrence at that time? PR: Myself…I didn’t think so then. But now, I – I – I think I did. For one thing, you know, I go by Pete, but my real name is Pedro on my birth certificate. And I had thought about it years later and I said: “Why, how come I didn’t keep my – my name Pedro?” HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And, uh…um…I – I really didn’t experience a lot of, uh, a lot of, uh…racial things like that. I did notice it, you know, that the groups all kind of stuck, you know, the kids all stuck to themselves, the white groups would stick to themselves, the Hispanics would to themselves, the blacks to themselves and all that. But, um…I guess I did experience it, because, uh, it was always us. It was always us, it wasn’t us mingling in with the other kids and all that. We – we were just…we were just as a group, like we knew we had to stay together. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: Um…[sighs, long pause] HK: Is there – was there any difference between, like, the – the kids who came from the Santa Fe yards and the kids who actually lived in houses? PR: Yes. HK: Around on Pennsylvania – and New York Streets? PR: Yeah. HK: Those Hispanic children? PR: Yes, yeah. HK: Was there a lot of difference between the two, or…? PR: Oh… �HK: Did you still hang together close? PR: Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, we – we hung around them and, um…we always thought that they were better than us. But, I mean, you know, we all got along real good and all that, so – I really don’t think there was too much, uh…difference. Only that, you know, they – they lived in houses and we lived in – in the apartment building. HK: Yeah. How did school go for you? Was it…? PR: [Sighs]. School to me was hard. School to me was hard, I was…I was pretty attached to home. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And it was hard for me when I had to go to kindergarten at the school, it was hard for me. I remember looking out the window, the school window, wishing I would go home. It was – it was, it was – it was scary for me, it was, because like I said, we’d always – we’d always pretty much, uh, um…stayed at the – the apartments. HK: Mm-hmm. PR: And then when it came time to go away, like being, uh, being home for the first time. But, I mean, you know, I guess all – all kids experience that. HK: Yeah. Did you speak any English before you started school, or – ? PR: Um…I did speak English. I – I, it’s funny because – [tape cuts off at 47:18] END OF TAPE 25 � https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/6272777bbcf074bd5f60309a6d94b220.pdf 49ba97d234f982b960d33c467879a4dd PDF Text Text Interview with Pedro (Pete) Romero Interviewer: Emily Raymond Date of Interview: January 29, 2021 Length of Interview: 19:03 Location of Interview: Recorded over telephone Transcription Completion Date: February 1, 2021 Transcriptionist: Emily Raymond Emily Raymond (Interviewer): Alright. For the purposes of the tape, my name is Emily Raymond. Today’s date is Friday, January 29, 2021, and I am about to call Pete Romero to interview him. [Dial tone] Pete Romero (Interviewee): Hello? ER: Hello, Pete. It’s Emily. PR: Hi, Emily! How’s it going? ER: I’m doing well, how are you? PR: Hey, okay, I just got through stepping in the house; I’m doing some chores. ER: Is this still a good time? PR: Uh…yeah. Yeah, it is a good time. Uh, yeah, go – let’s go ahead. ER: Okay. PR: Okay. ER: Well, let me introduce myself first. We – we’ve never met. And I wish we could do it in person, but unfortunately – PR: Yeah. Hey, you know what, maybe if you want to, maybe next time we get – maybe next time we can get together, and I – I can kind of show you things – things, uh, uh, pictures and – and, uh, you know, maybe there’s some things maybe that, uh, maybe nobody has seen, and maybe – maybe you – you might be able to, uh…maybe there’s something there that, you know, you might be able to use. But yes, uh, um, you know, it kind of would be kind of nice to, uh, to – to meet in person, but, ah, you know, right now with everything that’s going on and all that, it – it’s, uh, um…I’m kind of a little, uh, stay-at-home person. I’d rather do things here at home. But do you know what, Emily? If there’s a good place that we could meet, where there’s not a lot of people… ER: Would you prefer to do that? PR: Sure. �ER: Okay. That way, you can bring some of the paintings and the drawings. PR: Sure, yeah. Sure, yeah, we can do that. Uh…is there, uh, things we can discuss right now? ER: We can, if you like. I can just start by asking you a few questions. PR: Okay. Now, so, this is all being recorded, right? ER: Yes, this is being recorded. PR: Okay. Oh, okay. Okay, well, um…I’m not gonna say nothing that I shouldn’t say, so it’s all right. And I guess, what that letter was from, uh, that, uh, uh – is it Noreen? ER: It’s Nora Murphy. PR: Nora. Nora. Nora. Nora. I always call her Noreen. Nora. Okay. Yeah, so that letter that she sent me, uh, she had me fill it out and, uh, I went ahead with it. So… ER: Well, that sounds good. We just wanted to make sure we had all of the necessary forms before we did the interview. PR: Yeah. Could – could you hold on for a second, okay? The – the phone’s ringing and I’m on – ER: Yes, of course. PR: See, we’re expecting a phone call. Just a second. [Background conversation continues until 4:07] Uh, Emily, I was – we’re kind of, hoping to hear from the – from the Douglas County Health, to have my wife have her shot taken, and, uh, well, we just kind of hanging around the phone, so…when they call up, so she can get – so she can get, uh, on the list to have that shot taken. ER: Good, I hope she can. PR: I – I took my shot at the VA hospital there in Topeka, the first one. I haven’t taken the second one, that’s in a couple more weeks. That’s, uh, that’s where I’m kind of at right now. ER: Well, I hope she can get her shot, too. PR: Yeah, yeah. It just seems like the ones that need it the most aren’t getting it. Like – like me, I – I’m in pretty good health, but, you know, ‘cause being that I was a veteran, I got to – I got to go in to get my shot, so… ER: Oh, excellent. Good. �PR: Yeah. Okay – ER: Well, one of the things I was going to ask anyway was about your family. During the first interview, I – we didn’t find out whether you had a wife or kids, so could you – could you tell me a bit about your family? PR: Uh, well, yes. Uh, um, I’m married to, uh, uh…my wife is named Anna Marie Romero. ER: Anna Marie. PR: Romero. ER: Alright. PR: Her maiden name was Perez. ER: Oh, okay. PR: Uh, I have two sons, uh…Paul. Paul Romero, who is, uh, 51 years old. He lives in Kansas City. He’s a banker in, uh, that UMB Bank in Kansas City. ER: Oh, good. So, he’s close by, so you can visit him. PR: Yeah, yeah, he’s close by. Then I have my son Vince. Vince Romero, who – who is, um, uh…he’s married to, uh, Samantha. And, uh…let’s see, okay. He – he’s got – he’s got seven kids. ER: Seven, my goodness. PR: Yeah. ER: You must be proud. PR: He’s got seven kids. And – and, uh, my son Paul has two. ER: Okay. PR: Three, three. Three, three. ER: So, between all of those two, you’ve got ten grandkids? PR: Right. ER: Oh, congratulations. [PR laughs] Do you get to see them pretty often? �PR: Uh, yeah, uh, yeah…I, uh, I try to see ‘em as much as I can. Some – sometimes I think I – I can be a nuisance to – to, uh, to my, uh, two boys, ‘cause I’m always, you know, calling ‘em up and asking ‘em about the grandkids and wanting to talk to ‘em and… ER: I don’t – I don’t think that would be a nuisance. I – I enjoy talking to my grandparents. PR: Yes. ER: What do you like to do with your grandkids? PR: What do I like to do? Oh, I – oh, I – um, they’re – they’re into sports. They’re – they’re into sports, uh…uh, baseball, uh, soccer. Football. Um…them are my grandsons. My – my granddaughters, I like to just, you know, um…I like to – to, uh, they’re – one of ‘em is in ballet, and the other one is, uh, is a real good, uh, uh, street – seamstress. ER: Oh. PR: Likes to sew and things like that. Okay, so…I could, uh, my grandkids on – on my – on my son Vince’s side – side, they range in age from two to thirteen years old, and they all attend St. John’s School. ER: Oh, my goodness. I have actually never been to St. John’s School. PR: What’s that? ER: I have never been to St. John’s School. PR: Oh, it – it’s a nice church. It’s really a good church. There’s so much, uh, uh…diversity in – in the St. John’s Church. ER: Well, that’s refreshing to hear. PR: Yeah, it’s – it’s a pretty neat church. We’re – me and the wife, we’re pretty involved in it. We try to get involved in quite a bit of it. I’m, uh, I’m an usher at, uh, the 4:30 Mass, and, um…I just, yeah, so much of our life centers around the church. I think the church is our second home. ER: Is it? I’m glad. PR: Yeah. ER: My parents are very involved in their church back home. I grew up Baptist. PR: Right. Yes. ER: So they are much the same. And so, you grew up Catholic, is that correct? �PR: Right, yeah, I grew up Catholic. And all my life I’ve been – been around the church. Altar boy, just everything that, uh, everything that – that – that, uh, involved the church, I try to get involved in it. ER: Excellent. Well, how did you meet your wife? PR: Uh, well, we – we met, uh, I met my wife through a cousin of hers. Um, I met her – she’s from Topeka. ER: Okay. PR: I – I met her at a, there was a dance. Uh, we – we all liked to go to the dances. Long time ago, you know, that was one of the things, you know, people went to dances and things like that. ER: Right. PR: That’s where, uh…that – that is where a lot of our people, uh, used to – used to like to do. They used to like to, on the weekends, maybe, uh, be a dance in Topeka or Ottawa, or you know, just someplace. And we’ll all like to go out there and just meet up friends and dance and things like that. Uh, I – I met her in, uh, 1964. Uh, we got married two years later, uh, got married in 1966. Got married at, uh, Lady Guadalupe Church in Topeka. ER: Oh. That’s special. I’m glad for you. PR: Well, thank you. Thank you. ER: I – in fact, I think ‘64, yeah, that was the year that my dad was born. PR: Oh, oh really? In ‘64, really? ER: Yes. PR: Wow. ER: It’s a small world. PR: Well, yes. Uh, let’s see, uh, ‘64, so you’re – you’re, okay. Okay, so your dad is, uh, uh…how old is your dad? ER: He’s – oh, good question. 56, I believe. I’m not very good at math. PR: 56, okay, okay. Okay. ER: Yep, 56. That’s what it is. �PR: Yeah. Okay. So, Emily, you’re – you’re, Amy, you’re – you’re doing school, uh, this is a kind of a school project you’re doing? ER: Well, in part. I’m – right now I am a graduate student at the KU History Department. PR: Okay. ER: And about, uh, well, at some point last year, they sent out an e-mail asking if someone would like to help with transcription, with the Watkins History Museum. PR: Right. ER: And I – before I started my graduate career, I was a transcriptionist at a doctor’s office. PR: Uh-huh. ER: So… PR: Yes. ER: I said I would love to help, and it is definitely much more interesting than listening to medical cases. PR: [Laughs] Oh, for sure. For sure, yeah. ER: I actually get to talk to people. PR: Right. Yeah. I, um, my – my son works for, uh, a hospital there in Kansas City. He’s uh, he’s the health, um, administration department. ER: Oh, very good. I hope he’s got his vaccine, then. PR: No, no, he’s not. He – he’s, uh, he – he’s doing real good. No, he’s – so far, he hasn’t got nothing, and he’s taken shots and things like that, so everything’s okay. ER: Good, I’m glad to hear that. It’s – it’s incredible what we have available today. PR: Right, yeah. ER: What was – what was healthcare like for you? I mean, I imagine we – we’ve grown in leaps and bounds, but what was it like when you were a kid? What kind of things were available to you, healthcare-wise? PR: Oh, my – my goodness, Amy, it – it – okay, we – we grew up, uh, in, uh, La Yarda. It’s a place, uh, down there by the Santa Fe, uh, by the Santa Fe depot. Uh…um, well, it’s, uh…it – it �was – it was pretty tough. It was pretty hard, but – oh, we didn’t know it. We, to us it was just – it was just part of, uh, living, uh, where we were living. Um, gosh. Um… ER: Sure, of course. That was – it was normal for you, when you were growing up. PR: Yeah. You – you know what? Emily? Amy? Emily or Amy? ER: It’s Emily. PR: Emily. Okay, Emily. You know, Emily, I – I’d like to get together with you in person. ER: That would be wonderful. PR: Would that be okay? And – and I can show you more of what I got. ER: Yes, I would. Is there a – a place you had in mind? I will happily go wherever you’re comfortable. PR: Well, I – I’d like to get together with you where there’s not too many people. Uh, um, how about – can we get into the, uh, Watkins, uh, museum? ER: That’s a good question. I will ask Nora. She would – she would know more about that, having access to it. That would be a good idea, because there wouldn’t be too many people around. PR: No, there wouldn’t be too many people. And you know, being that it’s part of history that we’re going after, this might be a good deal. ER: That’s a good idea, Pete. I will – I will contact Nora, and I’ll ask her about availability. How’s that? PR: Yeah, and – and you might mention to Nora that I’ve been trying to get ahold of her. And her line seems to be busy all the time. ER: Oh. That’s odd. Okay, what I’ll do is send her an e-mail. That’s usually the way I communicate with her, and – PR: Right. ER: I’ll let her know you’ve been trying to get ahold of her. But yes, I’d really like to meet with you in person. PR: Sure, yeah. That would be better. You know, I got a lot of, uh, I got a lot of transcripts here, and I’d like to show ‘em to you and all that. But I – I can’t, well, we can’t do that over the phone. ER: Yeah. �PR: But, yeah, I’d like to get together with you. ER: Okay. And I – we’ll both wear masks, and we’ll – we’ll definitely be safe. So, I will – PR: Sure. ER: I’ll check with Nora, and see what might be available. PR: Yeah, check and – and see, see if there’s a place where we can – where we can get together. ER: Okay. That sounds like a good idea, Pete. PR: Yeah, okay. And I’ll bring you – I’ll bring you everything that I got, and we can go from there. ER: Wonderful. I’ll look forward to it. PR: Okay. Emily, uh, I’m – I’m anxious to meet with you, uh, um…I – I think I got an exciting childhood life that I’d like to share with you, and – ER: I agree. PR: And maybe with, uh…the people here in Lawrence. ER: Yes. I – I would like them to know about it as well. So I – I’m looking forward to our meeting. PR: Sure. I’ll be excited to do that, okay? ER: Okay. I’ll give you a call when I’ve talked to Nora. PR: Oh, for sure, yeah. Maybe we can make it next week or something like that, someplace. ER: Yes, that sounds very good. PR: That sounds great. Okay, Emily? ER: Alright. PR: I’m – I’m sorry I can’t help you. ER: No, you – you are being helpful. And we’ll talk more in person; it will be easier that way. PR: Okay, sure. So, is – is it easy for you to, you know, just kind of get away, and – �ER: I teach classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. PR: Oh, really? ER: So usually Tuesdays and Thursdays are – are more open. PR: Yeah. Oh, hey, that sounds good. Thursdays, yeah. ER: Okay. PR: That sounds – what – what building do you teach in? ER: Well, I’m doing it remotely this semester; I’m an adjunct professor. PR: Oh, okay. ER: Yeah. PR: Oh, okay. ER: But I have an office on the KU campus. PR: Sure. Yeah, I – I worked for the – I worked for KU for quite a few years, and I think I know every building on the campus there. ER: Oh, yeah. You probably know Wescoe Hall, then. PR: Oh, yeah. I been there a lot of times in Wescoe Hall, yeah. ER: Yeah, that’s where my office is. PR: Okay, okay, Emily. So, I think we can get together again? ER: Yes, I would enjoy that. PR: Okay. I – I’m sorry, like I said, I – I just, I – I had some, uh, grocery shopping and I, uh, I tried to hurry as much as I could so I could get together with you. ER: That sounds good. And no worries. PR: I – okay. ER: Okay. I’ll talk with Nora and I’ll get back with you, alright? PR: Yeah, yeah. Okay. Talk to Nora, and you might mention that I tried to get her on – on her – on her cell phone, and, uh, every time I call up, her line seems to be busy. �ER: Okay. I’ll send her an e-mail right now. PR: Okay. Thank you, Emily. ER: Thank you, Pete. Have a good day. PR: Okay, bye-bye. ER: Bye. END OF TAPE � https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-lplks/original/668a0cb9bdbd2175277cfa5e7c74989e.pdf 1c663ad92d460fe2c0fd3cfc972ec866 PDF Text Text Interview with Pedro (Pete) Romero Interviewer: Emily Raymond Date of Interview: February 4, 2021 Length of Interview: 90:46 Location of Interview: St. John’s Parish House Transcription Completion Date: February 25, 2021 Transcriptionist: Emily Raymond Pete Romero (Interviewee): I – you know, I’ve always wanted to write down a lot of notes about – about my life, and, uh, oh, you know, I like to do this here, write notes down. And then one – one day, maybe, get it all together and – and maybe…making a book out of it, you know. Emily Raymond (Interviewer): I think you should. PR: Kind of pass it on to the family. ER: You’ve gone to all this trouble to make all the notes. PR: Well, yeah. I was gonna… ER: And with the self-publishing platforms nowadays… PR: Right. ER: You can – you can publish books yourself as often as you like. PR: Here’s – here’s the history of the Romero family. ER: Oh, that’s right. I remember you said your parents were Gonzalo and Avelina. PR: Yeah, yeah. Let’s see… ER: Oh, you’re so lucky to have these pictures. PR: And there was, uh – ER: Your parents. PR: Thirteen of us and – and we’re – we’re all in that book. We’re all in that book. ER: Oh, you have a table of contents, good. PR: Yeah. ER: There are you. December 7th. Okay, so that’s – you called her Jennie. Okay. �PR: Yeah. ER: I’ll be sure to spell it with an “ie” when I do the transcript. I’ve heard the name before, but I wanted to make sure I got all the spellings right. PR: I checked it out with the family and asked ‘em if it was okay if I used this – if I could, uh…uh…take this book and let somebody look at it and – I got their permission, you know, to… ER: Oh, okay. Of course. PR: So, anything that you can use in there, you can – you’re welcome to use, and… ER: Topeka, Kansas. Okay. [Background voices for several seconds] Okay, so your mother was – your mother lived to 89 years old. PR: Yes. ER: That’s impressive. PR: Yeah. She passed away when – when she passed away, I, uh…you know, there was thirteen of us, so we all took our turns going down there every evening. Somebody went down there every – every evening to check ‘em out, to make sure they were okay, ‘cause they wanted to live in that house. ER: Oh, okay. PR: They wanted – they wanted to live in that house, so, there was thirteen of us, so everybody took their turn. Uh…in the evening; on the weekends, um, on the weekends, we stood there all day with them. And then we left them alone in the evenings, you know, because they – ER: Of course. PR: You know, they, that’s the way they wanted it, you know. They just wanted to be there in the daytime. And, well, really, they probably didn’t even want us there [laughs], but they were so – you know, they like to have their independence and all that. It was their house, and I just wanted to do things. ER: But you still want to look out for them, and just check in, make sure they’re okay. PR: Yeah, so, anyways, uh, it was, um…it was – it was on the weekend, and it was my turn. So, I went down to – went down to my parents’ house and the house…my mother was cooking. And it – she had a heart attack. Anyways, the house filled up with smoke. ER: Oh, no. �PR: So anyways, when I got there, I drove through the alley, and I seen all the smoke coming out of the house. So, I parked the car in – I parked the car in the parking lot there, and I – it was, I think it was, like, in spring. It was April or something. Anyways, anyways, I – I parked my car, and I seen, uh, a pile, looked like a pile of rags out there. Well, it was my dad. My dad was pretty – pretty much blind. Somehow, he had managed to get himself out of the house. He got out of the house, probably looking – looking for help, and I guess he just…fatigue got to him, and he was laying out there and I found him out there. And I asked him where Mom was, and he said: “She’s inside the house.” So I said: “Okay, Dad, I’m gonna put – put you” – let me see, how it was that I did it – I put him in the house that wasn’t full of smoke, and, you know, to get him out of the rain. Right inside the house, and I couldn’t see nothing. It was all full of smoke. My mom had been cooking something, and, uh…um… ER: It started burning. PR: It just, you know, started – started a smoke fire. Smoke. Anyway, I found her, she was on the floor, so I – I’m the one that found my mom. But anyways, and…she died. She – she died from a heart attack that day. ER: Oh. PR: Um, and my dad after that, he – he didn’t want to continue living. You know, he said he wanted to be with – with Avelina. Uh, so, I think he maybe lasted about a year. My – my dad really gave up on living after he lost my mom. Um… ER: How long were they married? PR: 76 years. ER: Oh, my gosh. PR: 76. ER: I think that’s a personal record for me. PR: Right, yeah, that was – that was a long time. ER: I – I don’t blame him for feeling that way, when you spend so much time with someone, it’s hard to imagine living without them. PR: Right, yeah. It was hard. ER: I like how you wrote here, he liked to fish. PR: Yeah. He liked to go fishing. �ER: And he’s got his – his birthday cake with all the candles. It sounds like you had a really close family. PR: Oh, we were close. We were big. We were a big family, but you know, we – we took care of each other and all that. And we were poor. And you know, working, my dad worked for the railroad. ER: Yeah, tell me about that a bit. I’m – I’m interested about what – what was it like, just growing up, daily living there? PR: Well, we, uh…like I said, we – we were poor, but we didn’t know it. Um…I – I think we lived – we had six rooms that…let’s see [murmurs] that fourteen of us shared. ER: Fourteen people for six rooms? Wow. PR: Yeah, uh, my parents, and my brothers and sisters. Somehow, we managed in these – in, um, to, uh, live there in La Yarda. You know, the – the rooms – the little rooms were six – I think they were, like, eight by ten. They were eight by ten rooms. And, uh, um…they were concrete. Concrete floors and all that. ER: Must have been cold. PR: Oh, it was. In the wintertime it was cold. We used to have to, in order to heat the house, we had to haul wood. Wood – we had the little wood stoves. ER: Oh, the little potbelly stoves. PR: Yeah, potbellied, to keep us warm and all that. It was cold. It was cold in there. Gosh, I remember as a little kid, in the wintertime, looking out the windows, and the windows would be all frosted with ice. ER: Oh. PR: It was that – it was that cold. We had – if we had to go to the bathroom, the bathroom was outside, like around 40 feet. ER: Oh, that’s right. PR: And, oh gosh, I remember having to go – I remember having to use the bathroom a few times, and I looked – went outside and looked up in the sky at the bright stars and all that, and went to the bathroom and came right back in. We didn’t stay out there very long. ER: No. �PR: No, and – and, well, to this day I don’t know how my parents did it. All them kids and we all had to sleep, uh, we all had to sleep together. I think it, like all the boys slept together. It was, gosh, I think two of the rooms that we used were for the boys to sleep. ER: Mm-hmm. PR: And then my sisters had a couple rooms for theirselves, and Mom and Dad in their room. Had a little kitchen. But, that was – it was pretty rough. Our – our water, our water was at the water pump outside, and – ER: Right. PR: We had to get the water and haul it from outside, inside the house. ER: Oh. PR: For drinking water and taking a bath and things like that. Um… ER: The amount of work. PR: Oh, yeah. I – I don’t know how my parents did it, but we did it – and, you know, to us, it – it must have been rough. It – it had to be tough. ER: No doubt. PR: But us guys didn’t know it. I knew, you know, we – we had something in our tummy and woke up next morning and all that. We were – we were surviving and all that. And it – it, um, it was pretty rough there at the – La Yarda. Going to school – going – little kids, little kids…there was no sidewalks or anything. ER: Oh, back then. PR: In La Yarda. It was just a path. A path that had just been worn in time by people going through that little path, and we had to, uh, to go to school we had to climb this – this little hill; on top of the hill was the railroad tracks. And, Emily, I tell you, in the wintertime, I – I don’t even think we had galoshes. I – I think it was just our regular shoes and things like that. ER: Oh, not even waterproof boots. PR: No, no waterproof, no, we didn’t know such – there was no such thing existed like that for us, you know. The – the – um, can I say “The white kids” or “Anglo kids”? ER: Yeah, absolutely. PR: Yeah, it won’t offend you? Okay. You know, you know, the – the little white kids we’d go to school with, they had their galoshes on, and big old mittens – gloves, and all that. �ER: Fluffy coats. PR: Yeah. We always thought they were – we always thought they were rich, because, you know, they – they had better stuff than us. But anyways, we went to New York School. And, um…we went to New York School, and I remember going to New York School, uh, we all had – we all had Spanish, and we were all – we were born, given Spanish names. But when we went to school, they changed our names. ER: Oh. PR: My name was Pedro. That’s what my parents got on – but I got to school, and they called me Peter, okay? ER: Oh. Okay. PR: I had a brother named Tony. Antonio. Went to school, and from Antonio, they called him Tony. Francisco, Frank. Juanita, Jennie. ER: So, they Anglicized everyone’s names. PR: Yeah, that’s – that’s what happened to us. When we went there, and it was hard for us, because… ER: I imagine it was. PR: Yeah, ‘cause we grew up on Spanish. Our parents, that’s what they talked to us, in Spanish. So, anyways, we – we’d go to school, and, uh…we were – we were – it was hard for us, because, uh, a lot of the words that they used, the teachers used, well, we didn’t know that. We were, you know, taught the – the words in Spanish. And it – it was a little tough. It was a little tough. ER: I imagine it was. And you must have done remarkably well, for not knowing any English when you arrived. PR: And you know, to us, oh, my gosh, New York School was a – it was like a palace! ER: Oh, was it? PR: Wow, in these scripts that I got, I’ll describe some of that, but gosh, we went to New York School. Beautiful building there, and we went inside and the floors were tiled, and we’d never seen – we’d never seen nothing like tiled floors and all that. And, God, we were amazed by that, and how nice and warm – how nice and warm it was. ER: Oh, the school was heated. PR: Inside the school, compared to our house – �ER: True. PR: In La Yarda. Going to New York School, gosh, bathrooms. ER: Actual bathrooms. PR: Inside bathroom, and we couldn’t get over it. Gosh. We were so used to the outhouse out there in La Yarda and all that, my gosh, that was so neat. ER: Seemed like a luxury. PR: Oh, my God. Water fountains. ER: Water fountains. PR: They had water fountains inside – inside the – inside the building. We were used to going outside and getting our water in – had little buckets, I guess that’s what we had, buckets, and whenever we wanted water, we’d just get a drink of water, but it – it was – oh, New York School was so beautiful. And it – it was funny because, um, I – I remember – I remember one time, we – to, uh, for lunch, we used to take our little lunch, uh, sacks. The – the white kids had their little, real nice. ER: Oh, the tin boxes. PR: Nice buckets and things like that. And now, today, you know, they – they eat in school and all that. They eat in the school, but… ER: So, there wasn’t a cafeteria back then? PR: No. No, there was no cafeteria. ER: Okay. PR: So, um, gosh, the kids would – us guys, we had paper sacks. ER: Yeah, like that. PR: And we’d take our little lunch and all that. And the other kids, white kids, had – had lunch buckets and nice pails and all that. I remember one time, I remember we – we grew up on – on tacos and things like that, um, burritos. You know, at – at that time, I thought, “Gosh, we’re poor.” We eat this food, ‘cause that’s all we had, you know, tortillas. Tortillas, and we’d make burritos and all that. So anyways, uh – uh, I remember one time we, uh, we – my parents, my mother made us some burritos for us. It’s a tortilla, and inside was – ER: I like burritos, yeah. �PR: So, anyways, uh, we – one time we took them and – and, uh, the white kids looked at us, checking out our little burritos, and they’d say: “What the heck is that?” And – and, uh, we – we’d tell ‘em that’s what we ate. And then I guess we must have told our mother and all that, our mother about it, you know, the kids wondering what that was. Kind of odd-looking food. So, after that my mother started making us butter and jelly sandwiches. ER: Oh, okay, with the – PR: But, yeah, you know, things like that, that happened to us, and… ER: Were you ever teased for that kind of food, or were they more curious about it? PR: I think they were more curious. ER: Okay. PR: Yeah, I – I think they were more curious about what, you know, but, you know, it was funny because, um…Um – okay, I’m gonna read some of these; is that okay? ER: Oh, yes, go ahead. PR: What was – my – my, uh…thoughts get a little, uh, um… ER: Well, and you said you have a headache, too. PR: Yeah, I’ve got – I’ve got my headache, but I – I don’t know, about school…uh, the kids – the – the – we felt different. But we felt different because we were – our features were different. The color of our skin was different. Um, our language was different. Okay, um…we – we never really had real nice clothes. ER: Right. PR: Most of our clothes were hand-me-down clothes, things like that. Um…and I don’t know, we always felt that the other kids were better than us. Um…now, we were – we had to speak – we were always kind of…scared, because we didn’t know if we were gonna say the right thing. ER: Right. PR: You know, use the right word. We were bilingual, I guess. ER: You – oh, absolutely. PR: Yeah, we were bilingual, at home Spanish, at school was English and all that, so we were always a little bit, uh, I think we were always a little scared to get up there and talk and all that. We felt so much better when we were in our group. �ER: Right. PR: When all the little Mexicans were all together. Um – we felt much better, you know, and… ER: Did you stick together at school that way? PR: Oh, yeah. For – yeah, for sure, yeah, we did. We – we stuck pretty much together. We did everything. We did everything together. Our…our best friends were the – our own MexicanAmerican – Mexican kids. We – we never did go to any of our white friends’ house. ER: No? PR: No, we never did. We always stuck around with – with our kind. Oh, gosh, we – at church, St. John’s Church, we were little kids, maybe…seven, six, seven years old. ER: Oh. PR: We were altar boys at – at the St. John’s Church here. ER: Oh, yeah, that’s right; you were an altar boy. PR: Yeah, we were altar boys. We had our own group. Uh…then, um, we had a lot of altar boys and they were all put in different – in squads, we called ‘em – they called ‘em squads. ER: Squads. PR: Squad Two, Squad… ER: Oh, okay. PR: And – and, um, um…it was – it was – it was always, always kids that, you know, they was only Mexican kids that – that, uh, that made up that group. And then – and then, when we got a little older and we all played on the same baseball team. So, we stuck together pretty much. Today – today, they’re – they’re still our best friends. ER: Oh. PR: Today they’re still our – today they’re still – ER: I’m glad. PR: Our best friends, and some of ‘em have passed away, and – and we’ve always – we always relied on each other. They – we felt so comfortable when we were with our own kind. Um… ER: So, you – you played baseball at – was it South Park, or Hobbs Park? �PR: Uh – uh, well, we played at South Park. ER: At South Park, okay. PR: We played at South Park, at South Park and the other Hobbs Park. ER: Okay. PR: Yeah. ER: I remember from your first transcript, you had mentioned playing in a park. PR: Yeah – we played there. We played for the St. John’s…uh…team. ER: Oh, they had a team? PR: Yeah – the – ER: I didn’t know that. PR: Yeah. It was St. John’s team. In fact, we got some – we got a lot of pictures of – ER: Were you good? PR: I was average. I was average [laughs]. ER: Are you being modest? PR: Yeah, I was pretty – yeah, I, uh, I had other brothers that were quite a bit better than me. But I mean, you know, I knew the game, and I knew the position to play, and I – yeah, I just, um… ER: Did you play any other sports? Um, let’s see – basketball, football? PR: Well, that was funny. That was funny, Emily, ‘cause like I said, uh, we’d always felt comfortable playing with each other. In fact, when we were, like, maybe…twenty…eighteen, nineteen, twenty, we formed our own baseball. We had our own baseball team. Softball. Fast pitch. And, uh, we – we would go, uh, on these baseball, these, uh, Mexican-American tournaments. There’d be some in Topeka, there’d be some in Kansas City, Chanute, uh… ER: I never knew about this. PR: Uh, yes, uh…Salina, it was – we had a team, um, I don’t even know what we called each other, but we had a team – we were – we were pretty good. We were pretty good. You know, Mexican-Americans, uh, there – there were some pretty good athletes. But when you got to school, it was funny because, uh, the Mexican-Americans, they – they – they, uh, they were all �smaller people, you know. For instance, uh, in junior high and high school, it seemed like the – the bigger – the American kids…they – they, uh, they were bigger kids. You know, they – the little, the Hispanic people, they’re not real tall people and then – ER: Right. PR: Yeah. So anyways, uh – um, um, the – the Mexican-American kids, they were good, but, you know, they – they, you know, in football you need the big old guys and all that. ER: Yes. PR: So that was one of the reasons why we kind of stuck together. ER: That makes sense. PR: Yeah, we kinda stuck together. Um, gosh…oh, gosh, I [murmurs] but, yeah, um, we – we stuck together pretty good. [Murmurs] ER: I like how you’re all still friends, that you still maintain that connection over the years. PR: Oh, yeah. ER: That’s special. PR: And you know what, yeah, we – we – we still – we – we still look out for each other. You know, we – we always want to know how a certain person is, you know, like I got some friends like, um, Izzy Bermudez. ER: Yes. PR: He’s a fireman, he’s – he’s not doing too good, but I – I always manage to find out how he’s doing, and we, uh, um…um, later in life, we – we – we cut grass at the cemetery. The Catholic cemetery. ER: Oh, so you were responsible for keeping that up. PR: Yeah. ER: Okay. PR: We cut – we volunteered to do that, so we did that. It was – at first it was all Mexican people, the guys that did it and all that, and slowly the, uh, the white – white guys would come out there and help us later on and all that, but we – we did – we did a lot of things together, and we were well…uh…how do I put it? We were – we looked out after each other. That was – that was the thing, looking out for each other. We always did that. �ER: A community in the true sense. PR: Yeah. Yeah, that was – that was the way our parents, um, taught us to be. To – to look out for each other, take care of yourself, you know. In the end, you’re gonna realize how important it was. And everything they said is true. You know, you care for – care for other people, and you show ‘em, and they’re gonna do the same for you, so… ER: And you must have seen them demonstrate examples of this. While you were growing up, they would take care of your neighbors, for example. PR: Oh, for sure. ER: If they were sick, or – PR: Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I’m – I was told by my older sisters that when we were young and, um, my mother would have to have a doctor’s appointment or something like that, or she had to do something, well, all the neighbor ladies would, um, take care of us kids. ER: Oh. PR: And – and there’s some pictures out there where there’s a bunch of kids, and there’s a lady in the background. I guess she’s taking care of all them kids [laughs]. Yeah, it was things like that, you know. It was just – it was really something, because it’s nothing like that today. Nothing today, we – well, then, to the Hispanics, they always had big families. ER: Right. PR: They were – they were all Catholics and all that, so they all had big families. Today you got your family, maybe four, maybe three or four kids, and that’s about it. But, um…yeah, the – living at La Yarda taught us a lot. Taught us a lot. My dad – my dad was, uh, given a piece of land by the, um, by the railroad. ER: Oh, okay. PR: And – and, uh, my dad, uh, on this piece of land that they gave him, it was just not very far from where La Yarda was, maybe…two, maybe a hundred feet away. My dad would grow, uh, tomatoes, corn, radishes, things like that. Things like – things that he – we could grow that we didn’t need to go to the store. ER: Sure. That makes sense. PR: Yeah. We didn’t need to go to the store. Oh, gosh, I remember when he – I remember my dad had the garden. He – he would plant the tomato plants in the ground, and our job was to get water from – from, um, a pump, a water pump that was farther up the track. I remember them buckets full of water. By the time – by the time we got from the pump to the – the plants that were in the ground to be watered, well, we had lost half of the water, because we were young, �going along, all the water was sloshing out. Oh my gosh, Emily, I told myself, I told myself, I’ll – I’ll never have a garden, because it – it was rough, and my dad, you know, he paid pretty good attention to the garden. He made it – he made sure we did it right. ER: Yes. PR: He made sure it was right. ER: It’s a lot of work, keeping up a garden. PR: Sure. For little kids, it was – it was, like I said, it was – it was tough. ‘Course, you know, we didn’t know it, because it was expected of us. ER: Right. PR: To help do the chores and all that. So anyways, I always thought: “Man, I’m never gonna have a garden. That’s too hard.” So anyways, I got married and got a garden. ER: Yeah, of course you did. PR: Got a garden. Same thing with the fireplace. In the winter times at La Yarda, oh my gosh, them buildings got so cold. Oh, Emily, I tell you – ER: With the concrete floors. PR: Oh, the concrete floor and the windows would cake up with – with ice, I guess it was because all the – all of us being inside, these six rooms that we lived in, and all that heat. ER: Mm-hmm. PR: Hitting that glass, and just all ice. I remember we used to have to scrub the, uh – ER: Oh, to see outside. PR: The ice off to see [murmurs]. ER: My goodness. PR: My, um, we cut our own firewood. Oh, God, them days. I remember the days that little kids [murmurs] hand saws, sawing the logs. ER: Gosh, and they’re kids, too. PR: Small enough to – to put into the woodstove. Oh, gosh. I don’t know how my mother did it. Oh, gosh. All them kids and feedin’ all them kids, and – �ER: What would she make? I mean, I know you said she made burritos. What else would she make? PR: Oh, we ate beans. Frijoles. Frijoles. ER: Frijoles. PR: You know, Emily, it’s – it’s funny because today, all this food that we ate – we thought – man, this is – this is poor man’s food. Today, man, shoot, this food that we’re eating now, today, oh, it’s…probably [unintelligible, dollar’s?] business, you know. Taco Bell, and – ER: Yeah, it’s – PR: Things like that. ER: Taco Bueno. PR: All the – God, all that food that we ate, and we – we got tired of [laughter]. Got tired of eating the same food, eating our frijoles with our tortilla. And instead of using a spoon or fork, the Mexicans used, uh, the tortilla. ER: Yeah, strips of tortilla. PR: Into the strips and, like that. But anyways, gosh, we – anyways, yeah. The, uh, uh…we had stoves. My mother had stoves, and that’s the way she cooked, with a woodstove. Um…it, uh, it was very tough. ER: Did you eat vegetables from your dad’s garden? PR: Uh, yeah. ER: So a lot of tomatoes, then? PR: Yeah. Oh, yeah, we, yeah, my mother would, uh, can. She – she would can the, um, um, tomatoes. ER: Oh, okay. PR: Yeah, and – ER: So you’d have some for the winter. PR: Yeah, for the wintertime and all that, so – yeah, so, oh, gosh, you know, I – I remember too, is my – my, uh, there was – La Yarda was down here, and right across the tracks was the City. We had a lot of – we had a lot of cousins that – that lived – that – we didn’t have a lot, but we – some of our cousins lived across the tracks, which was the City. And we always thought that was �so neat. We always envied, as little kids from La Yarda, we always envied our – our relatives that lived in the City part. The City part – part – they had houses with electricity. ER: Running water. PR: Running water. Some of ‘em had bathrooms inside, latrines inside. I think there were some they had outside too. But we always envied them kids. I – I remember, I remember going to school and – and, I mean, the teacher would ask us: “Well, what does your dad do for a living?” And – and we – we didn’t know exactly what to say. We know that he worked for the railroads. His job was – my dad’s job was, and all these other people that lived at La Yarda, the men, their job was what they called a section gang. ER: Section gang. PR: Yeah. They’re the ones that cleaned up, cleaned the, uh, the – the tracks. ER: Oh, okay. PR: Yeah, they – they cleaned the tracks in the wintertime. I remember the wintertime, my dad would come home all full of snow. ER: Oh. PR: Full of snow, or a lot of times, in the winter times when it was storming real hard, they’d call out the men, and, um, tell ‘em that they had to report to work, because the railroad tracks were getting covered with snow. ER: In the middle of the night? PR: Yes, I remember that. I remember, they would – the – the – they used to call him the foreman. The foreman would get somebody and – and go – the guy would, the man would come to the yard on foot and tell the men that they were to report to work. ER: Oh, that’s right, because you didn’t have telephones. PR: Yeah, they didn’t have telephones, so…gosh, I – I remember my dad going to work and all that, on the tracks. But anyways, going back to the City, yes, going back to the City. Um, our – our City relatives, that’s what I’m gonna call ‘em, they had addresses on their house. 910 New Jersey Street. ER: Oh, that’s right. PR: Or 820 New Jersey Street, and all that. We – we didn’t even have an – we didn’t even have an address to where we lived. The teachers would ask us: “What’s your address?” ER: Oh. �PR: We didn’t know. All we knew is that – there used to be a mailbox. It was for the people that worked – that lived there at the Santa Fe apartments, La Yarda. ER: Uh-huh. PR: I – there used to be a – a mailbox. Oh, gosh. It must have been about a quarter of a mile from La Yarda. ER: Really? PR: Yes. So – so we have to walk all that ways down there. Yeah, that was one thing I remember. Our cousins that lived in the City, we always wished: “Gosh, one of these days we’ll be – we’ll live in the City.” ER: You’ll have an address. PR: Yeah, we’ll have an address. Yeah, things like that I remember. I – I too, you know, I remember the – the, um – we didn’t have no electricity. ER: Mm-hmm. PR: Uh, my parents – my parents had these, uh, kerosene lamps. ER: Oh, okay. PR: To, you know, for nighttime. That’s the – that’s the light we had. Kerosene lamps. Uh, later on – later on, we, uh, they – they, uh, installed electric. We had electric lights. But for a long time, that’s what we lived with, just, uh…gasoline lamps. ER: Did they ever get knocked over by accident, or…? It must have been a fire hazard. PR: No, not really. ER: Not really? PR: Not, not really. ER: Well, that’s good. PR: Yeah, that was good, but…I – I don’t know, I don’t know how we did it. That many people living in them little rooms? ER: I don’t know how you did it, either. �PR: It, oh, my gosh, I remember one time as a little kid, the Mexican-Americans, they were superstitious, okay? I remember, uh, when I was a kid, my dad, there was – there was always – there was sometime there’d be an owl, you know, squeaking at nighttime. And I mean, you know, when you hear something like that, I’m sure it’s – with the Anglos too, you know. Owl howling at night means that somebody’s gonna die. ER: Oh, is that what it means? PR: Well, in the Mexican-American, yes, it is. So, I remember my dad, he had a .22 rifle, and he’d go out there in the middle of the night and try to find that owl. ER: And shoot the owl? [Laughter] PR: Yeah, because really, it was. It was, uh, an old superstitious, uh, uh, tale that if an owl hooted at nighttime, somebody was gonna die. ER: I’ve never heard of that one before. PR: Yeah. Somebody was gonna die, and – ER: Do you remember other ones like that? PR: Well, yeah, like La Llorona. ER: Oh, the weeping woman. PR: Yeah, the weeping woman. ER: I heard about that in Spanish class. PR: Yeah, you heard that in Spanish. Yeah, people were scared to go out at – at night at the river, ‘cause if La Llorona was there… ER: I don’t blame them, I don’t think I’d want to, either. [Laughter] PR: Yeah, you know, things like that – that, uh, that happened, and…Christmastime. I – I remember Christmastimes. My sisters – my parents didn’t have no money. Gosh, in fact, my dad worked for the railroad, uh, when I was a kid. Summertime would come, and there used to be farmers out – out in the country, that they’d, uh, they’d grow potatoes. ER: Oh, okay. PR: And – and in the summertime, instead of my dad taking vacation time, he would spend it out there picking potatoes to earn extra money. ER: For Christmas? �PR: Well, for – ER: For everything. PR: For everything. And I – I picked potatoes for a long time, too. ER: Did you? PR: Yeah, I picked, oh gosh, I must have been maybe eleven years old. Out there – out there in the fields picking, uh, potatoes. ER: That must have been hot work, just… PR: It – it was hot, but us kids, we were ornery. ER: Oh. PR: We used to make – we used to make games out of picking – ER: Did you? PR: Throwing tomatoes – ah, throwing potatoes at – at the railroad tracks, at the railroads. Okay, the – the railroad cars. ER: That sounds about right. PR: That would pass by there on the tracks, and we’d be out there [laughs] throwing potatoes at them. ER: You made your own fun. PR: Yeah, we – we made our own fun. And my sisters, for Christmastime…they – they would – they would save their money and buy us, man, like a little truck or a little car or something like that. I remember that. We didn’t have no money. They didn’t have much money, but they always managed to – to buy something for us. ER: Get something, at least. PR: Little thing, and God, we thought, man, that was the greatest thing. The greatest thing, yeah. Gosh. We – we used to make tamales at – ER: Oh, I love tamales. PR: That – that’s a Christmas tradition. We used to make tamales. My dad would get the corn, and we had a room where we grinded up the corn kernels. �ER: By hand? PR: Yeah, by hand. ER: Oh, my gosh. PR: And – and they – they made the masa, which is the dough. And the women would, um, they, uh, the women would get in there and work – ER: Knead it? PR: Whatever you call it, yeah. That, and, uh…it was just – the process of making tamales, getting the corn husk and all that, and – ER: It’s an all-day process. PR: Oh, yeah. ER: In the town where I grew up, there were families used to make ‘em. PR: They take all day. ER: Yes, all day long. PR: You start early in the morning, and maybe by 9:00, you know, maybe you quit about that time, about 9:00 that evening you’d be, yeah, we – things like that, made tamales. My – my dad had two chicken pens. Had two chicken pens out there that we raised chicken to eat. We ate the heck out of chickens. [ER laughs] Our poor little chickens, I remember, you know, as we got older, our job was to wring the – wring the necks. ER: Oh, my gosh. PR: Yeah, so we al – we always had chicken. Sunday. Sunday as a little kid, Sunday was a big day, ‘cause my mom went out, went all out and made us a good dinner. ER: Chicken dinner. PR: Yeah, chicken dinner, we had chicken. We ate sopa, I’m sure you know sopa, and, uh, um… ER: What about eggs? Did – PR: Oh, yes. We – we had our own – we grew – my dad had all these chickens. Doggone it, I remember… ER: That’s a lot of eggs. �PR: Yeah, I remember my dad bought the little chickens. The little chicks, oh, they were so – ER: They were tiny ones. PR: Yeah, they were so beautiful little chickens, and – and, uh, they grew to be bigger, and we raised ‘em for eggs, for the eggs, for the meat. My – my dad had two chicken pens. And it was our job to go feed ‘em, oh, gosh, be – before we did anything, before we went out there and played with our friends or anything, one of our deal was to go feed the chickens. Feed them, chicken, feed the chicken, water the chickens. It was – ER: So that was one of your chores. PR: Yeah, it was a chore. We – we had to do chores. We had chores to do. And like I said, haul wood or water, but, uh, we – we’ve always, you know, we grew up learning to do things. I mean, it – it, uh, it was – it was hard work, but we – we did it, and, you know, we just thought that was part of living our life. ER: Sure. PR: Like that, so, yeah, and… ER: Did your dad ever teach you things, like when he would work on house renovation or construction? My dad used to teach us how to do that. PR: Ah… ER: When he would work on the house, we were little, and we’d watch him, and he’d show us how to do things. PR: Yeah…I tell you…my dad, he – he was – he was kind of a quiet man. He was kind of a quiet man. He’s – he’s in, uh, yeah…my mom, if us boys did something, if the boy – if any of the brothers and sisters did something, mostly the brothers, if the brothers did something wrong, well, that evening my mom would tell – would, uh, would tell my dad. ER: Oh. PR: And, uh, I remember my dad would – he – he – he’d get after us. [ER laughs]. He’d get after us. A lot of times I don’t even think that my dad knew why he was getting after us [laughter]. All he knew was that Mom said we did something wrong. We had a fight amongst each other or something like that, and, uh, we were well-disciplined. ER: I imagine you were. PR: Discipline. Discipline is a big word for us. Discipline, we – to this day, there was – my parents taught us that respect, to have for the women. To the women, especially our sisters. �Today – to this day, my sisters can get after us boys [ER laughs] and us boys won’t say nothin’ to ‘em. We would not say…you had to get after us and all that, and we just – we don’t say nothing to ‘em, and, a lot of times they’ll kid around, they’ll say: “You guys better be – you guys better behave. Today. Today. You guys better do this and that.” And: “Okay, okay.” ER: Do what you’re told. PR: Yeah, my – oh, my parents were real, real – that was one of the thumbs of rule, is to respect the women. That was one thing they always taught us. Respect the women. ER: And your friends, were they raised the same way? PR: Yeah. Yeah, yes. ER: So, this is community values, just part of it. PR: Yeah, that was – that was – that was one of the culture things. One of the culture things. Music, we – we all listened to the same type of music, and I was gonna show you…this is, you – you say you’re from Texas? ER: I am. PR: You’ve been around all the Spanish people then. ER: I have. That’s why we have the good tamales instead of having to go to Taco Bueno. PR: You know, the – the music like this. ER: Oh, you’ve got records. PR: Yeah, we – these are old. These are – these are some of my mother’s, we grew up on this type of music here. ER: [Band name] PR: Yeah. I could – I could…I wish my mind wasn’t so blank. ER: I don’t think I’ve ever actually listened to a record. I’ve never had a turntable. PR: Oh, yeah, we – oh, this kind of music we grew up on. Gosh. You know, as kids, every Saturday on the weekend, there’d be a Mexican dance. And we all went to it. ER: Oh, did you? PR: Oh, my gosh, yeah, we went to every – we all looked forward to Saturday night, when we’d go to the dances and meet – meet all the girls, and – �ER: Of course. PR: And – oh gosh, I remember going, buying a special shirt or pants. ER: Oh, okay. PR: Just going down there. That was – that was something we looked forward to, the dances on the weekends. Now, there’s no more things like that. And there’s nothing like that anymore, but that was one of the big ways the Mexican-Americans got together. ER: Sure. PR: Here in Lawrence, uh, it’s funny, ‘cause here in Lawrence, when the Mexican-Americans came to this country, my parents, they came to this – they came to Kansas. They settled here in Kansas, so they – they would tell their – their relatives in Mexico: “Hey, Kansas ain’t a bad place; come on down.” ER: Sure. PR: And – and, you know, it was different. It was cold. ER: I imagine. PR: So, some of ‘em went back, but a lot of ‘em that stayed – well, what happened was that we were all related. ER: Oh, okay. PR: At La Yarda. I think we were all related, so – so when it came time to dating and all that, well, the – the – all the girls that we knew, we were all related to [ER laughs], so I ended up getting married to a girl from Topeka – Anna, my wife Anna, Anna Perez. But she was in Topeka, that’s how I met her, because there wasn’t no girls here, here in Lawrence. ER: That you weren’t related to. PR: That we weren’t related. That, or the – the ones that we did know that weren’t related to us, well, they were like, almost sisters to us. ER: Yeah, sure. PR: Because we grew around, you know, like the Bermudezes. Uh, uh…Rachel Bermudez, she wasn’t related to us, but we knew her so good – ER: It felt like family. �PR: They felt like sisters, so… or – or – or the Chavez, um, they had a lot of daughters about my age, but, doggone it all, you grew up together. ER: Just not the same. PR: She’s like a sister, I can’t – so I, like I said, we used to go to the dances on the weekends. I met my wife at a dance. ER: And that’s where you met her. PR: Oh, my God, yeah. Oh, gosh. I remember the day I met her. ER: You do? PR: I remember the day I met her. I got – she – her cousin introduced me to her, and gosh, she was – she was dressed in a – she was dressed in a black dress. Oh, my God, she – whoo! [Laughter] Beautiful. ER: Swept off your feet. PR: Oh, my God, yeah, she was beautiful, man. So I married her, and…two boys. Got two boys, uh, Paul. ER: And Vince. PR: And Vince. And Vince – Vince’s got – Vince’s got six kids, all going to St. John’s School. He’s – they got their seventh one coming up in May. But anyway, that – that’s how – that’s how I met my wife, through the, uh, going to dances back then. ER: That’s sweet, though. PR: We were all related. You know, like I said, when the people, uh, from Kansas told the people in Mexico: “Hey, come on down up here,” it’s, you know, when they told their cousins and things like that. So, all the cousins would come to live in Kansas, and like I said, we were all related when it came to dating and all that. ER: Had to go elsewhere. PR: We had to go someplace and look. And – and at school. And at school. Let me tell you, in school, when I was in grade school, we were – we – we were – we were…us, and the Anglo kids, the white kids. We – we got along okay. We got along okay. Uh, in junior high, junior high was a little different. Junior high, the white kids would – they liked to hang around with us. We got along with them pretty good. Um…high school. High school was way different. I – I don’t know what – what – in high school, I – I think what happened was the – the white kids, um…they didn’t – they didn’t associate with us as much as they used to when we were younger. �ER: Right. ‘Cause kids will play together when they’re younger. PR: Yeah. But as we got older, you know, they – they kind of stuck to their own selves. ER: Mm-hmm. PR: They stuck to their own selves. In my time, you – you couldn’t date a white girl. ER: Oh. PR: You couldn’t date a white girl. ER: It just wasn’t done. PR: Yeah. If – if you dated a white girl, you – you know, people kind of looked – it wasn’t like today, you know. Today, interracial marriages are – ER: Are more common. PR: But then, gosh, so it – it was hard growing up for me, ‘cause I – I, well, I liked girls and all that, but I couldn’t really date. ER: Yeah. PR: Really date, so…back again, you know, it goes back to having these social events. Um, Mexican dances and all that. So, but – but I did notice, in high school. The kids sort of – it’s almost like, if – if they felt that we were different, and – and – even with the – the black kids – ER: Mm-hmm. PR: They – they kind of stuck together, in their groups. As a kid – as a young junior high school kid, high school mostly, the only really good friends I had were the Mexican friends. The kids that I grew up with. ER: The ones you played baseball with. PR: Yeah, I played baseball, altar boy, and – but that – that’s the closest I’ve – that’s…that’s why I was so close to them. High school, that’s – that’s all I ever hung around with, was the Mexican kids that I knew. I felt comfortable with them. I really felt real comfortable with them. I – I remember – I remember, um, segregation. ER: Oh, you remember that? PR: Oh, my gosh, yeah. I – I remember as a kid, um, we – we weren’t allowed in the swimming pools. �ER: Really? PR: Yeah, we weren’t allowed in the swimming pools. So, we would go down there to the swimming pools, and – and watch all these kids swimming and all that, and I remember [laughs] I remember leaning against the fence and watching the kids swimming in there. ER: Oh. PR: And they always told us: “Well, you can’t get in there because you have to pay.” ER: Oh. PR: You had to be a member. But that was their way of keeping out ER: That was, yeah, that was what they said was technically the reason. PR: They said: “You gotta be a member.” Oh, gosh, I remember so many times watching, going down there, watching all them kids, white kids, out there in the swimming pool, and…uh… ER: That seems cruel. PR: It… ER: You’re just kids, you know. PR: Gosh, I remember us guys…ten, eleven, twelve years old, going out there to the country and finding some pond out there and – and swimming in them ponds. And you know what, it was funny because [laughs] pretty soon, the farmers’ cows would [laughs] and – and, uh, drink water out of the – out of the – ER: The stock ponds, I think they call ‘em. PR: The stock pond, yeah. Them things, we’d go out there, and that was our way of getting in the water. We had to go to places like that. Or go to the river. The Kaw River. ER: That must have been dangerous, too. PR: Oh. Oh, my gosh, yeah. You know, Emily, I remember one time as little kids, we were little kids. Our – our parents…good parents, excellent parents, but a lot of the time, they – they didn’t know where we were at because, you know, at that, a long time ago, you could send your kids out there and – and they were safe. ER: Yeah. PR: You know, you didn’t have to worry about predators being out there and things like that. You – you – you send your kids out there and say: “You kids come back for lunch.” So, we’d go �out there, I remember one time we were at the river, wading in the river, and then, uh, we were getting ready to leave, and we were standing by – on the bank of the river. And we were – we’d left, and about twelve seconds later, that bank that we were standing on caved in. I mean, you could just see it – whoosh! ER: Oh, my gosh. PR: That whole section. ER: All of it? Wow. PR: Yes, if we would have been there, um, a few seconds earlier, us guys would have been in the river. But that’s things that we had to do, because we weren’t allowed in the swimming pools. I – I – I remember when me and my wife Anna got married, and, uh, in the evening we’d go out for…you know, a root beer or something like that. ER: Yeah. PR: I remember going to the – there was one stand, a root beer stand here – here in Lawrence, that, uh, all them people would get served in them, you know, glass… ER: Oh, like in the pictures that have the glass with the straws. PR: That, uh, ice and all that kind of…we – we were put in cups. ER: Just plain old cups. PR: They had paper cups. We were put in paper – they put our drinks in the paper cups. ER: What a shame. PR: And…I remember going into the service, and I was stationed in, um, in, uh, the South. I – I remember Atlanta, Georgia. I remember, uh, getting off a plane in Atlanta, Georgia. I went – I was hungry, so I stopped at this one place, this – they used to call ‘em drugstores, then. ER: Oh, okay. I gotcha. PR: And I went to this drugstore to get something to eat. When I went in there – this was in the ‘60s – went to this place to get something to eat, and they had – there was like a big old, there was a table and counter. ER: Oh, yeah. PR: A table, this is the counter. ER: Yeah, with stools. �PR: Yeah, with stools, there you go. So, I went in there, and they had for whites, this section was for whites, this section was for blacks, and I went in there, thinking to myself: “Where do I go?” ER: Oh, my gosh. PR: I’m not white. Or I’m not black. ER: What did you do? PR: I got to sit in the middle. ER: That sounds smart. PR: Even doing that, you know, they looked at me. White people would look at me. The black people would look at me. I – I didn’t know where to go. So I, like I already said, I went in the middle, in the middle of the counter there, and I was okay there. Same thing, you see the bathrooms. Using the bathrooms. ER: My gosh. PR: What bathroom do I use? Do I use the white or black? I was in between. And using the bathroom, the water fountains. Remember the water fountains too, white and black, and there was nothing for us, there wasn’t no middle person, so… ER: It must have been bewildering, just not knowing where you fit. PR: Oh, for sure, yeah. But you know what? I – I don’t know. I don’t know which I felt better with. I might have felt better with the blacks, because…I’m a little darker, closer to the blacks than I am to the whites. So, I – I was probably closer to being with the black people. Oh, gosh… ER: That’s unfathomable. I never grew up with that. PR: Yeah. ER: We grew up with smoking and nonsmoking sections, but I – never, never like that. PR: Yeah. It – it was quite, yeah. And in the South. ER: It was – it was very bad in the South. PR: Sure. ER: More pronounced, anyway. I know racism is everywhere, but in the South it was – it was very prevalent. �PR: It was tough, it was tough – it, uh, I didn’t know where, which one to go to. So, like I said, I just found the middle of the counter and went to the middle counter, I got served…oh. Bathrooms, water fountains, everything like that. Um, I was gonna show you, this – ER: Oh, you got a picture there. PR: That’s a picture of my two little brothers. ER: Oh. I love their overalls. PR: And then – that was La Yarda right, well, this is – this was La Yarda. ER: Okay, it’s right behind them. PR: This was the… ER: Which brothers are these? PR: Uh…okay, that’s my brother, uh, uh…Rick. Enrique. ER: Enrique. PR: And then my brother Omar. Gonzalo Romero. ER: Oh. On the left. PR: Yeah, this – this… ER: I see, oh, he’s got – okay, so you’ve got shoes, but they definitely weren’t the waterproof kind. PR: No, no – I, yeah, really, they weren’t. ER: That’s a cute picture. PR: Yeah, that’s a cute picture. That was back probably about 19…maybe 19, in the ‘50s, probably early ‘50s. ER: So, do you remember when the flood happened? PR: Yeah. ER: Other people have talked about that in their interviews. PR: Yeah, they talked…and – and I was – okay – do you, uh…this – this was the layout and –as I can remember. I’m no artist, okay, but I can remember. �ER: Oh, but this will do. PR: These were the La Yarda, the two buildings. Okay – walked south, and there was the railroad tracks. ER: Oh, okay. PR: Yeah, this was the railroad tracks there. You had to climb up a little s – a little hill, uh, to cross the tracks. Once you got across the tracks, that was the City. ER: Oh, okay. PR: Everything out here was in the country. But I remember as a kid, I remember this here. I remember this little – it was a dirt road, a dirt road that ran down, uh, east and west. Uh, I remember some of the buildings. There was a little pond out here. Here’s the two bathrooms. ER: And there’s your chicken pens. PR: Yeah, a chicken pen there, and another chicken pen. Gosh, I think I drew this back in 19…about 20-02. ‘Cause this is still fresh in my mind. I tell you, my – my memory is still okay, but… ER: I’d say it’s good. You have excellent recall. PR: I – I feel that, you know, this is necessary to do, because one of these days, there ain’t gonna be nobody around, you know. ER: To remember. PR: That actually lived in these places here. So, this – this is what I find, this is what I find real interesting, I – I’d like to really get involved in this, but one of my biggest drawbacks is that I’m not a very good speaker, you know? Like I can put things down on paper better than I can talk about it – I’ve always been like that. ER: I’m the same way. I like to write things down. PR: Yeah. I like to write, seem like I could express myself better. I mean, gosh, I envy the people that can get up there and speak and… ER: Oh, it’s such a gift. PR: All they do is open their mouth and these words are coming out. Me, I’m thinking about: “What am I gonna say, am I saying it right?” [Murmurs] Oh, gosh. ER: Even when I do lectures, I have to write out what I’m going to say. �PR: Yeah, I’m – I’m like that. You – you know, I was – I was…[rustling] ER: I like that magic bag. It’s like Mary Poppins. You just – PR: What’s that? ER: Like Mary Poppins’ bag, that she could just – PR: Oh! ER: Put all these things in there. PR: Yeah. [Paper rustling] ER: It’s just – it’s fascinating that these pictures here, you know, of the foundation, you know, that’s the pump. That’s where it was. PR: Right, yeah, yeah. ER: That’s amazing. PR: Did you ever see this? [paper rustling] ER: What’s this? “La Yarda: Undiscovered Oasis.” PR: Did you – you ever see it? ER: No, I haven’t. PR: Okay. ER: But this would be the kind of thing that they would – if they could restore the area, they could put this on plaques. PR: Yes. They – they have…they have, uh, the, uh, they keep telling me they got money. They keep telling me they – they got some grant money, that they could do – that they could help, uh, maybe making this possible. But… ER: I don’t see why not. PR: I tell you what, it – ER: Especially with volunteer work, I mean – �PR: It – the – the land today, the – the railroad, the Santa Fe Railroad gave, uh, um, the land to the – to the City. So, what the City doing now, is they – where La Yarda sits, right, not too far, maybe a couple hundred, maybe a hundred feet or something like that. They built – the City’s got sewers, um, City sanitation. ER: Oh, okay. PR: Plants out there. I guess that’s what you call ‘em. But I was thinking, son of a gun, if – if the City just – it belongs to the City now. If – if they could just buy a little piece of land – ER: Sure. PR: Clear that area out, and – and fence it, maybe fence it? I don’t know how long the fence would last, but – ER: Still. PR: They could do something like that. ER: Oh, I like that picture. PR: Yeah. ER: All the little kids. 1933. PR: This is the way – this is the way La Yarda looked like. ER: Oh, okay. I got you. PR: There was two of them. There was two of ‘em. ER: And there’s the pump in between the two. PR: Yeah, there’s the pump, and these were the two ends. The – the two ends were the biggest part of the…of the building there. But yeah, there was these – there was all these doors, and all these doors led to a different room. ER: I wonder who was responsible for making the drawing here. PR: Ah… ER: Do you – was that Frank Chavez? PR: Yeah, I – ER: Was it – �PR: I got the original picture of that. ER: That’s right. That’s the one you showed me on your cell phone. So, this is that. PR: I can – yeah. That is it. ER: Wow. PR: The slab is still out there. The slab is still out there, it’s – ER: I’d like to go out there and see it. PR: One of these days – ER: Yeah, when it’s not snowing. PR: No, no, one of these days – if – one of the best times might be in the springtime, because well, right now it’s all right, but it’s cold and… ER: Yeah. PR: Today is a good – um…before – while – while it’s still cold, and there’s poison ivy, and that’s not out there, it’s dead, but – ER: Oh, that’s true. That’s right. PR: Yeah, there’s…in springtime, summertime, there’s, you have to watch it, ‘cause there’s poison ivy out there. ER: Maybe at the end of February, or March, when it warms up, but the plants having started coming back yet. PR: Go out there. Man, I – I thought about how we could preserve, uh… ER: Even a small piece, like – PR: This piece of land, yes. ER: Just seems like such a shame. PR: And – and the City – the – the City could go in there and take care of it. Could – Park and Recreation. ER: Just like a park, you know, hire people to mow the lawn, and… �PR: Get, you know, clean it out, and maybe put…grass and all that, and keep it mowed and all that, and…God, it’s very interesting. Like I said, there was a German camp just right – right up the road. ER: That’s fascinating. I wouldn’t have thought that – right there, you know. PR: There’s a lot of history in there, that deal there. Lot of history. ER: Especially when you think: Lawrence is a community that’s really proud of its history – PR: Right, yeah. ER: So, why not preserve this? PR: Yeah. To me, the Hispanics are left out. ER: I would agree. PR: They – they are left out. One of the – one of the reasons was because the – the MexicanAmerican community, they all lived in La Yarda, and East Lawrence. New Jersey Street, Pennsylvania and all that. Their parents made it a goal in their life to get their kids educated. That was very important, get them kids to school, make a better life for themselves. Get out. Get something nice out there. The Mexican-American people in – in Lawrence, they’re spread all over Lawrence now. You know? Once they got a chance to get a good job… ER: They left. PR: They wanted something better. So, man, you’ll find ‘em all over now. West side, south…they’re all there. ER: Mm-hmm. PR: But not in a group anymore. The – the first, the chance that they got to get out, make something for, you know, make ‘em a better life, they – they moved away. They…different parts of Lawrence now. But at one time, they were all pretty much on the east side. ER: And that needs to be preserved, because that’s – that’s where your parents lived. They helped you… PR: Right ER: Think about something else beyond La Yarda, and that’s where you started, so I think it’s a shame that it would just go unpreserved like that. PR: Yeah, they’re – like I said, about the only time you see the Mexican-American people get together is when they go to church. �ER: Oh, when – okay. PR: You go to church or the fiesta, the fiesta that’s held in June. And you see all the Mexicans and all that. They’re all here in Lawrence. They’re all here in Lawrence, but they’re all spread out. ER: Yeah, just not in the same place. PR: No, not no more. Once they got a chance to, uh, uh, get out and…get better jobs, better jobs and…get out there, and instead of living, you know, there’s nothing wrong with the east side, but that’s where we all kind of grew up on. ER: Yeah. PR: But you know, there’s places, nice places out there that they can – they can have. ER: So, you’ve been going to St. John’s for – how long, would you say? PR: Oh, forever. I been – I was baptized here in Lawrence. I was baptized at St. John’s. ER: Oh, were you? PR: Um…we were altar boys. Little kids. ER: In the squads. PR: Yeah, in the squads. We always made fun of each other, because [ER laughs] you know, we’d be altar boys, and the altar – are you Catholic? ER: Ah, no. I have some Catholic family members, but I was raised Baptist. PR: The altar was kind of steps, and I remember we – we’d be kneeling down on the top stairs, and – and you could always see the shoes, all the little Mexican shoes all had holes in ‘em. [Laughter] ER: Oh. PR: Holes in ‘em, and maybe some cardboard, you know. ER: I believe you. PR: And they, uh, all the shoes had holes in ‘em, with cardboard. But yeah, um, like I said, you – you see all the Mexican-American community at places, at church. They’re mostly all Catholic, so…yeah, we – we – we never have gotten away from the church. This church is our second home. �ER: That’s what you said on the – on the phone, you and your wife, you know, it feels like a second home to you. PR: Oh, it is a second home. It’s, um, all the people that got baptized, got married, and got buried there. That’s – church is about – it is our second home. ER: Are you still – are you able to have in-person services over here yet, or…? PR: Um… ER: How did that change with the pandemic? PR: Okay…let’s see…you – there’s church service, but you have to sign up. ER: Oh, okay. PR: You have to sign up, and then once you get in church, and the pews – you, they’re distanced six feet. ER: Right. PR: But the first thing you gotta do is you got to, uh, uh, you got to, uh, make an appointment. Um, and then once, once you make an appointment ,you can get in, then, uh, they…have you, every six feet apart. So, at church, I – I’m gonna say there’s maybe…a couple hundred people when the church is filled up. With – with this epidemic and all that, there might be, like, thirty people in there. ER: Oh, my gosh. PR: Thirty people that, you know, signed up. A lot of people still don’t want to go, because, you know, they don’t feel safe. But it – it’s still open, and it’s – it’s different. It don’t even seem like a church hardly any more, because of the restrictions that there is. ER: That’s what I miss, I think, most about, ‘cause we’re not having in person services at church. I miss seeing people every week. PR: Yeah. ER: That I wouldn’t necessarily…it’s just not having that close community in person. They have ‘em online, but it’s not the same – it’s not the same. PR: My wife, Anna – she – she likes to watch it on – there’s a Catholic station on TV. ER: Oh, is there? �PR: Yeah, yeah, I think it’s Channel 91. Midco. I think it’s Channel 91 – she’ll watch it on – ER: I haven’t got cable. PR: So, she’ll watch it on Sunday at, uh, 7:00 Mass. But me, I…I like to come into the church, but I like to stay my distance, but it’s – it’s not – it’s not like it used to be. ER: No. PR: Yeah, used to be you could go to church and meet your friends and talk and all that. Now you go to church, you know – you’re too far away to talk to each other. ER: Can’t shake hands. PR: You can’t shake hands, or…it just – and then after church is over, you know, we used to get outside and talk and all that, but you can’t. ER: Maybe even go out to lunch, or…? PR: What’s that? ER: Maybe go out to lunch, or something like that, and… PR: Yeah. ER: Just visit. PR: Yeah. We used to do that, but not no more, no. Um… ER: It seems so strange to think that a year ago, you know, I’d just go and get some coffee, talk with people. PR: For sure. ER: We’d stand around talking, and we’d shake hands, we’d sing together, and then…nothing. That’s – it’s been difficult, adjusting to the lack of community. PR: Yeah. Hey, so, Emily, how can your project, uh, how can you help us? ER: I’d like to know that. I’d like to ask Nora how I could be involved. PR: How can you be of help to us? ER: What do you think? �PR: I – I think…I really think that this – this – this is possible. This is possible, but we have to get people involved. I’m, uh, I’m all for it. I’d like to – ER: Maybe preserving – PR: But, yes, I’d preserve, maybe do something to – to La Yarda. Uh…I’d like to preserve it, but we – we need the people, and, I don’t know, it just seems that people…it just seems like people just aren’t interested in it. I mean, you know, we – we tell our – our – our grandkids, we tell our two boys about how it was and all that, and they – they listen to us, and, you know, they can’t believe that – that, you know. We had a life there in La Yarda and all that. ER: Right. PR: But…I don’t know, I – I just, I – I wish there was a way that, uh, we could do something about this. ER: I think it is doable. PR: Yeah. ER: And I’m hoping that when Nora finishes the project, maybe she can…present it to – to a committee, maybe even to the City – PR: Right. ER: Some members of the City, and get them interested, but even something as simple as writing letters, if we could get people to inquire about what might be possible. PR: You know…I know a lot of these people. They’re – they’re, uh…they’re smart people. They’re smart people, but, and just like the Mexican-Americans, like the Mexican-Americans, they – they’re kind of, uh, quiet people. ER: Mm-hmm. PR: They’re kind of quiet. The – they’re smart, they’re smart people. But – but they’re – they’re kind of quiet, you know, they – they don’t like to get out there and – and speak up. ER: Sure. PR: I’m – I’m the same way, too, like I said, I’m…I’m pretty good at writing stuff – I don’t know if I am, but, you know. ER: I think you are. PR: Like I said, you know, writing stuff down. �ER: You’ve had years of practice. PR: Yeah, and like I said, I’m better at – ER: I got it. PR: Oh, thank you. Try and open my sinus up. I – I, yeah, I’m – I’d like to be, I’d like to help as much as I could, I can, but I – I can’t see myself speaking up there in front of the City, the City leaders. ER: And that’s just it; you shouldn’t have to. Like, there should be people that can do that, with different talents. You do the writing, and someone else can, say, do the speaking if they’re comfortable with that, they have…. PR: That – that’s me right there. ER: That’s – that’s what we need, is more people involved. PR: Right. I…I, um, I got the – I got the feelings to do it and all this stuff, my intention’s good, but like I said, I’m just, I just can’t, I’m just not that kind of a person that…that can get up and talk about this to the public, like the City and all that. ER: Someone else can do that. Look at this – all this foundational work that you’ve done. It would make an excellent book. PR: Oh, my God. That’s, well, I – I’m, well, I, living in La Yarda, it just made me appreciate…people. Caring for each other. I don’t know, it’s – it’s a good feeling, you know, to…um, caring for people. Respecting people. I think – I think we lost a lot of that respect today. ER: That’s a shame. PR: It’s a shame, because we said – like we live, we live for ourselves now. We could reach out, reach out and try to help each other, like we used to do. Like we used to do. We used to reach out and help each other and… ER: And you’ve been honest about how hard it was. You know, it wasn’t an easy life, but… PR: For sure. ER: But you’re right, you also – when you leave that behind, now we miss the community aspect. PR: Yeah, yeah. ER: Where people wouldn’t think twice about, you know, helping someone else, and of course you’d do that. �PR: Yeah. Gosh. ER: Now, it seems people are more hesitant to just reach out. PR: Right. ER: I think this – this deserves to be remembered. PR: Well, you know, if this – if this, I’ll be glad to help you any way I can. [Murmurs] I don’t know, if you’ve seen any of these pictures there. ER: I haven’t seen any pictures. PR: Okay, you haven’t seen no pictures at all? Okay, this – ER: No, all I’m doing is transcription, so I never saw any of the materials. Gosh, all those skirts. All made by hand. Oh, Mary Nunez. I did – I transcribed her interview. PR: Mary Nunez? ER: Mm-hmm. PR: Mary Nunez. You – you did an interview with her? ER: Oh, I transcribed it. I think Helen had done that. Helen Krische was the first one to start working on this. PR: Oh, okay, okay. ER: Yeah. PR: Okay, yeah. ER: But I had done…Garcia…I love the costumes. PR: That’s – that’s me right there. ER: That’s you? PR: Yeah. ER: Oh, my goodness. PR: We used to have a dance group. �ER: Do you? PR: We used to have, when we were small kids, about that age there, what, eleven years, maybe? ER: I love the gold braid on that costume. PR: Yeah, we used – we used to go around and dance for the Kiwanis Club or the Lions’ Club. ER: Oh, okay. I gotcha. PR: And the people ate all that stuff up [laughs]. Seeing us little Mexicans out there dancing. ER: It’s cute. So, here’s the railroad tracks. PR: That – that was the flood. That was the flood. ER: The ‘51 flood, is that right? PR: The ‘51 flood. Okay, this – this right here, these, um… ER: Oh, my gosh. PR: These were little buildings that the railroad men, my dad, they had all their tools in these sheds there, and every morning they’d go out there, that’s where they would meet. From there they got the orders to go wherever, wherever they had to. ER: All that water. Gosh. PR: But all that was underwater, at one time. ER: That’s unfathomable. Oh, here – wow, right up to the – PR: The railroad tracks are right here. And all that was flooded, that’s why my parents had to move. They got tired of…they got tired of cleaning up that mud, and all that. ER: I would too. Oh, my gosh. PR: This was La Yarda. Okay, this – this is the roof. That is the roof. ER: Up to the power lines. PR: That’s the roof there, and that’s that little piece that sticks out. ER: All just underwater. PR: All underwater. �ER: I can’t imagine what that was like. I’ve never lived on a coast, or even lived through a huge flood like this, so…my gosh, such destruction. PR: That’s an old picture of my… ER: Oh, that’s your mom and dad? PR: Yeah, that’s my mom. My dad. ER: You have your mom’s eyes, I think. PR: [Laughs] My grandma. ER: Is that your dad’s mom, or your mom’s mom? PR: Yeah, my dad’s mom. ER: What was her name? PR: Gregoria. ER: Okay. PR: Gregoria. ER: Okay, she had written – PR: Yeah. ER: It was in the book, there. PR: She was… ER: You’re lucky to have so many good pictures. PR: Oh, my – okay, my mom was from Mexico City, and my dad was from Veracruz. And I tell you what, as kids, boy, we – we were taught to respect our elders. Oh, my gosh. Oh, like we – we – the elders, like the women, we would call ‘em Dona Maria, Dona Rosa. Everything – well, in English, it’d be like “Ma’am” or – ER: Yeah. PR: But, everybody, all the ladies we talked to, we – we’d address ‘em by Dona. D-O-N-A. Dona Maria. Dona Rosa. �ER: My parents raised us to do that, too. You know, Mr. John or Miss Ramona. PR: Yeah, right. ER: I still – I still do that now, because it just feels odd not to call them by their first names. PR: Yeah. ER: But you’re right, I – this – it deserves to be preserved. PR: Yeah, so if there’s any way that you could help us, oh gosh, you know, we have a lot of young kids today. Young kids in their 40s, 50s, probably – intelligent Mexican Americans. But, I don’t know, I’d like to see some of them kids step up today. Step up, um, and – and take more interest in – in their roots. You know, these – my two boys, okay, Paul graduated from the, um, business, school of business. He’s, uh, he’s, um…he works at – for the UMBA, uh, bank in Kansas City. In Kansas City, Missouri. I got my son Vincent, who works at, uh… ER: Healthcare, was it? PR: He’s health administration. ER: That’s right. PR: He works at the hospital there in, um, Kansas City, Shawnee…uh, I think it’s called Advent now. ER: Oh, okay. PR: But, you know, I’d like to see our younger people step up. A lot of them, you know, are smart kids. ER: Of course they are. PR: They’re smart kids, but, I just, I don’t know, they’re just – really, you know, on – on the school board, we don’t have anybody on the school board, um, I wish we did. I – I, that’s one of the things I’d like to see happen while I’m still living, to see some of these young kids grow up, you know, and be on the school board, or be on the City commission. I – I look forward to the day – ER: To have a voice in the town. PR: Yeah, have a voice in – in Lawrence. But we don’t have nothing like that. We don’t have nothing like that. I don’t know. I don’t know why. ER: I hope that happens for you. I hope you get to see that. �PR: I do, I live for the day that I see one of these, somebody on the school board. ER: One of your grandkids, even, maybe. PR: Yeah. Like I said, the Hispanic-American community here in Lawrence…they’re – they’re – they’re there, but they’re – but they won’t – they – they just don’t stand out. ER: Right. PR: You know, to be noticed. ER: Like you said, quiet. PR: Yeah, they’re quiet. They’re – I guess we all – ER: Smart, intelligent, full of history and – and knowledge, but just not… PR: And all this history and all that, we’re keeping it to ourselves. And one of these days, all that history’s gonna die with people that actually lived in, you know, like in La Yarda and all that, so…anyways, um… ER: Well, thank you for sitting down and showing me all of this. PR: If – if I can be of any help, I’ll be glad to help you out, and, um, like I said, I wish – I wish more could be done. ER: I think it can. PR: I hope so. ER: And I’m hoping that when Nora’s carrying this project through to completion, that that will go some way to at least putting it out there, and being visible. PR: Yes. I always think of myself as being a – not a leader, but a follower. You know, I – ER: And we need both. PR: Well, yeah. ER: Just like we need the Marys and the Marthas. PR: Right, yeah. ER: That’s what keeps us going. �PR: I’ll be glad to help Nora in any way I can. But…we – we gotta do something. If we don’t, history’s gonna pass us by. ER: And that will be a shame that we can’t fix. PR: Yeah…well. ER: I’ll go ahead and turn this off. PR: Okay. Okay, well, I’ll gather up – END OF TAPE � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Yarda Oral History Project Subject The topic of the resource La Yarda (Lawrence, Kan.) Mexican Americans -- Housing -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- History -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Kansas -- Lawrence Description An account of the resource La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided by the Santa Fe Railroad for Mexican-American railroad workers in Lawrence, Kansas; located near the Kansas (Kaw) River, the neighborhood was largely destroyed by a major flood in 1951. In 2006, Helen Krische, archivist at the Watkins Community Museum, began an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. The project was resumed in 2019 by Nora Murphy and Emily Raymond. The interviews primarily feature the children of the railroad workers who migrated to Lawrence in the early 20th century; they describe daily life, social activities, and living conditions in the Mexican-American community in Lawrence from roughly the 1920s through the 1970s. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived La Yarda Oral History Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Watkins Community Museum (Lawrence, Kan.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 2019 2021 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource These works are the intellectual property of the Watkins Museum of History, Lawrence, Kansas. The public may freely copy, modify, and share this Item for noncommercial purposes if they include the original source information. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Raymond, Emily Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Romero, Pedro (Pete) Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data MP3 Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 00:47:18 (2006) 00:19:03 (2021-01-29) 01:30:46 (2021-02-04) Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 84 kbps (2006)/192 kbps (2021) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pedro (Pete) Romero La Yarda Interview Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Romero, Pedro (Pete) Description An account of the resource Pedro (Pete) Romero was interviewed by Helen Krische on May 23, 2006, and then by Emily Raymond on January 29 and February 4, 2021, as part of an oral history project to document the La Yarda and Mexican-American communities in Lawrence, Kansas. Pedro lived with his parents and siblings in Lawrence's La Yarda neighborhood. La Yarda was a neighborhood of worker housing provided by the Santa Fe Railroad for Mexican-American railroad workers; located near the Kansas (Kaw) River; the neighborhood was largely destroyed by a major flood in 1951. In the 2006 interview, Pedro and Helen discuss photos and drawings of the Santa Fe depot and the La Yarda area. Pedro also describes his family's migration from Mexico to Lawrence, his father's experiences as a railroad worker, and his experiences growing up in La Yarda and East Lawrence. In the 2021 interviews, Pedro talks about how he met his wife, their involvement with St. John's Catholic Church, and their two sons. He also also describes his family's relationships with other Mexican-American families in Lawrence, their experiences attending local schools and playing sports, their family's foodways and social life, and experiences of discrimination and segregation faced by the Mexican-American community in Lawrence. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Raymond, Emily Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lawrence (Kan.) 1920s - 1970s Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006, January and February 2021 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP3 (audio recording) PDF (transcription) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2006 interview: 25-PRomero-2006.mp3 (audio)/25-PRomero-2006.pdf (transcription) 2021-01-29 interview: 5-PRomero-20210129.mp3 (audio)/5-PRomero-20210129.pdf (transcription) 2021-02-04 interview: 6-PRomero-20210204.mp3 (audio)/6-PRomero-20210204.pdf (transcription) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Watkins Community Museum (Lawrence, Kan.) Relation A related resource To access the audio recording of these interviews, go to <a href="https://archive.org/details/6-promero-202102204">https://archive.org/details/6-promero-202102204</a>. The <a href="https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/">Watkins Museum of History</a> also holds items related to this collection. <a href="https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/resources/5295">Additional research on the La Yarda community</a> is held at the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published with the permission of Peter Romero. This work is the intellectual property of the Watkins Museum of History, Lawrence, Kansas. The public may freely copy, modify, and share this Item for noncommercial purposes if they include the original source information. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived La Yarda Oral History Project Subject The topic of the resource La Yarda (Lawrence, Kan.) Mexican Americans -- Housing -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- History -- Kansas -- Lawrence Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Kansas -- Lawrence Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History