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The Brooten Farmers Market will operate for the first night of the 2025 season on Thursday, June 26 at the Brooten city park shelter and gazebo from 4 to 7 p.m. Please pass the word! Local craftsman, bakers and artists are welcome to join! Contact the Bonanza Valley Voice for more details at 320-346-2400. The Brooten Farmers Market will run weekly on Thursdays through at least September. An attached video here shows footage from the first Brooten Farmers Market held on June 20,...
SUBMITTED BY JULIE LLOYD Note: a video is added to this web article from 2017; you can view that by clicking through the attached media. The historic Terrace Mill in Chippewa Falls Township will be celebrating a grand reopening on Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22, at the Terrace Mill grounds. Having been closed due to the covid-19 pandemic and reorganizing efforts, the new board of directors is excited to announce a new season of events and the mill being open for visitors! The event is free...
The Terrace Mill Foundation hosted a two-day grand reopening celebration with live music and other activities on Saturday and Sunday, June 21-22. In the attached video, live music is played by Stan and Friends on the outdoor stage of the Terrace Mill during the Terrace Mill Foundation's grand reopening weekend....
All area youth in grades 7 to 12 are invited to a Youth Night of activities and delicious grilled food this week Thursday, June 26 starting at 6 p.m. at the Belgrade City Park. This is a non-denominational event sponsored by the Big Grove-Crow River-Grace Lutheran Church Free Spirits youth group. Join them for food, sand volleyball, bean bags, ultimate frisbee and more. On the menu: hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, cookies and beverages. This is a FREE event! Please help spread the...
On Thursday, June 12, a steady rainfall began across the Bonanza Valley area after 11 a.m. If nothing else, it developed into a great day to travel to a garage sale! One garage sale is taking place in rural Brooten/Grove Lake just a stone's throw off of the North Fork Crow River on Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week. From the Brooten area, it can be found by heading north on County Road 18, turning left on County Road 20 (the Sedan road) and then heading north on 102nd Avenue towards the...
The Parishes on the Prairie Catholic ACC of Sauk Centre, Belgrade, Brooten, Elrosa and West Union invite everyone to their annual summer Church Social on Sunday, June 29 on the grounds of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Elrosa. The day begins with an outdoor Mass (weather-permitting) starting at 10:30 a.m. The church social activities, which feature a free lunch meal, will run from noon to 5 p.m. The church social events are held in an all-inclusive, non-denominational fashion! See you...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Clay Trapshooting team concluded its 10th season on a marvelous day at the MSHSL Clay Trapshooting Championship, which continues to be the world's largest outdoor clay shooting event and is hosted at the Alexandria Shooting Park along I-94. For the second year, B-B-E's team competed in Class 2A, and this year the team had 19 skeet shooters at state. Their state skeet shoot day was Tuesday, June 10. Additional state skeet shooting coverage is in the June 12 and the...
Press release on June 12 from Central Square and Civic Center in Glenwood. Join us this week for this year's first Music on the Lawn at the historic Terrace Mill-a scenic summer evening filled with music, community, and creativity. Enjoy live performances by Texas Americana duo, The Flyin' A's, joined by Minnesota's own Charlie Roth. To be held on Friday, June 13 at the Terrace Mill from 5 to 8 p.m. Come early for a Q and A with the performers, and stay for great food from Colby's World...
This Alpha News video includes views provided by Kendall Kotzmacher, a 2025 graduate of White Bear Lake high school. She is doing so as an adult who can provide her First Amendment-protected rights without repercussion from her high school or from the Minnesota State High School League. Kotzmacher stated her desire to speak out and support younger female student athletes who currently have their views restricted and oppressed by authority figures both in the school system and in state...
The Belgrade V.F.W. Post No. 1825 held its Memorial Day program at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school's Olson Auditorium. About 80 members of the public were in attendance along with the B-B-E high school's grades 8-12 choir and band, which both performed patriotic songs. In the attached video, you can watch the program. The guest speaker was Keith Johnson, a Belgrade native who graduated from BHS in 1960. He later was a music teacher at Litchfield high school before retiring in 1999. After...
The reading of the lesson and Holy Gospel plus the pastor's sermon at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church is included in the attached video from June 1. Barry Bouwman reads the lessons and Psalm, and Pastor Jeanne Megorden read the Holy Gospel before providing her sermon. Worship at WLJ in Gilchrist Township is at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday for the month of June....
An extensive church bell and building remodel project is underway at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Elrosa. In the attached video, which was recorded the morning of Friday, May 23, the third and final bell from the bell tower at Ss. Peter and Paul is removed from the steeple. Additional coverage is forthcoming in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. One photo of the three bells was published on page 1 of the June 5 issue....
A video was added to this web article from 2017; you can view that by clicking through the attached media. The historic Terrace Mill in Chippewa Falls Township will be celebrating a grand reopening on Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22, at the Terrace Mill grounds. Having been closed due to the covid-19 pandemic and reorganizing efforts, the new board of directors is excited to announce a new season of events and the mill being open for visitors! The event is free to the public, with donations...
The Belgrade VFW Post 1825 held their Memorial Day program on May 26. Part of the parade is featured in the attached video, which was recorded while the parade marched down Belgrade's Main Street. To view the video, swipe right or left on the photo of the veterans marching down Main Street....
Come join the family, friends and staff of Redhead Creamery in North Fork Township, rural Brooten, on Saturday, June 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. for their 7th annual Curd Fest! It's going to be whey fun! Take a leisurely walk, shop around, have a drink, or bust a move. And don't worry, fan-favorite treats like Pan-Fried Curds and Curd Kabobs will be there, fresh and squeaky as always! Live music will include at least two bands: The Cropdusters and Gus Sent Me. To view a video from the 2024 Curd...
Grove Lake area veterans and family members held a Memorial weekend program on Sunday, May 25. The event began with a short ceremony at the Grove Lake Chapel, which is located along Pope County Road 39 south of the town. The veteran-led group marched across the road over to Grove Lake Township cemetery. From there, the group moved over to the Grove Lake Township park, where a short program was held featuring Scripture reading, music and a 21-gun salute by members of the Glenwood V.F.W. and...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa baseball team successfully opened the Sub-Section 6A-South tournament with a 12-2 in in 6 innings. The opponent was No. 7-seeded West Central Area. Seniors Luke Illies and Brett DeRoo split pitching duties for the Jaguars, who are looking to return to the Section 6A championship game for the sixth straight season. The Jaguars (14-6) now advance into the double-elimination part of the Section 6A tournament. They play at 11 a.m. in Morris on Thursday, May 29. Further...
A marvelous fireworks show by Precocious Pyrotechnics was fired off east of the football stadium on Friday, May 23. The show was part of the Class of 2025 graduation from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. Their commencement ceremony was held that evening at the football field with picture-perfect conditions featuring almost full sunshine, almost no wind to speak of along with perfect temperatures in the upper 60s. The fireworks show is featured in the attached video. The full photo gallery...
On the first day of June, regular Sunday worship was held at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church in Gilchrist Township. A video attached here features the Prayers of Intercession led by Pastor Jeanne Megorden....
The Brooten American Legion held a Memorial Day program on May 26 at the Brooten Pavilion. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school band performed patriotic music, and the guest speaker was B-B-E elementary principal Josie Dingmann. She is a granddaughter of the late Harold and Harriet Jacobson, who passed away this past winter. They were long-time members of the Brooten American Legion and Legion Auxiliary. Dingmann's keynote speech begins at about the 9-minute mark in the video. In the latter...
This week, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) greatly altered the government's COVID jab recommendations for the public. The new recommendations bring the United States in line with just about every other country in the western world. In a nutshell: COVID jabs will now only be recommended for those in high-risk health situations or senior citizens age 65 or older. The attached video from the Jimmy Dore channel on YouTube spells out more details....
This is the video player for graduation on Friday, May 23, 2025. It will go "live" at approximately 6:45 p.m. that evening. The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. at the high school football stadium. The first graduation ceremony for Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school was back in 1990, when the graduates of the newly-paired school were made up of students from the former Brooten and Belgrade-Elrosa high schools. The 55 graduates in the Class of 2025 are featured in a center spread of the Bonanza Valley...
On Wednesday, May 21, members of the graduating Class of 2025 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa were greeted by K-5 elementary students in Brooten. The elementary students were holding their year-end awards ceremony. Once the ceremony was completed, the senior graduates entered the gymnasium and were introduced by Principal Josie Dingmann. In the attached video, graduating seniors held a fruit rollup challenge with their respective K-5 age siblings....
On Sunday, May 18 in Sunburg, musicians with the Sunburg Community Players performed numerous songs at two separate outdoor conferences. These music performances were part of a long list of family-friendly activities for all ages at the Sunburg Syttende Mai celebration. In the attached 8-minute long video, these musicians can be seen performing next to the former Sunburg Cafe. Earlier in the day, they performed at the park shelter next to Willie Reigstad Baseball field. The Norwegian...
The Sunburg Syttende Mai grand parade lasted around a half hour and included a wide array of local businesses and service groups. The Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg Marching Band also performed throughout the parade. The attached video features the full parade as it passed by the Lake Region State Bank intersection with Highway 7. Additional Syttende Mai coverage from Sunburg was published in the May 22 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Another round of coverage will appear in the May 29...
