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The four-day Bonanza Valley Days celebration in Brooten features a free street dance on Saturday night, July 13. The band who will perform will be Dana Robinson and the Bottle Rockets of Sauk Centre. The street dance starts at 8:30 p.m. Click below to watch a promotional video of the band....
Bonanza Valley Days is coming on July 11, 12, 13 and 14 to Brooten. Please pass the word! Scheduling updates will follow, including more information on events happening in Brooten across those four days. The activities begin with a Thursday night (July 11), back-to-back, Worship in the Park and Concert in the Park starting at 7 p.m. at the city park in Brooten. This is located south of Highway 55 from the curve headed out of town on Brooten's west side. Bonanza Valley Days "Fields of Dreams"...
The Bonanza Valley Days Medallion has been found! The Medallion Hunt, which is the first activity held during Bonanza Valley Days in Brooten, had just a two-day run. Emma Bast of Brooten was the winning sleuth who located it near the "Welcome to Brooten" sign on Highway 55 coming into town from the west. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Area Jaycees graciously sponsors the Medallion Hunt. As the winner, Emma Bast will receive six gift certificates worth $25 each to the following local...
Bonanza Valley Days is coming on July 11, 12, 13 and 14 to Brooten. Please pass the word! Scheduling updates will follow, including more information on events happening in Brooten across those four days. The activities begin with a Thursday night (July 11), back-to-back, Worship in the Park and Concert in the Park starting at 7 p.m. at the city park in Brooten. This is located south of Highway 55 from the curve headed out of town on Brooten's west side. *Update on the Fourth of July: Bonanza...
The upcoming Bonanza Valley Days celebration in Brooten will have a beautiful kick-off evening on Thursday, July 11 with a Worship in the Park church service followed by a Concert in the Park. You can click on the video below to watch the BVD Worship in the Park held on July 6, 2017. For the third straight year, BVD will begin with a church service. It begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, and this year it will be led by Pastor Rick Krasky of the Brooten Community Church. The public is reminded to...
An 18-hole, six-person golf scramble will be held on Saturday, June 29 for the annual Gary Breitbach memorial golf tournament. Held at Prairie View golf course in Brooten, the tournament's registration takes place between 9 and 10:30 a.m. with the shotgun start to follow. (Course website: https://prairieviewgolfcourse.com.) Gary Breitbach, who passed away in 2006 after a valiant battle with cancer, was a staunch supporter and backer of Prairie View golf course. Funds raised by the golf...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts hosted a Family Fun Day on Saturday, June 1 at the Brooten city park. The turnout was terrific on a very sunny afternoon. Games, food and music were part of the festive atmosphere. Video from the event is embedded here....
Bonanza Valley Days is coming on July 11, 12, 13 and 14 to Brooten. Please pass the word! Scheduling updates will follow, including more information on events happening in Brooten across those four days. Subscribers to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper will have additional information to read in the coming weeks. It is certainly important and helpful that people subscribe to the newspaper! *Update on June 27: here's information about the BVD Kiddie Parade (Saturday, July 13)...‘Fields of D...
The church community of Big Grove/Crow River/Grace Lutheran parish held Vacation Bible School on June 2 to June 5 at Grace Lutheran church in Belgrade. A program with singing and a skit was held on Wednesday, June 5 to conclude the four days of learning for local youth. Below is a 30-minute long video of the program. One photo from the program were published in the June 13 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper on the front page. If all goes well, more photos will be published in the June...
Dana Marrocco (formerly Knutson) and Brooten high school alumni (Class of 1989) wants to let you know about her new self-help book she recently published. "The Top Ten Lies We Tell Ourselves: and How to Stop Living Them" is about exposing the hidden and harmful messages we blindly accept as true when we follow the fear-soaked part of our mind. Marrocco writes with insight and humor as she shares her personal story of struggling with depression for years before finally learning a permanent way...
An 18-hole, six-person golf scramble will be held on Saturday, June 29 for the annual Gary Breitbach memorial golf tournament. Held at Prairie View golf course in Brooten, the tournament's registration takes place between 9 and 10:30 a.m. with the shotgun start to follow. (Course website: https://prairieviewgolfcourse.com.) Gary Breitbach, who passed away in 2006 after a valiant battle with cancer, was a staunch supporter and backer of Prairie View golf course. Funds raised by the golf...
Shown is video of the Belgrade V.F.W. Memorial Day program held on Monday, May 27, 2019 at the B-B-E high school auditorium. The video begins with the high school choir singing. Voice of Democracy contest winners spoke, and the B-B-E high school band also performed. The video starts at 11:24 and ends at 11:52....
Tri-Valley Opportunity Council is again participating in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) in Brooten. Meals will be provided to all children, ages 0-18, at NO CHARGE! They will be provided for breakfast, lunch and snack on a first-come, first-service basis at the B-B-E elementary school. The summer meals will begin on Monday, June 10 at B-B-E elementary school in Brooten. Below are the hours of service...and Tri-Valley encourages families to come as early as they can in each time frame...
The Brooten American Legion held their annual Memorial Day program on Monday, May 27 at the Brooten Pavilion. Photos from the event appeared in the May 30 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice. Below, see video of the entire program....
Big Grove Lutheran church held their traditional Memorial Day dinner on May 27. They also had a silent auction and cash raffle, and the crowd was terrific for the silent auction and meal. Photos from Big Grove Lutheran were published in the May 30 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Check out video below....
The Brooten American Legion will hold a Memorial Day program on Monday, May 27 at 10 a.m. at Memorial Park along Highway 55. The speaker will be Father David Grundman of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Catholic churches. Also, the B-B-E high school band will perform, and the B-B-E Girl Scouts and Brooten American Legion Ladies Auxiliary will also be in attendance. At 11 a.m. on Memorial Day, the Belgrade V.F.W. will host a program for veterans and the public at the B-B-E high school auditorium. The...
The Elrosa Senior Citizens resumed the Bologna Daze season on Tuesday, April 30 at Bucky's Bar. The group will hold them on the last Tuesday of each month through the fall of 2019 before taking a break for the winter. Special music was provided by the live entertainment of Marcie Weller and Father Marv. You can watch part of their music at the video below. Photos from the night were published in the May 9 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The next Bologna Daze is on Tuesday, May 28...
A major street improvement and sewer/water improvement project is underway in Brooten. Unpaved and partially-paved streets across town are getting new or upgraded overlay. Milling and grinding started near downtown Brooten on April 30. New sewer/water lines are going in at certain streets and alleys. The video clip was added to this web article on Thursday morning, May 2. Look for more information in the May 9 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Brooten may soon have a senior and / or community housing project underway as soon as this coming fall. Developer Cody Nelson recently told city hall that he is still interested in developing empty city lots into apartment or duplex-style housing. Nelson approached the city with a plan in the spring of 2018. City clerk Jeanne Kinne explained, "If the council is interested, Cody is ready to put a plan in motion. He was at the city lots (at the former Brooten high school site) today and took some...
Embedded below is video from Good Friday worship on Easter weekend at East Norway Lake Lutheran church. They hosted a joint worship with their neighboring Norway Lake parish member, First Lutheran church. Featured in the video is the Norway Lake Men's Chorus singing a beautiful rendition of "That Old Rugged Cross"....
Posted at 10:29 on Saturday, April 20, 2019. Liabilities and obligations between fines, taxes, loss in net receipts and unpaid groups and businesses approaches $300,000 for the Brooten Commercial Club. On December 17, 2018, the Brooten Commercial Club's charitable gambling operation, License No. 03575, was shut down by the Minnesota Gambling and Control Board (MN GCB). An audit by the Minnesota Department of Revenue and the MN GCB had already started, and after December 17 its special focus ramped up with the investigation of possible theft of...
The annual Brooten community Easter Egg hunt was a smashing success on Saturday, April 20. Thanks to heavy lifting by a number of groups and businesses, between 100 and 150 kids enjoyed the Easter Egg hunt and then a chance at a bicycle drawing. The Brooten city park was bustling with activity on a day where the temperature eclipsed 70 degrees for the first time this spring. A few photos from the Easter Egg hunt were published in the April 25 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Below,...
Embedded below is a collection of video clips and photos taken during the grass fire that broke out east of Terrace on Saturday, April 20. Other coverage was published in the April 25 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
In his report to the Brooten city council dated April 8, Police Chief Jansky said, "March was an average month for us for this time of year, but with the nicer weather things are starting to pick up." Officer Allyssa Engfer continues to teach Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) at the elementary school, which continues in April. "The Active Shooter equipment has arrived, and we are equipped with what is needed to do the job and keep us safe and the people we're protecting. The department...
A large crowd was on hand for the third of three Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa chapter Knights of Columbus fish fry fundraisers. The last fish fry was held on April 5 at the KaDe Shack in Brooten. A large crowd of around 180 people attended, and a cash raffle drawing (grand prize $500) concluded the evening....
