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All parishioners from the Parishes on the Prairie Area Catholic Churches from the West Union, Sauk Centre and Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa areas plus friends, family and neighbors and the general public are invited to an afternoon and evening of prayer and party in an old-fashioned church social setting on Wednesday, June 29 at Ss. Peter and Paul church in Elrosa. The event starts at 3 p.m. with bingo and fun that includes yard games, baseball, basketball, sand volleyball and playground activity. An...
It's a pretty straightforward question......
Youth at Big Grove/Crow River/Grace Lutheran Parish churches of Brooten/Belgrade held their Vacation Bible School program on Wednesday, June 15 at Grace Lutheran in Belgrade. Video of the program is posted here....
Megatron at the end of this short video clip says it all......
A new phrase has been coined to somehow explain the increase in deaths among health middle-aged people in the United Kingdom. The 16-minute video below explains more....
A three-generation photo was published on page one of the June 16 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper that featured retired Brooten fire fighter Loren Solbreken. He was holding his retirement plaque at a party held in the KaDe Shack on June 4 in honor of his 50-plus year fire department career that concluded in 2021. Also with him in the photo were grandson Jacob Solbreken and Loren's sons, Daran and Donovan. Loren Solbreken served the community of Brooten with a deep, tireless level of...
The annual Curd Fest is coming at Redhead Creamery on Saturday, June 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come on out and enjoy all things dairy and all things cheese! Presale tickets are $12, and at the gate tickets are $15. Kids 12 and under are FREE! Curd Fest features live music, food trucks, craft breweries, local wineries and cideries, craft food makers, cheese sampling, celebrity cow milking contest, scavenger hunt and more! Of course, you can have your fill of delicious pan fried curds, curd...
The Sunburg Fire Department hosted the area's first street dance of the summer on Saturday, June 11. Video below features the Mason Dixon Line band performing at the street dance. Additional coverage was published on page one of the June 16 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Like it or not, memes are a modern-day method of sharing ideas, opinions and even information. A collection of the latest memes is in the video below....
An unforseen mechanical problem during routine water tower maintenance (cleaning) in Brooten has led to an hours-long water outage across town on Tuesday, June 21. The issue arose around 10 a.m. today, and it appears that it will take at least a "couple more hours" until it's resolved, according to city staff. At B-B-E, all activities have been canceled for today at the elementary school, and the day care is closing as of 1 p.m. Families have been notified. Update: city staff is optimistic that the water issue should be resolved by 4 p.m....
Bonanza Valley Days in Brooten is charging hard at us and will be here before we know it! The big summer celebration will be held on Thursday through Sunday, July 7-10. The fun begins with Worship in the Park on Thursday night and concludes with the grand parade and Bonanza Valley State Bank ice cream social on Sunday afternoon. A long, long list of activities are planned just as we are accustomed to in recent years, and the BVD Committee is excited to have added food offerings, all the entertai...
The Belgrade Memorial Day parade was held on Monday, May 30 just as the sun broke free on what was a cool, cloudy morning. Below is video from different vantage points throughout the parade route. Additional coverage appeared and will appear in the June 2 and June 9 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
It was bound to happen with spotty Internet service and pushing things to the last minute at The Voice. On the early hours of Wednesday, June 8, a network error caused the June 9 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper to lose its classified and back pages. Initial publishing directions were sent, delivered and received to and by the printing press for a 12-page issue, but while publishing took place, two extra pages were added. This was the first major printing error under the current ownership of the newspaper. It was an error caused on...
As an extension to the material in my newspaper column this week (June 9 issue), here's a one-minute video clip featuring a parody based on an Adolph Hitler movie Downfall. God Bless the First Amendment and our ability to make satire out of our leaders! Both at home and abroad. Remember: as I said in my column, our leaders are sick. We can look around the U.S. and the globe and see numerous leaders who are simply deranged. We can look to the north to Canada to see the demented man called Justin...
Jennifer Granholm is another high-ranking government official in our world who is one sick puppy. Utterly vile! She takes smug and arrogant to a whole new level. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: we are ruled by completely incompetent people who are so self-absorbed that they have NO CLUE whatsoever what pain we are suffering out in the lower and middle class of America. See the two videos below....
It remains to be seen if federal officials will explain how they ignored warnings dating back to last fall about what was an impending shortage of baby formula in the United States. Some media ask the question, but there's not much explanation coming from Washington D.C. At the end of the day, we know that bureaucracy ultimately slows down what could be speedy progress to the problems we face in America. An example of a non-answer from a fed is shown in the video below....
Here's video featuring Activities Director Rick Gossen announcing the 2021-2022 outstanding senior athletes of the year at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa. This was at the senior recognition banquet on Wednesday, May 25 at the B-B-E high school's Olson Auditorium. The graduation video player can be found at the newspaper's Jaguars sports extended coverage blog: http://bbejaguars.blogspot.com/2022/06/b-b-e-class-of-2022-graduation-live.html....
After a lengthy Mother Nature-induced delay to start their season, Elrosa's amateur baseball team has rocketed off to a 5-0 start starting with a 4-0 win over the visiting Meire Grove Grovers on Sunday, May 15. Two weekends ago in two road games, the Saints won 15-5 at Lake Henry on May 21 and then 9-7 at Spring Hill on May 22. On Saturday under the lights of Saints Field, Elrosa defeated Farming 7-2 before they headed down to Roscoe on Sunday afternoon and picked up a 10-1 win. The delayed...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary students participated in track and field day events on May 19 and 20 at the high school football stadium. Elementary P.E. teacher Austin Rambow and members of the varsity track and field team organized multiple races and field events. Below is video from the Tug of War competition, in this video with the fourth grade girls facing off with the fourth grade boys. To view the newspaper's photo gallery from the afternoon, click on the following short link: https://bit.ly/3NV60q8....
The Brooten American Legion Ranten-Sunflot Post No. 288 hosted a Memorial Day program on May 30 at the Brooten Pavilion. Severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall had passed over the area before sunrise that day, so the event was moved indoors from its usual location of Memorial Park. This also happened in 2019. A great crowd of visitors were on hand for the program, which included the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school band performing music. Below is video from the program....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Class of 2022 held its graduation ceremony on Friday, June 3 at the high school football stadium. Under picture-perfect conditions of full sunshine, no wind and seasonal temperatures hovering around 70 degrees, a total of 53 B-B-E graduates were honored and recognized as they received their diplomas. Below is video from the full ceremony. At a later point, we will include the times of each part of graduation in the description in this web article. Here's a link you...
Belgrade Brooten Elrosa school, along with Taher, Inc., is once again offering free breakfast and free lunch for school aged children up to 18 years old! No registration necessary! Just come and join us! Where: Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school in Brooten; Mondays through Fridays between June 6 and August 19 (closed on Monday, July 4); When: breakfasts are 8 to 8:30 a.m., and lunches are 11 to 11:30 a.m....
Every day humanity appears to get dumber and dumber on Planet Earth. A few examples of this are featured in the video below....
In the May 26 zip code report released by the Minnesota Department of Health, the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas (56312, 56316 and 56325) posted a three for new COVID-19 cases over a one-week period for the fourth straight week. These figures of three each week represent M.D.H. lab-confirmed cases reported to the state, most usually from health care centers and clinics. They do not represent test results from at-home tests. The May 26 report shows all three new cases in the...
Bonanza Valley Voice publisher's column, May 26, 2022. I so vividly remember a conversation I had one afternoon in the spring of 1995, when the late Terry Frazee called me in to his principal office in the newly-remodeled B-B-E high school in Belgrade, told me to sit down, sunk his shoulders and looked me in the eye before saying, "Randy, I'm gonna keep this short, I'm sure you want to get back to Mr. Gesellchen's chemistry." Frazee looked me straight in the eye and said, "I know you meant well, but please, don't bully the bully." I sat for a...