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Foreign-exchange student Fabienne Verhoeff sang the National Anthem prior to the Paynesville girls' basketball game on Monday night, February 15. Verhoeff has also given her talents to the choir, theater department, dance team and currently is part of the speech team....
Senator Lyle Koenen (DFL-Clara City) will host a town hall meeting with Representative Dave Baker at Cornerstone Coffee in Willmar's Skylark Mall on Saturday, Feb. 27. "I look forward to meeting with constituents to discuss the upcoming legislative session and the issues that matter most to Minnesota families and businesses." said Sen. Koenen. "Meetings like this afford me the opportunity to listen, learn, inform, and work with constituents toward a shared objective: making our communities the...
Since her eighth grade season, Hailey Braegelman has been a force on the basketball court for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars. Now a junior, Braegelman has done something few high school athletes can in their careers: join the 1,000-point club. Braegelman entered the home game against Maple Lake with 995 career points. She scored two field goals early in the first half, and at the 11-minute mark she hit a 10-footer in the lane against traffic to surpass the 1,000-point mark. The game was...
Dr. Felix Blanco, M.D., (far left) and other staff members at Glacial Ridge Health System in Glenwood took the plunge into the icy waters of Lake Minnewaska on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 6) during the annual Glenwood Winterama festivities. Overall the event had about 40 brave souls take part in the Polar Plunge. The Winterama event raises funds for Glenwood and Beyond as well as Waterama. See video and the photo gallery from the event at www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com....
The Sno-Daze pep fest games got fairly creative on Friday at the high school. Shown in the photo, Nick Steinhofer, in the pink t-shirt, and Dawson Bitzan, in the blue sweatshirt, hold still while their partners toss cheesy popcorn pieces on their faces after they were covered in Cool Whip....
A discussion of issues ran the gamut of what’s on the minds of rural Minnesota citizens at a town hall meeting on Saturday in Glenwood. Hosted by State Representative Paul Anderson (District 12-B, Starbuck) at Central Square Civic Center, about a dozen individuals showed up to speak their mind. Anderson began by outlining the three big topics that will be the focus of the 2016 Legislative session that begins on March 8: a tax bill, a transportation bill and a bonding bill. “The tax bill is sitting in a conference committee where it was lef...
Fun was had by all ages on Sunday, Jan. 31 at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. The Belgrade Lions Club hosted their annual B-B-E Family FUN Day....
The 26th annual Sno-Daze coronation and games were held on February 2 at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. Seniors Samantha Gjerstad and Sam Wosmek were crowned B-B-E's Sno-Daze Queen and King. The Feb. 4 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice had a full page of photos from coronation, sponsored by a handful of area businesses. Click on the following link to see the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's online photo gallery from coronation: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2016...
While games going into three overtimes are generally unheard of, games ending in five overtimes are even more rare. The B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team can say they've been a part of a five-overtime game, though, and better yet they can say they've won such a contest. Last Thursday at Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted, the Jaguars played in just the eighth five-O.T. game in the history of the state of Minnesota. Clearly not a game for the faint of heart, the Jaguars managed to put the Lakers away...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxiliary, Department of Minnesota, held its 113th annual Grand Banquet Saturday evening, January 23, 2016 at the Minneapolis Marriot City Center, Minneapolis, MN. Nine students from throughout the state were in attendance having won first place in their respective district Voice of Democracy contests. Also in attendance was Rosemarie Miller, sponsored by Keep-Zimmer VFW Post and Auxiliary, who won the Patriot's Pen award. The theme for this year's audio essa...
Packer Brothers and Precision Manufacturing hosted a bus tour from the the Minnesota Rental Association last Thursday. A Greyhound bus with over 25 business owners from all over the state of Minnesota got a first-hand look at what takes place at the manufacturing plant in Brooten's industrial park,with their tour led by owner Dan Kallevig and his operations manager, Adrian Rick. Kallevig gave a brief overview of the company's history while moving the group between the various departments of the...
A fish fry and silent auction fundraiser will be held on behalf of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa robotics team on Wednesday, February 17 at the Ka-De Shack in Brooten from 5 p.m to 8 p.m. Come out and show your support! Watch for more details in a future issue, and check out additional coverage of the team on page four in the Jan. 28 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team has a storied history and has been a force among area schools this entire century. Twice since 2012, B-B-E's state entrants in the Class 1A state speech meet have catapulted the team to a ranking of seventh based on their cumulative performances. They've been a top-10 ranked team in the state of Minnesota in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Since 2000, 30 members of the B-B-E speech team have advanced and competed at the Class 1A state meet. Of those 30, 14 have...
The Redhead Creamery is the 2015 Brooten Business of the Year, an award announced on Saturday, January 16 from the Brooten Commercial Club at their annual party and meeting. Commercial Club president Jana Zenner prefaced the award by these remarks, "They have some ridiculously good service, good food, and have been on numerous television shows and magazines. They've been in competitions for best artisan cheeses. We're very excited that they are part of the Brooten community and excited that...
In a battle for second place in the Central Minnesota Conference, with both teams trying to stay in contention for first place, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team had their hands full on Thursday, January 14. Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted, while just 4-9 overall, sat in a tie with the Jaguars at 3-1 in the CMC and brought a hot three-point shooting game to town for Parents Night. A back-and-forth affair played out, but the Jaguars ultimately prevailed by a 73-71 score in overtime....
Andy Tensen is a United States Army veteran, a retired farmer and a current Commander of the Brooten American Legion. More than all of those lofty titles, Tensen is first and foremost a grandpa. In Tensen's home in Brooten, two long rows of large, framed photos adorn the top of a piano. Framed in the photos are his grandchildren, Tensen's pride and joy. "Most don't live that far away. Many are in either the Brooten area or Willmar," he said while explaining there are 15 altogether not counting...
The 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff was held on Saturday at the campus of Central Lakes College in Staples. Attending were area schools, including seven members Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's Robotics team. The FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology) competition begins with a six-week long "build" period where robotics teams across the area design and build a robot that will meet the requirements of a challenge competition. This year the competition is called FIRST...
Last week (Jan. 11-15) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools honored their paraprofessionals. A few ways this took place included the teachers taking the paras out for lunch at Classic Co. Bar & Grill. Also, on Friday, elementary teachers took over recess duty, a task normally assigned to the paras. So what does a paraprofessional do? From the Minnesota Department of Education website = "Paraprofessionals may work in a variety of positions in a school district including, but not limited to,...
At approximately 08:45 on the morning of Wednesday, January 13, a snow plow collided with an eastbound train at the railroad crossing west of Brooten on 493rd Avenue. That intersection meets with Railway Avenue and also State Highway 55. The snow plow was southbound on 493rd Avenue when it struck the train at the railroad crossing. Eyewitnesses said that the train "tore the snow plow apart" with parts flying into the snow-covered stubble of a nearby soybean field. The driver was injured in the...
During this century, speech has been to Fine Arts at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa as much as volleyball has been to the Jaguar athletic program. It is indeed a program unto itself. That came about by no accident, with B-B-E speech coaches through the years building turnout into the mid- and upper-30s and over 40 in some seasons while cranking out conference and sub-section team championships left and right while having dozens of students earn trips to the State Speech meet each April. Interviews of...
Led by championship efforts by Canon Swanson (106 pounds), Adam Jaeger (138) and Ben Thompson (195), the 11th-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team took fifth place at their home invitational on Saturday. While Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg ran away with the title with 183 team points, a bottleneck occurred between second and fifth place. With 119.5 points, the Jaguars missed third place by just five team points. What hurt them the most was only having three wrestlers getting into...
A middle-aged man was seen by multiple witnesses dragging a leashed small dog down an alley in Elrosa at about 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, January 10. One individual who witnessed the incident yelled at the man, who ignored the plea to stop dragging the dog by the leash. The temperature hovered at about two degrees below zero while this was happening. The location of the alley where this took place runs behind 111 State Street in Elrosa, or what is more commonly known as Highway 71 that runs...
Very early on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 01:35 hours, the Stearns County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to a domestic disturbance call in the city of Belgrade. A Sheriff's Deputy arrived on scene about one minute later and found two subjects actively fighting in the residence. A 38-year old male that lived in the residence sustained multiple stab wounds, one that struck a lung, and was transported to the St. Cloud Hospital for treatment. Bradley Michels, age 41, was arrested and booked...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Area Food Shelf received a $1,000 donation from American Family Insurance agent Glory Schreifels on Wednesday, Dec. 16. American Family Life Insurance Company and its agents partnered to use Life Insurance Awareness month in September and the month of October as a way to benefit local communities. American Family agents around the country made donations to various charitable organizations of their choice, based on the number of life insurance policies their clients...
Poor free throw shooting spelled doom for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team as their undefeated start to the season came to and end in a 56-50 loss at Minnewaska Area on Tuesday last week. Last week Thursday the Jaguars beat Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City in Grove City by a score of 66-47 to get their eighth win of the season. With all teams having two games under their belts in conference play, the Jaguars sit in a three-way tie for first place at 2-0 with Kimball Area and...
