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One of the most exhausting and exhilarating Bonanza Valley Days celebrations closed out on Sunday afternoon, July 11, after four days of non-stop activities in Brooten. Coverage of BVD 2021 will appear in the July 15, July 22 and July 29 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Below in this web article is the full video of the BVD Worship in the Park held on Thursday, July 8 at the city park. Pastor Rick Krasky and family hosted the service with music, preaching of the Word and a sermon...
Good news, good news, good news! The July 15 Minnesota Department of Health COVID-19 report brought more good news to the zip code areas of Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa. The trend that dates back to June 17, 2021 continues with no new COVID-19 cases reported in the city and rural areas of the zip codes 56316, 56312 and 56325. This area includes a population of approximately 4,300 men, women and children. Since January 2020, the Brooten zip code (population approximately 1,500) has reported a...
Dave Kampsen, Donnie Lenarz and Willard "Bucky" Buckentine (posthumously) were inducted into the Elrosa baseball team's Hall of Fame on July 9 at Saints Field. Dave Kampsen, an Elrosa native, played for the Saints from 1975 to 1995 and was a key member of the program's first amateur state tournament team in 1988. Donnie Lenarz is also an Elrosa native who has been a dedicated and deeply devoted caretaker of Saints Field as well as all things Elrosa. His grandson Riley Lenarz is a member of the...
Featured below is video of the Bonanza Valley Days kiddie parade, held on Saturday, July 10. The parade and prizes were sponsored by Bollig Inc. of Willmar, who provide city engineering services to Brooten. Thank you to all the families who participated and watched! Additional coverage of the parade will be published in the July 22 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board will meet in regular session on Monday, July 19 at 7 p.m. at the Belgrade Co-op conference room at its headquarters located in the Belgrade Industrial Park. Address: 604 Parkway Drive, Belgrade, MN 56312....
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The 2021 Bonanza Valley Days celebration in Brooten is here! And the town of Brooten could not be happier. The highway project is done, highway stripes are going down, and soon the crosswalks will be painted on Highway 55. We received a very timely rain earlier this week, and the town is ready for the big "circus" to arrive! UPDATE on Friday morning:The BVD 2021 Medallion was found! It was found by Emma Bast and Nathaniel Bast on Thursday evening at Memorial Park. All of the clues are still...
The 2021 Miss Brooten Pageant is Saturday, July 10 at 6 p.m. at the Brooten Pavilion. A total of five young ladies are running for Miss Brooten, and six are running for Little Miss Brooten. More information will be posted on this event. The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper will record the pageant and post video at a later date for those who cannot attend in person....
Here's a summary of information for the various Bonanza Valley Days sports offerings for the BVD weekend in Brooten: July 8 to July 11. BVD Men's Softball The BVD men's slowpitch softball tournament has 10 teams signed up as of July 8. Matt Schmitz is the coordinator. The tournament is on Saturday, July 10 starting at 9 a.m. at the city park on the west side of town. BVD Sand Volleyball The BVD Sand Volleyball tournament had seven teams signed up as of the morning of July 8. To sign up, you can...
Locals and visitors of Brooten will have plenty of food options over Bonanza Valley Days 2021! Below is the full summary with the latest and most up-to-date information. Any updates will be posted as they come. Below on this web article is a video from BVD 2016 at the Brooten Firemen's Chicken BBQ feed. (That's Friday night!!!) UPDATE on Friday: due to supply chain issues (thanks, COVID)...the mini donut and funnel cake stand will only be open on Saturday. They will not be able to open tonight f...
Here's a 14-minute long video with Peggy Hall providing information and opinions about what you can do when government goons come knocking on your door. REMEMBER: the government does not give you rights. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE SECURE IN YOUR HOME! I will have much, much more to say about this on my radio show this week. The Voice on KMGK will be broadcast LIVE from downtown Brooten in front of the newspaper office. The radio show starts at 9:20 a.m., and you can tune in on 107.1 FM of...
Marcia's Bar in downtown Brooten was, as they say, "Off The Hook!" on Friday night of Bonanza Valley Days 2021. The day of Friday, July 9, 2021 was the first day Marcia's was open to the public since March 17, 2020. The day of July 9 was also Day II of the Bonanza Valley Days 2021 celebration. The whole day was off the hook in town with youth baseball, a craft and vendor show, a firemen's chicken BBQ supper, old-time music at the Pavilion and a street dance in downtown Brooten. Marcia's Bar...
POST-PARADE THANK YOU!...Thank you to everyone who came to town for the parade! Participants and parade watchers. It was a marvelous grand parade to help button up Bonanza Valley Days 2021! The Bonanza Valley Days grand parade will be staged on the west side of town along School Avenue and Railway Avenue. They are near the elementary school (School Avenue) and along the train tracks on the northwest corridor of town (Railway Avenue). Below is the parade lineup that you are able to share ahead...
The 2021 Bonanza Valley Days celebration in Brooten is almost here. Just one week away! Food, games, entertainment, music and more for all ages! Posters are up in a saturation effort at area retail locations across Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa. Posters are also at the Elrosa and Belgrade Post Office buildings. Friday morning update: the BVD 2021 Medallion was found! It was located at Memorial Park on the eastern side of town. Memorial Park is the site of the annual Memorial Day programs...
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, June 30, the Brooten Pavilion was hit by a bout of vandalism. The damage was limited to the floor and kitchen counter top, and city staff is currently assessing how bad the damage is. This web article will be updated as more information is provided by law enforcement on Thursday, July 1. *Update on July 1: an individual has come forward confessing to the committing of the vandalism. This person is not from Brooten, and the confession came via a central...
A warm farewell and send-off worship was held in the great outdoors on the parsonage lawn for Big Grove-Crow River-Grace Lutheran parish on Sunday, June 27. Getting the well wishes were Pastor John Dalen and his wife, Lynne, as they are set to move to Nevis, MN for his next stint as Lutheran pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Below is video from worship service....
Here's a quick video clip featuring T-shirt sales for Bonanza Valley Days 2021. They were created by Murphey's Printing of Brooten and on sale on Friday afternoon, July 2 at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper office. Cost is $15 for adult shirts and $10 for kids shirts. Announcement: on Saturday, July 3, BVD T-shirts will be on sale from 10 a.m. to noon at the Voice newspaper office. Please pass the word! The hours that they will be on sale on Monday and Tuesday are yet to be announced (July 5 a...
Here's a summary of information for the various Bonanza Valley Days sports offerings for the BVD weekend in Brooten: July 8 to July 11. *This article was updated on Wednesday, July 7. BVD Men's Softball The BVD men's slowpitch softball tournament had nine teams signed up as of July 2. Matt Schmitz is the coordinator. The tournament is on Saturday, July 10 starting at 9 a.m. at the city park on the west side of town. *Update: as of Tuesday night, July 6, the softball tournament has 10 teams...
The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper continues to outpace nearby newspapers in central Minnesota on a year-by-year growth basis. The current circulation for The Voice is approximately 1,680. This figure includes newspapers sold on newsstands at RJ's Mini Mart in Brooten, Coop's Corner in Belgrade, the Belgrade Hardware Store and Bayer Gas and Grocery in Elrosa. The mailing circulation has 1,611 mail routes as of Monday, June 21. Nearby newspapers who have smaller circulation figures as compared to the Bonanza Valley Voice include the Kerkhoven Ba...
So, what gives with the reluctance to highlight the multiple tools in our arsenal to fight against respiratory diseases? Is there a financial incentive for Big Pharma to push everyone into the COVID-19 vaccine, and thus make the control group in this grand vaccination experiment as small as possible? What gives? In the embedded video below, a review of data from a United Kingdom study is given regarding the benefits of Ivermectin in the fight against COVID-19. Back in Minnesota, the dishonest ch...
John O. Bohmer has turned 100 years old. What a grand achievement! The June 24 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper includes extra coverage from his birthday party that was held on June 17 at Bonanza Valley State Bank. Below is a video from the meet-and-greet at BVSB that day....
Hang on to your hat! It's Back to Fun in '21!. Or as we say in Brooten, "Buckle up! It's Brooten!" The big show we know as Bonanza Valley Days is coming in Brooten on July 8, 9, 10 and 11...a spectacular Thursday through Sunday event for all ages to enjoy. Come one, come all! Near and far, make tracks to Brooten, Minnesota that weekend. We've got more scheduling information to post. There will be something for everyone! Food, drink, entertainment, music and more. It wraps up with the BVD grand...
Below is video from the special prayer Mass at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic church in Elrosa on Friday, June 18. More coverage appeared in the June 24 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
An absolutely magnificent third annual Curd Fest was held on Saturday, June 19 at the Redhead Creamery. Live music, great food, drinks and a wonderful atmosphere to meet others for social activity was all wrapped into a seven-hour event at the Jennisen/Sjostrom rural Brooten dairy farm. Below is video from the Curd Fest's large tent where live music was played. The band featured here is 2nd Option....
The Sunburg Fire Department hosted a terrific street dance with a best-ever turnout in recent history for the town. Close to 400 attended the street dance on Saturday, June 12 with the Mason Dixon Line band performing. A video clip from later in the street dance is shown below....
