The B-B-E high school choirs and bands performed their Holiday Christmas concert on December 16 at Olson Auditorium. This week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper featured articles highlighting both the choir and band's performances that night.
Here's the last song performed by the choir at the Christmas concert:
Two videos from the high school winter concert have been posted at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website in a web article. You can find that one by clicking on the following link: https://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com/section/bbe. In the next web article after that, you can watch the K-3 elementary Christmas concert from December 4.
Here's another link that directs to the high school choir and jazz band performing at Olson Auditorium on December 16: https://shorturl.at/vfcT9.
Also, I recorded a podcast tonight, and it is uploading now.
And here it is! My second sports show of the winter season:
As usual for these sports podcast recordings, it's entirely off the top of my head with no notes to speak of. While talking about the dance team, I forgot to mention an important point. At this juncture of the winter sports season, the Pirouettes dance team are far and away having the most success out of our winter sports programs. By a mile! Good for them, too, they have earned it. I hope to bring them dramatically better sports coverage in the newspaper in January.
Fingers crossed!
Thursday night, December 26 update:
Getting back to basketball...the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team will have their hands full in a major way when they take on state-ranked Cass Lake-Bena on Friday this week at Sartell-St. Stephen. The Jaguars (4-5) will face the CL-B Panthers (8-1) in the first day of the Granite City Classic. CL-B's team is built around senior Gabby Fineday, who surpassed 2,000 career points this past February. Her Panthers started the season with 8 straight wins before they took a recent loss to Class 2A powerhouse Minnehaha Academy by a 101-35 score this past Saturday in Minneapolis.
In last year's meeting between our Jaguars and CL-B, which was also on the first day of the Granite City Classic, the Panthers won 71-45.
The Jaguars face another strong team in Saturday's game, when they take on Walker-Hackensack-Akeley at 10 a.m. at St. Cloud Tech high school. The W-H-A Wolves (8-0) are one of the favorites in Section 5A while currently being the top-ranked team in Sub-Section 5A-West. The Jaguars compete in Sub-Section 5A-East, where Braham (8-1) is the current top-ranked team (by QRF).
