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Click here to read more about the Bonanza Valley Voice publisher's blog. I am "shaking the dust off of it" after it has been relatively dormant since late 2015. I've added the ability to easily access this blog from my cell phone, giving me the ability to add breaking news very quickly and easily while out and about. (Although, currently there's not much "out and about" to take in.) Here's the link you can bookmark: https://lifeinbonanzavalley.blogspot.com . One neat feature is the ability for...
This has been building up for the past three weeks, and this week it is official: this newspaper family has ended our support for Governor Tim Walz and his administration's approach to the COVID virus. In the Friday, May 8 media briefing, Walz and his officials spouted bizarre fear tactics regarding potential graduation ceremonies at high school football stadiums, mainly in rural Minnesota where graduating classes can be quite small. Example given by a journalist today: in schools such as Chokio-Alberta and Hancock, their graduating classes...
Over the past month, Minnesota and our country overall have been focusing on two co-occurring crises: the COVID-19 public health emergency, and an economy on life support. Our state is taking the necessary steps to maintain public health by extending our "stay-at-home" order, and has taken significant steps to help small businesses by providing SBA loans and by expanding unemployment insurance to make sure frontline workers who contract COVID-19 on the job have access to workers' compensation. But a number of our rural colleagues in the farming...
This video (below) features the choir at East Norway Lake Lutheran church (and volunteer singers from the congregants) on sunrise worship service on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010. This video clip is very special to me, as it includes the late Rose Aasen, who is seated in a chair on the far left of the choir (from the vantage point of the videocamera). Holding the music for her is her daughter-in-law Nancy, married to her son David. Rose was a very close friend of my late father. She was a...
Let this be a lesson for everyone that, in no clearer terms, personal responsibility can literally save our country!!! Be smart! Be well! Stay well! Do not be selfish and spread your germs to other people, especially senior citizens and other children and adults who have conditions that make them more vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus. Everyone has a responsibility to mitigate or stop the progression of COVID-19 through our society. We're not asking people to dodge bombs falling from the sky like what happened across Europe between 1939 and...
Sometimes you just have to take the journey. Often, it requires a leap of faith. (VIDEO)...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa community displayed terrific, outstanding support for the B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team! These posters were distributed around the towns the week of the state tournament. Posters printed by Murphey's Printing of Brooten. The business directory on this website includes a listing for Murphey's Printing. (Short link) https://bit.ly/2X69A7v....
As spoken by Kelsey Michele Weimerskirch about her grandpa Dennis Weimerskirch at his funeral on September 7 in Belgrade: 1. Be kind to others; you never know what battle someone else is facing. 2. Work hard, enjoy your successes and be humble. 3. Being positive takes much less energy than being negative. 4. Always lend a helping hand, you'll never regret serving others. 5. Love your family with all that you have. I will never forget seeing Grandpa dancing in their kitchen with Grandma. He...
Posted online at 09:40 on the morning of Thursday, May 23, 2019. I will re-post this comment again in the coming days...but I have to laugh at some of the comments buzzing around the community to the idea that Bonanza Valley Days in Brooten will be either scaled back or not held at all in July. It is one thing to "miss" something or mistakenly be out of the loop. You're busy, you're not paying attention and you just flat out miss information that is freely flowing around. However, it takes extra effort to remain ignorant. You have to really...
As of January 1, 2019, subscription prices will increase for the Bonanza Valley Voice. We have wrestled with this for over a year, and it almost took place this year on January 1. We are going with the most minimum of an increase that will continue to keep the newspapers coming each week: $2 for local subscribers and $4 for local "snow birds" as well as out-of-area subscribers. In 2018, the newspaper industry took a severe beating with large increases (30 to 50 percent) to newsprint costs....
The day August 29, 2018 brought terrific news for the U.S. newspaper industry. The full effect of the news won't be known for a couple more months, but what we do know is something to be truly grateful for. A paper tariff added in January to Canadian paper used for news print will completely go away in the coming weeks. The tariff was pushed on behalf of a Wall Street hedge fund that owns North Pacific Paper Company (NORPAC) in Washington State. The result was a 40-plus percent increase in the...
*Note: this post will have political overtones. Apologies in advance. This is marked as opinion. It pains the Bonanza Valley Voice to see the rapid pace at which members of modern U.S. society forget our past and the great sacrifices our forefathers endured to build America into the great nation we are today. To learn story after story of elder seniors whose families did "anything and everything" it took, every ounce of inner and outer mental and physical strength, to endure the endless...
We all know there are thousands of reasons to support the arts. Here are five from Americans for the Arts research guru Randy Cohen that you can keep handy for important occasions, like cocktail parties or debates about funding for the arts. The arts are fundamental to our humanity. They ennoble and inspire us-fostering creativity, goodness, and beauty. The arts bring us joy, help us express our values, and build bridges between cultures. The arts are also a fundamental component of a healthy co...
As a native of Appleton that has lived there over 40 of my now 50 years. I want to see it prosper. I would love it if there would be a use for the prison that I worked at for over 8 years, as a correctional officer, sergeant, trainer, and spokesperson. As some of you know I have been active in politics, for several years now. I have witnessed a lot of political games, and a lot of political shenanigans over my years. Some of them have involved the Appleton prison. As I watched the hearing last spring at the capitol my heart was breaking as I...
Letter to the editor, There was talk and promises about re-opening the Appleton Prison during the last legislative session. Failure was always blamed on other parties. Yes, some people were upset about expanding prison beds, but the heavier opposition that I heard about from lawmakers in St. Paul was the very questionable economics. The proposal to lease the PCF from CCA was estimated at between $6 and $8 million per year. This only accounts for the dollars paid to CCA, not the operations...
