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Pages six through 13 of the May 30 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper were dedicated to the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Class of 2019. Attached on this web article are a handful of youth tackle football photos with students from the Class of 2019 way back in September 2012. They were in sixth grade. The video embedded below is from the elementary awards ceremony on May 31, 2013 featuring (then) sixth-grade students on the B-B-E Math Masters team. Click on this link and see another video...
Students in the fifth and sixth grades at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary held a spring concert on May 15. The concert began with the elementary choir singing two songs. Next was the elementary band performing, and then the full student body in the fifth and sixth grades sang Rock n' Roll classic songs. Photos from the concert were published in the May 23 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice. (Below) Watch video from the concert. Check out the slick back flip by Abigail Lien right around the...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school band and choir programs held a spring concert on Monday, May 6. Groups performing were students who competed in solo and ensemble contests earlier this spring as well as the junior high band and choir and senior high band and choir. Awards were also given out for outstanding music program students for each level of students. Photos from the concert were published in the May 9 and May 16 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Below, take in video...
The 2019 Baccalaureate Service for Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's senior graduating class will be held Sunday, May 19 at 7 p.m. at Grace Lutheran church of Belgrade. This service celebrates the graduate members of B-B-E's Class of 2019 and blesses them on their way. The service will be led by members of the senior class plus local clergy. Pastor John Dalen of Big Grove, Grace and Crow River Lutheran churches will offer the message. All are welcome! A time of food and fellowship will follow the...
A truly magnificent setting was a big part of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's 30th annual Prom Grand March on Saturday, April 27. With a slight amount of cloud cover, not a hint of wind and seasonable temperatures around 60 degrees, the grand march featured no fewer than 61 couples - the most in many years for B-B-E. A full slate of photos from the grand march appeared in the May 2 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Another round of prom pictures will be published in the May 9 issue. Below,...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school choral department hosted a winter concert on Monday, March 18 at the auditorium. Students in grades 7-12 performed, and some sang solos during the evening. Junior high (grades 7-8) students sang "De Colores", "Believer (Paige Klaphake, soloist)" and "Joy To The World." Senior high (grades 9-12) students sang "No Day But Today", "Steal Away", "Love is Love is Love is Love" and "This is Me" with Paige Benson, Aynsley Preble and Kiara Quade performing solos....
The 11-member Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team just completed their best season since 2014. The eight-year old robotics program finished 19th out of 63 teams at the Lakes Superior Regional in Duluth. The three-day event, held March 6-9 at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center, held the title "Deep Space" in advance of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. manned moon landing coming in July of this year. Additional coverage, taking up multiple pages of the newspaper, was...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team climbed to 19th place out of 63 teams after their final match was completed at the Lakes Superior regional in Duluth on Saturday, March 9. After a few other matches were in the tally, B-B-E's team climbed to 18th place for a brief period before settling in for good at 19th place. Additional coverage of the team will follow in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's March 14 issue....
The No. 1-seeded Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars girls' basketball team took care of business in quick order for their opening playoff game on Thursday, February 28. At the friendly confines of the home court, the Jaguars advanced to the Sub-Section 5A-South semifinals with an 87-25 win over Hinckley-Finlayson. Hinckley-Finlayson finishes the season 9-19 overall. Next: the Jaguars (22-5) play at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 2 at 6 p.m. at Little Falls high school. Their opponent will be No....
The 30th Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Sno-Daze week was held February 11-16 with dress-up days over a five-day period, the King and Queen coronation plus a host of other activities culminating with a semi-formal dance on Saturday. Seniors Riley Lenarz and Kenzie Thieschafer were crowned king and queen on Tuesday at the Sno-Daze coronation ceremony. Photos from the coronation appeared in the Feb. 14 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Additional coverage will follow in the Feb. 21 issue....
Another round of snow and wind will move across the Bonanza Valley area on Thursday, February 7. Winds are predicted to climb past 20 mph on Thursday afternoon. At least four inches of soft snow fell over the previous night and into Thursday morning. The combination of those factors will create hazardous driving conditions. As a result, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools are closed for February 7. All evening activities have been postponed or cancelled. *Update at 11:20 a.m.: The Minnesota...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa will hold the annual Sno-Daze celebration during the week of February 11-15. It will be a five-day school week beginning on Monday the 11th. Click on the large graphic to review the dress-up days of the week at B-B-E high school. At B-B-E elementary: Elementary dress-up days are as follows: Monday is Comfy Day with students' favorite comfort clothes; Tuesday is Uff Da Thrift Shop day as the "ugly sweater" day of the week; Wednesday is MN Sports Wear/MN Gear Day; Thursday...
Posted on Monday, January 28 at 19:00. Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 29-30, 2019 due to the oncoming and dangerously cold weather that's heading towards the Bonanza Valley area. The day care will be open from 6:45 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. each day. Further weather-related announcements are forthcoming. By the end of the week, the school will announce make-up dates. According to the National Weather Service (NWS) in Chanhassen, a windchill warning...
On Thursday, January 31, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools will start three hours late due to the polar vortex-related cold. The varsity girls' basketball game on Thursday night is slated to be played....
*Posted at 15:30 on Wednesday, January 23. Due to the oncoming bitterly cold weather, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools will start two hours late on Thursday, January 24. The Jaguar Kids Connection day care will open at its regular time of 6:45 a.m. Please spread the word! There's not much else to say besides what just flashed on Weather.com = "Think it's cold now? We have bad news"...the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper will provide weather-related updates on this web article, so refresh as you...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team traveled to Central Lakes College in Staples on Saturday, January 5 as one of eight teams in attendance for the F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Kickoff event. Nearly 100,000 high-school students on 3,790 teams at 146 venues around the globe joined the 2019 Kickoff via live broadcast out of Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH. The kickoff was viewed at 146 venues in 29 countries. The 2019 season will have over 3,700 robotics teams...
*Correction: the newspaper has incorrectly posted that a general tour of the elementary campus by the school board will be held on January 7...it will in fact be on Monday, January 28 at 7 p.m. at the elementary school. The regular monthly school board meeting will follow at 7:30 p.m. at the elementary school library. The mix-up was due to an error on the newspaper's side of things....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school was host to a splendid Christmas "mini-concert" as well as a marvelous Holiday-themed musical on Wednesday, December 12. Students in the sixth grade band performed three songs to start off the program: “Jolly Old Saint Nicholas”, “The Dreidel Song” and “Jingle Bells”. The band was followed by students from the fifth and sixth grades in the elementary choir who sang two songs: "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" and "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful". Following t...
Here's video from Thursday, December 20 of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa senior high band performing Christmas carols at various locations around the elementary school. Two photos of band students in action were published on page one of the Dec. 27 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
On Wednesday, November 21, members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa second grade performed a skit on the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. (WIKIPEDIA) Their class is taught by Mrs. Sorenson. Photos from the skit can be found at the following link, and video is shown below:...
They were simply marvelous. A cast of 19 Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa drama students put on a spellbinding performance for opening night of "Big, The Musical" on Friday, November 16. In spite of the large number of young cast members, they absolutely nailed it! Plus, viewers can expect the next two shows to get even better. Adding to the night's excitement was having a near-capacity audience on hand for the first of three shows this weekend on the B-B-E high school theater stage. (Note: to get a...
Students and teachers from area school districts and numerous parents with their students were among the 1,045 participants at the Conference for Young Artists held on October 25. This was the 25th annual conference sponsored by the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council and SWWC Service Cooperative and held at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. From Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary, 22 students in grades four through six attended the conference. Derek Anderson, the keynote...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa theater department will hold the fall musical "Big" this weekend: November 16, 17, 18 are the show dates. The Friday and Saturday show times are 7 p.m., and on Sunday they will perform at 2 p.m. The production will be held at the high school auditorium. Admission prices are $7 for adults, $4 for students in grades K-12, and preschool-aged children or younger are free if accompanied by an adult. From Wikipedia: "Big" The Musical is a 1996 musical adaptation of the 1988...
Students and staff at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school, along with members of the Brooten American Legion and Brooten American Legion Auxiliary groups, joined together to hold a Veterans Day program in the main gymnasium on Monday, November 12. B-B-E high school juniors Brittany Berge, Brooke Deters and Grace Illies read their Voice of Democracy contest essays, and the B-B-E senior high band and choir and the Pope County Men's Chorus all performed a selection of songs. The program...
Don't miss out! 'Big, The Musical' will be performed by students in the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Theater. Show times are 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, November 16 and 17. Then on Sunday, the show concludes with a performance at 2 p.m....