A lengthy list of activities coming (VIDEO)

After a lightening of the load for the news and sports departments of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper, activities are going to ramp back up at full speed starting tonight. A frantic pace will follow for the coming weeks all the way into the Christmas break at the end of 2023.

Click over to the newspaper's website to read a summary of the Santa Day events coming to Belgrade and Brooten on Saturday, December 9! Short link: https://tinyurl.com/58habbyh.

Two more winter varsity sports teams get into competition today! The B-B-E/Paynesville Pirouettes dance team travels west to Minnewaska Area high school with the National Anthem to be performed at 5:55 p.m. with the meet to follow starting at 6 p.m. The B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team travels east to Melrose high school, where action begins at 2 p.m. for the Sauk Centre-Melrose Early Invite. The wrestling team will be road warriors throughout the entire month of December, as they do not wrestle at home until January 5. In the preseason Guillotine rankings, B-B-E sits at No. 2 in the first poll of the top 12 teams in Class 1A. This is remarkable! The Jaguars were 21-7 last year with a fourth-place finish at the state tournament.

Also, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team travels north to Pine River-Backus high school for a key Sub-Section 5A-South battle.

This weekend has a pile of activities...that spread across both Saturday and Sunday. It will be busy!! One of them is an event I look forward to every winter. It is near and dear to my heart...this would be the Norway Lake Lutheran Historical Association Advent worship at the old log church in Arctander Township. You can read more by clicking here: https://tinyurl.com/hemu2wrn. At that web article, you can watch the worship held there on November 27, 2022! Technology can be a wonderful thing when used for the right purpose!

Here's a video featuring guests at the old log church visiting outside in the strong sunshine we had that day about one year ago...


In that video, you can hear me having a conversation with a former neighbor...Sara (Knutson) Gardner, who is from the Pennock area now and a wife and mom...she's a 1997 graduate of B-B-E high school and was a good friend of my sister, Dawn.

Have you been able to spend time researching and studying your family's roots? It's valuable to learn about the pioneer days when our families settled down here in west central Minnesota.

Check for updates in a new blog post after 6 p.m. tonight!