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Here's a video from the night that Santa Claus made an early visit to Elrosa to see local children on Friday, December 18....
The reported positive COVID-19 test figures on Thursday, December 31, 2020, for communities across the Bonanza Valley area continue to show decline, a trend that began at the beginning of December. Numerous area communities saw just one new case reported in the seven-day period. In the zip code area of Brooten (56316), just one new COVID-19 case was reported for the prior week. The figure reported for Belgrade (56312) was five. In Elrosa (56325), for the second week in a row, zero new cases were reported. For the zip code area of Glenwood...
Below is the video player that includes Christmas II worship at Norway Lake Parish on Sunday, January 3, 2021....
With Minnesota's December weather providing full cooperation, children from Trinity and West Lake Johanna Lutheran churches of Brooten held a special recording of their Christmas program on Sunday, December 20. The music and program used was called "The Joy of Christmas" and was created and arranged by Terryl Padilla and John Roberts. The video player is shown below. The performance was terrific after they held a light rehearsal in the Trinity church sanctuary before the outdoor recording took...
Here's video for worship service at Norway Lake Lutheran Parish of rural New London recorded at East Norway Lake Lutheran church for December 24, 2020. If you click on the following link, you can be re-directed to a web article that has a special video of worshipers singing at the Pioneer Advent Worship service on December 3, 2017. The worship was held at the old log church in Arctander Township..."Where it all began" with us rabbel-rousing Lutheran Norwegians in the northwest corner of...
Below is video for worship services for Christmas Day at Norway Lake Lutheran parish in rural New London, MN....
Here's video for worship service at Norway Lake Lutheran Parish of rural New London recorded at First Lutheran church for December 24, 2020. If you click on the following link, you can be re-directed to a web article that has a special video of worshipers singing at the Pioneer Advent Worship service on December 3, 2017. The worship was held at the old log church in Arctander Township..."Where it all began" with us rabbel-rousing Lutheran Norwegians in the northwest corner of Kandiyohi County!...
Featured here is video of the Brooten lighted Christmas parade on Saturday, December 12, 2020. Thank you for coming! If you missed it, you can get a pretty good view of the parade in this video. At times the footage gets interrupted to allow for newspaper photos to be taken of the parade floats. Photos from the parade will appear in the December 17 and December 24 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Participating in this year's parade: Belgrade police department Brooten fire...
Anywhere from 600 to 1,000 people were in Brooten on Saturday, December 12 from numerous area towns to help celebrate Christmas in a drive-through format. Below is a video taken before the lighted Christmas parade began at 6 p.m. that night. Other coverage is in the December 17 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Also, more coverage will be in the December 24 issue....
Click below for worship video at Norway Lake Lutheran parish for Sunday, December 20, 2020....
Pierre Kory, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at St. Luke's Aurora Medical Center, delivers passionate testimony during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on "Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution, Part II." The doctor indicts the National Institute of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and other government agencies for only endorsing "novel" and "expensive" treatments for COVID-19. The other video features an...
Below is video for worship service at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, December 13, 2020 in rural New London, MN. With December soon upon us, let's help the churches of Norway Lake Parish finish 2020 strong with your careful consideration of financial offerings. You can mail your offering for First Lutheran Church or East Norway Lake Lutheran church to: Norway Lake Parish 6338 County Road 40 NW New London, MN 56273. From everyone at Norway Lake Parish, we wish you and your family a safe...
After some communities saw large growth in case numbers for COVID-19, the numbers reported by the Minnesota Department of Health on December 3 show good news. While most media will not report a full picture with full context, The Voice is going to point out that daily testing volumes are three to five times higher than they were at any point last spring or summer. Case counts are following suit. For the community of the Brooten area in the zip code of 56316, the new cumulative case count for...
The Belgrade Commercial Club has placed a special mailbox just outside the Belgrade city hall building. Local children are asked to drop off letters to Santa at this location. A second idea the commercial club is putting into action is donating $15 from their club funds to every Belgrade Nursing Home resident to go towards the cost of getting a haircut from local hair stylists....
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, December 6, 2020....
Citizens of Brooten are excited to host an abbreviated Santa Day and lighted Christmas parade event on Saturday, December 12 starting at 4:30 p.m. After an hour to provide time for folks to participate in the drive-through "Treasure Collection" event, Brooten's traditional lighted Christmas parade will start at 5:30 p.m. *Update: in addition to what is listed below, the Padua Pub is joining the fun and will have a cheeseburger giveaway at one of the locations on main street on December 12....
Featured below is video for the Thanksgiving Eve worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 in rural New London, MN. That video is the top video and labeled by the date in the caption. That's not all here! There's more below. In the second video included, the Norway Lake Parish joint choir of the two churches is shown singing at Thanksgiving Eve worship at East Norway Lake church on Wednesday, November 22, 2017. The Peter Baalson-directed choir sounded absolutely...
We're not sure when it last took place in Brooten, but it's definitely been a few years since a formal Christmas lights contest took place. Brooten Santa Day organizers kicked around the idea, and with Santa Day moving to a drive-through event on December 12, this works great to ask people to drive around town and vote on their favorite light displays. Ideas include, but are not limited to, categories for best inflatables, most lights and best kids display. The December 3 issue of the Bonanza...
The Bonanza Valley Voice publisher's family garden spinach patch is alive and well. In the photo is part of the spinach that's still lush and green in a photo taken on Thanksgiving Day. Will the spinach make it into December? According to the forecast, it is possible....
Below is video for worship service at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, November 29, 2020 in rural New London, MN. With December soon upon us, let's help the churches of Norway Lake Parish finish 2020 strong with your careful consideration of financial offerings. You can mail your offering for First Lutheran Church or East Norway Lake Lutheran church to: Norway Lake Parish 6338 County Road 40 NW New London, MN 56273....
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, November 22, 2020 in rural New London, MN....
Featured below is video for worship services at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, November 15, 2020 in rural New London, MN. Here is the mailing address to send your offerings: Norway Lake Parish 6338 County Road 40 Northwest New London MN 56273 Below please find a prayer that we hope you find comforting during these ever-challenging times: God, our peace and our strength, we pray for our nation and the world as we face new uncertainties around the coronavirus. Protect the most vulnerable...
Wednesday, November 11 next week is Veterans Day, a public holiday that will be held on the anniversary of the end of World War I (November 11) to honor U.S. veterans and victims of all wars. Veterans Day replaced Armistice Day in 1954. The November 5 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper published a story about Edward Rodgers, a World War II veteran who fought in multiple combats in the Pacific Theater operations in 1945. Rodgers also served as a Military Policeman in Japan after the peace was declared on September 2, 1945. On that day,...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, November 8 in rural New London, MN. In-person worship will be held at East Norway Lake Lutheran church on Sunday, November 8 at 9:30 a.m., with multiple rules in place in accordance with Governor Walz's COVID-19 executive orders....
Featured below is video for All Saints Sunday worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish of rural New London on Sunday, November 1, 2020....
