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Bonanza Valley Days 2019 in Brooten has a long and thorough list of food options for the public to take in across the four-day event on July 11, 12, 13 and 14. Below is what Brooten has lined up, from the top! Thursday, July 11...the BVD Committee purchased cookies from the Brooten Bakery and will be serving milk and cookies following the Church in the Park and Concert in the Park at the Brooten city park. Friday, July 12...the B-B-E baseball club is selling hot dogs, pulled pork sandwiches and...
Bonanza Valley Days tee-shirts are in! An order of 200 BVD tee-shirts are on sale starting on Saturday afternoon, July 6 at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper office. The office will be open starting at 12 p.m. on Saturday and will close at 5 p.m. The office will re-open at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 8 and be open until 5 p.m. to continue selling t-shirts. Those same hours will be repeated on Tuesday, July 9. After Tuesday the 9th, tee-shirt sales will continue at hours to be determined and posted...
The four-day Bonanza Valley Days celebration in Brooten features a free street dance on Saturday night, July 13. The band who will perform will be Dana Robinson and the Bottle Rockets of Sauk Centre. The street dance starts at 8:30 p.m. Click below to watch a promotional video of the band....
Bonanza Valley Days is coming on July 11, 12, 13 and 14 to Brooten. Please pass the word! Scheduling updates will follow, including more information on events happening in Brooten across those four days. The activities begin with a Thursday night (July 11), back-to-back, Worship in the Park and Concert in the Park starting at 7 p.m. at the city park in Brooten. This is located south of Highway 55 from the curve headed out of town on Brooten's west side. Bonanza Valley Days "Fields of Dreams"...
The Bonanza Valley Days Medallion has been found! The Medallion Hunt, which is the first activity held during Bonanza Valley Days in Brooten, had just a two-day run. Emma Bast of Brooten was the winning sleuth who located it near the "Welcome to Brooten" sign on Highway 55 coming into town from the west. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Area Jaycees graciously sponsors the Medallion Hunt. As the winner, Emma Bast will receive six gift certificates worth $25 each to the following local...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Clay Trapshooting team is in its fourth year of existence. This spring the team of 53 students in grades 7-12 competed in Class 6A in Minnesota's nine-class format. Just as it has for the past two seasons, the turnout on this year's team represents one in six students at B-B-E high school. On Saturday, June 15, 38 members of the team competed in the Class 6A state tournament at the Alexandria shooting range. In the team standings, B-B-E placed as follows by division...
Victory Daniels has re-opened the cafe in Sunburg. Now called Ms. Vicky's Cafe, they are open six days a week, every day except Monday, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Also, for the die-hard local Norwegians, Tuesday is Potato Klub day! Starting at 11 a.m., served until they run out. Stop by or give them a call! 320-366-3773....
The upcoming Bonanza Valley Days celebration in Brooten will have a beautiful kick-off evening on Thursday, July 11 with a Worship in the Park church service followed by a Concert in the Park. You can click on the video below to watch the BVD Worship in the Park held on July 6, 2017. For the third straight year, BVD will begin with a church service. It begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, and this year it will be led by Pastor Rick Krasky of the Brooten Community Church. The public is reminded to...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts hosted a Family Fun Day on Saturday, June 1 at the Brooten city park. The turnout was terrific on a very sunny afternoon. Games, food and music were part of the festive atmosphere. Video from the event is embedded here....
The church community of Big Grove/Crow River/Grace Lutheran parish held Vacation Bible School on June 2 to June 5 at Grace Lutheran church in Belgrade. A program with singing and a skit was held on Wednesday, June 5 to conclude the four days of learning for local youth. Below is a 30-minute long video of the program. One photo from the program were published in the June 13 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper on the front page. If all goes well, more photos will be published in the June...
An 18-hole, six-person golf scramble will be held on Saturday, June 29 for the annual Gary Breitbach memorial golf tournament. Held at Prairie View golf course in Brooten, the tournament's registration takes place between 9 and 10:30 a.m. with the shotgun start to follow. (Course website: https://prairieviewgolfcourse.com.) Gary Breitbach, who passed away in 2006 after a valiant battle with cancer, was a staunch supporter and backer of Prairie View golf course. Funds raised by the golf...
Tri-Valley Opportunity Council is again participating in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) in Brooten. Meals will be provided to all children, ages 0-18, at NO CHARGE! They will be provided for breakfast, lunch and snack on a first-come, first-service basis at the B-B-E elementary school. The summer meals will begin on Monday, June 10 at B-B-E elementary school in Brooten. Below are the hours of service...and Tri-Valley encourages families to come as early as they can in each time frame...
The Brooten American Legion held their annual Memorial Day program on Monday, May 27 at the Brooten Pavilion. Photos from the event appeared in the May 30 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice. Below, see video of the entire program....
Big Grove Lutheran church held their traditional Memorial Day dinner on May 27. They also had a silent auction and cash raffle, and the crowd was terrific for the silent auction and meal. Photos from Big Grove Lutheran were published in the May 30 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Check out video below....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team held Senior Night and recognized the four seniors who have led the team to their best regular season since the 2012 season, when they took a 22-7 record into the Sub-Section 5A-South playoffs. Head coach Kevin Weller provided a fitting tribute to seniors Ally Gruber, Katherine Mastey, Nicole Thonvold and Emily Knight prior to pre-match drills on Monday, October 22. The Jaguars were set to host Swanville in the last match of the regular season....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa sophomore choir sensation Paige Benson did it again! Prior to the Monday, October 22 varsity volleyball match, Benson pulled off another spectacular A Capella performance of the National Anthem. Catch her marvelous singing in the video embedded below....
While the process still has a ways to go, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board made a big step towards selecting a new superintendent at a special work session meeting on Tuesday, April 24. After a multi-hour long process with multiple interviews of four finalists for the top position at B-B-E, the school board voted to bring Patrick Walsh of Hutchinson back on Thursday for a final interview session. Walsh is the current 9th-12th grade (senior high) principal at Hutchinson public schools....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board will interview superintendent candidate finalists on Tuesday, April 24 at the high school. Interviews will begin at 2:00 p.m. at the high school, and community members are invited to attend. At the March 19 school board meeting, the April 24 date was provided for interviews, but the times were not released at that time. (School board members were, however, advised to keep the times of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. available that day for potential interviews.) On...
Publisher's note: the newspaper will "clean this up" for full accuracy and will publish this - hopefully at its full length - in the April 12 issue. At the February 26, 2018 joint hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Rural Development and Housing Finance and Policy Committee, Dr. Marin Bozic provided around 20 minutes' worth of testimony. The hearing was chaired by Senator Torrey Westrom of Elbow Lake. Dr. Bozic is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota specializing in Dairy Foods and Marketing Economics,...
Below is the agenda for the Monday, January 22 Brooten city council meeting, the second of two regular monthly meetings for January. Note: all times are approximate and cannot be guaranteed. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. 7 p.m. - Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall will give her prosecution report for the calendar year 2017 7:15 p.m. - Police Chief Casey Jansky will provide an update on the police department and provide any additional information as needed from the December 2017 police report...
A multi-block section on the western side of Brooten lost electricity on Saturday, October 21, after an overhead power line was clipped by farm equipment. At 4:45 p.m., a loud boom was heard in western Brooten when the external auger on a large (500+ bushel) gravity box clipped an overhead power line across Highway 55 between School Street and Western Avenue. The gravity box was pulled by a large tractor, and a white Dodge pickup was hooked up behind it. The power pole holding the line sits...
(Feature photo) Belgrade V.F.W. member Jim Thoen was working hard on Saturday, October 7 with his fellow V.F.W. members serving up steak and pork chops to the hungry masses at the Belgrade V.F.W. Post. The next V.F.W. steak fry and pork chop feed is Nov. 4....
Here's video from the October 7 concert at the Brooten Pavilion, a fundraiser for the Brooten Fire Department....
While no loss of life has been reported, a two-alarm fire north of Brooten on Sunday, October 15 claimed a rural Brooten home. The fire call went out around 5 p.m., and both the Brooten and Elrosa fire departments responded along with the Glacial Ridge Ambulance service. By 6 p.m., the fire was out but the departments still had plenty of work to do putting out the smoke and any potential flare-ups. A full story will be posted on Monday morning, October 16, following the release of the Stearns...
The Senior Class of 2018 won Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's Powder Puff flag football game for Homecoming 2017 on Wednesday afternoon (September 27). The game was played with four, six-minute quarters. The junior class had a 3-0 lead after the first quarter, and at halftime the Class of 2019 held a 7-3 lead. The seniors stormed back in the second half and won by an unofficial score of 16-10. (The sports reporter was not paying attention to the scoreboard at the final horn, unfortunately!) It was a...
