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POST-PARADE THANK YOU!...Thank you to everyone who came to town for the parade! Participants and parade watchers. It was a marvelous grand parade to help button up Bonanza Valley Days 2021! The Bonanza Valley Days grand parade will be staged on the west side of town along School Avenue and Railway Avenue. They are near the elementary school (School Avenue) and along the train tracks on the northwest corridor of town (Railway Avenue). Below is the parade lineup that you are able to share ahead...
The 2021 Bonanza Valley Days celebration in Brooten is almost here. Just one week away! Food, games, entertainment, music and more for all ages! Posters are up in a saturation effort at area retail locations across Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa. Posters are also at the Elrosa and Belgrade Post Office buildings. Friday morning update: the BVD 2021 Medallion was found! It was located at Memorial Park on the eastern side of town. Memorial Park is the site of the annual Memorial Day programs...
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, June 30, the Brooten Pavilion was hit by a bout of vandalism. The damage was limited to the floor and kitchen counter top, and city staff is currently assessing how bad the damage is. This web article will be updated as more information is provided by law enforcement on Thursday, July 1. *Update on July 1: an individual has come forward confessing to the committing of the vandalism. This person is not from Brooten, and the confession came via a central...
A warm farewell and send-off worship was held in the great outdoors on the parsonage lawn for Big Grove-Crow River-Grace Lutheran parish on Sunday, June 27. Getting the well wishes were Pastor John Dalen and his wife, Lynne, as they are set to move to Nevis, MN for his next stint as Lutheran pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Below is video from worship service....
Here's a quick video clip featuring T-shirt sales for Bonanza Valley Days 2021. They were created by Murphey's Printing of Brooten and on sale on Friday afternoon, July 2 at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper office. Cost is $15 for adult shirts and $10 for kids shirts. Announcement: on Saturday, July 3, BVD T-shirts will be on sale from 10 a.m. to noon at the Voice newspaper office. Please pass the word! The hours that they will be on sale on Monday and Tuesday are yet to be announced (July 5 a...
Here's a summary of information for the various Bonanza Valley Days sports offerings for the BVD weekend in Brooten: July 8 to July 11. *This article was updated on Wednesday, July 7. BVD Men's Softball The BVD men's slowpitch softball tournament had nine teams signed up as of July 2. Matt Schmitz is the coordinator. The tournament is on Saturday, July 10 starting at 9 a.m. at the city park on the west side of town. *Update: as of Tuesday night, July 6, the softball tournament has 10 teams...
The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper continues to outpace nearby newspapers in central Minnesota on a year-by-year growth basis. The current circulation for The Voice is approximately 1,680. This figure includes newspapers sold on newsstands at RJ's Mini Mart in Brooten, Coop's Corner in Belgrade, the Belgrade Hardware Store and Bayer Gas and Grocery in Elrosa. The mailing circulation has 1,611 mail routes as of Monday, June 21. Nearby newspapers who have smaller circulation figures as compared to the Bonanza Valley Voice include the Kerkhoven Ba...
So, what gives with the reluctance to highlight the multiple tools in our arsenal to fight against respiratory diseases? Is there a financial incentive for Big Pharma to push everyone into the COVID-19 vaccine, and thus make the control group in this grand vaccination experiment as small as possible? What gives? In the embedded video below, a review of data from a United Kingdom study is given regarding the benefits of Ivermectin in the fight against COVID-19. Back in Minnesota, the dishonest ch...
John O. Bohmer has turned 100 years old. What a grand achievement! The June 24 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper includes extra coverage from his birthday party that was held on June 17 at Bonanza Valley State Bank. Below is a video from the meet-and-greet at BVSB that day....
Hang on to your hat! It's Back to Fun in '21!. Or as we say in Brooten, "Buckle up! It's Brooten!" The big show we know as Bonanza Valley Days is coming in Brooten on July 8, 9, 10 and 11...a spectacular Thursday through Sunday event for all ages to enjoy. Come one, come all! Near and far, make tracks to Brooten, Minnesota that weekend. We've got more scheduling information to post. There will be something for everyone! Food, drink, entertainment, music and more. It wraps up with the BVD grand...
Below is video from the special prayer Mass at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic church in Elrosa on Friday, June 18. More coverage appeared in the June 24 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
An absolutely magnificent third annual Curd Fest was held on Saturday, June 19 at the Redhead Creamery. Live music, great food, drinks and a wonderful atmosphere to meet others for social activity was all wrapped into a seven-hour event at the Jennisen/Sjostrom rural Brooten dairy farm. Below is video from the Curd Fest's large tent where live music was played. The band featured here is 2nd Option....
The Sunburg Fire Department hosted a terrific street dance with a best-ever turnout in recent history for the town. Close to 400 attended the street dance on Saturday, June 12 with the Mason Dixon Line band performing. A video clip from later in the street dance is shown below....
Celebrate 30 years of service to the local community with Mary Olmscheid Agency on Wednesday, June 23...Mary has been in business 30 years! Stop by all day long on the 23rd at the agency's Sauk Centre office for ice cream treats and chances to win prizes. Since 1991, Mary has served the local community through branches in Elrosa and Sauk Centre. She and her family have contributed so much to our quality of life. Located at 965 South Main Street, Suite 101, Sauk Centre, MN. Phone 320-352-5267,...
*Breaking news! For the past three weeks (May 27 to June 16) the zip code areas of Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa have reported just two COVID-19 cases in a population of about 4,300 children and adults. That is tremendous news. Tremendous!!! Just released at noon on Thursday, June 17, the latest Minnesota Department of Health reports shows just one new local COVID-19 case in the zip code areas of Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa for the prior week of reporting. Since January 2020, the Brooten 56316...
Come one, come all! A magnificent event is set to return for 2021 in rural Brooten. Thirteen vendors, two bands and thousands of cheese curds headline this year's Redhead Creamery Curd Fest, THIS Saturday, June 19, 2021. The third-annual "Curd Fest" planning is ready to pay off at Jer-Lindy Farms and Redhead Creamery. "Curd Fest" celebrates the beloved cheese curd, with live music, food, drink and fun for all ages. Attendees can attend some or all of the event from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at...
The area street dance season is about to begin for the summer of 2021. The first area street dance is being sponsored and hosted as a fundraiser for the Sunburg Fire Department this Saturday, June 12. The men and women of the Sunburg Fire Department are excited to have the Mason Dixon Line band coming to town to perform the area's first live concert since 2019! This event is for adults ages 21 and over, and it has a $10 gate admission. Mason Dixon Line will perform from 8 p.m. to midnight at...
Do you know any kids ages 6 to 11 that would like to create Make and Take arts and crafts with other kiddos their age? The Central Square Box Office staff are happy to be hosting this annual summer art education program where children will have the opportunity to build projects such as a sparkling jellyfish wind chime and a cement seashore stepping stone! Prices are $10 per class per child or sign up for all eight and save $15! Check out our Facebook page or website at centralsquare.org for...
A big weekend is shaping up for the Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team. They travel to Freeport on Friday this week (June 11) with first pitch at Black Sox Stadium at 7:30 p.m. The "big game" is this coming Saturday, when the Saints (3-4) host Stearns County League North leader Spring Hill (5-2) in the KASM 1150 AM radio Game of the Week. First pitch at Saints Field on the 12th is at 8 p.m., and Randy Rothstein will have the call. Another big weekend follows this one, with Elrosa hosting their...
Here's video from the lakeside worship service for Norway Lake Lutheran Parish and visitors at Games Lake county park. It begins right after Pastor Wayne Kopitzke began reading the Holy Gospel, which led into his sermon. More coverage was published on page three of the June 10 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. A photo gallery of pictures taken at the worship service can be found at the Bonanza Valley Voice SmugMug online gallery; short link = https://bit.ly/3gcWEb8...
The annual Bonanza Valley Days celebration returns in Brooten after a COVID-induced hiatus in 2020. "Bucke Up, We are Back!" is the main theme for BVD 2021. It's going to be a rip-roaring time in Brooten! The dates are July 8, 9, 10 and 11 from Thursday to Sunday that weekend. Mark your calendars now! The fun begins with a non-denominational Worship in the Park service at 7 p.m. at the city park near the Brooten Pavilion. A special band concert by Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa students and adults...
From Sky News Australia: The Wuhan Institute of Virology kept live bats in cages, new footage from inside the facility has revealed, disproving denials from World Health Organisation investigators who claimed the suggestion was a “conspiracy”. An official Chinese Academy of Sciences video to mark the launch of the new biosafety level 4 laboratory in May 2017 speaks about the security precautions that are in place if “an accident” occurs and reveals there had been “intense clashes” with the Fr...
Below is video from the first 10 minutes of the graduation ceremony held for the Class of 2021 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school on Friday, May 14. Coverage of graduation was published in the May 20 and May 27 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. To view the photo gallery of photos by the Bonanza Valley Voice at graduation, click here = https://bit.ly/3z14Xyh....
Every day that passes by shows us what an astonishing liar Anthony Fauci has been over the better part of the last 16 months. The latest lie he was caught is is astonishing. It pins my ears back. He needs to find the rock he came out from and crawl back under it. At a U.S. Senate hearing in May, Fauci claimed that United States taxpayers gave the infamous Wuhan research lab in China $600,000. The real number, in fact, was at least $826,000, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request....
The Grove Lake community, with help from the Glenwood American Legion and Glenwood V.F.W., hosted a Memorial Weekend parade on Sunday, May 30. They marched from the historical church in Grove Lake across the highway to the Grove Lake Township cemetery. A video of the parade is shown below here....
