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Here's a video clip from the employee banquet for Glacial Ridge Health System, held on Saturday, January 14, 2017 at the Lakeside Ballroom....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa/Paynesville dance team competed at the MACCRAY Invitational on Monday, January 16. Teams at the seven-team meet included Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City, Canby/Minneota, Lakeview, Worthington and Yellow Medicine East. Although not all the results have been reported yet, the Bonanza Valley Voice is excited to announce that the B-B-E/Paynesville JV kick squad took runners-up honors in Clara City. More information will appear in the January 19 issue of the...
It was a pure dog fight the entire night. Round after round, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team was stuck in second place, right behind front-runner Paynesville who took a one-point lead after the first round was in the book at their home tournament on Friday, January 13. Round one tally: Paynesville 61, B-B-E 60, Watertown-Mayer/Mayer Lutheran 55, Sartell-St. Stephen 49.5. After the semifinals, the host Bulldogs gained more separation with the Jaguars and jumped ahead 156.5 to...
A packed house - the best in all the years that Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa has hosted a home dance invitational - saw a terrific dance invitational on Monday, January 9 at the B-B-E elementary school. The B-B-E/Paynesville dance team competed in four divisions, and the JV Jazz team came away with the third-place trophy in a division with eight teams. Shown in the video below are Courtney Brandt and Megan Carroll singing the National Anthem at the beginning of the dance meet. Further coverage and a...
Minnesota Farmers Union (MFU) will hold a special election to fill the seat of President for the organization left by Doug Peterson's retirement December 31, 2016. The special election will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday January 21, 2017 at the home office of Minnesota Farmers Union, 305 Roselawn Ave E, St. Paul, MN 55117. Candidates to become the 10th president for the organization are (listed by filing date): current Vice President of MFU Gary Wertish of Renville, MN; Former Senator Vicki Jensen...
Eight members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Robotics team traveled to Staples on the morning of Saturday, January 7 to attend the start of their 2017 competitive season. The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Kickoff marks the beginning of the design and build season. Teams have the opportunity to meet at "local" Kickoffs to compare notes, get ideas, make friends, find mentoring teams, learn the game, pick up the Kit of Parts, and get geared up for the exciting competition season. Be sure to...
On Friday, December 23, members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa senior high school band traveled around Belgrade and Brooten performing Christmas carols. Many photos from their stops at Bonanza Valley State Bank and the elementary school in Brooten were published in the December 29 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. (Video below)...
Sunday School students at Trinity Lutheran Church in Grove Lake performed their Christmas program on Sunday, December 18 during regular church worship. Additional coverage was on page one and page eight of the Dec. 22 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Shown below is a 32-minute video of the program in Grove Lake....
Shown is a video of the K-4 elementary Christmas program at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, performed on Thursday, December 15 in the main gymnasium. Photos from the program will appear in the Dec. 22 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
The Slew Foot Family Band performed a Christmas concert on December 14 at Grace Lutheran Church in Belgrade. The group is from Grey Eagle and features a variety of guitar and violin-based music. You can read more about them in the upcoming December 29 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Enjoy their music in the video! Shown is about the last 18 minutes of their concert that night....
The annual Belgrade Santa Day, with revamped activities for 2016, is taking place on Saturday, December 17 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Municipal Hall in downtown Belgrade. More details were published on page one of the Dec. 15 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice. Santa Claus will be there ready to meet and greet area children! Meanwhile, adults are encouraged to stop at businesses in Belgrade to take in various specials in honor of Santa Day. The temperature is approximately zero degrees as of...
A visit by a very special friend to kids of all ages took place on Friday night, December 9 in downtown Sunburg. With the temperature hovering just a couple degrees above zero, dozens of Sunburg-area kids turned out with friends and family in the frigid weather to greet and enjoy time with Santa Claus and quite a few friends. After dancing, singing and taking plenty of photos out on the street, the kids and their families packed into the Kultur Hus with Santa Claus to take time to tell him what...
Sunday School children at Grace Lutheran Church in Belgrade held their Christmas program on December 11. Four students sang solos in the program, and various age levels each had important speaking and singing parts throughout the 41-minute long event. Look below to see the video from the program. Photos from the program will be published in the December 15 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice. Also,...
Shown in the photo and video are the Christmas carolers from the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. They performed about 25 minutes' worth of Christmas songs to start off the Santa Day activities in Brooten on Saturday, December 10. See more photos in the Dec. 15 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Shown is Laverne Reining giving a reading at the seniors' Christmas party on Tuesday, December 13 at the Brooten American Legion hall. Photos from the event are in the Dec. 15 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
Shown is video from the Sunday School Christmas program performed at Crow River Lutheran church in rural Belgrade on Sunday, December 4. A page with photos from the event is published in the Dec. 8 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper on page seven....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team won two matches in home Central Minnesota Conference action on Friday night, December 9. The night started out great for the Jaguars when they thrashed the Kimball Area Cubs with a final score of 50-16. B-B-E was especially tough in the lower weights, where they picked up three pins in the first four matches plus a major decision to start out with a 22-0 lead. Paynesville Area defeated Kimball when those two teams met in the second dual of the...
A severe winter storm has turned into a full-blown blizzard on Friday, November 18 across central and west central Minnesota, blanketing the Bonanza Valley area with at least six to eight inches of wet, heavy snow. No travel is advised on any roads, including major highways as of Friday afternoon. Yes, it's that bad outside! The Stearns County highway department pulled their snow plows off of the roads at 8 p.m. on Friday night due to the high winds. By 1 a.m. on Saturday, they resumed plowing....
Back in January 2010, a meeting was held in Brooten about the need for a proper turn lane for truck access to the Brooten Industrial Park from Highway 55. Stakeholders included West Central, Inc., which has multiple chemical tanks in the Brooten Industrial Park. Six other businesses in the park include the Brooten Development Corp, Brooten Diesel, Brooten Industries, Glacial Wood Products, Lakeside Foods and Packer Brothers. In addition to the turn lane, an upgraded spur crossing was also...
Evergreen Park in Glenwood invites everyone to get a real Christmas tree for this holiday season. They have premium pre-cut trees available, or you can cut your own Christmas tree in their park. Hours of operation are 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Fridays, Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or weekdays by appointment or by the honor system. They are located in Glenwood, just west of Midwest Machinery on Highway 29 North. Phone number 320-760-2740. Find them online at http://evergreenparkmn.weebly.com...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's theater department put on a truly impressive and memorable performance on opening night for their fall musical "Junie B. Jones" on Saturday night, November 19 at the high school theater stage. The kid-friendly musical that is based on the lovable Junie B. Jones books, written by Barbara Park, follows the main character, Junie B. Jones, played by Molly Tengwall, and is accented by her unique friends. Junie is a sassy, obnoxious girl navigating first grade. Throughout...
Plans are being made for a long, long list of activities at the annual Christmas in Brooten and Santa Day celebration on Saturday, December 10. A revamped schedule has been worked out through cooperation and planning between the Brooten Commercial Club, the B-B-E Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts along with the help of Ka-De Shack and the Brooten Steakhouse (Classic Co.) The basic schedule is as follows: 12:30 - 1 p.m. B-B-E high school carolers (at Brooten Steakhouse); 1 - 3 p.m. Santa & Friends come...
The fall ham and egg breakfast at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Elrosa served over 1,000 hungry souls on Sunday, November 13, including over 250 take-out lunches. Part of that figure included 60 take-out meals that were delivered to Eagle's Healing Nest in Sauk Centre....
The Brooten Senior Citizens group is collecting donations for Eagles Healing Nest of Sauk Centre, a veterans complex on the former Minnesota Correctional Facility. Eagles Healing Nest first opened in June 2012 and had one building and 22 available beds for homeless veterans. Today that figure has expanded to multiple buildings on the campus and 64 beds with over 300 veterans served in a typical month. The organization is a 501(c)3 non-profit that is owned by and for the veterans it serves. Currently, 65 veterans are receiving full-time help at...
Glacial Ridge Hospital in Glenwood has maintained a five-star rating for patient experience from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Compare Initiative. The report released October 19, 2016 puts Glacial Ridge Hospital in the top 5% in the nation for the second time this year. Star Ratings make it easier for consumers to use the information on the Compare Websites and spotlight excellence in healthcare quality. Data is gathered from the 32 question survey that is sent to patients following discharge. The Hospital Compare...
