(VIDEO) Bentleyville Christmas display in Duluth

That was a fun night! You can get a glimpse of the experience in this video.

The footage is from the shores of Lake Superior in Duluth on Sunday, December 2. The Bentleyville Tour of Lights is one of America's largest walk-through lighting displays. This year it was converted to a drive-through event. It was worth traveling for! Their last day of the season is Sunday, Deceember 27.

Estimates suggest this brings $20 million of economic activity to the city of Duluth. You can read more about Bentleyville at https://www.bentleyvilleusa.org/visitor-guide.

*Click here to review a blog post from Christmas Eve day with updated information on COVID-19. 

http://bbejaguars.blogspot.com/2020/12/8-2-0.html

A tentative plan is in place to return all K-12 students to in-person school on Tuesday, January 5. The exception to that is with families who choose to utilize remote learning (about two dozen B-B-E kids). However, if local COVID-19 numbers increase in the next week, that plan would be in jeopardy.

Here's takeaway = we need COVID-19 numbers to continue to decline locally. In the Belgrade zip code, the number "8" should be "4" or even less. The new cases totaled 10 inside the B-B-E zip codes across the previous week as stated in that last blog post. Ideally, we want that number to be 5 or less. We don't want to just flatten the curve, we want to crush it. This will put B-B-E in a best position to resume in-person learning and also extracurricular activities.

• Here's a video that I never posted. It's over a year old now. I am surprised I forgot to post it, but here it is...better late than never, right? It's the K-4 elementary Christmas program from December 11, 2019. The video lasts about 37 minutes and begins with fifth and sixth grade choir and band students performing Christmas songs.

The K-4 musical begins about six minutes into the video.

Some time in January (2021), the current fourth grade class will hopefully perform songs they've been rehearsing in Mrs. Gertken's music class. Announcements to that will be published in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.