Photo highlights of 2012 from Mounds View, New Brighton
Here’s a quick look back at 2012 in Mounds View and New Brighton through the lenses of editors’ cameras.
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- Students take their ready positions for the beginning of the 1.1-mile race at Pinewood Elementary School in Mounds View, which hosted its annual Family Fun Run June 4. Before the race began, Principal Bill Book said the event has become a tradition at the school. (File photo by Kassie Petermann – Sun Newspapers)
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- Audience members crowd the railing above the Irondale High School gym floor for a bird’s-eye view of the bands preparing for the Westside Band Festival Jan. 31, including the Irondale Concert Jazz Band, which performed while attendees found their seats. Mounds View School District 621 presented “A Westside Band Festival” in the Irondale High School gym, where several bands from the west side of the school district performed for friends and family. (File photo by Sarah Peterson – Sun Newspapers)
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- A coach congratulates a Mounds View teammate with a high five as he makes it to third base. Players participated in a T-ball game the evening of July 19 at City Hall Park in Mounds View. The Mounds View team and the Shoreview team were organized through the cities’ community centers. (File photo by Kassie Petermann – Sun Newspapers)
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- As part of the school’s annual Peace Day program, Bel Air Elementary students in New Brighton on May 4 wave goodbye to the weather balloon, which popped and floated back to Earth with all of its data, which was later retrieved. During the program, the Irondale Concert Choir performed songs during an assembly in the gym. Then students headed outdoors to form a giant peace sign and launch a weather balloon, which carried video cameras and a GPS tracker. After the morning school events, students in grades three through five went out into the Bel Air community to deliver student-made Peace Day baskets to area residents. (File photo by Kassie Petermann – Sun Newspapers)
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- Participants in the tennis carnival March 31 in New Brighton rotated through a number of stations to help develop hand-to-eye coordination, aim and timing. Recreation departments from New Brighton, Roseville and Shoreview partnered to bring a tennis clinic event to Highview Middle School in New Brighton. Stations throughout the gym had children, ages 4-9, practicing swings and serves, or honing their balance and hand-eye coordination. (File photo by Sarah Peterson – Sun Newspapers)
