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Box 53461 Fayetteville, NC 28305 PHONE: (910) 484-6200 FAX: (910) 484-9218 Up & Coming Weekly is a "Quality of Life" publication with local features, news and information on what's happening in and around the Fayetteville/Cumberland County community. Up & Coming Weekly is published weekly on Wednesdays. Up & Coming Weekly welcomes manuscripts, photographs and artwork for publication consideration, but assumes no responsibility for them. We cannot accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or material. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject copy submitted for publication. Up & Coming Weekly is free of charge and distributed at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base, Hope Mills and Spring Lake. Readers are limited to one copy per person. Subscriptions can be purchased for $30 for six months or $60 for 12 months, delivered weekly by first class mail. ©2007 by F&B Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial or advertisements without permission is strictly prohibited. INSIDE Calendar. .......................................... 12 . Concert Connection......................... 16 Movie................................................ 17 TV...................................................... 19 PUBLISHER'S PEN Collective Impact by BILL BOWMAN Well, I guess we have new buzz words in our community. cylinder for farm grain or an underground chamber where a Collective impact. It's a vogue and stylish term now being used missile is housed. What they were talking about, and what I to describe the cooperative initiative found myself talking about a lot, is that needs to take place in order to the use of the word as a metaphor to enable communities, organizations describe the mentality of people and and municipalities to deal with organizations that just don't want to progress, situations and problems share information. They are selfish, they face. self-indulgent and protective of their Interesting. turf, resources and money, while I had a very social and stifling progress and growth of an enlightening weekend; here is otherwise progressive community. what I learned and observed while What is equally astonishing is that talking with established Fayetteville everyone speaks of this as common residents. knowledge and a typical way of life First, I found it amazing how here in our community. knowledgeable they were of the That might have been true in the problems and impediments facing past. It may not be true now. But Fayetteville and Cumberland for our community to succeed and County that keep our community thrive, it can't remain that way. If from progressing and moving this community is going to move forward. Everyone I talked with forward and better itself there is no felt the same way about the urgent doubt that collective impact will need and contemporary needs of our to take place. This can only happen Fayetteville's new mayor, Nat Robertson, has plenty of community. No doubt, addressing if there is a cooperative spirit among Cumberland County's crime problem work to do to bring the people, organizations, institutions people, organizations, institutions was always priority number one. It and governments. and government together. It looks like he is on the right seems like our new mayor is right on track. Like in Berlin, the walls must track with that one. come down! Leaders must lead and Priority two, also no surprise, emerge with a long-term vision for is the need to create jobs and explore innovative ways to our community that the community can get behind and to encourage new business and economic development. (Check which it can make a commitment. This takes cooperation and the box again for Mayor Nat Robertson). leadership. Finally, local residents believe we need to address the quality Can we do it? Will we do it? This is yet to be determined. of life of our residents through the enhancement of education, However, after a weekend of extended discussions with the fine arts and more public recreational facilities. friends, there is no doubt in my mind that we know what the Is anyone surprised? problems are, it's just a matter of whether or not What might surprise you is that each person I talked to we have the intestinal fortitude to address them. expressed the opinion that it wasn't ideas or initiatives that Thank you for kept us from moving forward. Instead, they mined it down to reading Up & BILL BOWMAN, Publisher, Up & Comone word: silos. Coming Weekly. ing Weekly. COMMENTS? Obviously, they were not talking about a silo storage bbowman@upandcomingweekly.com. 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