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The outgoing Belgrade Royal Ambassador royalty give a hearty invitation to everyone to come to town this weekend for August Fest. The Belgrade Ambassadors and Junior Ambassadors are excited to see everyone at August Fest this weekend and invite you to their coronation after the parade on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. by the main stage located next to the V.F.W. Feel free to bring a lawn chair because seating is limited. It's been a busy year for this group, who've been busy attending parades,...
The Belgrade Commercial Club is excited to announce dates for the upcoming Belgrade August Fest, which will be held on August 11, 12 and 13. Weekend activities kick off with a Thursday night Community Celebration in the park that includes a basketball court fundraiser at the Belgrade city park on South Highway 71. Everyone throughout the B-B-E area is invited! Food served by Queen Bee's is available from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at a cost of just $5 a plate. The menu includes pulled pork or BBQ...
The Belgrade Commercial Club is excited to announce dates for the upcoming Belgrade August Fest, which will be held on August 11, 12 and 13. Weekend activities kick off with a Thursday night Community Celebration in the park that includes a basketball court fundraiser at the Belgrade city park on South Highway 71. Everyone throughout the B-B-E area is invited! Food served by Queen Bee's is available from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at a cost of just $5 a plate. The menu includes pulled pork or BBQ...
Below is video featuring the special music performed at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church on Sunday, July 31. A photo of this group with their names was published on the church page of the August 4 newspaper issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
The Belgrade August Fest photo contest is back by popular demand! Details for age groups and categories will be available on the HMD Photography website, and submission packets are available at the Belgrade Library. Website: https://www.hmdphoto.com. Entries must be dropped off at HMD Photography Studio or at the library during the week leading up to August Fest (August 11, 12, 13). Entries will be displayed at the library in mid-August, so come see our local talent! Winners will receive...
What a wonderful addition to the Bonanza Valley Days parade! The grand parade was held in Brooten on Sunday, July 10 on a warm but cloudy day. The sun cracked out a couple times, but no one overheated!...
The Miss Brooten royalty traveled to St. Paul on Tuesday, July 26 to participate in Sparkle Night, which was a gathering for royalty groups from across Minnesota at CHS Field for the St. Paul Saints baseball game against Iowa. Below is a video featuring live music being played outside the stadium while the royalty were arriving....
The Bonanza Valley Royal Strutters is excited to announce the annual Jake's Day will be held on Saturday, July 30 at the Belgrade Sportsmen's shooting range. This event is FREE for all area children ages 3 to 17, and registration opens at 9 a.m. The event runs from 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m., and a FREE lunch will be served at noon followed by the handing out of door prizes. Other information will be published in the July 21 and July 28 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Video from a...
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. Breakfast menu: Thursday, July 21: Breakfast bake, canned fruit. Friday, July 22:...
Richard "Dick" Leroy Boie, 93, of Belgrade and Sun City West, Arizona, died Sunday December 19, 2021, at the Belgrade Nursing Home. A celebration of his life will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, 2022, at Grace Lutheran Church in Belgrade. Richard was born in Belgrade in 1928, the fourth child and eldest son of John and Eleanor (Quisberg) Boie. He attended schools in the Belgrade area and was a member of the Belgrade High School class of 1946. After high school, he traveled with...
Below is a video featuring the Class of 1972 from Brooten high school gathering for a group photo at their 50th year class reunion in the Brooten American Legion hall. At about the 1:20 mark, the group sings the Brooten school song. The group photo and other information was published in the July 21 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The first-time independent candidate is running a campaign focused on We the People and is ready to serve the great folks in MN Senate District 12. Ashley Klingbeil recently announced her candidacy for Minnesota Senate District 12 in the 2022 General Election. Ashley, 29, was born and raised in SD12 and currently resides in Alexandria. She is a mother of 3 boys, a licensed realtor and has been active in local politics since 2020, including being a field organizer for the MNGOP during the 2020...
Here's video from the Bonanza Valley Days kiddie parade held on Saturday, July 9, 2022 on Hatton Street. Later in the parade, the newspaper publisher made a light-hearted comment, and for the record: we love the Kirckofs! For many years in a row, they have been part of this BVD kiddie parade. Great job to Grandma Kara for driving the parade unit! Coverage of this parade will be published across both the July 14 and July 21 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The Brooten Fire Department served over 680 on Friday, July 8 at the annual Bonanza Valley Days chicken BBQ supper. Video from the supper is posted below, and it includes footage of The Nite Owls of Sauk Centre performing. The weekend was truly remarkable in Brooten. The Voice took over 1,400 pictures across the four days....
The Bonanza Valley Days grand parade is on Sunday, July 10, at 1:30 p.m. Grand Marshals for this year's parade are Jerry and Sue Voss, life-long members of our community who are loved and known by all. Registration and staging for the parade lineup will begin at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school parking lot and continue north on School Avenue towards Railway Avenue next to the train tracks. The front-most units will be staged near Main Street and downtown Brooten on Railway Avenue...
Note added on Sunday, July 10: the post-Bonanza Valley Days coverage by the Bonanza Valley Voice will mostly take place in the July 14, July 21 and July 28 newspaper issues. The majority of the coverage will print in the July 14 issue. Full videos of the kids parade and grand parade will be posted online at a later date to this website. Some videos from the BVD weekend will be posted to the newspaper's Jaguars Sports extended coverage blog, which can be found by clicking here: https://bbejaguars...
The Brooten Fire Department is excited to host their annual Bonanza Valley Days chicken BBQ supper on Friday, July 8 at the city park. They will serve from 5 to 8 p.m. with a cost of $10 a plate. This includes potato salad, beans, pickles, bun and beverage. Come one, come all! Video below features Brooten Fire Department members washing the dust off of multiple picnic tables that will be utilized to host the large crowd that is expected. They began set up on Thursday night and are hopeful to...
Coming here...a web article that outlines the food options for eating in Brooten over the Bonanza Valley Days weekend. There's something to take care of just about every meal you need between Friday and Sunday! Stay tuned! Great apologies from the desk of the newspaper owner! Updating this web article slipped through the cracks in my operation on Friday. Essentially 100 percent of my free/spare time has been consumed by a family project we adopted to paint 12 bean bag board sets that were built...
Jacey Tensen is the 2022-2023 Miss Brooten! Tensen, who will be a senior at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school this fall, was crowned the new Miss Brooten at the pageant held on Saturday night of Bonanza Valley Days weekend (July 9) at the Brooten Pavilion. Miss Brooten princess crowned were Tiyana Schwinghammer and Katelynn Uphus. Little Miss Brooten royalty crowned were Little Miss Brooten princess Myra Hall and Little Miss Brooten Willow Olson. Earning the Miss Congeniality title was Tiyana...
First, another gentle reminder to remember that the lengthy list of Bonanza Valley Days activities are made possible by the overwhelming support of the local business community. We can't say it enough: without that generous support, BVD as everyone knows it would not be possible. The BVD posters that have gone up across the area include business sponsors, and you can see the poster yourself on page 7 this week and see everything that's coming. Click on the following link to see the Bonanza...
The Gary Breitbach Golf Memorial tournament was held on June 25 at Prairie View Community Golf Course with a total of 13 teams participating. A video from the live auction, led by Brooten's Scott Jacobson, is published with this web article. Click on the following link to view the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper photo gallery: https://bit.ly/3uogDdO. Gary passed away in August 24, 2006 after a courageous battle with cancer. He was a proud supporter not only of anything happening in Elrosa, but...
All Brooten-area children! The Bonanza Valley Days kiddie parade will be held on Saturday, July 9 at 10 a.m. starting at the Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot on Hatton Street. It will run west on Hatton towards the Brooten Pavilion, where prizes will be announced and a group photo taken. Exciting news! In addition to cash prizes donated by Bollig, Inc. for 1st to 3rd patriotic plus the oldest, youngest and most unique floats AND and treats / drinks / books for all participants, two drawings...
Here's a flashback to one year ago at Bonanza Valley Days 2021 on Saturday in downtown Brooten. Click on the following short link to view the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper photo gallery from Saturday night activities on July 10, 2021 in Brooten: https://bit.ly/3RaxAlN....
The annual celebration is coming to Brooten! Bonanza Valley Days in Brooten is coming on Thursday through Sunday, July 7, 8, 9 and 10. We are down to just two weeks to prepare! This year's BVD theme is "Honor the Red, White and Blue in 2022" as a nod to patriotism and love for our country. A lengthy list of activities are planned, and the BVD Committee is excited to have added food offerings, all the entertainment you could want, plus new and exciting children's activities that include Arts in...
All parishioners from the Parishes on the Prairie Area Catholic Churches from the West Union, Sauk Centre and Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa areas plus friends, family and neighbors and the general public are invited to an afternoon and evening of prayer and party in an old-fashioned church social setting on Wednesday, June 29 at Ss. Peter and Paul church in Elrosa. The event starts at 3 p.m. with bingo and fun that includes yard games, baseball, basketball, sand volleyball and playground activity. An...
