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The United Kingdom's National Health Service announced that it is not pushing forward on a proposed health care COVID-19 jab mandate for its NHS health care and social care workers. The news was announced on BBC News on January 30, 2022. A driving reason behind scrapping the jab mandate idea is to prevent the exodus of thousands of health care workers from the field. The proposed idea was set to go into effect on April 1, 2022. Learn more about this news in the embedded video below. Background...
The new number is 48. COVID-19 case counts have declined on a week-over-week basis among the approximately 4,300 men, women and children living in the zip code areas of Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa (56316, 56312, 56325). The new number of COVID-19 cases reported by the Minnesota Department of Health during the past week is 48 in their February 3 zip code report. This is crazy good news after the January 27 report showed 54 new cases. Local zip code increases: Belgrade 56312 - 23 new cases (33 ne...
Below is video from Ottawa in Canada, where tens of thousands of trucks have converged on the capital. This video was published on February 2, 2022. Ottawa is the capital of Canada and is located in the province of Ontario in southeastern Canada. At its center is Parliament Hill, the center of the Canadian government....
Included here is video of worship service held at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church on Sunday, January 30, 2022 in Gilchrist Township, eastern Pope County of rural Brooten, Minnesota. Leading worship was Interim Pastor Gary Mills. At about the 5:20 mark of the video, Sam Sanders reads the lessons from the books of Jeremiah and First Corinthians) along with a reading from Psalm 71. Pastor Mills' reading of the Holy Gospel from the fourth chapter of Luke begins at about the 9:00 mark of the...
A recently-released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study focused on California and New York during the delta surge shows that natural immunity is superior to vaccination. The data was gathered between May and November of 2021. New York state and California health officials reported this information on January 19. Since then, however, it has gotten very little coverage in the mainstream media across the United States. See more in this 6 minute video....
Almost exactly to the day 14 months after the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip codes posted a 50 for new COVID-19 weekly case counts (November 26, 2020), the 56312, 56316 and 56325 zip codes have posted a 54 for new cases in the January 27, 2022 Minnesota Department of Health report. Across archive records from previous surges in the past two years, a one-week total greater than 50 could not be found. What a difference 14 months makes, however, as we have widespread vaccination among senior citi...
For the reporting period of January 13 through January 19, 2022, the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas have posted a 27 for new COVID-19 cases. This information was released on the morning of Thursday, January 20 by the Minnesota Department of Health. Around the area, COVID-19 new case counts fluctuated "all over the map" with some zip code areas seeing small increases, others seeing large increases and some showing a decline. The Belgrade zip code showed a small increase, the Brooten...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Cub Scouts pack hosted the annual Pinewood Derby event on Sunday, January 16 at the Belgrade Municipal Hall. Additional coverage of the event was in the January 20 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The full video of the race is posted here beginning with the Color Guard carrying the U.S. and Minnesota flags and the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. The first set of cars raced are shown at the 2:00 mark of the video....
The zip code areas of Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa have posted the number 18 for new COVID-19 cases in the past week. The report showed a strange phenomenon where the numbers climbed by a large proportion in the Belgrade 56312 zip code while falling by half in the Brooten 56316 zip code. For the second straight week, the village of Elrosa posted a one. Here's the breakdown: Belgrade 56312: 15 new cases (4 last week) Brooten 56316: 2 new cases (4 last week) Elrosa 56325: 1 new case (1 new last...
On Thursday, January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court rules against President Joe "Brandon" Biden's jab-or-job mandate on workplace settings of 100 or more employees. SCOTUS's ruling, outlined in a 30-page document, backs the concept that COVID-19 is a universal risk that is not solely found in a workplace setting. Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan were the dissenters. Justice Sotomayor was the individual who, from the SCOTUS bench, spread the extreme lie on January 7, 2022 that over 100,000 children in America were hospitalized last week...
As parts of the United States close their schools to children at a time when child mental health crises are spiraling out of control in those same areas, over in our part of the land of Rocks and Cows (Governor Tim Walz's words) of rural Minnesota, the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas showed nine new COVID-19 cases in the January 6, 2022 Minnesota Department of Health report. At Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools, the doors are open to all children ages 0-18, and classes are in session...
In her cross-examination of the plaintiffs attempting to stop President Biden's COVID-19 jab-or job mandate, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a gross lie about child hospitalizations in the U.S. on Friday, January 7, 2022. Sotomayor stated that upwards of 100,000 children were hospitalized from COVID-19 and in serious shape, "many" of them on ventilators. This is simply and flatly untrue. The current estimate of children in hospitals with COVID-19 is around 3,700 - from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also, news...
A sharp, 84-percent decline in new COVID-19 cases was reported for the zip code areas (city and rural) of Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa in the December 30 report released by the Minnesota Department of Health. It should be stated up front that a possible explanation, at least one factor in the decline, is that fewer people sought testing over the Christmas weekend. However, any way you cut it, the news you're about to read is fantastic for our local communities and our greater west central area...
The state government of Minnesota coordinated contact tracing for COVID-19 cases that specifically excluded big-box retailers. State-sponsored surveying asked questions targeting bars, restaurants. salons and gymnasiums. At the height of this process, on December 14, 2020, State Senator Michelle Benson asked the Minnesota Department of Health for the exact list of questions that contact tracers were using. Initially, the MDH told Benson that she could not receive that information. Fast forward nearly one year, a data request to the state...
We saw a major decline in new COVID-19 case counts for the zip codes (city and rural areas) of Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa between the Minnesota Department of Health December 16 report and their December 23 report. The decline was approximately by 44 percent. It has to be pointed out that the Alexandria public school district has forced masking of their younger school children since the start of the 2021-2022 school year. Despite their population being similar as the population of the Willmar 5...
Santa Day in Brooten was a marvelous time. Children from area towns joined the fun along with kids from the Brooten community at both the Brooten Lanes and the KaDe Shack....
The community of Brooten held a lighted Christmas parade to help conclude the festivities of Santa Day on Saturday, December 18. Additional coverage is forthcoming online and also in the December 23 and December 30 print issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspapers. Parade video is below....
Below is Brooten American Legion Auxiliary member Laverne Reining giving a Christmas reading at the American Legion Hall on December 11, 2018....
In the video below, Dr. Suneel Dhand discusses the latest news from South Africa, which suggests that their omicron COVID-19 wave is collapsing. A recent study from South Africa says that those infected with the omicron variant had an 80 percent lower risk of being hospitalized compared to the delta variant. This was mentioned one minute into the embedded video, which lasts about six minutes. In some regions of South Africa, the wave of cases is half what it was just three weeks ago in a...
Santa Claus visited Elrosa last Friday night, December 10. He was escorted around town on a horse-drawn wagon by Welle Farms, plus assistance from the Elrosa Fire Department and the Elrosa Commercial Club. It was a beautiful December evening with snow falling lightly as Santa and his helpers spread Christmas cheer while delivering gift/goodie bags to children of all ages. Video from part of his trek across Elrosa is shown below....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote a letter dated November 5, 2021 admitting that they have no records of Americans who were infected and won their battle with COVID-19 then transmitting the disease at a later point to someone else. This letter was in response to a September 2 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by a New York attorney who wished to obtain any documented cases of an individual meeting the following description: (1) Never received a COVID-19 vaccine; (2)...
From a population standpoint, the new COVID-19 case counts in the past week have evened out between the Belgrade 56312, Brooten 56316 and Elrosa 56325 zip code areas. In the December 16 report by the Minnesota Department of Health, the cumulative figure for new COVID-19 cases reported in the past week is 43, which is an increase from last week's total of 32 (December 9 report). The breakdown is as follows: Belgrade 56312 - 27 new cases (18 last week) Brooten 56316 - 14 new cases (8 last week) El...
Below is the video from the prayer/memorial service for Jeff Oliver of rural Belgrade, who passed away on December 7, 2021. Three minutes into the video, the song "Jealous of the Angels" is played. Starting at the 7:00 mark, Pastor Christian Strickland with St. John's Lutheran Church of Atwater read the obituary. At the 12:30 mark, the song "All My Hope is in Jesus" is played. At the 17-minute mark, Pastor Strickland read the poem by Robert Frost called "Nothing Gold Can Stay." He then provided...
Please spread the word! The community of Brooten invites townsfolk and folks from across the countryside and neighboring towns to come celebrate Christmas with Santa Day THIS COMING Saturday, December 18. The event will run across approximately a three-hour period starting at 3:30 p.m. with Santa Claus and kids' bingo at the Brooten Lanes bowling alley. You can come then or come later into the event, which concludes that night with a 6 p.m. lighted parade down main street. You can watch a video...
Sunday School students at Crow River Lutheran church in Burbank Township, Kandiyohi County, performed their Christmas program on Sunday, December 12. Photos from the event were published in the December 16 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
