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The round of sirens through Brooten on Tuesday, June 26 were part of a police/fire department escort for Charlotte Winkler as she and her host family left town to the Cities for her flight back to Germany the following day. About two dozen friends and town residents gathered at Bonanza Valley State Bank's parking lot to wave good-bye as they passed through Brooten....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Ecumenical worship service was held on June 13 at Big Grove Lutheran church. In addition to singing music selections and reading Bible verses, worshipers listened to a 35-plus minute long talk by a victim's advocate who works in central Minnesota with abused women, children and victims of sex trafficking. Following worship, refreshments were provided by St. Francis de Sales Catholic church. NOTE: in the video, the speaker can be heard giving a number of tips and...
The Class of 2018 graduated at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on June 1 at the high school. The faculty address, given by math teacher and wrestling head coach Jack Mueller, included the following numbers. There are 51 graduates in the Class of 2018. Twenty-four of them are graduating with honors. Ten of the 51 are three-sport athletes. Fifty-one out of 51 say that math is their favorite subject. Nineteen out of 51 are members of the National Honor Society. One out of 51 is soon to be a great law...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa FFA chapter hosted the annual Tractor Day at the high school on Friday, May 25 to recognize and honor the importance of agriculture to the school and local community and economy. Over the years, the timing of Tractor Day has varied. Back in the day, Tractor Day was held during FFA Week in the winter. In recent years, it's been held in the spring time to make it easier to drive cab-less tractors and also tractors that struggle with cold winter starts. Without a doubt,...
Spring is field trip season for Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools. Shown in the photo is Grant Anderson explaining the planting process to first grade students on May 11 at Anderson Farms as Mark Kuefler drove the John Deere shown in back - actually he was just sitting in the seat with the tractor on auto-steer!...
A spring choral and band concert was held on May 14 at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. Awards were given to students in the junior and senior high bands from the music teachers. See video below for a glimpse of the concert....
dered a technology company to pay damages because one of its drivers, while using a cell phone, crashed into another vehicle and killed someone. The award amount was $21.6 million. Last week (April 24-27) was Drive Safe week at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. Part of a week full of National Honor Society-sponsored activities included a speaker on Friday afternoon, during which that jury verdict was mentioned. The speaker, Thomas Goeltz, is known as "Safety Tom" due to the nature of his...
While the process still has a ways to go, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board made a big step towards selecting a new superintendent at a special work session meeting on Tuesday, April 24. After a multi-hour long process with multiple interviews of four finalists for the top position at B-B-E, the school board voted to bring Patrick Walsh of Hutchinson back on Thursday for a final interview session. Walsh is the current 9th-12th grade (senior high) principal at Hutchinson public schools....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board will interview superintendent candidate finalists on Tuesday, April 24 at the high school. Interviews will begin at 2:00 p.m. at the high school, and community members are invited to attend. At the March 19 school board meeting, the April 24 date was provided for interviews, but the times were not released at that time. (School board members were, however, advised to keep the times of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. available that day for potential interviews.) On...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's FFA chapter has 33 students participating and competing at the 89th annual state FFA convention on April 22, 23 and 24. The school's FFA chapter, which has almost 90 members overall, has students competing in a wide variety of events. FFA advisor Gary Rodgers and students departed from the B-B-E high school late Sunday afternoon for the Twin Cities. This year's state FFA convention theme is "Go Beyond - You decide what's possible". Much of the activity is taking place...
Between March 21 and March 28, members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa senior high band and choir traveled to and performed at DisneyWorld in Florida. This trip is taken once every four years by the high school band and choirs. From the senior high, 32 band members and 17 choir members were on the trip along with band director Rachel Tessier and choir director Diana Gertken plus four parent chaperones....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools hosted the 29th annual prom on Saturday, April 28 under truly picture-perfect weather. Extended coverage will appear in the upcoming May 3 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Below is an embedded video showing a large portion of the grand march. Other video will be posted at a later date. Here's a link to the Jaguars Sports blog that has two more video clips from the grand march: http://bbejaguars.blogspot.com/2018/04/saints.html....
Interviews by the school board, staff and community members of four finalist candidates for the superintendent position at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa will take place on Tuesday, April 24 at the high school. Interviews will begin at 2:00 p.m. (Schedule below) The four individuals selected as finalists are Josie Dingmann, Community Education director and Middle School math teacher at B-B-E; Jeffrey Keil, K-12 principal at Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg schools; Michael Pagel, elementary principal and...
Seven members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team earned high honors at the Central Minnesota Conference meet on March 22 at Pierz high school. One of the seven, sophomore Jesse Westaby, earned one of the 13 individual conference titles that night. Westaby won the 2018 CMC title in the Humorous category. The full results were printed in the March 22 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team had a marvelous night at the Sub-Section 5A-South speech meet at New London-Spicer high school on Thursday, April 5. Out of 13 categories, and a total of 16 speechers competing, B-B-E advanced eight to the Section 5A, state-qualifying meet that will be held next Saturday, April 14 at Albany. In the final team standings, Eden Valley-Watkins repeated as sub-section champions. Annandale was runner-up, and New London-Spicer took third place. The sub-section...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance robotics team had a strong showing in the Lake Superior regional competition on March 7 to March 10 in Duluth. Overall they took 28th place out of 62 teams as part of the Blue Alliance. Out of nine head-to-head matches, B-B-E Resistance went 5-4 to earn a total ranking points level of 13. The highest score was 28, while the lowest was three points. Coach Tom Gjerstad, who has been head of the program since it was founded at B-B-E in 2012, was nothing less...
Governor Mark Dayton has proclaimed Wednesday, February 28, 2018, to be "School Bus Driver Appreciation Day" in the State of Minnesota. Every morning, bright and early, school bus drivers across the state tirelessly dedicate themselves to safely transporting more than 760,000 students of all ages to and from school. "The State of Minnesota appreciates school bus drivers and recognizes the invaluable contributions they make to public education and student safety," reads Governor Dayton's...
Sixth graders Luke Dingmann, Kaden DeRoo, Odin Jensen, Ryan Jensen and Evan Fischer participated in the regional Math Masters Challenge at Hutchinson on March 1. They are coached by Miss Field and Mrs. Jaeger. A total of 115 students on 23 teams competed individually and as teams on eight sets of mathematical problems in this event. Math Masters began as a fifth-grade math competition program in 1989 with 44 schools. In 1995, it expanded to sixth-graders. This year, about 5,500 teams are...
Between February 20 and February 23, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa FFA chapter held a number of activities for national FFA week....
Photos from the concert, which was held on Monday, February 26, were published in the March 1 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. At some point in the future, a photo gallery will be uploaded to the Bonanza Valley Voice's SmugMug website. Details TBA....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa junior Kaylee Torgerson sang at the school's 29th annual Sno-Daze coronation program, held the morning of Tuesday, January 16 in the high school auditorium. Below is a video clip from part of the song. The full coronation video of the entire program will be posted later this week. Be sure to see extra coverage with photos in this week's January 18 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper! Photos will appear in color on pages 1 and 10....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Community Education is holding their annual Holiday Women's Expo today (Saturday, Dec. 2) at the elementary school gymnasium. The event ends at 1 p.m. Additional details on the expo were published on page six of the November 30 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper, and also page 12 of the November 23 issue. Also, the Glacial Ridge Ambulance is hosting their Toy Drive for local needy families at the elementary. That ends at noon....
On the heels of a wicked wind and snow storm that raged across the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa area on Monday, December 4, B-B-E schools has announced a makeup date for the high school's 7th-12th grade Christmas band and choir concert. The month of December is jam packed with activities, so let's hope the next date sticks and does not bring bad weather again! The high school's band and choir Christmas concert will be held on Monday, December 18 at 7 p.m. at the high school. Please pass the word!...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa held turkey bingo at the high school on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, November 22, during the final period of the day. The bingo game was called out by seniors Ethan Schwinghammer and Kendra Schmitz from a central location and sent across the school via the world wide web. If a student had a winning bingo card (displayed on their iPads or Chromebooks), they had to go to the broadcasting room and yell "Gobble, Gobble!" into a microphone while being streamed across the...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa theater department is excited to announce the upcoming production of the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown this coming weekend. Performances will open on Friday, November 17 at 7 p.m., with another evening performance to follow on Saturday at 7 p.m. A matinee will be held on Sunday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for children. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the...
