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The 27th annual graduating class of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools held their annual commencement on Friday, May 27 at the high school gymnasium. Class valedictorian Alyssa Dalen and salutatorian Austin Trustheim gave senior speeches. The Class of 2016 selected high school Family and Consumer Science teacher Carin Hagemeyer to give the farewell speech on behalf of the school staff. The Class of 2016 had 47 graduates. More photos and coverage of the graduation will be in the June 2 issue of the...
Lorraine Amundson, Poppy Chairperson for the American Legion Auxiliary in Brooten, witnesses Mayor Larry Putz sign the proclamation designating May as Poppy Month in Brooten. The Auxiliary sold poppies around town on Friday, May 20. ************************************* SALUTE TO A BRAVE POPPY The lovely red Poppy as everyone knows In Flanders' Field its radiance glows. The waxen petals of brilliant red Honoring our heroes whose blood was shed There in sacrifice, that freedom might live. No...
"Taking my Hand Out Of My Pocket" is an autobiography written out of a therapeutic and necessary need for healing for and by Lorie Tensen, the youngest child of the late Gerard Tensen and Doris Tensen of Brooten. Lorie was born as a biracial child and trans-racially adopted as a baby, growing up in the all-white farming community of Brooten. Her parents were a Dutch, Christian Reformed couple. The time period was during the late 1960's, a time known for race riots in some parts of the country....
The weather was absolutely perfect on Sunday, May 15, when Sunburg held their 12th annual Syttende Mai celebration of their deep-rooted Norwegian heritage. The first 28 minutes of the 40-minute long parade is shown in the video below. Additional video coverage is found at the Bonanza Valley Voice's online streaming website, although technical difficulties prevented a full stream of the entire parade from taking place. See more coverage and photos in the May 19 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa music students performed two spring concerts on May 4 (elementary) and May 9 (high school). On Wednesday, May 4, the B-B-E elementary fifth and sixth graders performed a band and choir concert. It featured the first public performances of the newly-formed fifth and sixth-grade Jazz Band. On Monday, May 9, the B-B-E high school band and choirs gave their spring concerts. It featured the Jazz Band with fifth through 12th graders performing together. More photos from both...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary sixth graders received spruce trees from the Belgrade Rosebud Garden Club last Friday. This has been an annual event for the club for the past 30 years. The Southwest Conservation District has been supplying the club with trees during these years and estimate that over 2,000 trees have been distributed to local sixth graders over that time. If you or someone in your family has received a tree in the past 30 years, the Rosebud Garden Club would like to hear...
David Heinze of Elrosa graciously spent part of last Friday showing Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa upper elementary students how to make homemade ice cream. With the assistance of his wife, Carol, and his daughter-in-law, Julie, Heinze brought a small John Deere gas engine to power a rotating drum that contains ice and a slot for ice cream ingredients. See the full story with more photos in the May 5 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The Sunburg Commercial Club is excited about a full day of activities planned for their 12th annual Syttende Mai celebration on Sunday, May 15. The day begins at the crack of dawn when the Kaffestua cafe opens at 7 a.m. Their buffet (11- 1:30) includes lutefisk, klub, meatballs and Rommegrot. At 9:30 a.m., Hope Lutheran Church will host a non-denominational church service, and at the same time, registration begins for the antique tractor pull at Glacial Plains Coop. The Sunburg Trolls Car Club...
Minnesota Farmers Union (MFU) is delighted to kick off another fun-filled camp season for 2016. As parents begin to prepare their children’s schedules, MFU offers affordable and educational camps throughout Minnesota as an option. MFU professional camp counselors will be traveling around the state teaching campers about cooperative organizations, and collaboration, while most importantly having fun! Each camp is unique, with a different combination of crafts, games, lessons, songs, and skits all in the great outdoors. These activities are desig...
The Terrace Sportsmens Club held their annual Spring Bingo night with a crowd of about 45 people on Saturday, April 23. Diane Rust of Glenwood, Renee Skogstad of Kerkhoven and Jacob Lutterman of Terrace were door prize winners. More photos appeared in the April 28 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. You can see the full photo gallery from that night at https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2016-Bonanza-Valley-area-event/Terrace-Sportsmens-BINGO-night/...
The B-B-E fifth grade Math Masters competed at the regional competition in Alexandria on April 22 in a group totaling 176 students. Overall B-B-E's team took fourth place out of 38 teams. Sam Mastey took first place overall in Fact Placement, while Ella Halvorson and Tiyana Schwinghammer tied for third place in that category. Back: Miss Field, Ella Halvorson, Sam Mastey, Jamison Reed, Tiyana Schwinghammer, Brady Schwinghammer, Mrs. Montbriand. Front: Lucy Trowbridge, Annika H...
United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development State Director Colleen Landkamer visited Redhead Creamery last Thursday to celebrate local foods and highlight entrepreneurs expanding their operations and bringing new products to market with funding assistance through USDA's Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program. Alise and Lucas Sjostrom and Jerry Jennissen hosted Landkamer along with an entourage of USDA officials plus representatives of the offices of Senator Al Franken, Senator...
Shown in the photos here are scenes at the mock crash held at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school last Wednesday, April 27 for the 7-12 student body. The Mock Crash featured four B-B-E students as actors in a crash scene as the result of distracted driving. Organizers did a great job driving home the message that "just one text behind the wheel can change or end your life." See more photos and information in the May 5 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The full Bonanza Valley...
A topsy-turvy, back-and-forth affair played out on Sunday afternoon (May 1) as the Elrosa Saints and Spring Hill Chargers resumed their storied amateur baseball rivalry at Chargers Field. Their last meeting resulted in the end of Elrosa's season last year at the Region 15C tournament, a state-qualifying game no less. Through three innings Spring Hill led 4-2. After seven innings were complete, the Chargers expanded that lead to 6-3. Elrosa got two runs back in the top of the eighth inning while...
The Classic Co. Bar and Grill in Brooten is happy to announce the addition of Prime Rib night on Saturdays starting on May 14. They've also added nightly specials during the week. Stop in and see what customers are buzzing about!...
The Spanish department will have more offerings at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, as the school is set to utilize more ITV (Interactive Television) beginning in the 2016-2017 school year. The issue was one of a handful of topics at the Monday, April 18 school board meeting. To read the full story, read the April 21 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The hand-quilted quilt shown is being sold by raffle as party of a full day of activities in Sunburg for their 12th annual Syttende Mai celebration on May 15. The quilt measures 88 inches high by 104 inches in width and will be on display at the Lake Region Bank or Kultur Hus in Sunburg. Next week's newspaper will include more detailed information on that day's schedule. (Last week's issue incorrectly said that the quilt is being auctioned, but it is being sold by raffle.)...
Four individuals from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa in three categories earned spots in the Class 1A state finals at the state speech meet on April 15. These four plus four other teammates competed at the big show at Lakeville North high school. In second place was junior Molly Tengwall in storytelling. This is the second year in a row that she has earned a state medal. Last year she also took second place in that category. In sixth place was senior Alyssa Dalen in the category of Original Oratory....
The annual Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Prom is being held on Saturday, April 30. The dance will be held for the first time in school history at the Brooten Pavilion. The theme is "A Night to Remember", and Post-Prom will be held at the B-B-E elementary school. B-B-E was one of at least five area schools holding prom on this night. Others included Benson, Hancock, West Central Area and Morris Area. Check out more photos in the May 5 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. A video clip from the...
The following was printed in the July 17, 1941 issue of the Brooten Review newspaper. It surfaced during the Bonanza Valley Voice's June 2015 interview with Donnie Beyl, a 1942 graduate of Brooten high school. Beyl and BHS classmate Chester Thompson went on a cross-country trip with BHS history teacher and Buccaneers coach (Howard) Seeley Eastman. Coach Eastman guided the Buccaneers in football, basketball and track and field. In those days, those were the only sports offered, and they were offe...
Senator Torrey Westrom (R-Elbow Lake), has co-authored SF 3192, a bipartisan piece of legislation that re-opens the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minnesota. Currently, Minnesota faces a prison overcrowding issue, placing an increasing burden on the state’s correctional system. Closed in 2010, the Appleton facility has the potential to house up to 1,600 inmates. The private facility, managed by Corrections Corporation of America, will be leased to the state of Minnesota for between $6-8 million annually, a tremendous savings over t...
For the third year in a row, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team claimed the Section 5A runner-up trophy. At Annandale for sections on April 9, B-B-E's team brought 10 speech students to compete for a berth in the Class 1A state meet. Out of those 10, eight will advance to the big show, which is April 15 at Lakeview North high school. Taking the first-place team trophy was Eden Valley-Watkins, who had over 40 entries at the section meet. In third place was perennial speech power house St....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa track and field teams kicked off the 2016 season with the indoor Central Minnesota Conference meet last week Tuesday in St. Cloud. The meet was a chance for the athletes to get a taste of competition and also break up the monotony that can creep up during preseason drills. First-year head coach Tina Bauleke has a strong turnout of 30 students on her varsity roster between the boys' and girls' squads. Overall the track and field program has 36 student-athletes between...
A return to varsity action after a three-year hiatus was a success for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars fastpitch team. On Tuesday (April 12) this week, the Jaguars hosted the Upsala Cardinals on the home diamond at the elementary school. Upsala had an early 3-2 lead before the Jaguars jumped ahead with leads of 5-3 and 9-6. In the top of the sixth inning the Cardinals plated three runs to tie it at 9-9. The Jaguars responded by scoring six times in the bottom of the sixth. In the top of the...
Chad Spanier and his company, Spanier Masonry and Concrete, are available to the Brooten and greater Bonanza Valley area for all your home or business's masonry and concrete needs. Chad is from the Paynesville area, and his wife, Kim, is a 1996 graduate of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa. His business partner is Ryan Wuertz of Paynesville. Click on the graphic on the left to view their advertisement. It also appeared on page 10 of this week's (April 14) issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
