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The Sunburg Area Commercial Club invites the countryside to town on Saturday, December 14 to meet Santa Claus and friends with the Kandiyohi County Holiday Express Santa Semi. They will be in town at 5:15 p.m. sharp! After the Holiday Express Semi leaves Sunburg, Santa will stay and visit the kids at Ms. Vickie's Cafe from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Treats will be available there, and prize drawings will take place at 6 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Sunburg Area Commercial Club, the Sunburg Ambulance...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa choir hosted a Christmas concert on Monday, December 2 at the high school auditorium. The concert, which lasted a full hour, included four junior high choir songs, numerous duets and solos, a Christmas Carol sing-a-long with audience participation and then four songs by the senior high choir. Photos from the concert were published in the December 5 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Catch video from the concert (embedded) after Wednesday, December 11....
Come celebrate the beginning of the advent season in a fashion similar to what your ancestors did. The Norway Lake Lutheran Historical Association is preparing for the Christmas season with an Advent Service on Sunday afternoon, December 1 at 2 p.m. at the Log Church of Norway Lake. The log church is located at 9905 195th Avenue Northwest, New London MN, 56273. There will be an old-fashioned hymn sing in both Norwegian and English, treats and a little lunch following the service. We will share...
Brooten-area churches are organizing and hosting a FREE Thanksgiving Day dinner at Trinity Lutheran church in Brooten - on November 28th. They will be serving from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and everyone is welcome! Trinity Lutheran in Brooten is located at 141 Pleasant Avenue South, Brooten MN, 56316. Join others from the B-B-E community for a rich, delicious menu of turkey, ham, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberries, vegetables, rolls, apple pie, pumpkin pie and milk. Thanksgiving day in...
The Sunburg Fire Department was excited to host a ham and turkey bingo night that drew over 215 people on Saturday, November 23. They played 24 rounds of bingo and held a gun drawing as well. Photos from the event appeared in the November 28 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The Bonanza Valley Trailblazers snowmobile club held their annual banquet in Padua on Friday, November 22. They had one of their biggest turnouts in the history of the club. Photos from the event appeared in the November 28 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Students of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Theater Department pulled off an outstanding performance for the opening night of their fall musical. The 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on opening night was a magnificent hit from start to finish. Featured in the video below is Kacie Voss, Jesse Westaby and Paige Klaphake all singing solo parts during Act I...yes, their characters love their dictionaries! The second performance is Saturday, November 16 at 7 p.m. The final performance is on Sunday...
Members of the Brooten American Legion and the Brooten American Legion Auxiliary, in conjunction with staff and students of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary and high school, hosted a Veterans Day program on the morning of Monday, November 11. Sixth grade students recited information and stories about Veterans Day. Members of the B-B-E high school band and choir also performed songs, and the Pope County Men's Chorus also sang songs. Maci Wright and Marie Kaiser, winners of the Belgrade V.F.W....
Bruce Miller, who advocated tirelessly for agriculture and the local foods movement, passed away on November 9. Miller was the Minnesota Farmers Union Membership and Outreach Director in St. Paul. He was a graduate of Brooten High School in 1968 and was raised on a dairy farm south of town. Video of Miller speaking at an agriculture event is posted below in this web article. The MFU provided the media this press release on Miller's passing: It is with heavy hearts that Minnesota Farmers Union...
The Brooten community invites everyone to town for Santa Day on Saturday, December 7! The tentative schedule is as follows: 3 to 5 p.m. - at the Brooten Lanes: Santa Claus will visit area children, and other activities will take place that are sponsored by the Brooten Fire Relief Association and the B-B-E Girl Scouts. 4:30 to 6 p.m. - at the KaDe Shack: the B-B-E Cub Scouts, with sponsorship also by the Brooten Fire Relief Association, will host activities at the KaDe Shack for folks to enjoy...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school Drama Department is excited to present the 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on the school theater stage. Show dates are Friday, Saturday and Sunday this weekend, November 15, 16 and 17. The first two days have 7 p.m. evening shows, while the final performance on Sunday the 17th is a 2:30 p.m. matinee affair. Musical director Cody Lenarz provided the following comments to the Bonanza Valley Voice, "The show is unlike anything we've done at B-B-E...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa community displayed terrific, outstanding support for the B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team! These posters were distributed around the towns the week of the state tournament. Posters printed by Murphey's Printing of Brooten. The business directory on this website includes a listing for Murphey's Printing. (Short link) https://bit.ly/2X69A7v....
The Brooten community invites everyone to town for Santa Day on Saturday, December 7! The tentative schedule is as follows: 3 to 5 p.m. - at the Brooten Lanes: Santa Claus will visit area children, and other activities will take place that are sponsored by the Brooten Fire Relief Association and the B-B-E Girl Scouts. 4:30 to 6 p.m. - at the KaDe Shack: the B-B-E Cub Scouts, with sponsorship also by the Brooten Fire Relief Association, will host activities at the KaDe Shack for folks to enjoy...
On Monday, October 28, the bands of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, featuring students in grades six through 12, hosted a Halloween Carnival Concert Spooktacular at the high school gym. It was a packed house from start to finish, and the local community responded in grand fashion with numerous businesses joining with school groups with games, food and fun for everyone in attendance. Photos from the event were published in the October 31 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice Below is video from the end of...
The "Tax Man Cometh" was the title for the February 17, 1991 Murder, She Wrote episode back in an era when Angela Lansbury graced millions of television sets across the United States. The plot of that episode revolved around a missing $2 million tax payment and one of Jessica's (Lansbury's character) old friends. In the city of Brooten, phrase "The Tax Man Cometh" is not a work of fiction but rather full-blown reality for the Brooten Commercial Club and the 38 business members who are on the final list assembled for official state records for...
The fall musical at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa opens on Friday, November 15 at 7 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults and $4 for students. Below, the Bonanza Valley Voice interviews cast member and B-B-E high school freshmen Paige Klaphake. Here's the synopsis of the musical from Wikipedia: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers...
In a week dubbed "Jaguar Country's Super Bowl week" by the local press...three ballot questions all passed with strong support by voters across the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school district on November 5, 2019. Official results were not available as of 22:00 on election night, but initial figures representing most or all of the votes show that the votes passed with over 65 percent support on all three questions. The unofficial vote tallies are as follows...Question one: Yes: 608; No: 244. Question...
Different year, different story lines, but a familiar opponent for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa volleyball team. The Jaguars (23-8) are gearing up for the Class 1A state volleyball quarterfinals to be played on Thursday, November 7 in St. Paul. They open state with Section 1A champion and No. 3-seeded Medford (24-8), runners-up in the Gopher Conference. The Gopher Conference champion this fall was Waterville-Elysian-Morristown, who went 7-0 against conference foes. Medford finished 6-1 and lost...
Here's the latest video and photo work by the Bonanza Valley Voice sports department. It features action from the last few minutes of the Section 5A finals on November 2 in Little Falls. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars stormed back to win a 16-14 final set over walker-Hackensack-Akeley and advance to the state tournament for the second year in a row. Click on the video to watch how it happened down the stretch....and take in post-match celebration footage!...
For the second year in a row, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa volleyball team will play in Saturday's championship rounds of action at the Class 1A state tournament. This year the Jaguars will go for fifth place after advancing in the consolation bracket with a 3-2 win over Henning on November 8 in St. Paul. Game scores were 26-24, 24-26, 18-25, 25-15, 15-12. It was a pure roller coaster match, and the Jaguars are now playing for a win to end the season for just the fourth time in school history....
Below is video from the medals ceremony following the Sub-Section 5A-South championship match on October 31 at Little Falls high school. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team earned their third straight sub-section title in a row. They defeated Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg in a 3-0 sweep to advance to the Section 5A finals. The Section 5A championship is on Saturday, November 2 at 7 p.m. back at Little Falls high school. The Jaguars (21-7-1) will take on Walker-Hackensack-Akeley...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team had their backs to the wall in severe fashion in the Section 5A finals on November 2 at Little Falls high school. After securing a 2-0 lead in sets, the Jaguars were put back on their heels with two straight set losses. In the deciding fifth set, the Jaguars led 7-4 before giving up eight unanswered points. Giving up an 8-0 run in a game five would be a death blow to most volleyball teams - but not this year's Jaguars! Trailing 12-7, the...
Goat Ridge Brewing Co. of New London welcomes you to town and has just unveiled their November 2019 schedule. They kick off the new month with Brothers Burn Mountain on Saturday, November 2 at 8 p.m. Watch a video of them performing in Grand Rapids, Minnesota on March 31, 2018 (below). Click on the schedule of events posted for other upcoming live performances. More information will be posted this week....
Don't miss out on a delicious, home cooking-style ham and egg breakfast this weekend, Sunday, November 3 in Elrosa. Members of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic church will be busy all morning in the church basement kitchen preparing terrific food for all visitors to enjoy. Serving will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the menu includes scrambled eggs, cooked ham and hash brown potatoes. The price for the all-you-can-eat meal is just $8 for adults and $5 for children ages 6 to 12. Children...
Members of the fire departments from Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa gathered at the B-B-E elementary school on October 10 and delivered fire safety sessions to classrooms through the preschool to sixth grade rooms. Additional coverage appeared in the October 17 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Below, video is embedded of Brooten fire department member Mark Torkelson speaking to fifth grade students in Mr. Klaphake's classroom....
