5/27/14 - A new community group says that the Pinckney area may have a checkered past when it comes to drugs, but itâs time to move on and change the community culture. That's the goal of the Community Development Youth Initiative, or CYDI project being led by retired Pinckney teacher Rosemary Gass and local pastor Vicky Lovell. Gass feels that youth are the community's most treasured possession and it's time to lift them up. She tells WHMI the biggest problem in Pinckney everybody knows about but no one talks about is M-36. "We've got twelve miles of highway and on those twelve miles, there's nothing for kids. If you live off of M-36 and you're a youth, there's nowhere to go and nothing to do, and that just spells trouble, boredom and just a lack of enthusiasm for being in a great community...The CYDI initiative is to bring life down that corridor and into the neighborhoods off of it." Schools, businesses, and others in the community are already embracing the CYDI project with an informational community gathering planned on Tuesday, June 10th Pinckney High School. A re-create Pinckney Facebook page is also available through the link below. (JK)
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