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Cassie E. Mithaugen, 41 of Belgrade, died Monday January 22, 2024 from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident near Belgrade. A public visitation will be from 2-5 pm. Sunday at the Johnson Funeral Home in Belgrade. Funeral services will be private. Burial will be in South Lake Johanna Cemetery near Brooten. In lieu of flowers memorials are preferred. Cassie Evelyn Mithaugen was born on August 2, 1982 in Paynesville, the daughter of Donald and Mary Kay (Pauly) Mithaugen. She grew up in...
Get perched on reading! Challenge yourself to read more this season with the Winter Reading Challenge at the Great River Regional Library, which features a branch in downtown Belgrade. "Perched on Reading," the 2024 Winter Reading Challenge began on Monday, January 2, 2024, and runs through Tuesday, February 28. This challenge provides fun incentives for readers to settle into cozy winter reading habits. It is designed primarily for teens and adults and is open to anyone in the 6th grade or...
Notice of Public Hearing: Stearns County, Planning Commission Notice is hereby given that the Stearns County Planning Commission, in and for the County of Stearns, will conduct certain public hearings as follows: To consider a request for an interim use permit submitted by Duininck, Inc., Prinsburg MN on behalf of Patrick and Janelle Schmoll, Lake Lillian MN according to Sections 4.8, 6.17 and 9.3.6 B of Stearns County Land Use and Zoning Ordinance #439 to operate an asphalt mixing facility for a period of 5 years in the Agricultural 40 zoning...
All systems go! Jenniges Meats of Brooten opens their retail store to the public next Monday, January 15 at 8 a.m. They will be open Monday to Saturday at their new location on the west side of Brooten. The new facility's groundbreaking ceremony took place in the summer of 2022, and construction began a year ago in December 2022. The concept of building this new store and locker plant took form about four years ago as the COVID-19 pandemic first gripped America in the spring of 2020. This web...
Tony Fauci admitted under oath to a Congressional committee that a key, central part of the government's mandates upon the public across much of 2020, 2021 and even into 2022 was all but completely made up. It was fiction. The "six feet social distancing" rule, which was itself a key factor in the destruction of public education across America in the 2020-2021 and also the 2021-2022 school years, was not based in science, according to Fauci's testimony. The attached video to this web article...
In the year 2022, eighth grade test scores in civics and U.S. history hit record lows. The decline didn't start with pandemic school closings. But they made it worse and revealed its extent. Less than half of adults can name the three branches of the U.S. government. Another 25% can't name even one. And just over one-third of Americans can pass the U.S. citizenship test. These sad facts are a reminder that the future success of our nation is far from guaranteed. We must acknowledge the imperfections of our current system and work to reform...
The Belgrade city council met in regular session on Monday, December 18 and buttoned up a few items as local governments prepare for the election year that is upon us in 2024. Beginning on January 1, 2022, the cities of Belgrade and Brooten have banded together in a joint powers agreement that operates the local police department. Prior to that and going back to (about?) 2008, the city of Brooten contracted with the Belgrade police department for police services. The new joint powers board and...
Publisher's statement on the Post Office: The Post Office system is currently breaking my back. Delivery issues with the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper have gotten out of control. Example: each week, a handful of newspapers that I paid to mail to subscribers are sent back to me with correct addresses, and I have to pay for each one that is returned (currently I pay 78 cents each time that happens). They are slapped with USPS labels saying that they have wrong addresses. Yes, in some cases, the...
The Brooten city council met in regular session on Monday, December 11 and held the annual Truth in Taxation hearing before setting the 2024 budget and levy. The 2024 levy amount was set at $442,433. This compares to $473,677 set a year ago for 2023. In December of 2021, the levy amount adopted for 2022 was $445,495. The 2024 budget was set at $798,310. This compares to $728,531 set a year ago for 2023. In December of 2021, the budget total adopted was $687,591. The city council also adopted a...
The attached video features the end of worship at the Brooten Community Church on Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24, led by Pastor Rick Krasky. Sisters Tia Nelson and Bailey Nelson provided music accompaniment on trumpet. It rained almost all weekend long. Had it been snow, no one would have been at church anywhere across the area. Estimates suggest it would have been 20 to 30 inches of snow! Instead, we all just got very wet. Due to the health scare of the publisher's wife, Jessica Olson,...
Featured in the attached video is the final 10 minutes of worship at West Lake Johanna Lutheran on Sunday, December 24 in Gilchrist Township....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa senior high band performed as one of many musical groups on the evening of Monday, December 18 at B-B-E high school's Olson Auditorium. The second song performed by the senior high band was Ash Grove, a Welsh Folk Song arranged by Mark Williams. Coverage from the concert was published in the December 21 and 28 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The outlook is grim for states such as New York and California, which have some of the worst leaders on the planet. These are people who put in an extra effort to be especially terrible at leading a state. From the middle of 2022 to the middle of 2023, the state of New York lost over 100,000 people. Amazing! To be that terrible at leading a state government, these states' governors have to put in extra effort at doing awful work every day of the week. Additional information on what is going is...
Main Street in Brooten was the site of multiple activities on Saturday, December 9, featuring the annual Brooten Santa Day. The fun concluded with a lighted Christmas parade north of the KaDe Shack and traveling south down Central Avenue. A total of 14 units participated, with a group of horse riders bringing up the rear in style. Temperatures hovered in the upper 20s. It was a fantastic day in Brooten! Parade participants included: 1. Miss Brooten Royalty: Samantha Baker, Madison Hofmann,...
Here's a video featuring the Christmas songs performed by the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school choir on December 18 at Olson Auditorium in Belgrade. This choir includes students in grades 8-12, and they performed the following songs: Covenantry Carol, French Carol Duet, and Holiday Road of Carols. Once that choir concluded their final song, students in grades 6 and 7 joined the senior high choir for an All-Choir performance of Peace, Peace; in the third verse, the crowd obliged the request...
The Sunday School students of Sunburg Free Lutheran church in Norway Lake Township performed their Christmas program on Sunday, December 17. Two feature photos with the students gathered in the Baby-in-the-Manger scene were published in the December 21 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The roles of Joseph and Mary were played by B-B-E students Austin Berge and Ana Engen. The attached video here features the program....
The Lucky Shots bowling alley in downtown Brooten was the site of Santa Day on Saturday, December 9. For close to three hours, guests streamed through and enjoyed visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus while taking in numerous activities and receiving a hefty amount of free prizes. Just before the Brooten lighted Christmas parade began, a prize drawing was held for children ages zero to 10. The Brooten Activities Club, the Brooten Fire Relief Association and numerous local businesses joined...
The Joe Biden crew in Washington, D.C. is still blaming COVID-19 for the troubles that they themselves have caused and the damage they themselves have inflicted on the economy since January 2021. Janet Yellen, who has worked very hard to earn the title of the dumbest person who has ever held the title of United States Secretary of the Treasury, shows how dim the bulb is upstairs in the attached video where she talks about the economy....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team suffered their first loss after a 3-0 start last Thursday, December 7 on the home court. Central Minnesota Christian of Prinsburg overcame a 7-point deficit in the second half in a 58-56 win, their fourth in a row. The Jaguars got back in the win column with a 60-51 section win at Upsala on Tuesday, December 12. This week the Jaguars (5-1, 2-0) hosted Kimball on Thursday and earned a 61-46 win. Next is a trip to Paynesville on Friday, December...
PRESS RELEASE with attached video The Riverside Inn of Cold Spring is excited to welcome back the "Branson Show - The Sons" for another year of bluegrass, comedy, country, cowboy, gospel and patriotic favorites that you still love today! We would love to invite you to take part in this wonderful event, so don't wait to jump on the opportunity to get tickets to the show and potentially stay the night with us. We have had our Senior Center guests in the past enjoy the day in downtown Cold Spring b...
On Sunday, December 17 at Sunburg Free Lutheran church, Sunday School children held their Christmas program during the worship service. An attached video features the children singing Go Tell It on the Mountain near the end of the program. Due to budget cuts, the Bonanza Valley Voice was unable to cover other Sunday School Christmas programs this season....
Here's another installment of Meme World, and throughout the attached video, you will see that truth is stranger than fiction. We are being led by the worst of humanity, both in American, in Canada and in Europe. Our leaders are a collection of the biggest scammers, liars, cheaters and evil-doers that have ever lived on earth....
Who remembers the clown-in-chief saying this collection of gibberish on national television in November of 2020? A collection of standard lines of fearmongering. Watch the attached video and see what I'm getting at......
All youth from Sunburg and the Sunburg area are encouraged to come out and see Santa Claus as he makes a visit in town courtesy of the Sunburg Fire Department and many helpers. Starting at the Sunburg Fire Hall/Community Center at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, December 8, Santa Claus will hitch a ride on a fire truck and drive throughout town. Santa's helpers will deliver treat bags to all children standing outside their homes or who are gathered downtown by the Sunburg Post Office. Families from...
The Belgrade Commercial Club will host their annual Santa Day event on Saturday, December 9 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the municipal hall on main street. Children can register for door prizes for a drawing that will be held at 10:50 a.m. (need not be present to win). These prizes are purchased from the locally-owned Belgrade Hardware store. Also gifts and treats will be available, and special B-B-E Just For Kix performances will take place at 9:45 and 10:45 a.m. In the attached video, you can watch...
