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The Brooten Senior Citizens group is collecting donations for Eagles Healing Nest of Sauk Centre, a veterans complex on the former Minnesota Correctional Facility. Eagles Healing Nest first opened in June 2012 and had one building and 22 available beds for homeless veterans. Today that figure has expanded to multiple buildings on the campus and 64 beds with over 300 veterans served in a typical month. The organization is a 501(c)3 non-profit that is owned by and for the veterans it serves. Currently, 65 veterans are receiving full-time help at...
Guests to Classic Co. Bar and Grill on Saturday night (October 22) enjoyed a trip down memory lane with Cassie and the Bobs during their terrific performance of a Patsy Cline tribute concert. Cassie and the Bobs are based out of Grant County. You can "like" their Facebook page and read more about the band at this link: https://www.facebook.com/The-Music-of-Patsy-Cline-featuring-Cassie-and-the-Bobs-353282806433/?fref=ts. Check out video from the second-to-last song performed on Saturday...
Shown is some video from the evening of Friday, October 21 at Big Grove Lutheran church in rural Brooten. Mark and Brian Ziemer were auctioneers and also entertainers at the fun-filled event. Additional photos from the event were published on page eight of the Oct. 27 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Fire Safety week was recognized at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools during the week of October 9-15. On Thursday, October 13, four members of the Brooten Fire Department went around the classrooms of the elementary school and provided tips and important information about what to do in case of a fire while also answering questions about the department and their fire fighting equipment. Check out more at the video below. Additional information and photos were published in the Oct. 20 issue of the...
Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congressman Collin Peterson are coming to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party office in Alexandria for a GOTV (Get Out The Vote) rally! (See address below) It’s go time! As the final days of the election are coming to a close, Senator Klobuchar and Congressman Peterson are coming to encourage voters to support their local DFL candidates. Who: Douglas County DFL What: Meet Senator Klobuchar and Congressman Peterson When: Thursday, November 3, 2016, 11:30 a.m. Where: 118 3rd Ave East Alexandria, MN. NOTE: when the B...
Being married for 70 years takes a special kind of love and a special level of fondness between a husband and wife. One Brooten couple has a marriage embodying all that and more. For Herman and Delores Kampsen, 70 years of marriage was achieved this past Saturday, September 24, with a gathering of children and grandchildren at the Elrosa farm where they raised 11 children from the late 1940s through the 1980s. While life on that farm was marked with plenty of hard work for the Kampsens, there was one activity they always found time for. An...
While the overall budget for the city of Brooten isn’t set to grow by more than about $6,000, residents and business owners are set for a property tax increase of anywhere from 10 to 15 percent when they see their statements early in 2017. To see the full story, you'll need a copy of the Sept. 29 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Mal Heinsius and Loren Solbreken collected tickets at the door of the Brooten Pavilion, which hosted the Brooten Fire Department fundraiser on Saturday, September 17, 2016....
No, there's nothing terribly exciting coming in tonight's Brooten City Council meeting, but the Bonanza Valley Voice will live stream the meeting on the Internet. This is the first time - at least in central Minnesota - that a city council meeting in a town of under 1,000 people will be live streamed on the Internet. The Voice is attempting to get additional fall streaming events listed on the calendar and gain more videography experience with the software and electronic equipment. This service...
David Hughes, the endorsed candidate for the Republican nomination to run against Congressman Collin Peterson this November, has defeated a challenge from Amanda Lynn Hinson in the August 9 primary election. Peterson is the Congressman who represents the Bonanza Valley area and serves in the U.S. House of Representatives. The general election is Tuesday, November 8. With over 73 percent of precincts reported in by 11 p.m., Hughes had 61 percent of the vote compared to 39 percent by Hinson. The...
A manhunt is underway in the Belgrade area after the driver involved in a two-car accident west of Belgrade fled on foot on the morning of Saturday, July 30. The accident took place at approximately 10:40 a.m. involving a mid-2000s model Chevrolet Equinox (gray color) and a mid-2000s model Chevrolet Impala (silver color). The vehicles were driving in opposite directions and collided about one mile west of Belgrade on Highway 55. It is unclear right now which directions they were traveling. When...
Note: on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, the Anoka County Sheriff's Department issued this release on their Facebook page. Please share with friends and family and make sure they do not fall for it!! We have been receiving phone calls from complainants who are being contacted by individuals Identifying themselves as being from our office. The scammer tells the subjects they are wanted for "tax fraud" and gives them a second number to contact the "IRS" to clear up the tax fraud issue. The scammer uses a spoofing service that makes their caller ID...
The cars and tractors lined Central Avenue in downtown Brooten on Saturday morning (July 9) as the activities for Bonanza Valley Days picked up at a rampant pace. Afterwards the Bast family helped distribute prizes awarded to the various category winners. Photos from Bonanza Valley Days were published in the July 14 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. More photos will appear in the July 21 issue....
Shown is video from the Bonanza Valley Days kids parade, held on Saturday morning, July 9, 2016....
Hundreds of photos from the Bonanza Valley Days weekend have been uploaded to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's online gallery. The link to find the various galleries is as follows: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2016-Bonanza-Valley-area-event. Photos include scenes of just about everything that took place in Brooten between Friday night's Firemen's Chicken Dinner up through the Total Entertainment kids' dance on Sunday afternoon. Subscribers to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper can see...
Total Entertainment provided a kids' dance following the grand parade on Sunday, July 10 to help cap off a thoroughly successful and enjoyable Bonanza Valley Days weekend. The event was sponsored by Fauskee Oil. Co. and RJ's Mini-Mart of Brooten. Shown is a video from one of the final performances....
The Brooten Community Church ties its local origins back to Peter Mastbergen, who migrated from Sheldon, Iowa, to a farm five miles south of Brooten in 1914. Within two years, dozens of Dutch dairy farmers like Mastbergen moved to the Brooten area from northwest Iowa and southwest Minnesota, undoubtedly attracted by low land prices. The significance of the Mastbergen family stems from the first Dutch church services held in the Brooten area at his farm. Soon, local Dutch families gathered for...
The family of the late Gary Breitbach were gracious hosts to 16 teams at the 10th annual Gary Breitbach Memorial golf tournament, which supports the Gary Breitbach Memorial scholarship program for Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school graduates. 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 also of the Prairie View Community golf course in Brooten. His legacy lives on not only through his family but...
The Bonanza Valley Days Committee is excited to announce the full list of activities coming the weekend of July 8, 9, 10 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) to Brooten for the annual town celebration. The town is ready for hundreds and hundreds of friends and family to come back for all the fun. The fun kicks off on Friday with the Brooten Fire Department's chicken dinner at the city park from 5 to 8 p.m. The band Gig Noonan provides entertainment for dancing and good company at the Brooten Pavilion...
Over 350 attended Mass at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic church on Sunday to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the church's founding. Past leaders of the church were present, as well as members of the Catholic clergy who call Elrosa their hometown: Abbott John Klassen and Father Joe Korf. Also present were former priests who served in Elrosa, Father Jeff Ethen, Father Mark Stang and Father Vincent Lieser. You can read the full story in the June 30 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper, wh...
John O. Bohmer, whose grandfather also named John Bohmer founded the first bank in Brooten back in 1894, celebrated his 95th birthday today in grand style with a large community gathering at the Bonanza Valley State Bank parking lot today (June 17). According to the bank's history, on one very cold February morning in 1894, John Bohmer started for Brooten with his horse and sleigh. After an overnight stop in a haystack, he made it to Brooten armed with cash and the necessary formalities. He...
Bonanza Valley Days is coming soon! The dates are Friday, Saturday, Sunday - July 8, 9, 10. The June 23 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper had two registration forms for the 3-on-3 basketball tournament as well as the Walk/Run event. (Both of those events are on Saturday) Upcoming issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice will have expanded coverage of Bonanza Valley Days and other related advertising. We hope you can make plans to come to Brooten that weekend and enjoy all the fun! There's...
The origins of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic church in Elrosa date back to the pioneer days of central Minnesota and then some. Nearly 160 years later, the area is as deeply rooted in agriculture as it was when settlers first started pouring into western Stearns County. It took many years of population growth before the drive to build the area's own church came to a fruition. To honor the achievement, Ss. Peter and Paul church invites everyone to a special 125th-anniversary Mass on Sunday,...
A serious three-alarm fire claimed a barn in rural Brooten just before sunrise on Monday, June 6 at the Heidi Kinzler property. Responding to the 911 call were the Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa fire departments. Eyewitnesses driving by say the flames from the fire shot high above the barn at one point. By 7 a.m. the fire had been mostly put out, although smoke continued streaming from what was left of the roof. A short but severe wind and rain storm passed over the area at about 4 a.m., knocking...
A fatal accident resulting from a car-vs. semi collision just under a mile north of Elrosa claimed the life of an Elrosa man, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. The accident happened at 02:38 a.m. on Tuesday, June 7 on Highway 71 between the intersections of 320th Street and the city limits of Elrosa in Lake George Township. *Note: the family of the deceased man has requested that friends of the family not use his name on social media sites. The accident was less than 10 hours ago, and...