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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...
The Belgrade V.F.W. Color Guard presented the American Flag and the Minnesota Flag prior to the Homecoming football game at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Friday, Sept. 29. The scene before kickoff was picturesque, even picture-perfect at the B-B-E Jaguars football stadium, as the four members of the Belgrade V.F.W. gathered on the west end of the football field along with our B-B-E Jaguars football team. While our Jaguars stood side-by-side along the length of the west end zone, they held their...
The Dave and Clara Rooney family hosted the 37th annual OktoberFest at the Padua Pub on Wednesday, October 4. Turnout ran strong throughout the four-hour long evening German Smorgasbord, with a variety of Deutsches Essen! The Pub's reception hall had a full house soon after 5 p.m. and well past 7 o'clock. While enjoying their delicious supper, guests at the Padua Pub enjoyed old-time classic country and modern music from Jerry's One-Man Band of Melrose. (HD video below)...
The Brooten Fire Department's Pavilion dance fundraiser is underway tonight (Saturday, October 7). Everyone is invited to come in and enjoy terrific country music performed by Amanda Watkins and Cal Ecker - straight out of Nashville! The 18-plus dance ends at 12:30 a.m.! Amanda Watkins posted the following as her biography on Facebook: "Meet Amanda Watkins; born in the wild and wonderful state of West Virginia, and raised in sunny Florida. Amanda is the quintessential "American Woman" who holds...
First of all, NO, part of the roof of the B-B-E elementary school is not missing! That is a wildly untrue rumor, probably among many other untrue rumors flying around. Here's the real story...a severe thunderstorm packed a huge punch and knocked out power across the Bonanza Valley area. The eye of the storm hit Brooten at about 12:40 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 20 with sustained, 80-mph straight line winds. Around that time, a power line arced near the Bonanza Valley State Bank property along...
With a lack of electricity closing school at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Wednesday, September 20, labor was plentiful throughout the Bonanza Valley and B-B-E areas to assist with the cleanup in the aftermath of a severe wind/rain storm. The powerful system that brought straight-line winds in some areas surpassing 80 miles an hour tore through the Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa communities shortly before 1 a.m. Roughly a half- to three-quarters of an inch of rain was reported with the storm....
The Brooten Fire Department Relief Association hog roast and 20-gun raffle is at the Brooten Pavilion on Saturday, Sept. 23. The hog roast with all the fixings (free will donation) starts at 5 p.m. along with games. During the general and gun raffle that begins at 7 p.m., up to nine additional guns will be part of the mix of prizes. Dozens of area businesses have donated prizes. Check out some of what will be on hand in the video below. Thank you for your support of Brooten's hometown Fire...
Sketchy weather across west central Minnesota held off for the entire afternoon during the 38th annual Terrace Fall Festival and Fiddlers Jamboree on Sunday, Sept. 24. While the forecast, combined with difficult weather in the week leading up to the day, hurt turnout for the event, the weather did not dampen the enthusiasm of those who made it to the scenic amphitheater of the Terrace Mill. Catch additional coverage of the event in the Sept. 28 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
Shown is a 40-minute video of the pageant held as a fundraiser for the Sedan Fire and Rescue crew on Friday, Aug. 18 during Sedan Daze. More coverage and photos will appear in the Aug. 24 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
