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The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team is back in a section championship game after getting stopped the past two years in the Sub-Section 5A-West championship. The Jaguars take a 25-4 record into the Section 6A championship after they dispatched No. 4-ranked Hancock 71-44 in the Sub-Section 6A-South finals on Tuesday, March 15 in front of a packed house at Minnewaska Area high school. The section finals will be at 7 p.m. at Fergus Falls senior high school on Friday, March 18. Their...
Magnificent weather reigned supreme over a marvelous St. Patrick's Day parade sponsored by the Padua Pub on March 17. A short video clip from the parade is featured below....
As of Monday, March 21, a bag that included 163 newspapers published for March 17 to subscribers in the St. Cloud, Paynesville, Osakis, Alexandria, Sauk Centre, Melrose and Long Prairie areas are missing. The Voice is working with the post office to determine where they went. It's a headache, but at the end of the day it's not the end of the world. "No one died," so we will be fine. In other news...the Belgrade city council agenda for their March 21 meeting has been posted to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper editor's blog. You can find that...
Over a one-week period in the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas between March 3 and March 9, the number of new COVID-19 cases is a five. This data was released on March 10 by the Minnesota Department of Health in its weekly zip code report. This comes a week after the weekly new case count total was one for the 4,300-plus men, women and children living in the zip code areas of 56312, 56316 and 56325. Belgrade 56312 - 3 new cases (1 last week) Brooten 56316 - 2 new cases (none last week...
While the Padua Pub has already started its Lenten season fish fry nights, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Knights of Columbus chapter will begin their fish fry fundraiser season on Friday, March 11 at the KaDe Shack in Brooten. Everyone is invited! Young, old, Catholic, Lutheran, Christian Reformed, non-denominational, agnostic, you name it...everyone can come over for a great meal with great fun being around great people! The fish fry in Brooten runs from 5 to 8:30 p.m. in the KaDe Shack banquet...
Below is the full video clip from the state tournament pep fest on March 2 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. Additional pep fest and state tournament coverage was published in the March 10 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. As always, additional coverage of the B-B-E Jaguars is posted on a near-daily basis at the newspaper's Jaguars Sports extended coverage blog: http://bbejaguars.blogspot.com....
Jen Psaki and her propaganda machine in the White House, all the way up to the president himself, are a large collection of dirty, rotten liars. They have no shame. They are pathetic, desperate fools who think the public will buy anything they sell. Biden recently said that "Putin will pay" for what he's doing...but the reality is that Biden does not have the guts to make Putin pay. Instead, Biden is making ALL OF AMERICA PAY. And we are paying dearly. The looks on the reporters' faces in the...
A rousing pep fest was held for the state tournament-bound Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team on Wednesday, March 2 at the high school. Students in grades 6-12 were in attendance, and the high school pep band performed before and at the conclusion of the pep fest. Now-retired Belgrade and B-B-E head wrestling coach Chuck Marks gave a special speech to the team and fans. More coverage will follow in the March 10 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. A video is below featuring...
The Belgrade Lions Family Fun Day is happening THIS Sunday, March 6 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the high school in Belgrade. Kids games are FREE this year! A cash raffle will be held plus a silent auction and family bingo.All ages are welcome including those who do not have children or children at home. Events are lined up for kids through adults including bingo with cash prizes plus a silent auction, with items donated by local businesses or individuals. And remember: all kids games are FREE! Come...
This article has been updated with area zip codes and new B-B-E school COVID-19 figures. Over a one-week period in the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas between February 24 and March 2, the number of new COVID-19 cases is a one. This data was released on March 3 by the Minnesota Department of Health in its weekly zip code report. The one new case was reported in the Belgrade 56312 zip code area. The areas of Brooten 56316 and Elrosa 56325 both showed no new COVID-19 cases. The...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team begins their Lakes Superior Region competition on Friday, March 4 at the D.E.C.C. in Duluth. Their first heat is at 10:15 a.m. on the arena floor. The remaining region competition schedule is as follows: Heat No. 2 is at 11:25 a.m. Heat No. 3 is at 1:51 p.m. Heat No. 4 is at 2:54 p.m. Heat No. 5 is at 3:36 p.m. Heat. No. 6 is at 4:32 p.m. Heat No. 7 is at 5:35 p.m.; this heat concludes their competition rounds for Friday. On Saturday, the two...
Day two of competition at the Lakes Superior regional is underway at the D.E.C.C. in Duluth. The National Anthem was played at 8:40 a.m., and the qualification rounds got underway with the first one starting at 8:50 a.m. B-B-E's first match of Saturday morning is the fourth match of the day and should begin at about 9:12 a.m. They are starting the day ranked 44th out of 58 teams with a 2-5 record. Today's qualification matches conclude after two matches are played by each of the 58 teams...
On Thursday, February 24, 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic will officially end in England. Learn more about this revelation from Dr. John Campbell in the video embedded here. The video lasts 16 minutes. Also, on February 23, it was announced that Nova Scotia will be deleting its vaccine passport system for travelers....
Note: the area zip code list has been fully updated for this web article. A near 88-percent decline in new COVID-19 cases was reported for the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas by the Minnesota Department of Health. The new case count over the past week's reporting period ending Wednesday, February 23 is a total of two. The two local cases are broken down as follows: Brooten 56316 - one new case (7 new last week) Belgrade 56312 - one new case (8 new last week) Elrosa 56325 - no new...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Area Food shelf, a (501)(c )(3) organization, is joining forces with Minnesota Foodshare (mnfoodshare.org) in announcing the 2022 March Campaign. Dollars and pounds of food or personal care items collected between February 28 and April 10 will be tabulated and totals reported to Minnesota Foodshare which will leverage extra dollars from them to be used to purchase food in the coming year. Cash donations are preferred but other needs include tissues, shampoo, body...
As Dr. Shawn Baker says in the video, "So you should be putting it on and guarding your lean tissue like it's gold, because it really is." "You don't have to be in the gym doing many dead lifts to get strong. There's many ways to do that," he adds. "You could pick up things and go for a walk, you could put a backpack on and go for a walk. Now I think as you get more proficient at stuff, you should continue to challenge yourself. Because the whole point is to progress and continue to progress."...
Below is a video featuring worship service at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church in Gilchrist Township of Pope County, Minnesota on Sunday, February 13, 2022. At the nine-minute mark, Barry Bouwman reads the lessons. Soon after the 12-minute mark, Interim Pastor Gary Mills begins reading the Holy Gospel, and his sermon follows that....
For the first time this entire school year (2021-2022), the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools COVID-19 dashboard has posted zeroes across the board. As of Tuesday, February 15, 2022, zero, zero, zero is what you see when looking at active COVID-19 cases among the Jaguar Kids Connection, the elementary and the high school. This is a decline from three, which was the case totals at B-B-E one week ago....
As of Thursday, February 17, 2022, all eyes across the globe are on Ottawa, Ontario, which is the capital of Canada. Listen to what truckers are saying on the ground in Ottawa in the embedded video. Canadian Liberal Party members have began questioning their leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, over why he continues to push COVID-19 restrictions while countless first-world countries are ditching most or all of their restrictions. For some countries, restrictions fell during the first 10 days...
Embedded here is a video from Ottawa Canada, where a large boat was spotted behind a Ford Expedition SUV as part of the Freedom Convoy. Written on the side of the boat is a quote from Thomas Jefferson that was included in the February 17 Bonanza Valley Voice publisher's column. It's located just above the trailer tires on the boat. The quote of Thomas Jefferson reads: "When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." What a small world we live in, and it seems to get smaller every day. Click...
The newest COVID-19 weekly new case count figure has fallen to a 16 in the February 17 report, representing a 27-percent decline in new cases on a week-over-week basis compared to the figure of 22 posted in the February 10 zip code report. In the February 17 COVID-19 zip code report, the Minnesota Department of Health posted a 16 for new case counts in the Belgrade 56312, Brooten 56316 and Elrosa 56325 zip codes. The break down is as follows: Belgrade 56312 - 8 new cases (11 new last week)...
Embedded here is video recorded during the second half of regulation play between the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars girls' basketball team and Royalton on Thursday, February 10 at the high school. A full story on the overtime win was published in this week's February 17 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school hosted the 32nd annual Sno-Daze coronation at Olson Auditorium on Tuesday, February 15. Students in grades 6 through 12 plus staff filled the seats and enjoyed a thoroughly entertaining ceremony. In an action-packed game of Pictionary, all sorts of pictures were drawn on a SmartBoard on the auditorium stage. Emcees for the ceremony were juniors Drew Thompson and Ella Halvorson. The coronation concluded with Kailey Fischer and Spencer Lundberg being crowned...
It's a back-to-back performance for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team after they won the Section 5A championship on Saturday, February 19 at Benson high school. It's the second straight season that the Jaguars will compete in the state tournament. The Jaguars, seeded No. 1 in Section 5A, defeated No. 2-seeded and No. 5-ranked Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 45-17. It was a big statement win for the Jaguars after they also throttled No. 4-seeded Minneota 47-20 in the earlier match....
Check out this absolutely amazing 16-minute long video from downtown Ottawa. This was live-streamed on YouTube as it happened on Sunday, February 20, 2022. If you didn't see it with your own eyes, you would never believe it happened in a "free" country....
