Work together to leave lasting legacy in Wallacetown

I’ll stop being negative the moment SAC give me something positive to write about

I get a little unnerved by acronyms. When I see more than one in a single paragraph - I tend to forget for the first one actually stood for!

Don’t worry – it’s a personal thing. Back in the 90s, I used to crack up whenever I saw the word“module”.

Overnight, no-one went to classes, courses, lessons, lectures or tutorials. Instead, everyone attended a“module”.

But back on acronyms, I’m sure the good people of Wallacetown will be delighted that SAC’s CPP are setting up a SDP to help them.

I’m not being critical of the Community Planning Partnership or the Strategic Delivery Partnership.

Far from it – I hope they thrive and succeed in helping Wallacetown be a better place to live, learn, work and play.

But from experience, acronyms can turn into talking shops. And what Wallacetown needs is action.

Just to prove this theory wrong, the dominant talk of action is coming from the biggest acronym – FSWCC – Fort, Seafield and Wallacetown Community Council! And they want to set up a WAA – a Wallacetown Action Area – with some funding from the UKCRF – a community renewal fund!

SAC talk about community councils having a key role.

They should give a key role to chairman Norman McLean – a man well experienced in cutting through acronyms and acrimony and getting the job done.

Finding the right people to start this project - and securing the funding to finish it – should be this council’s social priority in its remaining eleven months.

Restoring Wallacetown to a vibrant, safe community would be a great challenge for the SAC of 2022. And a great legacy to leave behind them in 2027.

Sort Wallacetown in five years. That’s S.W.I.F.Y . . . if you like acronyms!