Sorted by date Results 901 - 925 of 2099
The No. 16-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team picked up a key Central Minnesota Conference win last Thursday at home by a 74-63 score over Kimball Area. The Cubs, who tied for the CMC title last year with Holdingford, then lost one night later to the visiting Huskers 59-46 to fall to 1-3 in the league. The Jaguars picked up a 72-33 win on Friday at Maple Lake to move to 2-1 (third) in the CMC. On Tuesday at Minnewaska, the Jaguars won 55-41. Now 6-2 overall, the Jaguars...
In 1965, American radio host Paul Harvey gave an immense warning to the American people about the fate of the nation. "We Were Warned: Freedom to Chains" is a short film about the parallels between the warning Harvey gave over fifty years ago, and today with the socialist influences in government and society. This video is an edit of the short film created to provide only the audio without the visuals seen in the original. Harvey's speech lasts about 9 minutes. He was born in Tulsa, OK on September 4, 1918 and passed away on February 28, 2009...
Try to get through the video without laughing....
On Saturday, January 14, two members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa middle school band attended a one-day band camp at Elk River high school. To conclude the day's activities, students gathered there for the Central Minnesota Band Association honors band performed a concert at Elk River high school's George Zabee auditorium. A short video clip from the first song performed is posted below. Additional coverage of this event will be published in the January 19 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
Sugar beet harvesting has become a time-honored tradition each fall across the Bonanza Valley area and beyond. The method used consists of two separate machines, one that cuts the top off the plant and the other that digs them up and lifts them into a storage hopper for transport. Hence the phrase, "It's time to lift beets" muttered by farmers across central Minnesota and beyond. The need to use two machines creates an extra layer of cost for equipment and labor, not to mention the necessity...
From Carl Vernon's YouTube channel out of the United Kingdom, where the producer pieces together news headlines from around the globe that clearly illustrate why humanity as we know it is in trouble....
Such a wonderful worship service to kick off 2023! Below is video from the majority of worship service on Sunday, January 1, 2023 at Sunburg Free Lutheran church in Norway Lake Township in the far northwestern corner of Kandiyohi County. The video begins with special music by singers who were featured in a photo in the January 5 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. They performed additional special music at about the 17-minute mark in the video. Pastor Ron's readings from the Bible and...
Below is a cell phone recording of the majority of a special school board meeting at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Due to weather-driving circumstances, this meeting was conducted via Zoom protocol....
Public Notice: Those wishing to file for candidacy in the Lake Johanna Township may contact Kelly Quade, clerk of Lake Johanna. Filing may be done from January 3, 2023 until January 17, 2023 at 5pm. To be elected is one supervisor for a 3 year term and one treasurer for a two year term. The election and annual meeting will be held Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Kelly Quade, Lake Johanna Township Clerk Dated December 20, 2022...
On Sunday, December 18, Grace Lutheran church in Belgrade hosted their Sunday School Christmas program. A video featuring the entire program is posted below....
How about a little throwback to nearly three years ago! This was PRE-COVID! Do you remember the world we lived in back then? In just about every way, our local area in the Bonanza Valley has returned to life exactly how it was in February and early March of 2020. Thank God for that! Student athletes who were freshmen on that 2020 state tournament team are now the five seniors on this year's B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball squad....
It is not looking good for first responder organizations and especially police departments all over the United States right now. In some states, the outlook is quite bleak in terms of whether or not they can fill the ranks of their police departments. The incessant war on cops is catching up to us. How will we respond to this in 2023?...
A marvelous annual tradition at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school has been the Family and Consumer Science (FACS) foods class Gingerbread House project in December. This year a total of 11 houses were made over a two-plus week period of time leading up to the final week before the Christmas break. The design and build period was heavily disrupted by early outs and late starts and multiple snow days that created challenges for the students to meet the deadline of Wednesday, December 21. In...
Here's the full video of the Sunday School Christmas program held at Big Grove Lutheran church on Sunday, December 18 in North Fork Township....
The God Squad (religious education) students of the Trinity and West Lake Johanna Lutheran parish of Brooten held their Christmas program on Sunday, December 11 at Trinity church. A video from the final 11 minutes of the program is posted below. The program's title was 'The Night Shift Before Christmas'. Full coverage of the program will be published in the December 29 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
How about these throwback videos! Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Class of 2023 students took the lead roles in this Christmas musical performed by the K-4 students at the elementary school on December 17, 2014. That group was in fourth grade. While searching for Bonanza Valley Days video from the summer of 2014, The Voice stumbled onto these two video clips that have high stock value right now as this group is blazing through their final year at B-B-E schools. The Class of 2023 graduation is coming on...
A week and a half after making a brief appearance at the Brooten Santa Day event on December 10, The Grinch appeared at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school during the last hour of classes before the Christmas break began on Wednesday, December 21. The Voice caught a glimpse of The Grinch during his rounds through the cafeteria at lunch time that day. Check out the video and see what transpired!!...
Here's a video clip from the Christmas concert held on Monday, December 12 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's Olson Auditorium. This features one of the songs performed during the Christmas carol portion of the high school's winter band concert that night. Additional coverage was published in the December 15 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
In this rare gem of a video, the official start of the Centennial celebration in Brooten began with a flag-raising ceremony in front of the former Brooten high school. This was held on Friday, July 18, 1986 at the flag pole west of the building. Former Mayor Kay Mohr gives a speech in this video. He just passed away on December 6, and a feature article is included in the December 15 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The community of Brooten was glowing on Saturday. Former teacher and mayor Kay Mohr would have been very, very proud. The day of Saturday, December 10 was crazy busy from start to finish in Brooten. On Saturday there were visits by Santa Claus in both Belgrade and Brooten, and The Grinch even made a stop at the Brooten Lanes for a period of time that was so remarkable the publisher wrote a column about it on page 8 of the December 15 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice! The Brooten lighted...
The communities of Belgrade and Brooten are excited to host Santa Day events on Saturday, December 10. Belgrade goes in the morning, and Brooten holds their activities later in the afternoon with a 6 p.m. lighted Christmas parade. Belgrade Commercial Club Santa Day: the Belgrade Commercial Club invites area children to town on Saturday, December 10 from 9 to 11 a.m. at Municipal Hall. Bring the kids to see Santa and get some great photos! Each child will receive a gift from Santa and a treat....
The Lakeside Ballroom hosted a marvelous two-night Christmas Cowboy show on Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3 in Glenwood. Two video clips from the Saturday night show are posted here. Their Friday night show was sold out! The crowd on Saturday was also very good....
And below is the video player for the interview mentioned in the December 8 issue of The Voice with the newspaper owner interviewed at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school on Tuesday this week. *I had one mistake in that interview...in 2012-2013, the boys' basketball team lost 66-59 to Wheaton/Herman-Norcross in the sub-section semifinals. It is true that it was a game that I will never forget. I swear it was just a 3-point loss...but indeed the Warriors won by 7 points back on March 9, 2013. I...
From the desk of the newspaper publisher: On Tuesday night, December 6, I recorded this short sports show in the courtyard behind the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper office. (Video below) Here's another example of what I'm getting at in that video. Back on the night of September 23, 2019, I was having a very hard time here with the newspaper. There were many things swirling over my head at the time, and I was really at my wit's end. That fall I was starting to form plans to sell the newspaper the following January. On that special evening in...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school's fall musical was Anastasia that was performed in Olson Auditorium on November 18, 19 and 20. A cast and crew of 22 students came together to pull off three impressive shows and create memories that will last a lifetime. An extensive level of coverage was published in the December 1 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Below is a video from Scene 5 of Act II on Sunday, November 20....
