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Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish of rural Norway Lake for Sunday, January 17, 2021....
A lost cat was discovered on Saturday afternoon, January 16, on the campus of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. During the wrestling match at the school, this cat was found near the entryway trying to get in the building. It's likely that the large amount of foot traffic in and out of that door on the northeast corner attracted the cat to hang around. As of Saturday night, the cat is safe and fed. If you know someone who has lost a cat fitting the following description, PLEASE send an...
A small gray house cat went missing on Saturday, January 9 on Nelson Avenue in Belgrade. If anyone in Belgrade has information on it, or knows anyone who may have had a big heart and was willing to take it in to save it from the elements, please call The Observer newspaper office and leave a message: 320-254-8250. Thank you for your help!...
It has not gone without struggle, but the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper is poised to survive the 2020 pandemic. This newspaper finished the year "very strong" with a few expansive newspapers plus almost all color issues from the September 17 issue through the December 31 issue. In fact, just one issue during that span did not have color ink included. We mostly kept it to a 10-page issue after September 17, which was an improvement from the spring and summer when we published a handful of very "lean" eight-page issues. We dipped down to eight...
In the video below, this doctor provides very succinct and valuable points on multiple tools that can be used to fight COVID-19. He repeats a message that has been said over and over with the exception of our major news media outlets and our state health officials in Minnesota: early and aggressive treatment of COVID-19 is crucial in improving the odds of survival when infected. A few things discussed in the video include: over-the-counter medications like vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc,...
Over the two weekends leading up to Christmas in December, Hopeful Hills Ranch hosted Christmas open houses at the Fauskee Oil office building in Brooten as well as their location in Lake Johanna Township, rural Brooten. Owner Jane Fauskee was delighted by the response and turnout by the public at the ranch during the weekend before Christmas. Below is a video from the ranch taken on Saturday, December 19. Two photos from the publisher's visit to Hopeful Hills Ranch on December 19 were...
The Brooten Commercial Club has had a property lien placed against it by the Minnesota Department of Revenue (MN-DOR). The total amount owed for the organization's unrelated business income tax (UBI) is $17,967.63. The BCC had a charitable gambling operation that incurred UBI (that remains unpaid) during the calendar years 2017 ($270.99) and 2018 ($17,696.64). In a letter dated December 31, 2020, MN-DOR said, "We are filing a state lien on you and your property for unpaid debt." The letter goes on to state that a property lien is filed on all...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish for Sunday, January 10, 2021 in rural New London, MN. Happy new year!...
Here's video for worship on Christmas I Sunday, on December 27, 2020 at Norway Lake Lutheran parish in rural New London, Minnesota. The video player is shown below on this web article. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Norway Lake Parish!...
Here's a video taken by the Bonanza Valley Voice publisher on Saturday, December 21, 2019 at the main thoroughfare of Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida....
Here's a video from the night that Santa Claus made an early visit to Elrosa to see local children on Friday, December 18....
The reported positive COVID-19 test figures on Thursday, December 31, 2020, for communities across the Bonanza Valley area continue to show decline, a trend that began at the beginning of December. Numerous area communities saw just one new case reported in the seven-day period. In the zip code area of Brooten (56316), just one new COVID-19 case was reported for the prior week. The figure reported for Belgrade (56312) was five. In Elrosa (56325), for the second week in a row, zero new cases were reported. For the zip code area of Glenwood...
Below is the video player that includes Christmas II worship at Norway Lake Parish on Sunday, January 3, 2021....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa has received in the neighborhood of one million dollars of private donations to go towards building and program-related improvements at each campus. Superintendent Patrick Walsh made the announcement at Monday night's (December 21) school board meeting. "These donations are intended to expand excellence in our school district. Without the donations, we feel we have an excellent project. With them, we can do this at a level that the project budget would not allow. With...
With Minnesota's December weather providing full cooperation, children from Trinity and West Lake Johanna Lutheran churches of Brooten held a special recording of their Christmas program on Sunday, December 20. The music and program used was called "The Joy of Christmas" and was created and arranged by Terryl Padilla and John Roberts. The video player is shown below. The performance was terrific after they held a light rehearsal in the Trinity church sanctuary before the outdoor recording took...
Here's video for worship service at Norway Lake Lutheran Parish of rural New London recorded at East Norway Lake Lutheran church for December 24, 2020. If you click on the following link, you can be re-directed to a web article that has a special video of worshipers singing at the Pioneer Advent Worship service on December 3, 2017. The worship was held at the old log church in Arctander Township..."Where it all began" with us rabbel-rousing Lutheran Norwegians in the northwest corner of...
Below is video for worship services for Christmas Day at Norway Lake Lutheran parish in rural New London, MN....
Here's video for worship service at Norway Lake Lutheran Parish of rural New London recorded at First Lutheran church for December 24, 2020. If you click on the following link, you can be re-directed to a web article that has a special video of worshipers singing at the Pioneer Advent Worship service on December 3, 2017. The worship was held at the old log church in Arctander Township..."Where it all began" with us rabbel-rousing Lutheran Norwegians in the northwest corner of Kandiyohi County!...
That was a wonderful event to take in. This iMovie was created from video taken on Sunday, December 15, 2019 at the Belgrade Nursing Home. Students from the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa music program (of all ages) performed Christmas songs at the community room at BNH. To view the Bonanza Valley Voice photo gallery from that afternoon, click on the following (short) link: https://bit.ly/3nNidRe....
Featured here is video of the Brooten lighted Christmas parade on Saturday, December 12, 2020. Thank you for coming! If you missed it, you can get a pretty good view of the parade in this video. At times the footage gets interrupted to allow for newspaper photos to be taken of the parade floats. Photos from the parade will appear in the December 17 and December 24 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Participating in this year's parade: Belgrade police department Brooten fire...
Significant progress is being made on the Belgrade-Brooten-Elementary school renovations in spite of the onset of winter. The mild temperatures across the early part of December have aided construction of the new square footage to the south and north of the building. Video below was taken on December 16....
Anywhere from 600 to 1,000 people were in Brooten on Saturday, December 12 from numerous area towns to help celebrate Christmas in a drive-through format. Below is a video taken before the lighted Christmas parade began at 6 p.m. that night. Other coverage is in the December 17 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Also, more coverage will be in the December 24 issue....
Click below for worship video at Norway Lake Lutheran parish for Sunday, December 20, 2020....
*Final day is today! December 20! They are open today from 1 to 5 p.m.! Today is a beautiful day for a country drive for the final day of their open house! Video below was taken on Saturday, December 19. Hopeful Hills Ranch will have their Christmas open house at the ranch (18563 303rd Street, Glenwood) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, December 18-19-20. Hours on Friday the 18th are 5 to 8 p.m., with hours on Saturday the 19th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The hours for the final day, Sunday the 20th,...
Hopeful Hills Ranch will have their Christmas sale over a two-week period beginning with a display of products at the new Fauskee Oil, Inc. office building in Brooten on Friday, December 11 (12 p.m. to 5 p.m.) and Saturday, December 12 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.)...owner Jane Fauskee will also have an open house at the ranch (18563 303rd Street, Glenwood) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, December 18-19-20. Hours on Friday the 18th are 5 to 8 p.m., with hours on Saturday the 19th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m....
