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The Bonanza Valley Days Worship in the Park will feature an Ecumenical worship service on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m. the Brooten city park led by River of Life staff and friends including Pastor Mitch Wall. We are grateful for all who participate in this event each year that officially kicks off Bonanza Valley Days in Brooten!...
The Brooten Farmers Market, which still seeks vendors to join, opens the 2025 season tonight, Thursday, June 26 at the city park shelter and gazebo. The Farmers Market runs from 4 to 7 p.m. rain or shine. Available on this evening are baked goods by the Zimmermans (breads, pies, cookies, cinnamon rolls, granola) plus other vendors with flowers, leaf lettuce (lots!), Val TeVelde's hand-crafted cards and more. Two vendors are selling sourdough bread, and one of those vendors also has sourdough...
The annual Bonanza Valley Days celebration is coming to Brooten on July 10, 11, 12, and 13! It all kicks off with the BVD Worship in the Park on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m. at the city park (near the shelter). This year, the non-denominational worship service will be led by River of Life Church staff. Also, the BVD garage sale listings will be published in the July 3 and July 10 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspapers. Parade entries are being sought by Eric and Deanna Johnson. Enter...
Here's a video that outlines 15 features of family gardens of the past that have been lost to time. How's your family garden fared with all the rain the Bonanza Valley area has received? Prior to May 15, this area was in a severe drought. That's all a distant memory. Across the days of Wednesday and Thursday, June 25-26, the Brooten area received right near 4 inches of rain. From the Wayback Machine...a list if garden features from years gone by: 1. Cold Frames. 2. The Backyard Bean Teepee. 3....
Note: this event was rained out after being originally planned for Thursday, June 26. All area youth in grades 7 to 12 are invited to a Youth Night of activities and delicious, FREE grilled food next week on Monday, June 30 starting at 6 p.m. at the Belgrade City Park. This is a non-denominational event sponsored by the Big Grove-Crow River-Grace Lutheran Church Free Spirits youth group. Join them for food, sand volleyball, bean bags, ultimate frisbee and more. On the menu: hamburgers, hot...
The Brooten Farmers Market will operate for the first night of the 2025 season on Thursday, June 26 at the Brooten city park shelter and gazebo from 4 to 7 p.m. Please pass the word! Local craftsman, bakers and artists are welcome to join! Contact the Bonanza Valley Voice for more details at 320-346-2400. The Brooten Farmers Market will run weekly on Thursdays through at least September. An attached video here shows footage from the first Brooten Farmers Market held on June 20,...
SUBMITTED BY JULIE LLOYD Note: a video is added to this web article from 2017; you can view that by clicking through the attached media. The historic Terrace Mill in Chippewa Falls Township will be celebrating a grand reopening on Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22, at the Terrace Mill grounds. Having been closed due to the covid-19 pandemic and reorganizing efforts, the new board of directors is excited to announce a new season of events and the mill being open for visitors! The event is free...
All area youth in grades 7 to 12 are invited to a Youth Night of activities and delicious grilled food this week Thursday, June 26 starting at 6 p.m. at the Belgrade City Park. This is a non-denominational event sponsored by the Big Grove-Crow River-Grace Lutheran Church Free Spirits youth group. Join them for food, sand volleyball, bean bags, ultimate frisbee and more. On the menu: hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, cookies and beverages. This is a FREE event! Please help spread the...
On Thursday, June 12, a steady rainfall began across the Bonanza Valley area after 11 a.m. If nothing else, it developed into a great day to travel to a garage sale! One garage sale is taking place in rural Brooten/Grove Lake just a stone's throw off of the North Fork Crow River on Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week. From the Brooten area, it can be found by heading north on County Road 18, turning left on County Road 20 (the Sedan road) and then heading north on 102nd Avenue towards the...
The Belgrade V.F.W. Post No. 1825 held its Memorial Day program at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school's Olson Auditorium. About 80 members of the public were in attendance along with the B-B-E high school's grades 8-12 choir and band, which both performed patriotic songs. In the attached video, you can watch the program. The guest speaker was Keith Johnson, a Belgrade native who graduated from BHS in 1960. He later was a music teacher at Litchfield high school before retiring in 1999. After...
The reading of the lesson and Holy Gospel plus the pastor's sermon at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church is included in the attached video from June 1. Barry Bouwman reads the lessons and Psalm, and Pastor Jeanne Megorden read the Holy Gospel before providing her sermon. Worship at WLJ in Gilchrist Township is at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday for the month of June....
An extensive church bell and building remodel project is underway at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Elrosa. In the attached video, which was recorded the morning of Friday, May 23, the third and final bell from the bell tower at Ss. Peter and Paul is removed from the steeple. Additional coverage is forthcoming in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. One photo of the three bells was published on page 1 of the June 5 issue....
The Belgrade VFW Post 1825 held their Memorial Day program on May 26. Part of the parade is featured in the attached video, which was recorded while the parade marched down Belgrade's Main Street. To view the video, swipe right or left on the photo of the veterans marching down Main Street....
On the first day of June, regular Sunday worship was held at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church in Gilchrist Township. A video attached here features the Prayers of Intercession led by Pastor Jeanne Megorden....
The Brooten American Legion held a Memorial Day program on May 26 at the Brooten Pavilion. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school band performed patriotic music, and the guest speaker was B-B-E elementary principal Josie Dingmann. She is a granddaughter of the late Harold and Harriet Jacobson, who passed away this past winter. They were long-time members of the Brooten American Legion and Legion Auxiliary. Dingmann's keynote speech begins at about the 9-minute mark in the video. In the latter...
This week, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) greatly altered the government's COVID jab recommendations for the public. The new recommendations bring the United States in line with just about every other country in the western world. In a nutshell: COVID jabs will now only be recommended for those in high-risk health situations or senior citizens age 65 or older. The attached video from the Jimmy Dore channel on YouTube spells out more details....
Please come to one (or both) of the upcoming Memorial Day programs (Monday, May 26) in Brooten and Belgrade with the following itinerary. The Brooten American Legion Memorial Day program begins at 10 a.m. at the Brooten Pavilion. The Brooten American Legion Auxiliary ladies will be part of the program, and the guest speaker will be Elementary Principal Josie Dingmann. Also, music students from B-B-E high school will perform a selection of patriotic songs. At Belgrade, the VFW hosts a Memorial...
Featured in the attached video is part of the worship service held on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11 at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church. Early in the video, the lessons are read by Patty Bouwman, and Pastor Jeanne Megorden then read the Holy Gospel. She then provided her Children's Sermon and then Mother's Day Sermon....
On Sunday, May 4 at Trinity Lutheran church in Brooten, students from Trinity and West Lake Johanna Lutheran churches performed in the parish youth bell choir as part of worship service. In the attached video, the bell choir performs at the beginning before the lessons, Psalm and Holy Gospel were read. Pastor Jeanne Megorden's sermon followed....
The Brooten American Legion Post No. 288 will host a Memorial Day program on Monday, May 26 at the Brooten Pavilion starting at 10 a.m. Music students from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school will perform, and guest speaker and current elementary principal Josie Dingmann will give a speech. Just down Highway 55 in Belgrade, the Belgrade V.F.W. Post No. 1825 will host a Memorial Day program that same morning starting at 11 a.m. at the B-B-E high school's Olson Auditorium. Additional details will...
During the Mother's Day worship at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church in Gilchrist Township, Pastor Jeanne Megorden provided special prayers for mothers and for families who are suffering loss or illness at the present time. The attached video features those prayers....
Jerry Huls, who taught and coached at Brooten schools from 1979 to 1983, passed away on Tuesday, April 29. He was the Brooten Buccaneers head wrestling coach during those four years and also taught K-6 physical education at Brooten elementary school. He was also part of Coach Donna Hursts's volleyball coaching staff at the C-squad level. The Funeral Mass will be Monday, May 5, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Columbkille Church in St. Wendel, Minnesota, for Jerry Huls, age 69, who passed away peacefull...
Eric Segaar, 46, of Brooten, died Tuesday, April 29 in North Fork Township, rural Brooten. His memorial service will be 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 3 at Paynesville Lutheran Church. Visitation will be held that day one hour prior to the service at the church. In lieu of flowers memorials are preferred to the Alzheimer’s Association. Arrangements are with Harvey Anderson & Johnson Funeral Home. Online at https://www.hafh.org. Eric Scott Segaar was born on November 6, 1978, in Grand Rapids, M...
Numerous area churches hosted Easter morning worship services on Sunday, April 20, including the Sunburg Free Lutheran church in Norway Lake Township. Their church is led by Pastor Ron Knutson, who is a 1958 graduate of Brooten high school. This video clip begins with Sunday School students singing special music as part of Easter Sunday worship....
On Saturday, April 19, the Easter bunny visited with area children in Elrosa for an event sponsored by the Elrosa Baseball Association, the Elrosa Commercial Club and Kensington Bank. Turnout surpassed 100 children, and 91 kids were registered for door prizes. In the attached video, Amy Zenzen is shown reading an Easter story to the kids gathered in the basement of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic church. Additional coverage from this event was published in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's April...
