Lent season is underway (VIDEOS*)

On Thursday morning, an additional video was added here. Other updates are forthcoming to this blog post. This is another supremely hectic week for the newspaper. Our Thursday morning is being consumed by a trip to St. Cloud to the CentraCare Plaza near Sartell. My wife has another doctor appointment as we further research why she is battling deadly blood clots.

The Lenten season is now in the second week for the Christian faith. Lenten worship services were held at a few area churches tonight. I've got a video featuring part of the Ash Wednesday Mass one week ago tonight in Brooten at St. Donatus. You can find that at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website by clicking here: https://rb.gy/lx2jlz.

Tonight I took in a soup and sandwich supper plus a joint West Lake Johanna and Trinity Lutheran parish worship service at Trinity in Brooten. One week ago, I enjoyed a soup and sandwich supper at Grace Lutheran church in Belgrade. SUCH good food!!

While it ultimately came at the cost of speech team coverage, I finally got a story written with an ample array of pictures for B-B-E's Resistance Robotics team. You can see that in this week's February 22 issue of The Voice. They have an outstanding group of students on this year's team who are gearing up for the Great Northern Regional to be held in Grand Forks on March 6 to March 9. I am already making plans to travel to Grand Forks that weekend. We'll see how it all pans out.

*Here's a video from the high school shop on Monday this week when robotics team members were working on the robot:


**Here's a video from the girls' basketball game on Tuesday night:


Central MN Conference boys' basketball scores on February 20:
Eden Valley-Watkins 88, Maple Lake 33
Paynesville Area 72, Kimball Area 44
Holdingford 77, Royalton 64


Central MN Conference girls' basketball scores on February 20:
Royalton 58, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 44 (the Royals clinched second place in the CMC with this win)
Holdingford 58, Eden Valley-Watkins 37

Area girls' basketball scores on February 20:
Paynesville Area 75, Melrose Area 42
Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 73, Browerville 43
New London-Spicer 49, Watertown-Mayer 43
Sauk Centre 60, Osakis 34
Wheaton/Herman-Norcross 74, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley 66
Kimball Area 52, Upsala 34
Albany 69, Minnewaska Area 43
Verndale 58, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 35