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Governor Mark Dayton has proclaimed Wednesday, February 28, 2018, to be "School Bus Driver Appreciation Day" in the State of Minnesota. Every morning, bright and early, school bus drivers across the state tirelessly dedicate themselves to safely transporting more than 760,000 students of all ages to and from school. "The State of Minnesota appreciates school bus drivers and recognizes the invaluable contributions they make to public education and student safety," reads Governor Dayton's...
Sixth graders Luke Dingmann, Kaden DeRoo, Odin Jensen, Ryan Jensen and Evan Fischer participated in the regional Math Masters Challenge at Hutchinson on March 1. They are coached by Miss Field and Mrs. Jaeger. A total of 115 students on 23 teams competed individually and as teams on eight sets of mathematical problems in this event. Math Masters began as a fifth-grade math competition program in 1989 with 44 schools. In 1995, it expanded to sixth-graders. This year, about 5,500 teams are...
Between February 20 and February 23, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa FFA chapter held a number of activities for national FFA week....
Photos from the concert, which was held on Monday, February 26, were published in the March 1 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. At some point in the future, a photo gallery will be uploaded to the Bonanza Valley Voice's SmugMug website. Details TBA....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa junior Kaylee Torgerson sang at the school's 29th annual Sno-Daze coronation program, held the morning of Tuesday, January 16 in the high school auditorium. Below is a video clip from part of the song. The full coronation video of the entire program will be posted later this week. Be sure to see extra coverage with photos in this week's January 18 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper! Photos will appear in color on pages 1 and 10....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Community Education is holding their annual Holiday Women's Expo today (Saturday, Dec. 2) at the elementary school gymnasium. The event ends at 1 p.m. Additional details on the expo were published on page six of the November 30 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper, and also page 12 of the November 23 issue. Also, the Glacial Ridge Ambulance is hosting their Toy Drive for local needy families at the elementary. That ends at noon....
On the heels of a wicked wind and snow storm that raged across the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa area on Monday, December 4, B-B-E schools has announced a makeup date for the high school's 7th-12th grade Christmas band and choir concert. The month of December is jam packed with activities, so let's hope the next date sticks and does not bring bad weather again! The high school's band and choir Christmas concert will be held on Monday, December 18 at 7 p.m. at the high school. Please pass the word!...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa held turkey bingo at the high school on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, November 22, during the final period of the day. The bingo game was called out by seniors Ethan Schwinghammer and Kendra Schmitz from a central location and sent across the school via the world wide web. If a student had a winning bingo card (displayed on their iPads or Chromebooks), they had to go to the broadcasting room and yell "Gobble, Gobble!" into a microphone while being streamed across the...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa theater department is excited to announce the upcoming production of the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown this coming weekend. Performances will open on Friday, November 17 at 7 p.m., with another evening performance to follow on Saturday at 7 p.m. A matinee will be held on Sunday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for children. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the...
The Senior Class of 2018 won Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's Powder Puff flag football game for Homecoming 2017 on Wednesday afternoon (September 27). The game was played with four, six-minute quarters. The junior class had a 3-0 lead after the first quarter, and at halftime the Class of 2019 held a 7-3 lead. The seniors stormed back in the second half and won by an unofficial score of 16-10. (The sports reporter was not paying attention to the scoreboard at the final horn, unfortunately!) It was a...
The Belgrade V.F.W. Color Guard presented the American Flag and the Minnesota Flag prior to the Homecoming football game at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Friday, Sept. 29. The scene before kickoff was picturesque, even picture-perfect at the B-B-E Jaguars football stadium, as the four members of the Belgrade V.F.W. gathered on the west end of the football field along with our B-B-E Jaguars football team. While our Jaguars stood side-by-side along the length of the west end zone, they held their...
The 29th Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Homecoming royal court was named on Monday night, Sept. 25 to help kick off the annual Homecoming festivities. Following the introductions of the ninth, 10th and 11th grade Homecoming attendant couples, first graders Claire Bromenshenkel and Noah DeRoo walked on stage as crown bearers. Following two games of "Never Have I Ever" with the underclassmen attendants and then the senior royalty candidates, the 2017 Homecoming King and Queen were named. Kyle Felling and...
First of all, NO, part of the roof of the B-B-E elementary school is not missing! That is a wildly untrue rumor, probably among many other untrue rumors flying around. Here's the real story...a severe thunderstorm packed a huge punch and knocked out power across the Bonanza Valley area. The eye of the storm hit Brooten at about 12:40 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 20 with sustained, 80-mph straight line winds. Around that time, a power line arced near the Bonanza Valley State Bank property along...
Sixth-grade students at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school got a real-world experience flying drones on the afternoon of Friday, May 12. Photos from the event were featured in the May 18 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
On May 7, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Fine Arts departments held their annual awards banquet at the Padua Pub. A full story on this with photos was published in the May 11 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The sixth grade class at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school spent a good part of their Friday afternoon on May 12 flying drones on the football field. A wide array of photos from the event were published in the May 18 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The 2017 Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Baccalaureate Service will be held on Sunday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church in Belgrade. This service celebrates the graduating senior class of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school and blesses them on their way into the world. The service will be led by area clergy and members of the B-B-E senior class. Father Peter Kirchner will offer the message, and special music will be provided by the B-B-E Faculty Singers. All are welcome, and...
Here's a short video from the tour given by Harry Zenzen at his business in downtown Elrosa to members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa kindergarten class on May 16....
Here's video from the grand march held on Saturday, April 29, 2017 at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. You can click on the following link to view the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper photo gallery. Also, photos were published on multiple pages of the May 4, 2017 issue of the newspaper. Link - https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2017-BBEBonanza-Valley-area-events/28th-annual-BBE-Prom/....
Since 2011, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team has had at least one team member advance and compete at the Class 1A state meet. Not only that, but each year since 2011, at least one of B-B-E's state participants have advanced to the state finals in their respective category. In 2012, the same year the team won their lone championship trophy in Section 5A, senior Erin Reps earned the program's first-ever state title when she placed first in Extemporaneous Reading. This year, senior Molly...
The spring concert featuring the bands and choirs at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school was held on Monday, April 17. Additional coverage and photos will appear in the April 20 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team turned in one of their best performances of the season at today's Central Minnesota Conference meet (March 23). Led by three seniors who brought home categorical conference titles, B-B-E took second place ahead of host Maple Lake. A very large and talented Eden Valley-Watkins squad emerged as champions for the third straight year. B-B-E was also CMC runners-up in 2015 and 2016. For B-B-E, the second-place finish continues a truly incredible run of success...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa robotics team is in the thick of the battle at the Lake Superior regional in Duluth for the annual F.I.R.S.T. competition. F.I.R.S.T. stands for "For Inspiration and recognition of science and technology" and is meant to promote the many opportunities that exist today for students in the science and technology fields. The F.I.R.S.T. competition, held at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center, runs two days, March 3 and March 4. After arriving in Duluth on...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa robotics team is preparing for the two-day Lake Superior regional competition held at Duluth on Friday and Saturday, March 3-4. The team arrived in Duluth on Wednesday night and spent the day Thursday preparing their robot for the F.I.R.S.T. competition, which runs Friday and Saturday. B-B-E's team is one of 123 teams taking part in two regional competitions at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center. The F.I.R.S.T. competition combines the excitement of sport...
Shown is video from the winter 7th-12th grade choir POPS concert held by the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school on Monday, February 20. Additional photos will appear in the Feb. 23 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
