Articles from the January 5, 2023 edition


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  • Belgrade Library Winter Reading Program began January 2

    Jan 5, 2023

    Cozy up with a good book and challenge yourself to read more this season with the Winter Reading Program! "Read for a Better World," the 2023 Winter Reading Program begins Monday, January 2, 2023, and runs through Tuesday, February 28th at the Belgrade Myrtle Mabee library on the north end of Main Street. The program provides fun incentives for readers to settle into cozy winter reading habits. It is designed primarily for teens and adults and is open to anyone in the 6th grade or older. Each...

  • Finding a new way: modernizing the annual sugar beet harvest

    Randy Olson|Jan 5, 2023

    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...

  • Clown Planet No. 153 (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Jan 5, 2023

    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....

  • Let's go to church! at Sunburg Free Lutheran (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Jan 5, 2023

    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 his sermon begin at about the 21:30...

  • B-B-E school board meeting via Zoom (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Jan 5, 2023

    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....