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What a wonderful addition to the Bonanza Valley Days parade! The grand parade was held in Brooten on Sunday, July 10 on a warm but cloudy day. The sun cracked out a couple times, but no one overheated!...
The Miss Brooten royalty traveled to St. Paul on Tuesday, July 26 to participate in Sparkle Night, which was a gathering for royalty groups from across Minnesota at CHS Field for the St. Paul Saints baseball game against Iowa. Below is a video featuring live music being played outside the stadium while the royalty were arriving....
The Bonanza Valley Royal Strutters is excited to announce the annual Jake's Day will be held on Saturday, July 30 at the Belgrade Sportsmen's shooting range. This event is FREE for all area children ages 3 to 17, and registration opens at 9 a.m. The event runs from 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m., and a FREE lunch will be served at noon followed by the handing out of door prizes. Other information will be published in the July 21 and July 28 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Video from a...
Belgrade Brooten Elrosa school, along with Taher, Inc., is once again offering free breakfast and free lunch for school aged children up to 18 years old! No registration necessary! Just come and join us! Where: Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school in Brooten; Mondays through Fridays between June 6 and August 19 (closed on Monday, July 4); When: breakfasts are 8 to 8:30 a.m., and lunches are 11 to 11:30 a.m. Breakfast menu: Thursday, July 21: Breakfast bake, canned fruit. Friday, July 22:...
Richard "Dick" Leroy Boie, 93, of Belgrade and Sun City West, Arizona, died Sunday December 19, 2021, at the Belgrade Nursing Home. A celebration of his life will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, 2022, at Grace Lutheran Church in Belgrade. Richard was born in Belgrade in 1928, the fourth child and eldest son of John and Eleanor (Quisberg) Boie. He attended schools in the Belgrade area and was a member of the Belgrade High School class of 1946. After high school, he traveled with...
Below is a video featuring the Class of 1972 from Brooten high school gathering for a group photo at their 50th year class reunion in the Brooten American Legion hall. At about the 1:20 mark, the group sings the Brooten school song. The group photo and other information was published in the July 21 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The first-time independent candidate is running a campaign focused on We the People and is ready to serve the great folks in MN Senate District 12. Ashley Klingbeil recently announced her candidacy for Minnesota Senate District 12 in the 2022 General Election. Ashley, 29, was born and raised in SD12 and currently resides in Alexandria. She is a mother of 3 boys, a licensed realtor and has been active in local politics since 2020, including being a field organizer for the MNGOP during the 2020...
Here's video from the Bonanza Valley Days kiddie parade held on Saturday, July 9, 2022 on Hatton Street. Later in the parade, the newspaper publisher made a light-hearted comment, and for the record: we love the Kirckofs! For many years in a row, they have been part of this BVD kiddie parade. Great job to Grandma Kara for driving the parade unit! Coverage of this parade will be published across both the July 14 and July 21 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The Brooten Fire Department served over 680 on Friday, July 8 at the annual Bonanza Valley Days chicken BBQ supper. Video from the supper is posted below, and it includes footage of The Nite Owls of Sauk Centre performing. The weekend was truly remarkable in Brooten. The Voice took over 1,400 pictures across the four days....
The Bonanza Valley Days grand parade is on Sunday, July 10, at 1:30 p.m. Grand Marshals for this year's parade are Jerry and Sue Voss, life-long members of our community who are loved and known by all. Registration and staging for the parade lineup will begin at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school parking lot and continue north on School Avenue towards Railway Avenue next to the train tracks. The front-most units will be staged near Main Street and downtown Brooten on Railway Avenue...
Note added on Sunday, July 10: the post-Bonanza Valley Days coverage by the Bonanza Valley Voice will mostly take place in the July 14, July 21 and July 28 newspaper issues. The majority of the coverage will print in the July 14 issue. Full videos of the kids parade and grand parade will be posted online at a later date to this website. Some videos from the BVD weekend will be posted to the newspaper's Jaguars Sports extended coverage blog, which can be found by clicking here: https://bbejaguars...
The Brooten Fire Department is excited to host their annual Bonanza Valley Days chicken BBQ supper on Friday, July 8 at the city park. They will serve from 5 to 8 p.m. with a cost of $10 a plate. This includes potato salad, beans, pickles, bun and beverage. Come one, come all! Video below features Brooten Fire Department members washing the dust off of multiple picnic tables that will be utilized to host the large crowd that is expected. They began set up on Thursday night and are hopeful to...
Coming here...a web article that outlines the food options for eating in Brooten over the Bonanza Valley Days weekend. There's something to take care of just about every meal you need between Friday and Sunday! Stay tuned! Great apologies from the desk of the newspaper owner! Updating this web article slipped through the cracks in my operation on Friday. Essentially 100 percent of my free/spare time has been consumed by a family project we adopted to paint 12 bean bag board sets that were built...
Jacey Tensen is the 2022-2023 Miss Brooten! Tensen, who will be a senior at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school this fall, was crowned the new Miss Brooten at the pageant held on Saturday night of Bonanza Valley Days weekend (July 9) at the Brooten Pavilion. Miss Brooten princess crowned were Tiyana Schwinghammer and Katelynn Uphus. Little Miss Brooten royalty crowned were Little Miss Brooten princess Myra Hall and Little Miss Brooten Willow Olson. Earning the Miss Congeniality title was Tiyana...
First, another gentle reminder to remember that the lengthy list of Bonanza Valley Days activities are made possible by the overwhelming support of the local business community. We can't say it enough: without that generous support, BVD as everyone knows it would not be possible. The BVD posters that have gone up across the area include business sponsors, and you can see the poster yourself on page 7 this week and see everything that's coming. Click on the following link to see the Bonanza...
The Gary Breitbach Golf Memorial tournament was held on June 25 at Prairie View Community Golf Course with a total of 13 teams participating. A video from the live auction, led by Brooten's Scott Jacobson, is published with this web article. Click on the following link to view the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper photo gallery: https://bit.ly/3uogDdO. Gary passed away in August 24, 2006 after a courageous battle with cancer. He was a proud supporter not only of anything happening in Elrosa, but...
All Brooten-area children! The Bonanza Valley Days kiddie parade will be held on Saturday, July 9 at 10 a.m. starting at the Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot on Hatton Street. It will run west on Hatton towards the Brooten Pavilion, where prizes will be announced and a group photo taken. Exciting news! In addition to cash prizes donated by Bollig, Inc. for 1st to 3rd patriotic plus the oldest, youngest and most unique floats AND and treats / drinks / books for all participants, two drawings...
Here's a flashback to one year ago at Bonanza Valley Days 2021 on Saturday in downtown Brooten. Click on the following short link to view the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper photo gallery from Saturday night activities on July 10, 2021 in Brooten: https://bit.ly/3RaxAlN....
The annual celebration is coming to Brooten! Bonanza Valley Days in Brooten is coming on Thursday through Sunday, July 7, 8, 9 and 10. We are down to just two weeks to prepare! This year's BVD theme is "Honor the Red, White and Blue in 2022" as a nod to patriotism and love for our country. A lengthy list of activities are planned, and the BVD Committee is excited to have added food offerings, all the entertainment you could want, plus new and exciting children's activities that include Arts in...
All parishioners from the Parishes on the Prairie Area Catholic Churches from the West Union, Sauk Centre and Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa areas plus friends, family and neighbors and the general public are invited to an afternoon and evening of prayer and party in an old-fashioned church social setting on Wednesday, June 29 at Ss. Peter and Paul church in Elrosa. The event starts at 3 p.m. with bingo and fun that includes yard games, baseball, basketball, sand volleyball and playground activity. An...
Youth at Big Grove/Crow River/Grace Lutheran Parish churches of Brooten/Belgrade held their Vacation Bible School program on Wednesday, June 15 at Grace Lutheran in Belgrade. Video of the program is posted here....
A three-generation photo was published on page one of the June 16 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper that featured retired Brooten fire fighter Loren Solbreken. He was holding his retirement plaque at a party held in the KaDe Shack on June 4 in honor of his 50-plus year fire department career that concluded in 2021. Also with him in the photo were grandson Jacob Solbreken and Loren's sons, Daran and Donovan. Loren Solbreken served the community of Brooten with a deep, tireless level of...
An unforseen mechanical problem during routine water tower maintenance (cleaning) in Brooten has led to an hours-long water outage across town on Tuesday, June 21. The issue arose around 10 a.m. today, and it appears that it will take at least a "couple more hours" until it's resolved, according to city staff. At B-B-E, all activities have been canceled for today at the elementary school, and the day care is closing as of 1 p.m. Families have been notified. Update: city staff is optimistic that the water issue should be resolved by 4 p.m....
Bonanza Valley Days in Brooten is charging hard at us and will be here before we know it! The big summer celebration will be held on Thursday through Sunday, July 7-10. The fun begins with Worship in the Park on Thursday night and concludes with the grand parade and Bonanza Valley State Bank ice cream social on Sunday afternoon. A long, long list of activities are planned just as we are accustomed to in recent years, and the BVD Committee is excited to have added food offerings, all the entertai...
The Belgrade Memorial Day parade was held on Monday, May 30 just as the sun broke free on what was a cool, cloudy morning. Below is video from different vantage points throughout the parade route. Additional coverage appeared and will appear in the June 2 and June 9 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
