True North is currently recruiting volunteers for our after-school academic tutoring program. We ask tutors to commit one hour a week for the duration of the semester. We will walk you though a simple screening process. Then we will connect you to a group of students who are seeking help in an academic subject which you are comfortable assisting in, such as English, writing, math, history, etc. To learn more, contact Academic Tutoring volunteer coordinator Suse Connolly: suseconnolly@yahoo.com.
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Teens from Telluride and Norwood banded together recently to begin the first phase of improvements to the Norwood Skate Park. Working under the direction of the True North Youth Program, the teens were aided by Norwood physical education teacher Andrew Parlagreco and True North’s executive director, Lanier Nelson. They hauled away loose gravel and rocks from around the skate park, removed a wasp’s nest, replaced screws and stripped the deteriorating coping in order to refresh the half-pipe with new coping. Parlagreco moved to Colorado last June, after teaching for seven years in Georgia, to become the PE teacher for Norwood’s K-6th graders. During his adolescent years, he was a sponsored com
