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HALIFAX<\/strong> — Some 24 odd months ago construction began on Fenwick Street in Halifax\u2019 South End, the site has fast evolved into a fantasyland for every four-year-old boy \u2013 excavators, diggers and dynamite littered the street.<\/p>\n But when workers discovered an unexpected underground river during the early phases of construction, everything stopped.<\/p>\n Here we are, two years later, and my front yard is still a 40-foot canyon. My house still shakes on a daily basis from the dynamite blasts.\u00a0And my neighbours are still pissed off.<\/p>\n But I\u2019m not. In fact, the workers are threatening to be finished the roadwork by Christmas. And I don\u2019t feel too good about it. I have a routine. Each day I throw the door open. I toss my compost. And I mount my bike to greet the same group of workers out front.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A while back, we began exchanging pleasantries. But today we know each other. They even remark on my absent boyfriend \u2013 yes, we broke up. These construction workers have single-handedly woven a new fabric for this little two-block community.<\/p>\n And Alex Duckworth (ya, she\u2019s my sister) and Alexandra Pook are capitalizing on it. They too are shifting perspectives in our hood.<\/p>\n Unemployed and 22, these vixens sling hot dogs and burgers at lunch hour \u2013 just for the workers. The men and one woman congregate in our driveway at noon. They giggle. They hammer Cokes. They inhale questionable meat. And they wail cigarettes.<\/p>\n Fenwick Street is suddenly no nightmare at all \u2013 not to the workers; and not to us. It\u2019s our new community. It\u2019s a community that fosters symbiotic relationships that transcend traditional social codes. Imagine that \u2013 a concept for the South End.<\/p>\n