The steel is rising

This past Friday I went by the theatre and saw a majestic sight. The steel that will serve as the bones of the theatre was rising from the ground. The concrete foundation was now receiving the bones of the theatre and......the internal of the structure could now be seen. It made me think of the last time construction occurred at the corner of 4th and Jasper in Camden. It was back in the 1860's when the original building [which turned into Walt's Cafe] was built. So much had changed since then. The wooden structure lasted until 2007 when Fr. Doyle brought the decaying building down with a back hoe and now, in 2008, the new skeleton is made of steel. I wonder if we also have hardened over the years. Hardened to the plight of a city gone awry with guns and drugs and poverty. This new rebirth, though, will prove to us all that our structure needs to be stronger as well. Strong enough to ensure that this theatre WILL rise and thrive and that the hardened structure of us all will see that Camden never returns to what it had become..... that hope and dreams will now have a permanent residence at the corner of 4th and Jasper. It is proper that it is Thanksgiving week. We should all give thanks for so much. But please, if you would, also give thanks for this rebirth as it will be the first of many, many more in Waterfront South!