Pentucket Bank Becomes New Winnekenni Park Adopt-A-Site Sponsor

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Celebrating the new sponsor of the Adopt-A-Site at Winnekenni Castle is, left, Ward 4 City Councilor Melissa J. Lewandowski; Kathy Fitts, president of the Haverhill Garden Club; Effie Miscowski, executive assistant to the Haverhill mayor; Marilyn Jenkins, former Adopt-A-Site sponsor; Lynda Brown, director of Haverhill’s Brightside; Leanne Eastman, senior vice president of community and public relations at Pentucket Bank; Steve Flynn, owner of Nunan’s Florist & Greenhouses; Haverhill Mayor Melinda E. Barrett; Pentucket Bank President and CEO Steve Jaskelevicus; Haverhill City Council President Thomas J. Sullivan; Eric Landers, senior vice president at Pentucket Bank; Ward 1 City Councilor Ralph T. Basiliere; Susan MacKinnon, vice president at Pentucket Bank and Pentucket Bank Chief Financial Officer Karl Denu. (Courtesy photograph.)

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Pentucket Bank is the new sponsor of the Adopt-A-Site pocket park at the entrance to Winnekenni Park.

For the last 15 years Marilyn Jenkins and her late husband Ralph maintained the park as part of Haverhill Brightside’s Adopt-A-Site program. However, following her husband’s death at 91 last year, Jenkins contacted Haverhill City Council President Thomas J. Sullivan about finding a new caretaker. Sullivan in turn appealed to the bank because the Sole of Haverhill shoe statute that once had been on display at the bank’s Merrimack Street branch was moved to the Winnekenni site. The shoe, commissioned by the bank in 2009, had been in storage since the bank’s headquarters was demolished to make way for new construction.

“Pentucket Bank was the natural choice because their Winnekenni shoe was now on display at the castle for all to enjoy,” Sullivan said.

Leanne Eastman, senior vice president for communication and public relations at the bank, said she and the rest of the bank’s staff immediately signed on to Sullivan’s idea.

“We’re always proud to be part of these kinds of community initiatives in particular those that the general public gets to enjoy,” Eastman said.

The Winnekenni shoe, one of 18 shoes on display around the city as part of Team Haverhill’s Sole of Haverhill public art project, was created by Elizabeth Persing and is called “Pentucket, Place By the Winding River.” It features scenes of the castle and Merrimack River.

Eastman said the bank has also agreed to maintain a new lawn area outside the tennis courts for passive recreation and as picnic grounds and a safe spectator area for those watching tennis.

“It’s these kinds of feel-good projects that the bank is really proud of in particular because it just shows the partnerships and how strong the community is when we all come together,” Eastman said.

Brightside President Lynda Brown said Winnekenni Park is among 48 Adopt-A-Site parks her group manages. The group is looking for sponsors for four other sites, Sponsors decide what they wish to plant and how much they want to spend, she added. Brightside may be reached by emailing [email protected].

Haverhill City Council President Thomas J. Sullivan speaks at the celebration ceremony for the new sponsor of the Adopt-A-Site park at Winnekenni Castle. Behind him is the Winnekenni Sole of Haverhill shoe commissioned by Pentucket Bank. (Courtesy photograph.)

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