Three businesses in our area were severely harmed by many years of wrongdoing by the Brooten Commercial Club. They are Rooney's Bar of Sedan and the KaDe Shack and Marcia's Bar in Brooten. Some who will read this don't know the full story, but I am happy to tell you that the three businesses just mentioned are regaining strength and are recovering from what happened to them leading up to the end of 2018.

Now that the clean up crew is doing their job, the struggle continues in finding out what happened and why. Those involved in this clean up range from the state gambling police, the Internal Revenue Service, the Minnesota Department of Revenue as well as staff at the county attorney level. This clean up process has negatively affected the Bonanza Valley Voice. In spite of those who wish to see this newspaper fail, we are soldiering on and rebuilding.

If you want to help, by all means, please support and promote the idea of accountability. The clean up crew has made considerable progress on finding out what happened with missing money and its accompanying state and federal tax liability.

There's much left to do.

Click here (short link) for a related story posted earlier this week: https://bit.ly/3bkj3Pl.