Friday, April 03, 2026

This is Holy Week


Numerous area churches are celebrating and observing Holy Week with a variety of worship services. I learned tonight that St. Donatus Catholic Church in Brooten will host an Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday night, April 4 at 8 p.m.

You can watch Pastor Kathy Terpstra's sermon from West Lake Johanna Lutheran church on Sunday, March 29 by clicking over to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website: WestLakeJohannaPastorKathy. Pastor Kathy's sermon begins a little before the 7:00 mark. It was an excellent sermon! You'll want to check it out.

Also at the newspaper's website, you can watch video from Maundy Thursday worship at Big Grove Lutheran church, as well as a press release from Senator Torrey Westrom regarding how the state of Minnesota condones allowing male athletes to compete in girls' sports: http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com.



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Friday, April 18, 2025

Good Friday was busy (VIDEO)


Smilin' D Arena in Colfax Township hosted a ranch rodeo event tonight. A short video clip from the event was posted to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website, which you can find by clicking here: https://shorturl.at/Tglhi.

As luck would have it, the timing worked out to cover both that event at the arena as well as part of Good Friday worship at Crow River Lutheran Church. "As the crow flies" the two locations are just a couple miles apart.

Here's a short video recorded after the sorting competition was completed:


More to come. Additional video is uploading.

And for some actual church! Good Friday worship services were held at numerous area churches tonight. At the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website is a video from worship at Crow River Lutheran tonight. Click on the following link to see that: https://shorturl.at/QreXI.




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Wednesday, April 09, 2025

In case you missed it - church! (VIDEO)


Just in case you were unable to make it to church this past Sunday...or if you did go to church but would like to hear another reading of Bible verses and a pastor's sermon, I've got your back!

From West Lake Johanna Lutheran church in Gilchrist Township this past Sunday:


I'm not sure what tomorrow will bring for sports. Today, we had incredible weather with full sunshine (most of the day) and a high of about 65 degrees. I finally dug dirt in our family garden! My soil thermometer is getting regular readings between 50 and 52 degrees at a depth of about 5 inches. This is great! The gardening season will soon be in full swing.

As it stands, the track and field teams have an invitational at Morris (hosted at the University of Minnesota-Morris track and field complex) at 4 p.m. Also, the baseball team is set to open their season at Paynesville Area high school. For the fastpitch team, they've got a road trip to Eden Valley. The forecast calls for 50 degrees as a high, a slight 15 mph wind plus heavy cloud cover. All told, a cool spring day is in store.



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Sunday, October 27, 2024

The Voice Fall Sports Show No. 10 - Let's Make Travel Plans and support our Jaguars! (VIDEO)


Right after returning home from the Bonanza Valley Royal Strutters Gun Blast last night at the Padua Pub, I went straight to the recording studio with the camera equipment. Instead of drawing up an intricate outline and speech for this 10th Fall Sports show of the season, I wanted to record it right away and get it done. With football and volleyball fresh on my mind last night, I figured I'd get most of what I wanted to say included.

Here's what I did not stress in the podcast: the trip to Fergus Falls on Tuesday night to cheer on our volleyball team is crucial! They will be playing on Tuesday without the support of the football team, who will be remaining home and just about wrapping up with their practice while the volleyball team is running pre-match drills. Let me be very clear on this: the match against West Central Area will be essentially a home game for the Knights. Their school district is neighbors right to the south of Fergus Falls. It's more or less a 20 to 30 minute drive for WCA Knights fans. For B-B-E fans, it's about a 1 1/2 hour drive. This is a HUGE hurdle to overcome! Please spread the word and fill up the car pools! Fan support goes a long way in the playoffs!

Without further ado...here's the latest installment of The Voice sports department's fall sports show:


Today I thoroughly enjoyed having lunch at the Sunburg Free Lutheran church! They had an old-fashioned and delicious Lutheran potluck meal. They are hard to beat! Yah, sure, you betcha!

I looked ahead on the forecast, and it appears that our family garden vegetables will not make it into November. On the night of Halloween, a hard frost will take out what we have left growing with a low of 28 degrees. It is unclear if blankets will help. I may try a sleeping bag over a couple of our tomato plants. We'll see how the week goes.

Looking ahead to a few section football championship games...
Section 6AAA: Minnewaska Area faces Albany in that section final at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 1 at Rocori high school in Cold Spring.
Section 5A: BOLD faces Minneota on Friday, November 1 at 3 p.m. at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall.
Section 5AA: Kimball Area faces Holdingford on Friday, November 1 at 7 p.m. at St. John's University.
Section 6AA: Staples-Motley faces Osakis on Friday, November 1 at the FargoDome at 3 p.m.
Section 6A: West Central Area faces Parkers Prairie on Friday, November 1 at the FargoDome at 12:30 p.m.
Section 4 9-man: Hancock faces Border West on Thursday, October 31 at the FargoDome at 11:30 a.m.




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Sunday, April 28, 2024

Baccalaureate service was great (VIDEO)


The B-B-E Class of 2024 had a terrific Baccalaureate worship service tonight in Brooten. Of the class of 39 graduates, 26 were in attendance tonight with numerous siblings, parents, stepparents and grandparents. This is always a marvelous event to take in. I am always immensely proud of our community - and more specifically our faith community - on Baccalaureate night.

Video is uploading, and I plan to get it posted right away online for others to watch.

Here's the worship service video from tonight:


After worship tonight, I enjoyed visiting with a handful of B-B-E baseball seniors about how the season is going. They were excited to host Paynesville, but that seems unlikely with tomorrow's forecast of additional rain and wind. The Bulldogs won their home tournament on Saturday with a 10-1 win against Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg and then a 5-4 win over St. Cloud Cathedral. They are now 8-1 overall and 5-1 in the Central Minnesota Conference.

Monday updates to follow here...
11:30 a.m...about an hour ago, the home JV golf meet at Prairie View in Brooten was postponed one full week to Monday, May 6. As it stands, across the past 80 hours, the Brooten area has received between 3.5 and 4 inches of rainfall. Much of the ground is waterlogged for the time being.

Today's fastpitch game with Paynesville has been postponed to May 14 in Paynesville. For the baseball team, their game against Paynesville has been moved to tomorrow in Elrosa.



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Thursday, March 28, 2024

This is Holy Week (VIDEOS)


Holy Week started like a lion with a major snowstorm ripping across the Bonanza Valley area last Sunday and the days that followed. It was something to take in. I failed to heed my own caution, and I scooped too much of the heavy snow. No, I didn't have a heart attack, but I did wear myself out. I over-did it in a big way. I've needed the past two days to recover. It's amazing how having too much energy can get you in trouble!

Here's a video from Trinity Lutheran church featuring the last mid-week Lenten worship service; Pastor Jeanne Megorden is providing her sermon:


Maundy Thursday worship services were held across the area tonight. We had a nice turnout of 36 worshipers at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church in Gilchrist Township. There was room for much more, though. I hope you can get to at least one worship service this weekend. Church will make your life better. No one goes to church and goes home saying, "Gee, whiz, I shouldn't have gone to church."

Here's another video from the Belgrade Lions chili feed on March 16 at the VFW:


I finally updated the Bonanza Valley Voice website. You can see what's there at http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com. It's time to call it a night. I have a radio show to get to tomorrow morning in Glenwood. We should be on by 9:30 a.m. You can tune in via the radio at 107.1 FM or go online to listen to us at https://www.kmgk1071.com.



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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

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



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Sunday, January 14, 2024

A cold Sunday in January (VIDEOS)


I haven't gotten around to glancing at the thermometers we have around our properties, but I know it's cold out! I also haven't caught up to what churches have cancelled their worship services. West Lake Johanna Lutheran is one of them, however, so here I am late in the morning sitting in my home office instead of being out in Gilchrist Township at my usual spot in the church balcony.

Here's a video featuring last week's service on January 7 at West Lake Johanna:


The lessons, Holy Gospel and sermon start at about the 9:30 mark in the video. Barry Bouwman provided the reading of the lessons.

Recently, the forecast called for a high of 9 below zero today for the Bonanza Valley area. Currently at our house, the two humidifiers we have running on the main level are not keeping up. I just saw that the humidity rate is down to 23 percent. Generally we keep it between 30 and 40 percent to stay comfortable and to maximize our personal health. Dry air is the enemy of humans in the winter time! This is common knowledge...although in today's world, we are seeing less and less common knowledge existing in society.

We keep our home's furnace thermostat set to keep the house between 65 and 66 degrees most of the time. With bitter cold temperatures, we turn that down to 64-65 degrees to save wear-and-tear on our natural gas furnace, which was installed in 2016. You can't be in our house for extended periods of time without wearing slippers on your feet. You have to have long sleeves. Walking around in a T-shirt in the winter is not part of our lifestyle. If you sit and watch TV, you're likely doing so under a blanket. We do this mostly to save money. It also builds character, in my opinion! I do not recommend these furnace settings if you have very young children, babies or are elderly.

How warm do you keep your house in the winter?

Weather update: as of 11:13 this morning, the temperature outside is 11 below zero. We're supposed to get "up" to 7 below zero as a high today. If you look at the extended forecast, we aren't going to get what I call "appreciable warmth" until January 21! On that day, they have a high of 21 degrees in the forecast.

*Here's a video from the end of last Tuesday's triangular, during which the Jaguars won two matches:


In the latest Guillotine poll, the B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team climbed one spot to No. 2 in Class 1A. They are in the midst of a very special season. If you're up for some light traveling this coming week, I encourage you to cheer them on next Tuesday or Friday...on Tuesday, January 16, the Jaguars compete in a quadrangular in Eden Valley starting at 5 p.m. Three days later, on Friday, January 19, they travel south to New London-Spicer for a tournament that starts at 3:30 p.m.

*Here's the last 3 minutes or so of the Eden Valley-Watkins game on January 5:


The B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team is slowly moving above .500 and has an 8-6 overall record with about 5 weeks left in the regular season. They host Maple Lake on Tuesday, January 16 in their next game. That marks the beginning of a three-game homestand that also has Royalton coming to town on January 19 and then Paynesville Area on January 23.

On Friday, an 80-year old man drove his truck onto Mille Lacs Lake near Isle and died. His body was found floating at the hole where his truck went through, as he was wearing a flotation device. I don't know what good that is if you go in the lake, because unless you're pulled out immediately, you're going to die. If nothing else, it allows your body to be quickly recovered. The ice in that location was only 6 inches thick. The ice needs to be 13 to 17 inches thick to support most cars and trucks! Good grief. I hope no one in our area is driving a car or truck out on a lake right now.

Let's shift gears a little bit to some college basketball news updates...

Here's a video from December 29 in Brainerd featuring Tiyana Schwinghammer and her college basketball team...


I haven't caught up yet with how our local college basketball players have been doing lately. The last I was able to was a couple weeks ago. I will be able to do that today and update this blog post.

Tiyana Schwinghammer's Northland Pioneers women's basketball team of Thief River Falls has gone 2-1 so far in January after they beat then No. 4-ranked Riverland College 73-49 in that game on December 29. On January 3, the Pioneers lost 94-50 to North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton. They've won two straight since then with a 96-32 win over Vermilion Community College on January 6 and then 75-64 over Rainy River College last night at Thief River Falls. During the win over Vermilion, Schwinghammer recorded her sixth double-double of her freshman season with 15 points and 15 rebounds. In last night's win over Rainy River, Schwinghammer earned her seventh double-double of her career with 17 points and 13 rebounds as her team improved to 12-4 overall and 2-0 in the Minnesota Community Athletic College's North Division.

In the latest NJCAA Division III national rankings, the Northland Technical and Community College Pioneers women's basketball team is ranked No. 3. It is their first top-15 ranking during the 2023-24 season.

Schwinghammer's former Jaguar teammate Abby Berge is having an outstanding season as a true freshman at Minnesota State University-Moorhead, where her NCAA Division II Dragons women's basketball team has climbed to 6-4 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. In last night's 75-42 win over the University of Sioux Falls, Berge had 10 points and 4 rebounds in 20 minutes of reserve action. She made 6 of 7 shots at the free throw line. On Friday against visiting Southwest Minnesota State University of Marshall, the Dragons lost 74-61 after a rough first half. Berge had a monster game off the bench, though, with 26 minutes of action during which she earned a double-double of 15 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals. This was her second double-double of her college career.

MSU-Moorhead's women's basketball team currently has a 6-9 overall record, but they are 3-1 so far in January.

Monday, January 15 update: it is damn cold outside! I walked to my office once today, and the walk back home was pure hell. The northwest wind was raw. I had almost my entire face covered, but the wind ripped straight through my scarf and head coverings. I hope we all make wise decisions as we venture outside and do our traveling today and the rest of this week!




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Thursday, August 24, 2023

Outdoor worship in Belgrade (VIDEO)


To help put a book end on the Belgrade August Fest celebration, the Big Grove-Crow River-Grace Lutheran parish held an outdoor worship at the city park on Sunday, August 13. The turnout surpassed 80 on the hazy, cool morning. After worship, a pulled pork lunch was served by the Free Spirits parish youth at the park shelter.

In this video, the community choir performs the final song of worship on August 13:


Going back a couple of weeks, you can click over to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website to see a video recorded at the BG-CR-G Vacation Bible School program held at Grace Lutheran on August 9 (short link): https://tinyurl.com/pw7rv5xv.

More to come. I'm blogging tonight from St. Mary's Hospital on the Rochester Mayo campus...over 200 miles from home!

Saturday morning update: click to follow through to an update from Rochester: https://tinyurl.com/374j8yem.



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Friday, November 04, 2022

In case you missed it...church (VIDEO)


It's never a bad time to hear the Word of God...below is video from Sunday worship last weekend at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church in Gilchrist Township:


Pastor Jeannie's sermon begins just a minute into the video after her reading of the Holy Gospel according to the book of John, Chapter 8.

Today we have a huge cooling off from just two days ago. The high is supposed to be 42 degrees, which compares to Wednesday's high of 74 degrees in Jaguar Country. Winter is not that far off...

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Sunday, October 16, 2022

'Amazing Grace' at Sunburg Free Lutheran (VIDEO)


Last Sunday I had the pleasure of attending worship at Sunburg Free Lutheran church in Norway Lake Township. Below is a short video clip from that morning. Their pastor is 1958 Brooten high school graduate Pastor Ron Knutson, who grew up not far from where I grew up in southeast Norway Lake Township.

*'Amazing Grace' at Sunburg Free Lutheran:


Where are you worshiping today?

**Fast forward to Sunday night...and I'm getting back to uploading Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper Color FUND Run photos that are now over 10 days beyond the event. There's over 300 of them! Yikes. **Update: there are 380 pictures uploaded, which encompasses basically all photos taken from that event. They are in two albums, one with 327 that features pictures of the race and the color burst. The second album has 53 pictures from the awards and prizes ceremony that followed inside the stadium. You can find the album by clicking here: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2022-B-B-EBonanza-Valley-area-events.

And B-B-E Homecoming Powder Puff football! We can't forget that either. That Bonanza Valley Voice photo gallery is now fully uploaded as of tonight! You can find the 180-plus photos by clicking on this short link: https://bit.ly/3T8xb3E.



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Sunday, October 09, 2022

Church and some desk clearing


Tonight I'll clear a few notes off of my desk in this blog post and then add a new sports blog post later tonight.

Also, if you want to take in the October 2 worship service at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church, you can click here: https://bit.ly/3CncZnK.

The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's "local events" folder that includes 59 galleries (at present) from separate events across Jaguar Country can be found by clicking here: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2022-B-B-EBonanza-Valley-area-events.

Here's a link to the Homecoming coronation album: https://bit.ly/3CJvqEo. I just got these uploaded tonight, although it does not include any of my cell phone photos yet.

We still have multiple events coming up in October in the local area. I also want to specifically point out an event that hasn't made it into my calendar (yet) or onto my newspaper pages. That is the upcoming B-B-E Music program's Halloween carnival that is on Monday, October 24 at the high school in Belgrade. Please spread the word! Details to come.

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Saturday, May 28, 2022

Pastor sermon and much more (VIDEO)


Here's video recorded last Sunday at Trinity Lutheran church in Brooten. It begins with 1970-something Brooten high school graduate Craig Jacobson delivering the reading of the lessons. Fun fact: his niece will be our next elementary school principal! (Josie Dingmann, B-B-E Class of 2000.)

VIDEO:


A terrific turnout from the public from towns across west central Minnesota was on hand for the return of Elrosa's Bologna Daze this past Tuesday at Bucky's Bar. You can take in some of the live entertainment provided that night by clicking over to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website: https://bit.ly/3t4rPvn.


Click over here to The Voice website to watch a video of the Sunburg Syttende Mai parade on May 15: https://bit.ly/3Gsnrfa. Photo galleries are slowly being filled up with photos from that day, and the link to those albums can be found at that web article.

Here's a video featuring Superintendent Walsh welcoming everyone to the Class of 2022 awards and scholarship banquet at Olson Auditorium:


That was a wonderful evening to be a part of. God willing, I'll get ample coverage from that night in the newspaper.

More to come.



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Sunday, March 20, 2022

Let's go to church (VIDEO) and some basketball notes


Here's video from worship service on the final Sunday before Lent began...Sunday, February 27. This is at Sunburg Free Lutheran church, where Pastor Ron Knutson leads worship every Sunday. A dairy farm boy from the Norway Lake area, in his younger days, he was a bruising fullback for the Brooten Buccaneers football team in the late 1950s.

VIDEO:


The video begins with B-B-E Class of 2022 member Ben Thonvold providing the reading of the lessons.

I've had a lot of people ask me about Sleepy Eye St. Mary's and how good they are. I answer every time: they are very good! They are tough as nails! They played a tough schedule and won most of their games. On paper, they are underdogs in the upcoming match up with our B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team, but that doesn't mean it won't be the fight of our lives to get past the state quarterfinals. The game is not played on a stat sheet! I'm still compiling information on them. Stay tuned.

I'm still going over New York Mills statistics. One of their big guns is Noah Noffsinger, who scored just five points. B-B-E survived the game in part because of Noffsinger's shooting performance: 1 of 6 on two-pointers and 1 of 6 on three-pointers, plus he didn't get to the free throw line. Another big gun is Jack Peeters, who scored just four points on perfect 2-for-2 on field goals with no three-point shots and no free throws attempted. A third big gun for NYM is Jonah Johnson, who scored just two points on 1-of-5 field goal shooting with no three-point or free throw attempts. I've got other insights to the New York Mills game, but they will be saved for the print edition of the Bonanza Valley Voice to prevent any possible intel falling into SESM's hands.

More to come.

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Sunday, October 03, 2021

Let's go to church (VIDEO)


A sermon by Pastor Ron Knutson always delivers! He's an outstanding country preacher who lives and works right among us. A feature article on his ministry was published a year ago in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.

Here's Pastor Knutson preaching at Sunburg Free Lutheran church last Sunday, September 26:


Pastor Knutson is a 1958 graduate of Brooten high school. He was a powerful fullback and team captain for the Brooten Buccaneers football team.

Just how out of it was I this weekend? I never got around to posting the big news that the B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team earned second place at Alexandria yesterday. They lost in a third-set tiebreaker to Alexandria by a 21-19 score (in a 15-point game). The Jaguars take a 16-7 record into this Tuesday's home section match with Hancock.  

**Don't forget about today's FREE harp/cello concert at Olson Auditorium, B-B-E high school! It starts at 2 p.m. And yes, it's FREE!

That's all for today. I'm still kicking my "Homecoming Hangover" - I could barely walk out of the stadium after Friday's game - I definitely over-did it last week, and I really shouldn't be doing that. Tomorrow is a pretty big day, too, with B-B-E's students holding their first digital learning day (at home) plus the last home tennis match of the fall season.

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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Midweek Lent worship

Where are you worshiping tonight? Some area churches are hosting midweek Lenten season worship services. I'll be out west in eastern Pope County, West Lake Johanna Lutheran, where they are hosting worship starting at 7 p.m.


Below is video from worship at West Lake Johanna Lutheran on January 31, featuring the reading of the lesson, Gospel as well as Pastor Steve's sermon:


I'm back into catch-up mode on many fronts. We published a 12-page issue this morning. It was a huge lift! Yikes! 

On the COVID front, it's worth noting that Minnesota has recently fallen "sharply" behind South Dakota in the race to vaccinate the public. As of today, South Dakota reports that 22 percent of their state has received at least one jab. In Minnesota, if 22 percent of the public had at least one dose, we'd have over 1.24 million with the first jab complete. Instead, we're hovering around 800,000 people who have had at least one jab. 

We all need to keep asking the question: why is Governor Walz so bad at his job? Why is his state health department so bad at their job? Why do we accept a failed governor? It is really aggravating.

Also, the area scoreboard from last night's basketball games was updated and posted on the previous blog post here. See below.

Also, I learned tonight that Perham will not be attending the wrestling triangular tomorrow at Morris Area high school. The event will be a dual between our B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team and Morris Area/Hancock/Chokio-Alberta. The JV wrestlers will start competing at 6 p.m., and once that wraps up, the varsity dual will begin. On Thursday afternoon I'll get a live video player posted on this blog in a new blog post.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

(VIDEO) Thanksgiving Eve worship in 2018

Featured below is video from the joint Thanksgiving Eve worship of Norway Lake Lutheran parish on November 21, 2018.




The video begins with Priscilla Erickson reading the lessons. She is a grandmother to two of our B-B-E Jaguar athletes: elementary-age Taylor Pieper and also sophomore Kaden Pieper, who was a key reserve on last year's sub-section finalist Jaguar boys' basketball team. Erickson also works as a cook at B-B-E high school. Taylor and Kaden were both featured in photos in the November 12 Bonanza Valley Voice with deer they shot near Spicer back in October.

Two minutes into the video, Pastor Wayne Kopitzke begins his Holy Gospel reading. He reads from the Bible's book of Matthew, chapter 6. Then around 4 minutes into the video, worshipers sing the Gospel acclamation. Pastor Wayne's sermon begins at the 4:40 mark.

Also! Please remember to call ahead if you are getting take out meals from the Padua Pub tomorrow for Thanksgiving dinner. Their advertisement was in last week and is in this week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The fine staff at the Padua Pub will go above and beyond to help serve us on a day when we should all give extra care and thought to take stock of what we have to be thankful for.

If you click on the following (short) link, you can watch the Thanksgiving Eve 2020 worship service at Norway Lake Lutheran parish: https://bit.ly/3q3c3Or. The service is posted at the Bonanza Valley Voice website. Also in that web article is a video clip from Thanksgiving Eve worship on November 22, 2017 plus a few extra photos added. 

Fun fact: the sanctuary building of East Norway Lake Lutheran is 145 years old this year. Wow! I don't know many buildings in our area that are 145 years old.





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Monday, June 22, 2020

Worship at Crow River Lutheran

On Sunday, June 28, Crow River Lutheran church will host outdoor worship on the lawn (bring your own chair) with a start time of 9 a.m.

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Saturday, May 16, 2020

Church notice in Brooten

Our Sunday Worship service is now up on our Facebook page...click below:
http://www.facebook.com/trinitybrooten.

Thank you for your support of our on-line worship. Our church is not closed! It is just our buildings that are closed. We are the church and we are open!

Please pray for our church leaders as we discern God's will as decisions are made for returning to worship in our buildings.

God's Blessings to you! Stay safe and take care of yourself and those around you.

Pastor Steve
Trinity Lutheran church, Brooten

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Saturday, April 11, 2020

(VIDEOS) Easter Sunday worship

Click!

https://bit.ly/2xmHL2y

Enjoy!!!

Two videos are included! One from 2019 that is absolutely MARVELOUS to watch any day of the year and especially right now, and another for the 2020 Easter worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish.

When I get to the 4:30 mark in the 2019 video clip shown, it's all goosebumps for me! What a thrilling and exciting song to take in!!! And the performance of the choir at East Norway Lake Lutheran church was outstanding!

Be well. Stay well.

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