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On Saturday, January 14, two members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa middle school band attended a one-day band camp at Elk River high school. To conclude the day's activities, students gathered there for the Central Minnesota Band Association honors band performed a concert at Elk River high school's George Zabee auditorium. A lengthy video clip from the first song performed is posted below. Keep in mind: all of these band members here are between 11 and 14 years old. They were magnificent! The...
On Saturday, January 14, two members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa middle school band attended a one-day band camp at Elk River high school. To conclude the day's activities, students gathered there for the Central Minnesota Band Association honors band performed a concert at Elk River high school's George Zabee auditorium. A short video clip from the first song performed is posted below. Additional coverage of this event will be published in the January 19 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
Below is a cell phone recording of the majority of a special school board meeting at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Due to weather-driving circumstances, this meeting was conducted via Zoom protocol....
A marvelous annual tradition at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school has been the Family and Consumer Science (FACS) foods class Gingerbread House project in December. This year a total of 11 houses were made over a two-plus week period of time leading up to the final week before the Christmas break. The design and build period was heavily disrupted by early outs and late starts and multiple snow days that created challenges for the students to meet the deadline of Wednesday, December 21. In...
How about these throwback videos! Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Class of 2023 students took the lead roles in this Christmas musical performed by the K-4 students at the elementary school on December 17, 2014. That group was in fourth grade. While searching for Bonanza Valley Days video from the summer of 2014, The Voice stumbled onto these two video clips that have high stock value right now as this group is blazing through their final year at B-B-E schools. The Class of 2023 graduation is coming on...
A week and a half after making a brief appearance at the Brooten Santa Day event on December 10, The Grinch appeared at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school during the last hour of classes before the Christmas break began on Wednesday, December 21. The Voice caught a glimpse of The Grinch during his rounds through the cafeteria at lunch time that day. Check out the video and see what transpired!!...
Here's a video clip from the Christmas concert held on Monday, December 12 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's Olson Auditorium. This features one of the songs performed during the Christmas carol portion of the high school's winter band concert that night. Additional coverage was published in the December 15 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school's fall musical was Anastasia that was performed in Olson Auditorium on November 18, 19 and 20. A cast and crew of 22 students came together to pull off three impressive shows and create memories that will last a lifetime. An extensive level of coverage was published in the December 1 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Below is a video from Scene 5 of Act II on Sunday, November 20....
NOTE: the updating to this website that is normally done on Thursdays is delayed by a day. The December 1 postings will be added on Friday, December 2. We apologize for the delay. The brakes went out on the publisher's 1999 Buick, and fixing that problem chewed up the day that was December 1. Also: an additional 24 photos were discovered from the musical shows, bringing the new grand total of photos taken by The Voice to 1,210. You can see them all at the newspaper's SmugMug online galleries in...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Theater company will perform the fall musical Anastasia at the high school's Olson Auditorium in Belgrade THIS weekend! This will be a tremendous musical to take in, with some cast members taking three to five roles. Cast members have put tremendous effort into learning their roles and adding unique expressions, mannerisms and personality to their parts in the musical. Show dates are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 18, 19 and 20. Show times for the first two...
Posters are up all over the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa business community, and the cast and crew are ready for opening night! The fall production of 'Anastasia' at Olson Auditorium, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school in Belgrade, takes place this weekend across three nights: Friday, November 18; Saturday, November 19 and Sunday, November 20. Show times are 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and then at 5 p.m. on Sunday. Below is a video interview of senior Paige Klaphake at Olson Auditorium as the...
*Saturday afternoon update: as of 2 p.m., they have 61 pre-sale tickets sold for tonight's show. There's capacity to seat around 250 at Olson Auditorium. Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school's Olson Auditorium hosted a phenomenal performance of the Broadway musical 'Anastasia' for opening night on Friday, November 18. A gripping story played out from the depths of the communist, totalitarian Russian Empire to the grand exhilaration of Paris in the 1920s while the audience got to know the story...
Here's an iMovie highlight reel from Saturday night's showing of 'Anastasia' at Olson Auditorium, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school in Belgrade....
*Note: this article was updated with a new video that was added on Tuesday, November 15. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Theater company will perform the fall musical Anastasia at the high school's Olson Auditorium next week. This will be a tremendous musical to take in, with some cast members taking three to five roles. Show dates are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 18, 19 and 20. Show times for the first two nights are 7 p.m., while the Sunday show starts at 5 p.m. Other details will be anno...
On October 13, fire fighters from the Elrosa, Belgrade and Brooten fire departments visited classroom and spoke with students at the B-B-E elementary school. Fire trucks from the Brooten Fire Department were also on display at the school's east parking lot for children to get an up close look at as part of Fire Safety and Fire Prevention Week. A video with this web article features Brooten fire fighters Mark Torkelson and Aaron Anderson visiting with fourth and fifth graders at the Bohmer...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Theater company will perform the fall musical Anastasia at the high school's Olson Auditorium. This will be a tremendous musical to take in, with some cast members taking three to five roles. Show dates are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 18, 19 and 20. Show times for the first two nights are 7 p.m., while the Sunday show starts at 5 p.m. Other details will be announced in the November 3, 10 and 17 issues of The Voice. Video from the musical practice held on...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools held a marvelous Color FUND Run on Wednesday, October 5 at the high school sports complex and across residential streets of Belgrade. Video below features footage from the finish line and the period before the large group "color burst" took place after everyone had completed the race....
The 34th annual Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Homecoming coronation was held on Monday, October 3 at Olson Auditorium, B-B-E high school. The full program video is posted here in this web article. Juniors Madison Hofmann and Anna Jaeger served as program emcees. Here's a link to the Homecoming coronation photo album: https://bit.ly/3CJvqEo....
The 35th annual Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Homecoming coronation program was held on Monday, October 3 at Olson Auditorium in the high school. A terrific crowd was on hand for a thoroughly entertaining program. Video will be posted here featuring the crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen: Talen Kampsen and Harley Roering. Look for more photos to be posted with this web article late Monday night. Additional coverage will also follow from the coronation program in the October 6 issue of the...
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. FREE breakfast menu, June 9 to June 17; served with 1% milk unless otherwise noted....
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 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....
Students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school performed their spring music concert on Wednesday, May 4 in front of a packed house in the school gymnasium. The music and dialogue celebrated the history of Rock N' Roll with music from singers such as Little Richard, James Brown and Elvis Presley. Below is a video clip from the start of the show. Prior to the musical, the fifth grade band performed a long list of songs including the traditional...
Activities for children ages 0 to 6 and their families will take place this Saturday, May 7 at B-B-E elementary school in Brooten from 9 a.m. to noon. From 9 to 10 a.m., activities include a petting zoo, classroom tours and playground fun. Local vendors will be set up, and donuts and OJ will be available. From 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., parent speaker Katy Smith will be in the main gymnasium. Child care will be provided. Finally, a Touch the Truck event with local first responder vehicles will take...
