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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...
Here's a video clip from the high kick squad on Monday night as well as the JV jazz squad. See photos from the meet in the Jan. 7 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
On Monday, December 7, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school bands and choirs held their annual Christmas/Holiday concert. Performing were the Percussion Ensemble, the Junior High choir, the Junior High band, the Senior High choir and the Senior High band. The final song was a joint performance between all 7-12 grade band and choir students of the song "Believe" by G. Ballard and A. Silvestri. The event was live streamed at the school's website for those who couldn't attend in person, and a...
For the past month, the full weight of the Bonanza Valley Voice has been investigating an air purifying and vacuum-selling company based in the St. Cloud area. Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, the name of the company is being withheld. Two local families have reported extremely difficult issues with the basic ethics of this business’s employees and owner. In one case, a local resident was pressured to buy a vacuum cleaner and two air purifiers for the total price of $3,600. Before three business days passed, at the urging of o...
USDA Rural Development State Director Colleen Landkamer recently announced that USDA is investing nearly $1.1 million to help nine businesses in rural Minnesota. The funding comes from USDA Rural Development's Value-Added Producer Grant program. "These grants help create expansion and job opportunities for local producers and rural small businesses," Landkamer said. "USDA's support is especially important for beginning farmers and smaller farm operations by providing capital to expand marketing...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars girls' basketball team has started the season 4-0 for the first time since the 1996-1997 season. After picking up two wins in Benson to claim the championship of the Case IH tournament last weekend, the Jaguars pummelled visiting Upsala on Tuesday this week 71-37 for their fourth win. Making the initial undefeated streak even more impressive is the fact that all 14 players on the varsity roster saw action in all four blowout wins. In Benson, the Jaguars...
After winning just three games all season in the Central Minnesota Conference last year, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team is off to a 3-0 start in the league after winning a thriller by a 61-59 score over visiting Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted on December 11. The 3-0 mark in the CMC has B-B-E sitting in a first-place tie with Eden Valley-Watkins. In second place in a tie are Pierz and Maple Lake. The Jaguars (5-1 overall) had an early 10-7 lead with 15:20 left in the first half...
The life of Dawn (Glesne) Larson changed in an instant in a motorcycle accident on July 24 on Highway 10 near Royalton. The motorcycle, driven by 43-year old Thomas Knott of Royalton, crashed into the ditch. Knott left Larson in the ditch and put the motorcycle back on the highway. Besides the problem of leaving Larson behind, he was traveling north in the southbound lanes, according to a Minnesota State Patrol report. Larson, a single mother of daughters Hannah (16) and Hailey (8), suffered cou...
Winter reared its powerful head on Monday this week dumping four to six inches of wet, heavy snow across the Bonanza Valley area. (In the photo) Main Street Brooten is shown at 8:30 p.m. on Monday night. The Minnesota State Patrol reported that by the end of Monday night, over 400 automobile accidents had been reported across the state. By noon on Tuesday, most roadways had cleared up....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team got off to a great start to the 2015-16 dual meet campaign with two dominant wins over Kimball Area (43-27) and Paynesville Area (41-27) in a Central Minnesota Conference triangular on Thursday in Paynesville. It's the second year in a row that the Jaguars have beaten Paynesville but just the third time overall in school history. All three teams are members of Section 5A, so the wins were huge at this early point of the season for playoff...
The Redhead Creamery in rural Brooten hosted a Holiday Open House on Saturday, Dec. 5 on a day with hazy cloud cover, mild temperatures and a lack of wind that helped make for a wonderful afternoon for tours of the Jennissen dairy farm and the creamery's factory. Numerous farm tours took place throughout the afternoon, which for many, was their first glimpse at a working dairy farm. To top it off, Santa Claus made a special visit via a horse-drawn wagon in the second hour of the four-hour long...
iVantage Health Analytics and the National Organization of State Office of Rural Health (NOSORH) has recognized Glacial Ridge Hospital for overall excellence in Patient Perspectives and Financial Strength, reflecting top quartile performance among all acute care hospitals in the nation. "We are very pleased to receive this recognition," stated Glacial Ridge Health System CEO Kirk Stensrud. "Our staff and physicians have worked very hard as a team to exceed our patients' expectations while at...
Plans are being made for a full afternoon of activities at the annual Christmas in Brooten and Santa Day celebration on Saturday, December 12. A revamped schedule has been worked out through cooperation and planning between the Brooten Commercial Club and the B-B-E Cub Scouts. The result is a somewhat tighter schedule than in previous years but the same, if not more, level of activities and fun for the whole family. The basic schedule is as follows: 2 - 3:30 p.m. Horse-drawn Sleigh Rides; 2 - 3:30 p.m. Santa visits 3:30 p.m. - Movie 4:30 p.m....
Here are dates for radio coverage by 106.5 FM The Train of Norway Lake-Sunburg: Friday, December 4: boys’ basketball at Paynesville; Tuesday, December 8: boys’ basketball at Kimball; Monday, December 14: girls’ basketball vs. Parkers Prairie; Monday, December 28: boys’ basketball vs. New London-Spicer at the Willmar tournament (1:50 p.m.) Smooth Magic 107 FM of Glenwood will have both of the girls’ basketball games in Benson on Friday, December 4 and on Saturday, December 5 for the annual Benson tournament....
The opening night of "Avenue Q: School Edition" by the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa theater company was a smashing success. Those in attendance were given close to two hours of laughs and joyful moments while taking in a musical adapted from Broadway that shares a very special message for everyone. As they filed out afterwards shaking hands with the cast and crew, fans raved at the terrific singing, stage work and theatrics delivered by the students. You have just two more chances to catch the show:...
The B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team opens the 2015-2016 season with a varsity Jaguar Invite on Wednesday, November 25. Action begins at 2:30 p.m. at the high school gymnasium. Teams included are Holdingford, Maple Grove, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta/Hancock, New London-Spicer, Royalton/Upsala, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle/Browerville and Ortonville....
Shown are the winners of the Voice of Democracy essay contest held for juniors at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. From left: Mrs. Cassidy with the Belgrade V.F.W. Auxiliary, Hailey Braegelman (third place), Isaac Vliem (first place), Molly Tengwall (second place) and Dave Schwinghammer with the Belgrade V.F.W....
The Bonanza Valley Voice is one of the first newspapers in the state of Minnesota to offer our very own live Internet video streaming station. A "trial run" took place on Saturday with limited success during the turkey drawing sponsored by Brooten-area businesses for 30 turkeys at the Ka-De Shack. The Bonanza Valley Voice's live streaming station's Internet URL is this = http://citylinktv.com/channel/brooten-bonanza-valley-voice. At this site, visitors can find an "event calendar" link on the right-side column. The video feed is dark and not...
Students at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, as young as the preschoolers on up through seniors, took in Veterans Day programs on Wednesday at the elementary and high school buildings. The B-B-E senior high band and choir performed at both events. At the elementary school, sixth grade students recited information about Veterans Day while the Pope County Men's Chorus sang a number of songs. Members of the Brooten American Legion Post #288 and the Brooten Legion Auxiliary were seated up front during the...
The Korean War had been underway for close to three years when DeWayne Lien of Brooten was drafted into the Army in April 1953. At the time, when the war would end was in doubt. "To this day it seems like an odd war to have fought in. Fighting communism, I suppose," said Lien, about what the war's purpose was. He remembers the dividing line, though: the 38th parallel. Following World War II, Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union north of the 38th parallel, while the U.S. occupied Korea south...
