How a program became a model for life after prison
KOAA, Alasyn Zimmerman
and last updated 2021-06-03 19:07:35-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â Any given day at the Community Barber Shop in southeast Colorado Springs, there s a steady stream of customers coming in. It s an art, Thomas Carpenter, a barber at the shop said, you re creating your own masterpiece, someone tells you what they want and you make your own masterpiece about it.
He picked up his first pair of clippers at 14 years old. The barbershop was your go-to, it was like the man s cave of man s cave, Carpenter said.
Carpenter spends his days listening to the stories of the people who come into the shop, but he and his fellow barbers have stories of their own.
Times Past: Dec. 29, 2020
Published: 1/1/2021 4:36:38 PM
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Recent contributions of $1,442.25 to the Athol Santa Fund boosted the fund drive past its $11,000 goal.
■Riverbend School recently began its Peer Mediation program. Seventeen fifth- and sixth-grade students received 20 hours of training over four weeks under the auspices of the Franklin Mediation Service in Greenfield. Peer mediation seeks to have students learn to solve problems peacefully by talking them out with one another and working towards achieving win-win resolutions in which neither party loses and both parties meet their needs. The program will not supplant the school’s current discipline program but will be an adjunct to it. It is seen as an addition to the school’s and the students’ repertoire of problem-solving skills.