At a grand opening on Friday, Mountain View Elementary students wobbled onto the school’s shiny new ice rink, installed thanks to a fundraiser that brought in $8,000.
Mountain View Elementary School students, teachers and parents test out the school’s new ice rink on Friday. The ice rink was built outside the Anchorage school after a community fundraising effort.
Wes Cornelison –– a.k.a. “Coach” –– helped fit skates and tie up laces before taking to the ice, where he shouted praise, doled out high-fives and joined in on a pickup hockey game.Cornelison, who teaches fifth grade and also coaches the school’s basketball team, organized a fundraiser in December to raise money for the school’s new ice rink. Within the first week, he raised nearly $5,000. The fundraiser ended up bringing in a total of $8,000.
Jordan Hodge focuses on balancing while wearing ice skates as he looks to Nathaniel Fromm, a Mountain View Elementary School special education teacher, for help as they try out their school’s new ice rink on Friday. Mountain View Elementary School students use each other for balance as they walk in ice skates toward the ice rink.
On Friday afternoon, Principal Clare Hill was on hand at the ice rink to help students regain their footing after brief slips and falls. She wants the school to be a “beacon of hope for the community.”
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