Numerous area churches hosted Easter morning worship services on Sunday, April 20, including the Sunburg Free Lutheran church in Norway Lake Township. Their church is led by Pastor Ron Knutson, who is a 1958 graduate of Brooten high school. This video clip begins with Sunday School students singing special music as part of Easter Sunday...
On Saturday, April 19, the Easter bunny visited with area children in Elrosa for an event sponsored by the Elrosa Baseball Association, the Elrosa Commercial Club and Kensington Bank. Turnout surpassed 100 children, and 91 kids were registered for door prizes. In the attached video, Amy Zenzen is shown reading an Easter story to the kids gathered in the basement of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic church. Additional coverage from this event was published in...
The Christian season of Lent featured Good Friday worship at numerous area churches on April 18. The Big Grove/Crow River/Grace Lutheran Parish of Belgrade and Brooten hosted Good Friday worships at Grace Lutheran church in Belgrade at 1 p.m. that day and then at Crow River Lutheran Church in Burbank Township at 7 p.m. The song Old Rugged Cross is performed in the attached video as Good Friday worship special music at Crow River Lutheran Church. The trio of singers...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school choirs and bands performed their spring concert at Olson Auditorium on Tuesday, April 15. In the attached video, the high school jazz band (grades 7-12) plus the middle school band (grades 6-7) perform along with small group ensembles. Additional coverage of the spring concert was published in the April 17 and April 24 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
