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Just beyond the outskirts of the Bonanza Valley and a hop, skip and a jump from the setting of the fictional Lake Wobegon community that forms the basis for his weekly stories, American author, storyteller, humorist, radio actor, voice actor and radio personality Garrison Keillor spoke for over an hour at the Senate District DFL fundraiser on the Jim and Karen Falk farm in rural Sunburg/Murdock. Keillor, a fixture on Minnesota Public Radio's Prairie Home Companion show each weekend, was right...
The 28th annual Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Homecoming week is well underway, and the Homecoming coronation program was held on Thursday morning (Oct. 6) at the high school auditorium. With the 7th-12th grade student body, parents, extended family and friends plus school staff in attendance, coronation games took place leading up to the naming of the new royalty. Emcees for the coronation program were sophomore Riley Lenarz and junior Jaden Gossen. Out of a group of 10 senior candidates, Jacob Welle...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars could not have gotten a better start to their road game in the heart of Grant County tonight (Friday, September 30). The hosts, West Central Area/Ashby, sputtered on their first series of the game and suffered two penalties while trying to get a punt off after their drive stalled out inside the B-B-E 43-yard line. With 9:18 on the clock, the Jaguars started a drive from their own 19-yard line. With some big plays helping lead the way, the Jaguars scored with 1...
The day turned out to be a spectacular one in terms of moderately good weather along with terrific participation from the students and the community of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa for the second annual Color FUND Run, held Wednesday, October 5 in Belgrade and at the high school campus. Shown is a group photo, or at least part of the group, of students gathered at the conclusion of the event. Further coverage is forthcoming both online as well as in the October 13 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice ne...
The Powder Puff football game between girls in the junior and senior classes at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa was held on Wednesday afternoon, October 5 following the second annual Color FUND Run. Instead of the traditional flag football format used over the years, B-B-E has adopted use of a modified "catch the flag" game in the past couple of years in order to minimize the chance of injury. In the new format, one touchdown is worth one point, earned by capturing one of two footballs placed inside hul...
Being married for 70 years takes a special kind of love and a special level of fondness between a husband and wife. One Brooten couple has a marriage embodying all that and more. For Herman and Delores Kampsen, 70 years of marriage was achieved this past Saturday, September 24, with a gathering of children and grandchildren at the Elrosa farm where they raised 11 children from the late 1940s through the 1980s. While life on that farm was marked with plenty of hard work for the Kampsens, there was one activity they always found time for. An...
While the overall budget for the city of Brooten isn’t set to grow by more than about $6,000, residents and business owners are set for a property tax increase of anywhere from 10 to 15 percent when they see their statements early in 2017. To see the full story, you'll need a copy of the Sept. 29 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Mal Heinsius and Loren Solbreken collected tickets at the door of the Brooten Pavilion, which hosted the Brooten Fire Department fundraiser on Saturday, September 17, 2016....
No, there's nothing terribly exciting coming in tonight's Brooten City Council meeting, but the Bonanza Valley Voice will live stream the meeting on the Internet. This is the first time - at least in central Minnesota - that a city council meeting in a town of under 1,000 people will be live streamed on the Internet. The Voice is attempting to get additional fall streaming events listed on the calendar and gain more videography experience with the software and electronic equipment. This service...
The annual fall Turkey Fest activities at Brink's Beer Joint in Swift Falls on Saturday (Sept. 17) brought hundreds to town on a day with pleasant temperatures and full sunshine. Brink's Beer Joint owner Ben Honebrink reported that over 140 tickets were sold for the turkey cook-off contest. Seven fire departments (Chokio, Donnelly, Cyrus, Murdock, Clontarf, Sunburg and Benson) battled in a firemen's fire fight contest. The Charity Parade was also a big hit. See this week's Bonanza Valley Voice...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the elementary school media center/library on Monday, Sept. 19. The Bonanza Valley Voice will live stream the meeting. At 7:30 p.m. this video player will go live with the meeting. NOTE: it is unclear if the audio will be good enough to hear everything that is spoken at the meeting. The newspaper will be in attendance, diligently taking notes for an article in the Sept. 22 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice. Another...
The Stearns County Sheriff's Office today (September 3) confirmed that Jacob Wetterling's remains have been located. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner and a forensic odontologist identified the remains as Wetterling's earlier today. Additional DNA testing will be performed by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). A forensic odontologist is a medical professional who is trained in odontology, a branch of forensic science that deals with the applicantion of dental science in the identificati...
After extensive digging of section data at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, the following information was uncovered. It shows a comparison of the 2011-12 school year to the current school year. It shows that 22 classrooms were in use for K-6 regular education as well as the Jaguar Kids Connection in the 2011-2012 school year. (Today, the school has 20 rooms in use for those purposes.) The information also shows that the school building had approximately 50 to 55 more students in the building on any given school day (2011-12 compared to today)....
The summer Vacation Bible School program for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Catholic churches was held on Thursday, July 28 at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic church in Elrosa. A total of 51 students (ages four through 12) plus a couple dozen teenage and adult volunteers spent four days together this week learning about God and His Word. Click on the following link to watch the video of the program. The music and singing begins three minutes into the video after the kids streamed into the sanctuary....
Smash mouth football with a dose of aired-out pig skins was the name of the game on Friday night (Sept. 2) for the 2016 season opener between Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa and Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City. The Jaguars and Falcons duked it out for four very entertaining quarters of football, with B-B-E drawing first blood when Adam Jaeger ran back the game-opening kickoff for a 95-yard touchdown. Jacob Weller's PAT kick gave the Jaguars a 7-0 lead. By the end of the first quarter, the Jaguars were...
The Regal Eagles have won their state tournament opener, just as they did back in 1997 in their last trip to the big show in Minnesota's Class C of amateur baseball. The Eagles, facing the the Shakopee Coyotes in Dassel this morning (August 20), sat in a 2-2 tie through nine innings. Chris Beier started and went seven innings. Brian Kingery, Atwater draftee, finished for Regal and earned the pitching win. In the bottom of the 12th a two-run, two-out home run by Nathan Meyer ended the game in...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Class of 1996 held a 20th anniversary of graduation reunion on Saturday, August 20 in rural Elrosa at the home of classmates Kurt and Michelle (Gjerde) Herickhoff. Almost half of the surviving class attended. Awards were given out for noteworthy honors such as "who traveled the farthest" and "who has the most children", and a moment of silence was held to remember fallen classmates Heidi (Gregory) Deters and Wanda (Holtberg) Gjerde. Both passed away after courageous...
This video was taken on Sunday, August 21 at the old log cabin church of the Norway Lake settlement area. It accompanies a story that was published on page one of the August 25 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
This video accompanies two photos and a short amount of information that was printed on page one of the August 25 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The video was taken at Dreaming River Gallery, owned by Jeff and Jana Thornton. (The newspaper misspelled Jana's name.)...
For the third time in team history, the Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team is heading to the Sweet 16 round of the Class C state tournament. In the Round of 32 at state, Elrosa beat Blue Earth by a 1-0 score on Saturday, August 27 in Hutchinson to improve to 19-14 overall. The Pirates, who were competing in their 14th straight trip to the state tournament, beat St. Joe 6-0 in the opening round of state last weekend. They had won 12 of their last 14 games and entered the state tournament with close to 30 wins. As of July 26, Blue Earth had a...
After a two-year hiatus, the Miss Belgrade royalty were reestablished during the 2016 August Fest activities. In a program held at Grace Lutheran Church on Saturday afternoon (August 13), the 2016-2017 Miss Belgrade Ambassadors were crowned. They are Jennifer Boogaard, Jennifer Boyle and Megan Carroll. Three elementary-age girls were crowned Little Miss Belgrade Ambassadors. The live streaming was unsuccessful for the children's musical on Friday night and the grand parade on Saturday. Archived...
Strictly from a baseball fan's viewpoint, the game that played out between Elrosa and Regal could not have been scripted any better. In the Region 15C amateur baseball tournament finals, the Saints and Eagles went at it for nine stellar innings of baseball on Sunday, August 14 in Paynesville. With fans chanting, shouting and cheering from start to finish, Regal had the upper hand early with a 2-0 first inning lead. The Saints got one run back in the second inning and took a 3-2 lead in the botto...
The Norway Lake Lutheran Historical Association invites you to attend the 2016 Anniversary Celebration on Aug 21st. This year's program will honor the late Pr Joel Njus and will focus on "Why did we Recreate the Log Church". Service is at the Log Church at 10:30 a.m. with catered meal at 12:00 at East Norway Lake Lutheran (suggested donation $10.00). Program at 1:30 p.m. at the Old Log Church. At 3 p.m. we are going to recreate the panoramic photo taken on this site in 1916 which included 250...
The Regal Eagles amateur baseball team is heading to the Class C state tournament for the first time since 1997 and 12th time in team history. From 1985 to '97 they made it to state 11 out of 13 years and now, with an entirely new group of players, they are gunning for some state hardware once again. The Eagles were Class C champions in 1991 and runners-up in 1997. Starting with a 5-2 win over Meire Grove on August 6 in the first round of the Region 15C tournament, the Eagles marched their way...
Special music sung during worship service on Sunday, May 29, 2016 at the Games Lake park service, hosted by the Norway Lake Lutheran church parish. Worship services have been held every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at the park shelter alongside Games Lake. The last one of the season is on Labor Day weekend, Sunday, September 4....
