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Walker Bents, Ashton Dingmann, Will Van Beck, Nate Walstrom, Kylie Winter and Hillary Prentice participated in the regional Math Masters of Minnesota Challenge on March 4 at Parkers Prairie. They are coached by Betty Montbriand and Janelle Field. A total of 105 students competed individually and as teams on eight sets of mathematical problems. Top three (medal winners): Nate Walstrom and Will Van Beck. Kylie Winter, Walker Bents and Ashton Dingmann were ribbon winners....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Pep Band traveled to Morris on Monday, Feb. 29 to follow the B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team to the sub-section finals. Director Rachel Tessier made a point to have the band perform during timeouts, which drew many nice compliments from the crowd. From left, percussionists Santos Sorenson, Isaac Vliem, Damon Evens, Abby Eickhoff, Nick Steinhofer during the pre-game pep band songs....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's recognition of National FFA Week kicked off on Tuesday this week with minnow races during the lunch periods at the high school. In the photo, Ryan Illies and Kelsie Hanson race minnows during the senior high lunch period. See additional coverage of the B-B-E FFA Chapter and their activities this week in the print edition of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team earned their second first-place team trophy of the season this past Saturday at the New London-Spicer meet. With just 11 members participating, the team was placed in the medium-school division. Results are as follows - Third-place winners: Alyssa Dalen (original oratory) and Austin Meyer (prose). Fourth-place winners: Riley Schumann (drama), Isaac Vliem (extemporaneous speaking) and Courtney Brandt (extemp. reading). Fifth-place winners: Austin Meyer...
Shown is video from the senior high lunch period on Wednesday, February 24 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, when the B-B-E FFA chapter hosted milk drinking contests. For senior high students, they were to drink three cups of milk to qualify for the contest....
Here's Fabienne Verhoeff, foreign-exchange student at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, singing the National Anthem prior to the home boys' basketball playoff game on Thursday, Feb. 25....
Every year the Central Minnesota Conference gives four Distinguished Service awards to individuals at the eight member schools who display outstanding volunteer service for activities offered by CMC schools. This year, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa has one recipient of the award. Mr. Jerry Lindstrom started his local teaching career at Brooten high school in 1976 and served as an assistant varsity football coach as well as junior high girls' basketball coach while teaching junior high social studies....
Foreign-exchange student Fabienne Verhoeff sang the National Anthem prior to the Paynesville girls' basketball game on Monday night, February 15. Verhoeff has also given her talents to the choir, theater department, dance team and currently is part of the speech team....
The Sno-Daze pep fest games got fairly creative on Friday at the high school. Shown in the photo, Nick Steinhofer, in the pink t-shirt, and Dawson Bitzan, in the blue sweatshirt, hold still while their partners toss cheesy popcorn pieces on their faces after they were covered in Cool Whip....
The 26th annual Sno-Daze coronation and games were held on February 2 at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. Seniors Samantha Gjerstad and Sam Wosmek were crowned B-B-E's Sno-Daze Queen and King. The Feb. 4 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice had a full page of photos from coronation, sponsored by a handful of area businesses. Click on the following link to see the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's online photo gallery from coronation: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2016...
In a truly terrific and inspiring performance today at the 12th annual Eden Prairie Eagle Speech Invitational, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team took first place honors in the Class 1A division. Out of the 17 B-B-E students who competed in Eden Prairie, six advanced to the finals rounds and brought home hardware and ribbons. "We are definitely very excited about the day in Eden Prairie," said head coach Lucy Lloyd. "Our speech team showed tons of improvement from the same meet last year, w...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxiliary, Department of Minnesota, held its 113th annual Grand Banquet Saturday evening, January 23, 2016 at the Minneapolis Marriot City Center, Minneapolis, MN. Nine students from throughout the state were in attendance having won first place in their respective district Voice of Democracy contests. Also in attendance was Rosemarie Miller, sponsored by Keep-Zimmer VFW Post and Auxiliary, who won the Patriot's Pen award. The theme for this year's audio essa...
A fish fry and silent auction fundraiser will be held on behalf of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa robotics team on Wednesday, February 17 at the Ka-De Shack in Brooten from 5 p.m to 8 p.m. Come out and show your support! Watch for more details in a future issue, and check out additional coverage of the team on page four in the Jan. 28 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
Students at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa now have the opportunity to join the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League - the fastest growing sport in the state. Parents and students are invited to attend an informational meeting on Monday, February 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the High School Commons Area and learn about the "NEW" Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Trap Team and how students can become a member. Students in grades 7th-12th are eligible with a state issued firearms safety certificate. Students...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team has a storied history and has been a force among area schools this entire century. Twice since 2012, B-B-E's state entrants in the Class 1A state speech meet have catapulted the team to a ranking of seventh based on their cumulative performances. They've been a top-10 ranked team in the state of Minnesota in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Since 2000, 30 members of the B-B-E speech team have advanced and competed at the Class 1A state meet. Of those 30, 14 have...
The 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff was held on Saturday at the campus of Central Lakes College in Staples. Attending were area schools, including seven members Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's Robotics team. The FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology) competition begins with a six-week long "build" period where robotics teams across the area design and build a robot that will meet the requirements of a challenge competition. This year the competition is called FIRST...
Last week (Jan. 11-15) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools honored their paraprofessionals. A few ways this took place included the teachers taking the paras out for lunch at Classic Co. Bar & Grill. Also, on Friday, elementary teachers took over recess duty, a task normally assigned to the paras. So what does a paraprofessional do? From the Minnesota Department of Education website = "Paraprofessionals may work in a variety of positions in a school district including, but not limited to,...
During this century, speech has been to Fine Arts at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa as much as volleyball has been to the Jaguar athletic program. It is indeed a program unto itself. That came about by no accident, with B-B-E speech coaches through the years building turnout into the mid- and upper-30s and over 40 in some seasons while cranking out conference and sub-section team championships left and right while having dozens of students earn trips to the State Speech meet each April. Interviews of...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board approved the fiscal year 2016 levy at Monday’s regular meeting at the high school. The local levy, which will help fund operations for the 2016-17 school year, is set to include a 7.74 percent increase from last year. The biggest source of the increase stems from the Long-Term Facility Revenue category of $107,630. This is a new funding stream approved by the state legislature. Superintendent Matt Bullard explained, “This is our 10-year facility plan that we talked about in August. It was granted by new...
Students in Family and Consumer Science teacher Carin Hagemeyer's ninth grade class operated their own restaurant out of the high school FACS room at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school on Tuesday this week. Above: Milly Hobbs, Emily Knight and Alondra Saucedo were three of numerous servers at the restaurant. Behind them are kitchen helpers Addison Arneson and Molly Holme. Read more about the class and see more photos on page 15 of the December 24 issue of the Bonanza Valley...
On Monday, December 7, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school bands and choirs held their annual Christmas/Holiday concert. Performing were the Percussion Ensemble, the Junior High choir, the Junior High band, the Senior High choir and the Senior High band. The final song was a joint performance between all 7-12 grade band and choir students of the song "Believe" by G. Ballard and A. Silvestri. The event was live streamed at the school's website for those who couldn't attend in person, and a...
This year’s Christmas program will be held on Wednesday, December 16 at 2:30 p.m. in the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary gym. This year’s program is called “Arf! On the Housetop” - a puppy musical about a very important element of the holidays for everyone…home. This program features students in 4th grade and also has students in grades K-3 participating. If you can’t make it in person, the Bonanza Valley Voice broadcasting team will stream this event live on the Internet. Visit this web story to see details on how to watch it from your c...
Math Masters is based upon research concerning the characteristics of mathematically gifted people, the traits of eminent mathematicians, and the achievement of girls and boys in math. The purpose of the program is to challenge students to use higher-order thinking skills and problem-solving abilities in mathematics and to give recognition for academic effort and achievement! Math Masters demonstrates the idea that math can reinforce critical thinking skills and still be fun. On Friday, March...
Here's video that will be shown live from the high school tonight, courtesy of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school broadcasting team: Share Events on The Cube...
On Monday, November 2, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa National Honor Society held its formal induction at the B-B-E High School. The program began with President, Alyssa Dalen, and Vice President, Joe Reller, welcoming the guests. Next, a poem was read by Jennifer Boyle about how to be a leader. The guest speaker was Lucas Sjostrom, who is a partner with his wife Alise in the Redhead Creamery of rural Brooten. Sjostrom spoke to the students about the four pillars of NHS and how they can be leaders...
