It donned on me last week...it was a pretty big mistake by my approach to things in terms of reporting on B-B-E school district history. Leading up to and following B-B-E's Homecoming week, I alluded to it being our "35th B-B-E Homecoming" in school history on a few occasions both online and in print.
In fact, it was B-B-E's 34th Homecoming week in school history dating back to the first one that was held in the fall of 1989. I had that correct, but I didn't count properly from 1989 to 2022. If you did that count, you'd get to 34.
On the athletic playing fields or courts, this is the 35th season that we've cheered for the B-B-E Jaguars across an entire academic year. This year's volleyball and football teams are the 35th edition of the Jaguars. It was in the fall of 1988 that local student-athletes wore the Jaguar uniform for the first time.
Here's the confusing part: this is the 35th year we've had the B-B-E Jaguars, but it's just the 34th year that we've had "B-B-E high school" with all students from Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa and the small surrounding towns attending high school in the same classrooms. The Belgrade-Elrosa and the Brooten high schools were separate through the 1988-1989 school year. The elementary schools remained separate through the 1993-1994 school year.
Don't you feel a whole lot smarter knowing all that? I'm being somewhat sarcastic there.
Click over to the Bonanza Valley Voice website to take in a video just posted that features worship service at Sunburg Free Lutheran church of Norway Lake Township on Sunday, October 9...just a couple weeks ago. Link: https://bit.ly/3z3WWKr.
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