Become a founding member of New Castle Teen Alliance
April 25, 2008
by Christine Yeres
This past March, New Castle’s Recreation and Parks Department hired Matt Nordt to help run its hiking initiatives, the camp and trip programs and, now, the newly unveiled “Teen Alliance” – a program that needs your help to get started. Teens themselves will develop programs and activities that they find of interest, whether educational, recreational, service-oriented or social. Nordt will be their point-person in the Rec department to help make it all happen.
New recreation supervisor, Matt Nordt
A resident of Danbury, Nordt, 30, started working with young people eight years ago in Pelham. He has run middle school programs in Rye, specifically “Friday Night” programs including sports, gyms, tournaments, trips, dances, karaoke nights and movies. What was biggest? “For middle schoolers, dances got the highest turnout,” recalled Nordt. There wasn’t as much need for his help at the high school, he explained, “because the school did a lot of dances and trips, and had clubs. But we were able to create a permanent skate park a little bigger than the one you have here, with lights so we could be open longer hours, both during the week and on weekends.”
New Castle’s Teen Alliance will begin a regular schedule of meetings in September 2008, but this is the time to be in on the planning of it. Kids from grades 5-12 are invited to attend one or both informational sessions about the Alliance on Saturday, May 10, at 11:00 a.m. at New Castle Town Hall, 195 S. Greeley Avenue in Chappaqua; and Tuesday, May 20, at 6:00 p.m. at the Chappaqua Library.
As members of the Alliance, representatives from each grade will meet twice a month, from September through May, every other Thursday from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. Applications for the Alliance may be downloaded at Teen_Alliance_Application.pdf and Teen_Alliance_--What_does_it_do.pdf (for kids) and at Teen_Alliance_Adult_Volunteer_Flyer.pdf (for adults). Hard copies of the applications are available at the Chappaqua Library or at guidance offices at the Robert E. Bell Middle School, Seven Bridges Middle School and Horace Greeley High School.
You can reach Matt Nordt at 238-7289, or at
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