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Here's a video featuring the Ash Wednesday worship at Trinity Lutheran in Brooten on Wednesday, March 5. Early in the video, Jacob Rooney reads the lessons and Psalm before Pastor Jeanne Megorden provides the Holy Gospel and Sermon. Her reading of the Holy Gospel begins at about the 7 minute mark of the video. Ash Wednesday worship services were also held in the Bonanza Valley area at St. Donatus Catholic Church in Brooten as well as Grace Lutheran Church in Belgrade....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's FFA chapter hosted their first annual Milk Relay competitions on Wednesday, February 19. The event was part of recognition of National FFA Week, which was February 16-22 in schools across the country. The attached video features one relay competition in progress during lunch that day at the high school's main gymnasium. Additional activities took place during FFA week at B-B-E. On Thursday, the FFA hosted guest speakers at Olson Auditorium. The speakers were from Case...
Notice is hereby given to residents of Crow River Township, County of Stearns, State of MN that the Annual Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. The Annual Meeting will commence at 8 p.m. to conduct all necessary business prescribed by law. The Annual Election and will be held at the following location: Crow River Township Hall at 604 School Street, Belgrade, MN. /s/ Lisa Mastey, Crow River Township Clerk/Treasurer. NOTICE OF RAYMOND TOWNSHIP ANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS:...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team will send four student athletes to the Class 1A state individual tournament. Three of the four earned Section 5A titles, while the other was runner-up at the state-qualifying tournament held on Saturday, February 22 at Yellow Medicine East in Granite Falls. Advancing to state as section champions are seniors Brett DeRoo (160 pounds), Carson Gilbert (215) and Hunter Laage (285). Noah Jensen, an eighth grader, advanced to state as the Section 5A...
The lies never end on CNN! When confronted on justifying their lies and hyperbole, they flash the "deer in the headlights" look - as stated by Zach Costello in the attached video. Here's how bad CNN is: they include talking panels that have people such as a Substack author (Toure) who argued with Scott Jennings about the government's executive branch. This man did not pass 9th grade Civics. He couldn't have!...
Here's one video featuring turkey bowling that was held on Friday, February 21 in the Career and Technical Education wing of the high school. This was part of numerous activities held to recognize National FFA Week....
Here's perennial political candidate Stacy Abrams getting caught in a $2 billion fraudulent scheme that has finally been uncovered. Get all the details in the attached 2 minute, 12 second video. In this fraudulent "green energy" scheme, a "non-profit" climate group led by Stacy Abrams received $2 billion from the Joe Biden administration. This was part of Biden's "Inflation Reduction Act" that was passed in 2021. In 2023, it only received a total of $100 in donations. In 2024, the $2 billion...
Two weeks ago, Yale University scientists revealed that the COVID mRNA jabs can cause a "previously unknown" condition dubbed "Post-Vaccination Syndrome" which appears to cause the same symptoms that "Long COVID" causes. These symptoms include: brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus, extreme fatigue and biological changes to patients' immune systems. The study's lead researcher was Dr. Akiko Iwasaki. During this Yale study, participants suffering from Post-Vaccination Syndrome had reactivated...
On Tuesday, February 11, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school held the 35th annual Sno-Daze coronation program at Olson Auditorium. The full program video is attached here. The coronation crowning takes place just after the 17-minute mark in the video....
In the attached video by Jimmy Dore, an extensive review of admissions regarding COVID lies is provided. These lies were repeated endlessly and breathlessly over a period of 1 to 2 years (or more) beginning on March 2020. Ironically, the lies began soon after the impeachment of President Donald Trump failed in the U.S. Senate. (The irony of that is RICH!) One of the Deep State players highlighted in the video was Dr. Deborah Birx, who served under President Trump and President Joe Biden as...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team is riding a three-game winning streak, and they are playing their best ball of the season as winners of 5 of their last 6 games. On Tuesday, February 18 in a border battle at their neighbors to the south, New London-Spicer, the Jaguars had an outstanding second half in a 61-54 win to cap a four-game road swing. Last Friday at Maple Lake, the Jaguars held the Irish to just 16 first-half points in a 68-34 win. B-B-E is currently in 5th place in...
The headline says all that really needs to be said here. The ways that the Swamp in Washington D.C. has dreamed up to frivelously spend U.S. taxpayer dollars is breathtaking. Here's a short list: $25 million dollars to promote the following: biodiversity, conservation and "licid" livelihoods by developing "socially responsible" behavior in the country of Colombia. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. $42 million for Johns Hopkins to research and drive...
The National Basketball Association (NBA), which has undergone massive transformations in its messaging and its operations across the past 5 years while the "woke mind virus" has infected its leadership, continues to slide into irrelevance in the professional sports stage. One recent example of its slide into the abyss was on display with the All-Star game on February 16. Television ratings for the All-Star game were its second-lowest in the league's history. It did not help the NBA that the...
For the first time in many years, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team hosted a home meet at the high school with the first annual Jagtastic Speech Invitational this past Saturday, February 15. Year to year, the speech team occasionally hosts either conference or subsection meets, but this year the team gets two meets at home (subsections are in Belgrade on April 4). In the attached video, B-B-E seniors Tia Nelson and Kora Martinez were recognized during the awards ceremony that afternoon....
After Alpha News provided scrutiny in the form of old-fashioned journalism, DFL State Senator Omar Fateh recently withdrew his bill that would have directed $15 million in taxpayer money to the WE WIN Institute. This comes on the heels of Senator Fateh's shepherding of $3.5 million to WE WIN via the state legislature and Governor Tim Walz during the 2023 legislative session. The 2025 legislation supporting the WE WIN Institute would have directed $15 million for "culturally specific programming...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team sent 12 athletes to the Section 5A individual wrestling tournament at Yellow Medicine East high school on Saturday, February 22. Out of those 12, three of them earned first or second place finishes to advance to the Class 1A state tournament at Xcel Energy Center on February 28 and March 1. They are Noah Jensen (107 pounds), Brett DeRoo (160), Carson Gilbert (215) and Hunter Laage (285). Results are as follows by weight division. 107: Noah Jensen...
Have you read The Art of the Deal by President Donald Trump? If you haven't read it, you should! If you are Ukrained President Volodymyr Zelensky, then you clearly have not read that book....
During the lunch periods on Wednesday, February 19 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school, the FFA chapter hosted a Milk Relay competition. The attached video features the Milk Relay taking place that afternoon. Additional National FFA Week coverage will be published in the February 27 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The FFA hosted turkey bowling on Friday. Click over to the Jaguars Sports extended coverage blog to see a video featuring that event: https://bbejag...
Governor Tim Walz spoke at the 158th annual Minnesota Newspaper Association convention on Friday, January 31. The MNA convention was held at the Minneapolis Marriot Northwest hotel in Brooklyn Park that week. The attached video features Walz speaking at the Friday afternoon banquet that day on topics such as the 2025 state legislative session as well as ideas the government can work with on helping the health and well being of newspapers across the state. Walz's appearance was followed by a...
A deranged, lunatic Democrat in California has called on the public to resort to using violence in the fight against Elon Musk's war on fraud, waste and abuse in the United States federal government. The attached Sky News Australia video on YouTube spells out what happened. From Sky News Australia, Democrat Representative Robert Garcia is under fire for controversial comments surrounding billionaire Elon Musk. During his interview on CNN, Garcia said that Americans should "bring actual weapons...
Bitter cold has gripped the Bonanza Valley area this week. Temperatures plunged to 20 or more below zero on Monday night, February 10, with the temperature before school began shown in the attached photo on Tuesday, February 11. By 11:30 a.m. it rebounded to a "balmy" negative one degree. Negative 22 is in the forecast for Wednesday night. It's a great time to have wood heat, which is more and more rare today....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team concluded their regular season with a 7-12 overall record. In the Central Minnesota Conference, they finished in third place with a 4-2 record behind Holdingford and Paynesville Area. On Monday, February 10, the Section 5A seedings were released for the upcoming playoffs. The Jaguars earned the No. 5 seed and open with a quarterfinal match at Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg high school on Thursday this week (February 13) at 7 p.m. They face the No. 4-seeded...
Coming to the Bonanza Valley area on Friday, February 14 Tom and Anne Kampsen and the friendly staff of the KaDe Shack in Brooten invite everyone to their Valentine's Day supper. They will serve from 5 to 9 p.m. at just $12 a person with a menu including shrimp, chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy plus salad. Heidi's Bar in Sedan has a big act coming for Valentine's Day, with Dana Robinson and the Bottle Rockets playing on Friday, February 14 from 8 p.m. to midnight. No cover charge! Brink's...
On Thursday, February 13 in Washington, D.C., U.S. Senator Rand Paul provided examples of wasteful spending during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing titled "Waste by the Foreign Aid Bureaucracy." The attached video features Senator Paul speaking during this committee hearing. Senator Paul said, "The U.S. should not be the world's sugar daddy, especially towards countries and organizations who act contrary to our nation's beliefs. Our country is 36 trillion dollars in debt, yet we...
On February 12, Congresswoman Fischbach (MN-07) introduced the Investing in Rural America Act to provide critical capital resources to rural communities through improvements to the Community Facilities Loan and Grant Program. "Rural communities across the country are struggling to retain population, much less attract future generations. One way Congress can support them is by eliminating unnecessary regulatory barriers to capital investment, particularly on critical community facilities like hos...
