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*Posted at 15:30 on Wednesday, January 23. Due to the oncoming bitterly cold weather, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools will start two hours late on Thursday, January 24. The Jaguar Kids Connection day care will open at its regular time of 6:45 a.m. Please spread the word! There's not much else to say besides what just flashed on Weather.com = "Think it's cold now? We have bad news"...the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper will provide weather-related updates on this web article, so refresh as you...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team traveled to Central Lakes College in Staples on Saturday, January 5 as one of eight teams in attendance for the F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Kickoff event. Nearly 100,000 high-school students on 3,790 teams at 146 venues around the globe joined the 2019 Kickoff via live broadcast out of Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH. The kickoff was viewed at 146 venues in 29 countries. The 2019 season will have over 3,700 robotics teams...
*Correction: the newspaper has incorrectly posted that a general tour of the elementary campus by the school board will be held on January 7...it will in fact be on Monday, January 28 at 7 p.m. at the elementary school. The regular monthly school board meeting will follow at 7:30 p.m. at the elementary school library. The mix-up was due to an error on the newspaper's side of things....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school was host to a splendid Christmas "mini-concert" as well as a marvelous Holiday-themed musical on Wednesday, December 12. Students in the sixth grade band performed three songs to start off the program: “Jolly Old Saint Nicholas”, “The Dreidel Song” and “Jingle Bells”. The band was followed by students from the fifth and sixth grades in the elementary choir who sang two songs: "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" and "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful". Following t...
Here's video from Thursday, December 20 of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa senior high band performing Christmas carols at various locations around the elementary school. Two photos of band students in action were published on page one of the Dec. 27 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
On Wednesday, November 21, members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa second grade performed a skit on the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. (WIKIPEDIA) Their class is taught by Mrs. Sorenson. Photos from the skit can be found at the following link, and video is shown below:...
They were simply marvelous. A cast of 19 Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa drama students put on a spellbinding performance for opening night of "Big, The Musical" on Friday, November 16. In spite of the large number of young cast members, they absolutely nailed it! Plus, viewers can expect the next two shows to get even better. Adding to the night's excitement was having a near-capacity audience on hand for the first of three shows this weekend on the B-B-E high school theater stage. (Note: to get a...
Students and teachers from area school districts and numerous parents with their students were among the 1,045 participants at the Conference for Young Artists held on October 25. This was the 25th annual conference sponsored by the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council and SWWC Service Cooperative and held at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. From Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary, 22 students in grades four through six attended the conference. Derek Anderson, the keynote...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa theater department will hold the fall musical "Big" this weekend: November 16, 17, 18 are the show dates. The Friday and Saturday show times are 7 p.m., and on Sunday they will perform at 2 p.m. The production will be held at the high school auditorium. Admission prices are $7 for adults, $4 for students in grades K-12, and preschool-aged children or younger are free if accompanied by an adult. From Wikipedia: "Big" The Musical is a 1996 musical adaptation of the 1988...
Students and staff at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school, along with members of the Brooten American Legion and Brooten American Legion Auxiliary groups, joined together to hold a Veterans Day program in the main gymnasium on Monday, November 12. B-B-E high school juniors Brittany Berge, Brooke Deters and Grace Illies read their Voice of Democracy contest essays, and the B-B-E senior high band and choir and the Pope County Men's Chorus all performed a selection of songs. The program...
Don't miss out! 'Big, The Musical' will be performed by students in the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Theater. Show times are 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, November 16 and 17. Then on Sunday, the show concludes with a performance at 2 p.m....
For the first time since 2008, a school levy vote has failed at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa. It wasn't by much, though. On election night, November 6, 2018, results were fully reported shortly after 11 p.m. for the precincts of Stearns, Pope and Kandiyohi counties that lie in the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school district. The final tally showed 790 no votes to 736 yes votes. In November 2010, the district passed a levy referendum 735 yes to 636 no. That took place about a year-and-a-half after a...
A terrific battle is coming on Friday, November 9 at Xcel Energy Center. In the 3 p.m. Class 1A state semifinal match, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team faces Medford for a berth in the championship match. Medford, unseeded, was unfazed by the specter of two-time defending state champion and No. 2-seeded Mayer Lutheran in their Thursday quarterfinal match. The Tigers fell behind 2-1 in sets, but they came out on absolute fire in game four, led 6-0 early and proceeded to smoke...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa sophomore choir sensation Paige Benson did it again! Prior to the Monday, October 22 varsity volleyball match, Benson pulled off another spectacular A Capella performance of the National Anthem. Catch her marvelous singing in the video embedded below....
A packed house was on hand for the second Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Hall of Fame program on Saturday, October 6 at the Padua Pub. Below are a few photos plus video as well as a link to a full photo gallery of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's pictures from the banquet. Coverage from the banquet appeared in both the October 11 and October 18 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice. Click here to view the newspaper's photo gallery: https://bit.ly/2qiLkQl....
For the second straight home volleyball match, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa choir student Paige Benson performed the Star Spangled Banner in A Cappella fashion for the hometown crowd. Listen to the song in the video below, which was taken on Monday, October 15 prior to the B-B-E Jaguars vs. Browerville Tigers non-conference contest. Benson is a sophomore at B-B-E and a member of the B-B-E student council, the B-B-E choir as well as the B-B-E/Paynesville Pirouettes dance team. Her performance tonight...
The 30th annual Homecoming week for Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools is underway! The theme for this year's Homecoming week at B-B-E is "Life is a Highway". A full week of activities kicked off on Monday, October 1 with the King and Queen coronation program. The week's activities were reviewed, two candidate and attendant games were held, and B-B-E choir student and junior Kiara Quade sang the song "If I ain't got you" by Alicia Keys. The program wrapped up by the crowning of foreign-exchange...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools is holding a levy referendum on November 6 in conjunction with the general election. After many months of deliberation, the school board is proposing that the district revoke the existing referendum authorization and replace it with a new amount. This new referendum would be applicable for 10 years, beginning with taxes payable in 2019, unless otherwise revoked by the board or reduced as provided by state law. The new amount will generate about $325,000 in added o...
School spirit is running at a high level this week as Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa holds their 30th annual Homecoming. Students in grades 5-12 participated in the Homecoming Pep Fest with an array of games on Friday afternoon, October 5, during the sixth and seventh hour periods. (VIDEO: one Pep Fest game is shown below) It's been a very busy week at B-B-E, with home varsity tennis and volleyball action, the Color FUND Run, Powder Puff flag football as well as co-ed and intramural-style volleyball an...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Fellowship of Christian Athletes hosted a Fifth Quarter event at the Brooten Lanes on Friday, September 21. Over 40 high school kids gathered that night for fun and fellowship by Brooten's hometown bowling alley after the home football game. Photos from the event were published in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's September 27 issue....
The second class of inductees to the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Hall of Fame will be honored at the upcoming banquet on Saturday, October 6 at the Padua Pub. Social hour begins at 5 p.m., and the meal will be served at 6 p.m. with the program to follow. Tickets are on sale now, $25 each, at the school offices in Belgrade and Brooten. Call 320-346-2278, ext. 1218 for more information. The Bonanza Valley Voice staff will be working tirelessly that night taking video of the event plus as many photos...
Students in sixth grade at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school attended the 14th annual Water Fest in Glenwood at the Pope County Fairgrounds on September 14. They were joined by hundreds of students from other area schools. Below is video from part of the morning, which features a presentation on soil erosion....
The second annual Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguar Open golf tournament was a resounding success at Prairie View Golf Course on Friday, August 24. A total of 21 teams competed, and 18 local businesses who paid corporate sponsorships highlighted a long list of locally-based support for what is one of the main fundraising events at B-B-E. Funds from this event help pay for a long list of extra- and co-curricular activities that receive support above and beyond what comes from the school's general...
At a work session on Monday, July 30 in Brooten, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board voted to re-open the Jaguar Kids Connection child care center as of Tuesday, September 4 following a one-week long closure. This comes on the heels of Tri-Valley Opportunity Council Inc., of Crookston, giving notice that they would end management of JKC later in August. Their final day of offering child care services will be Friday, August 24, with notice given to B-B-E on July 13. At the July 30 meeting, C...
On Friday, July 13, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school district was notified in a letter that Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc., of Crookston would discontinue offering day care services as of August 24, 2018. The letter states, "This is Tri-Valley's official written notice that we will cease operating the Jaguar Kids Connection child care program on August 24, 2018. This decision was made due to enrollment and budgetary concerns that the program has been faced with." The letter then...
