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Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Sights and sounds of B-B-E's Color FUND Run (VIDEO)
Today we are supposed to reach a high of 80 degrees. Wow! Crazy. We have a very warm, nice day ahead of us.
Speaking of warm weather, we had outstanding nice weather last Wednesday for the seventh annual B-B-E Color FUND Run.
Below is a video recorded while the kids were gathering for the large group photo in the stadium bleachers:
More to come in this week's Voice, where we hope to include at least some information on the totals of funds raised by this event.
We have reached an official high of 81 degrees today in the Bonanza Valley area! Wow! That's just fabulous! We have full sunshine without a cloud in the sky as of 4 p.m., and I'm working in my "backyard office" which amounts to a lawn chair and my laptop. Life is good.
After a few days of simply being unable to pull this off, I finally got a chance to record another sports show. This one focuses on Homecoming week, which we are in the midst of in case you didn't know! I can finally get cleaned up from our 7th annual Color FUND Run!
VIDEO:
More to come. As you can see in the video, I haven't been able to clean up yet from the Color FUND Run. This was the first opportunity I had to sit down and collect my thoughts today. I spent a part of my evening in the Padua Pub enjoying OktoberFest. There was also gardening to tend to. Yes, I still have a thriving garden!! Currently there's carrots, green peppers, tomatoes, watermelon, onions and squash still going strong.
That was an ocean's worth of fun! Such a terrific day! The weather was absolutely perfect. PERFECT!
Below is a video featuring the start of the grades 8 and 9 and then the grades 6 and 7 races today:
*Here's a brief video recorded while the Class of 2023 members took a group photo after the Homecoming Powder Puff football game today:
We are experiencing a marvelous, tremendous Homecoming week in Jaguar Country!!!
More to come later tonight. Soon it's time to head to Padua to the OktoberFest celebration at the Padua Pub! This was advertised in last week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.
A most spectacular day in Jaguar Country (VIDEOS!)
The thesaurus will need some overtime to find the words that properly describe how wonderful today was in Jaguar Country. The entire student body of B-B-E, from preschool through 12th graders, participated in the sixth annual Color FUND Run at the high school campus (and southern side of Belgrade).
A video from the Color FUND Run finish line will be added here after 21:30 tonight.
Here's video from the start of the senior high race, which formally kicked off the event...and it also features the start of the junior high race (about the 5:00 mark) It has been two years since we've pulled this off in Jaguar Country! I definitely had a lot to remember and catch up on from the first five that we've had:
**And here's a second video quality-checked and ready for posting...this was taken about 20 minutes after the senior high race began at 13:00. It features senior high and junior high students crossing the finish line:
There's a lull in kids crossing the finish line between the 43-second and 2:20 mark, and I had to pan the camera around the campus...then it picks up again with dozens and dozens coming across in different groups. I had to give the volleyball players a hard time (about 5:00 in the video) for walking towards the finish line. Of course, I was joking around, because they did indeed go five games last night and are definitely running in very little sleep this week! (Who's not?)
I want you to know that for the record, this was a day for the ages! It was such an awesome, awesome day to be a part of at the school campus. All six Color FUND Runs that we've had at B-B-E have been very special. I think this one ranks as the best, mostly because we continue to put everything back in place after a challenging and nerve-wracking 2020-2021 school year. The more we put that in our rear view mirror, the better!
After today's Color Run, students in the Class of 2022 and Class of 2023 participated in a very well-played and exciting Powder Puff flag football game at the football stadium. The seniors won! I don't remember the exact score off the top of my head. It's on video, and I'll get to that eventually tonight.
The Class of 2022 won today's Powder Puff flag football game by a 45-42 score!
Be very proud of this student body! We have our share of bumps and bruises, but we love each other. We would go to the ends of the earth for one another. Today was a prime example of that. No school in central Minnesota can pull off a day like we had today in Jaguar Country. Let that sink in.
More to come later. I still have to circle back to volleyball coverage from last night! Since the start of last night's volleyball match, I've shot between 600 and 700 photos on three different cameras plus video...and over night we got a 16-page Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper issue to press!! No rest for the weary! I looked it over and see about 150 photos from the Powder Puff game. AND the grand total of pictures taken since the start of last night's volleyball game easily surpassed 700.
We are over half way through Homecoming week at B-B-E and there's a lot more fun to be had and memories to be made. Please continue praying for the safety of all of our children and their families as #BBEHoCo week continues!
THANK YOU to Coop's Corner, Bayer Gas and Grocery and Bonanza Valley State Bank for sponsoring this blog post! All three of those businesses are owned by graduates of Brooten, Belgrade and B-B-E high schools! That's neat! For the record: the Bohmer family are all Brooten and B-B-E graduates; Dani Davis is a 2008 B-B-E graduate; and Mark Bayer is a Belgrade graduate, and Connie Bayer is a Brooten graduate.
The excitement of homecoming week continues in Jaguar Country today! The Color FUND Run gets underway at noon. Off the top of my head this is a sixth annual event. That event and the Powder Puff football game will consume my afternoon.
Yesterday the temperature hit 85! And today it's supposed to climb to about 83 degrees. Wow!
The Wednesday of B-B-E Homecoming week is by far one of my favorite days of the year.
Here's the exciting game five last night!:
**AND here's a throwback to 2019...the last Color FUND Run at B-B-E...it seems so long ago:
**And let's go way back to 2017 in this video!
I hope you can get outside today!
On Wednesday night, I will get a new blog post added with video from today's excitement.
A big SHOUT OUT to the loyal and dedicated weekly support of Bonanza Valley State Bank and the Belgrade Hardware Store for regular advertising that helps keep our Bonanza Valley Voice going!
Here's more video from last Wednesday's Color FUND Run at the high school athletic campus. In the video, awards were given out after the group photo was taken.
Additional coverage will follow in upcoming Bonanza Valley Voice issues.
On a really high note, I just learned that participation by the B-B-E high school student body in today's Color FUND Run will likely be the highest ever in the five years the school has done this fundraiser.
That is something to be very proud of. To top it off, the weather is mild, sunny and beautiful for this type of event!
**Update on Wednesday evening...here's a video from today's fifth annual B-B-E Color FUND Run!
Quite frankly, everything was stupendous! Marvelous! From the music by KCLD to the enormous level of volunteer support from the public and the local B-B-E business community. Early reports say that the fundraiser hauled in over $30,000 for the school's activities fund.
The second annual B-B-E Color FUND Run is Wednesday, October 5 during Homecoming week. It takes place at the B-B-E high school. The fun begins shortly before 1 p.m. when students, staff and community members gather on the property on the north side of the football stadium. Grades 7-12 and community members will run at 1 p.m.; at 1:30 p.m. grades 3-6 and parents will run; and at 1:40 p.m. the preschool students through second grade with accompanying parents will run.
*NOTE: if you register for the run before the end of the day, Friday, September 23, you can ensure getting a t-shirt. Anyone can register and/or donate online at http://bbejaguars.org. Remember that a donation does not equal registration.
Click to view this at the best size...this was on page two of the Sept. 10, 2015 Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper issue. It explained the "nuts and bolts" of the first Color FUND run.
My July 7, 2016 issue (printed right before BVD) had a story on page 10 that gave a preview of the 2016 Color FUND run. It explained a great deal of information on the "why are we doing this?" question - not only can students participate in the fundraising, but it gives any private party (person, family, business) the chance to donate directly to a fund that is divided out to multiple student groups benefitting multiple age levels in the school district in both buildings. It is imperative that members of the public in the Bonanza Valley area - even those who don't have students in the local school system - subscribe to the Bonanza Valley Voice. This is the most inexpensive (just $18 a year) way you can stay informed on what is happening on the local level. Here's the link to do just that = http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com/cgi-bin/htmlos.cgi/0087.1.2983948707221156749/subscribe Let me phrase it a different way: for less than 5 cents a day, you can stay up to date on what is happening across the multiple towns across the Bonanza Valley area - including, but not limited to, what is going on with the happenings of the B-B-E school district. Here's a glimpse of last year's event, during the prize giveaway near the end of the event:
Here's a link where you can see some online coverage (and a large photo gallery) from the 2015 Color FUND Run at B-B-E: http://bbejaguars.blogspot.com/2015/10/photo-gallery-bbes-color-fund-run.html . The October 15, 2015 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice had a full page of color photos from the event.
Thank you for supporting B-B-E schools!
Plus don't miss out on photos from the Color FUND Run on pages one and 10 of this week's Bonanza Valley Voice. I have plans to include more in the Oct. 22 issue as well.
(Below) Video from one of the color stations and then near the finish line. Note when Superintendent Bullard gets involved in the action around the 7-minute mark!
Here's some video taken before the first annual B-B-E Color FUND Run began earlier this afternoon:
Well-DONE!!! Great job to everyone who made this event a huge success!!!! Fundraising amounts and other information on the event will appear in next week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.
