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Celebrate 30 years of service to the local community with Mary Olmscheid Agency on Wednesday, June 23...Mary has been in business 30 years! Stop by all day long on the 23rd at the agency's Sauk Centre office for ice cream treats and chances to win prizes. Since 1991, Mary has served the local community through branches in Elrosa and Sauk Centre. She and her family have contributed so much to our quality of life. Located at 965 South Main Street, Suite 101, Sauk Centre, MN. Phone 320-352-5267,...
*Breaking news! For the past three weeks (May 27 to June 16) the zip code areas of Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa have reported just two COVID-19 cases in a population of about 4,300 children and adults. That is tremendous news. Tremendous!!! Just released at noon on Thursday, June 17, the latest Minnesota Department of Health reports shows just one new local COVID-19 case in the zip code areas of Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa for the prior week of reporting. Since January 2020, the Brooten 56316...
Come one, come all! A magnificent event is set to return for 2021 in rural Brooten. Thirteen vendors, two bands and thousands of cheese curds headline this year's Redhead Creamery Curd Fest, THIS Saturday, June 19, 2021. The third-annual "Curd Fest" planning is ready to pay off at Jer-Lindy Farms and Redhead Creamery. "Curd Fest" celebrates the beloved cheese curd, with live music, food, drink and fun for all ages. Attendees can attend some or all of the event from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at...
The area street dance season is about to begin for the summer of 2021. The first area street dance is being sponsored and hosted as a fundraiser for the Sunburg Fire Department this Saturday, June 12. The men and women of the Sunburg Fire Department are excited to have the Mason Dixon Line band coming to town to perform the area's first live concert since 2019! This event is for adults ages 21 and over, and it has a $10 gate admission. Mason Dixon Line will perform from 8 p.m. to midnight at...
Do you know any kids ages 6 to 11 that would like to create Make and Take arts and crafts with other kiddos their age? The Central Square Box Office staff are happy to be hosting this annual summer art education program where children will have the opportunity to build projects such as a sparkling jellyfish wind chime and a cement seashore stepping stone! Prices are $10 per class per child or sign up for all eight and save $15! Check out our Facebook page or website at centralsquare.org for...
A big weekend is shaping up for the Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team. They travel to Freeport on Friday this week (June 11) with first pitch at Black Sox Stadium at 7:30 p.m. The "big game" is this coming Saturday, when the Saints (3-4) host Stearns County League North leader Spring Hill (5-2) in the KASM 1150 AM radio Game of the Week. First pitch at Saints Field on the 12th is at 8 p.m., and Randy Rothstein will have the call. Another big weekend follows this one, with Elrosa hosting their...
Here's video from the lakeside worship service for Norway Lake Lutheran Parish and visitors at Games Lake county park. It begins right after Pastor Wayne Kopitzke began reading the Holy Gospel, which led into his sermon. More coverage was published on page three of the June 10 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. A photo gallery of pictures taken at the worship service can be found at the Bonanza Valley Voice SmugMug online gallery; short link = https://bit.ly/3gcWEb8...
The annual Bonanza Valley Days celebration returns in Brooten after a COVID-induced hiatus in 2020. "Bucke Up, We are Back!" is the main theme for BVD 2021. It's going to be a rip-roaring time in Brooten! The dates are July 8, 9, 10 and 11 from Thursday to Sunday that weekend. Mark your calendars now! The fun begins with a non-denominational Worship in the Park service at 7 p.m. at the city park near the Brooten Pavilion. A special band concert by Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa students and adults...
From Sky News Australia: The Wuhan Institute of Virology kept live bats in cages, new footage from inside the facility has revealed, disproving denials from World Health Organisation investigators who claimed the suggestion was a “conspiracy”. An official Chinese Academy of Sciences video to mark the launch of the new biosafety level 4 laboratory in May 2017 speaks about the security precautions that are in place if “an accident” occurs and reveals there had been “intense clashes” with the Fr...
Below is video from the first 10 minutes of the graduation ceremony held for the Class of 2021 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school on Friday, May 14. Coverage of graduation was published in the May 20 and May 27 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. To view the photo gallery of photos by the Bonanza Valley Voice at graduation, click here = https://bit.ly/3z14Xyh....
Every day that passes by shows us what an astonishing liar Anthony Fauci has been over the better part of the last 16 months. The latest lie he was caught is is astonishing. It pins my ears back. He needs to find the rock he came out from and crawl back under it. At a U.S. Senate hearing in May, Fauci claimed that United States taxpayers gave the infamous Wuhan research lab in China $600,000. The real number, in fact, was at least $826,000, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request....
The Grove Lake community, with help from the Glenwood American Legion and Glenwood V.F.W., hosted a Memorial Weekend parade on Sunday, May 30. They marched from the historical church in Grove Lake across the highway to the Grove Lake Township cemetery. A video of the parade is shown below here....
For the second time in 2021, the numbers zero, zero and zero have been released by the Minnesota Department of Health for the weekly increase of COVID-19 cases in the zip codes of Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa. Zero for Brooten, zero for Belgrade and zero for Elrosa in a population of about 4,300 men, women and children. Just shy of two weeks ago, a spectacular indoor graduation ceremony was held at B-B-E high school with a celebratory atmosphere. This latest news from the MDH also brings great cause to celebrate. This also happened on March...
Below is a video clip from the graduation ceremony held at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school for the Class of 2021....
The Chippewa Falls Lutheran church in Terrace held a drive-through Norwegian Smorgasbord dinner on Sunday, May 16 to coincide with the annual Syttende Mai, which was the next day on May 17....
Criminal sexual conduct and endangering a child charges were served by the state of Minnesota against a Belgrade couple in connection with alleged contact with four young children in 2018. In early April 2021, Aaron Matthew Vadner, 38, and Rachelle Lynn Hasbrook, 30, made their first court appearances on multiple charges in Kandiyohi County District Court. All charges are felonies. Charges leveled against Vadner: two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person younger than 13,...
The Grove Lake Memorial Parade honoring the fallen will be on Sunday, May 30, marching from the Grove Lake Cemetery Chapel to Grove Lake Park starting at 1 p.m. To click on the Bonanza Valley Voice photo gallery from their parade held on Memorial Day weekend in 2018, click on this short link: https://bit.ly/3i3XNn4....
SUPER terrific news! The area street dance season is about to begin for the summer of 2021. The first area street dance is being sponsored and hosted as a fundraiser for the Sunburg Fire Department on Saturday, June 12. The men and women of the Sunburg Fire Department are excited to have the Mason Dixon Line band coming to town to perform the area's first live concert since 2019! This event is for adults ages 21 and over, and it has a $10 gate admission. Mason Dixon Line will perform from 8...
Following the graduation ceremony for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Class of 2021, a marvelous fireworks show was on full display at eastern side of the high school athletic complex. Graduation was held on Friday, May 14 at the high school gymnasium. Smiles were abundant the entire evening! It was wonderful. Fireworks video is below....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars fastpitch team won a back-and-forth contest on the home field on Tuesday this week over Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City. After trailing 6-2 heading into the bottom of the second inning, the Jaguars won 17-7 in six innings. On Monday this week in another home game, the Jaguars lost 9-2 to undefeated Browerville. On Friday, May 21, the Jaguars travel to Upsala for a non-conference make-up game that was originally scheduled for April 9. Next Tuesday, May 25, Melrose...
A sentencing hearing of July 12 is set for Travis Ryks, 36, of Brooten, after he pleaded guilty in Renville County District Court on Wednesday, May 5 on a charge of felony second-degree criminal sexual conduct for allegedly having sexual contact with a child younger than 13. The case was initially charged in May 2019 before multiple postponements and cancellations pushed it into 2021. Court documents state that Ryks allegedly touched a 12-year old girl numerous times in Renville in 2019. The...
Shown is a video clip featuring construction and remodeling efforts on the south wing of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school. The video was recorded on April 21, 2021....
Below is video recorded at worship service held for Norway Lake Lutheran Parish on Sunday, May 23, 2021 at East Norway Lake Lutheran church. Announcement: the Norway Lake Parish Pandemic Planning Team made the following recommendations: (1) Churches can open to 100% capacity; (2) beginning June 6 - coffee and goodies can be served in the fellowship hall following worship following proper protocol; (3) individual communion kits will be used at the Park for the first Sunday of each month; (4)...
Ignoring lab leak and ivermectin is "crime of the century" according to Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. (From their Livestream #80.) A six-minute video clip is embedded below....
Below in this web article, you can see the live video player for the Class of 2021 graduation at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa. The graduation ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m. at the high school main gymnasium in Belgrade. The live video player starts at 7 p.m. The graduation ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m. Prior to that, graduating seniors are invited to join a car parade through Brooten, Elrosa and then Belgrade. The parade route was published on page one of the May 13 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
