OSWESTRY is on the verge of great roll with huge optimism for the future – despite the doom and gloom of Trevor Harris’ letter to the Tizer last week.

First there is the Civic Society’s David Ward calling for a “wider vision” for our A5 corridor to eclipse the “numerous plans” proffered; BID asking ‘us’ how its £1.5m should be best spent; a fresh ideas man in waiting in Arren Roberts to head up Oswestry Town Council – plus progressive Duncan Kerr as mayor-to-be for 2020 – to spearhead us all into a promising new generation.

Oswestry can be the a market town with everything, with a strong, viable vision backed by the support of the dozens and dozens of great Oswestry organisations under-pinning it.

If BID’s Adele Nightingale, links arms with the Civic Society’s David Ward, the fresh thinking council head in Arren Roberts, added to the wisdom of some spectacularly wise Advertizer letter writers - and we could be on the threshold of that vision to steer us to an exciting future.

A happy ending?

REFLECTIONS has traced the Italian who harboured big plans for a ristorante in Lawrence’s old Church Street shop – then abandoned it without its front window and part of its floor.

Enrico Vittone has popped up in New Zealand, from where he boasts about his family life on a Facebook page.

You’ll recall he won huge support selling simple bread products from a rear window in The George pub on Bailey Head, but his shaky plans for an Italian ristorante in Church Street ‘dropped through the floor’.

He then hoped to be the chef at a homeless centre being set up at the Smithfield Hotel in Salop Road. Even that flopped before he moved on to the other side of the world.

But, there’s a whiff of a rumour there could be a happy ending to the expensive mess that owner Mrs Lawrence found herself in. A current restaurant owner is sniffing around the wonderfully central premises – interestingly for a further eaterie!

Exciting plans on track

EXCITING things are happening on the Glyn Valley Railway side of Chirk Station – now 80-year-old trees have been lopped to reveal the tramway’s former platform.

The Tramway Trust members are keen to now press ahead with the reinstatement of a booking office and waiting room, using the original foundations to the original design. Once the site is cleared, the Trust will return sleepers and rails, not seen since the mid-1930s. Reflections is told new members are ever welcome on www.glynvalleytramwaytrust.co.uk

And staying with trains, Severn Dee Travel says some “wonderful people” have been helping upgrade the Gobowen Station café with a facelift!

Missing cameras

PANT villagers were puzzled when three cameras were fixed to lamp posts near Brya Offa School and the village pub, but within days they were gone again with no-one any the wiser!