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Note: this article was published in the January 7, 2021 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. If you've ever operated a machine of any size and said, "I wish they would've designed this differently (and better)" then you know how the process began for improvements of the design for the Arrow Hammer 1450H. Staff at Packer Brothers manufacturing company in Brooten's Industrial Park has built a new-and-improved Arrow Hammer hydraulic breaker machine with a long list of improvements over its...
*Donations update on Monday, February 1: the public is asked to please consider a donation of any amount to the Tensen family for the costs they are facing to bring Josey home and the funeral costs. You can drop off a donation in person at the Belgrade Hardware Store, which is open 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays (and Saturday 8 to 2 p.m.). Thank you. *Funeral services update on Wednesday, February 3: a double funeral will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 7 at the Assembly of God Church in...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, January 31, 2021 in rural New London, MN. Thank you for joining us!...
Here's a four-minute video that I felt was worth sharing. Government allows drug users to set up camps in public spaces and openly condones behavior that spreads filth and disease on a regular basis. Does the government believe that's somehow virtuous and should not be discouraged? Yet at the same time, the government uses the coronavirus as an excuse to destroy thousands and thousands of small businesses across America? According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), in 2019, the United States had 30.7 million small...
This was an amazing video to take in! Ivermectin is low-cost, available on a global scale - and best of all - it has multiple randomized control trials showing favor on its use against COVID-19. It has been on the market since 1981, and it has shown effectiveness in both preventing COVID-19 infections and in clearing COVID-19 infections. Now doctors need to follow suit and study the data for themselves....
Article posted at 11:40 on the morning of Thursday, January 21, 2021. The new COVID-19 case number for the local zip code area of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa is six for the second week in a row. The rural and town community population of Belgrade (56312), Brooten (56316) and Elrosa (56325) is 4,285. Of that population, a total of six people had positive COVID-19 tests over the past seven days (January 14 through January 20). Below are the new numbers for area zip codes, followed by the cumulative COVID-19 cases in that zip code area over the past...
Who else out there plants a family garden? I loved this video and felt it was worth sharing. We don't plant a huge amount of potatoes, but it's still worth learning what was shared here from The Homestead Mentor on YouTube....
During the Thursday, January 21 press conference with statewide media, Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm stated with a high level of disappointment and even dejection that "there doesn't appear to have been a Christmas surge." Let that sink in for a moment. For nine-plus months, every time Malcolm is forced by reality to report good news, she sounds disappointed. This has happened over and over again, without exception. To me, it is as if a plan they have in place did not play out like they had hoped. I'll repeat myself:...
Below is video for worship recorded at East Norway Lake Lutheran church for members and guests from near and far of Norway Lake Lutheran parish in rural New London, MN....
Press release on Thursday afternoon, January 14. Glacial Ridge Health System (GRHS) is glad so many people want to get the vaccine as soon as they can to protect themselves and others! We understand your questions. Please understand it will take some time to vaccinate everyone who wants to be vaccinated for COVID-19. GRHS and local public health agencies will continue to share information, including when we are notified by the MN Department of Health (MDH) about the allocation of additional...
Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) President Kevin Paap was re-elected to the American Farm Bureau Federation's (AFBF) Board of Directors to serve a two-year term by the voting delegates at the AFBF 102nd Annual Meeting voting delegate session. This will be Paap's tenth year on the board of directors. Paap serves on the 34-member AFBF board, which includes 30 state Farm Bureau presidents along with the Women's Leadership Committee Chair, Young Farmers & Ranchers Committee Chair, Vice...
The Brooten Commercial Club's state tax and penalties bill now stands at $18,016.64. This week the amount owed to the state of Minnesota surpassed $18,000 after additional penalties were added for non-payment. No payments have been made on the account since March of last year. The new due date is January 29, 2021. This week's January 14 print edition of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper included an in-depth story of where things stand today with the delinquent taxes owed to the state of Minnesota and also the federal government by Brooten's...
Vitamin D can influence all three innate immune effectors in the lungs and thus play an important role in how the lung recognizes and responds to pathogens. Activation of the innate immune system drives activation of the long term adaptive immune system. The National Institute of Health has warned that low Vitamin D levels leads to frequent colds and also higher risk from the Influenza virus. Other organizations have released numerous studies on how Vitamin D levels correlate with how a person...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish of rural Norway Lake for Sunday, January 17, 2021....
A lost cat was discovered on Saturday afternoon, January 16, on the campus of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. During the wrestling match at the school, this cat was found near the entryway trying to get in the building. It's likely that the large amount of foot traffic in and out of that door on the northeast corner attracted the cat to hang around. As of Saturday night, the cat is safe and fed. If you know someone who has lost a cat fitting the following description, PLEASE send an...
A small gray house cat went missing on Saturday, January 9 on Nelson Avenue in Belgrade. If anyone in Belgrade has information on it, or knows anyone who may have had a big heart and was willing to take it in to save it from the elements, please call The Observer newspaper office and leave a message: 320-254-8250. Thank you for your help!...
It has not gone without struggle, but the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper is poised to survive the 2020 pandemic. This newspaper finished the year "very strong" with a few expansive newspapers plus almost all color issues from the September 17 issue through the December 31 issue. In fact, just one issue during that span did not have color ink included. We mostly kept it to a 10-page issue after September 17, which was an improvement from the spring and summer when we published a handful of very "lean" eight-page issues. We dipped down to eight...
In the video below, this doctor provides very succinct and valuable points on multiple tools that can be used to fight COVID-19. He repeats a message that has been said over and over with the exception of our major news media outlets and our state health officials in Minnesota: early and aggressive treatment of COVID-19 is crucial in improving the odds of survival when infected. A few things discussed in the video include: over-the-counter medications like vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc,...
Over the two weekends leading up to Christmas in December, Hopeful Hills Ranch hosted Christmas open houses at the Fauskee Oil office building in Brooten as well as their location in Lake Johanna Township, rural Brooten. Owner Jane Fauskee was delighted by the response and turnout by the public at the ranch during the weekend before Christmas. Below is a video from the ranch taken on Saturday, December 19. Two photos from the publisher's visit to Hopeful Hills Ranch on December 19 were...
The Brooten Commercial Club has had a property lien placed against it by the Minnesota Department of Revenue (MN-DOR). The total amount owed for the organization's unrelated business income tax (UBI) is $17,967.63. The BCC had a charitable gambling operation that incurred UBI (that remains unpaid) during the calendar years 2017 ($270.99) and 2018 ($17,696.64). In a letter dated December 31, 2020, MN-DOR said, "We are filing a state lien on you and your property for unpaid debt." The letter goes on to state that a property lien is filed on all...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish for Sunday, January 10, 2021 in rural New London, MN. Happy new year!...
Here's video for worship on Christmas I Sunday, on December 27, 2020 at Norway Lake Lutheran parish in rural New London, Minnesota. The video player is shown below on this web article. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Norway Lake Parish!...
Here's a video taken by the Bonanza Valley Voice publisher on Saturday, December 21, 2019 at the main thoroughfare of Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida....
Here's a video from the night that Santa Claus made an early visit to Elrosa to see local children on Friday, December 18....
The reported positive COVID-19 test figures on Thursday, December 31, 2020, for communities across the Bonanza Valley area continue to show decline, a trend that began at the beginning of December. Numerous area communities saw just one new case reported in the seven-day period. In the zip code area of Brooten (56316), just one new COVID-19 case was reported for the prior week. The figure reported for Belgrade (56312) was five. In Elrosa (56325), for the second week in a row, zero new cases were reported. For the zip code area of Glenwood...