GAME DAY! Yes, back west in Stevens County!

Before commenting on sports, I want to share this website link, which will redirect you to coverage (video) of the Belgrade VFW Memorial Day program. Here's that link: https://shorturl.at/BPkr3. Side note: because I got sidetracked by visiting too long with a handful of children of the late Ozzie and Ruth Stepan at the Brooten Pavilion on Memorial Day, I arrived at the Belgrade VFW Memorial Day program about 3 minutes after it started. However, as anyone who knows any of the Stepan children, time spent visiting with any of them is about the best way anyone could spend their time!

And in sports news...today is the big day!
This is the day our B-B-E Jaguars baseball team has worked towards for the past 12 months. One year ago, the Jaguars suffered a gut-wrenching 11-10 extra-inning loss in the opening game of the Section 6A championship series. That loss ended their season. The victor that day was Parkers Prairie, who just happens to be their opponent today in Morris. The Jaguars and Panthers meet today at Chizek Field at 2:30 p.m. in what will hopefully be back-to-back playoff games. The Jaguars have to beat the Panthers in the 2:30 game in order to force a true winner-take-all game. The loser is done with the Section 6A runner-up trophy to show for it, while the winner of today's series gets a trip to the Class 1A state baseball tournament that takes place next week.

I still have a great deal to get done before heading west to Morris. Today's game will be aired on Smooth Magic 107 FM of Glenwood. They are at 107.1 FM on the radio dial, and they also stream online at https://www.kmgk1071.com. Game updates will be posted at this blog post after the first game gets rolling. So please pass the link to this blog post so others can follow along from near and far!

First pitch was at 2:28 p.m.

GAME UPDATES!

Parkers Prairie scored the game's first run in the first inning on a hit batsman, one walk and an infield hit.

After 4 innings, the score is tied 1-1. Brett DeRoo scored B-B-E's run in the top of the 3rd inning.

The final score will be posted in a NEW blog post before 5 p.m.

Memorial Day was great!

We had terrific Memorial Day events in the Bonanza Valley yesterday. I'll get more coverage from them in this week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.

Here's a glimpse of the Belgrade V.F.W. Memorial Day parade as it passed by the Belgrade Nursing Home yesterday:


It tried to rain this morning! Well, sort of. We got about one-tenth of rain, barely enough to settle the dust. It is very, very dry right now.

Belgrade Memorial Day parade (VIDEO)

You can click over to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website to watch a video of the Belgrade Memorial Day parade (short link): https://bit.ly/3Qac3sW.

AND! Read about Bonanza Valley Days! (short link) https://bit.ly/397rphb.

REMEMBER! Today is playoff baseball day! Yes, more playoff baseball for fans in Jaguar Country! The B-B-E Jaguars baseball team plays at 2:30 p.m. today in the elimination bracket final of the Section 6A tournament. They face defending state runners-up and defending Section 6A champion New York Mills. *THe game will be aired on Smooth Magic 107 FM of Glenwood. You can listen to it on 107.1 FM or on their website: https://kmgk1071.com.

More to come.

Memorial Day program in Brooten moved to Pavilion

The weather has moved this event to the Pavilion. It starts at 10 a.m. 

See you there!!

Here's another video from the senior recognition banquet last Wednesday at Olson Auditorium:


I'm currently gathering other material from that evening to publish in the next newspaper issue.

**Update on Monday night: two weeks later, I've finally uploaded all Sunburg Syttende Mai photos to the newspaper's SmugMug photo gallery. It has two albums that total 347 photos! What a crazy day that was. The events folder with all 2022 albums can be found by clicking on this link: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2022-B-B-EBonanza-Valley-area-events.

And here's the link to the 2022 Fine Arts photo albums. I have gotten as far as uploading the choir concert photos from way back on May 9. Band is forthcoming. Here's the link: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/BBEBonanza-Valley-Area-Fine-Arts-2022.

Grove Lake today

The Grove Lake community will host a Memorial parade today at 1 p.m., as was outlined on page one of this week's newspaper.

The parade, led by the Glenwood American Legion, will march across County Road 39 and into Grove Lake Township cemetery. Everyone is then invited over to the park along the beach/shore of Grove Lake, where the Color Guard will have a gun salute, and Taps will be played in honor of the memory of area veterans who served our country so bravely during our nation's existence on earth.

(HD VIDEO) The Fallen honored at Grove Lake

Here's a video of Taps being played at Grove Lake Township park yesterday afternoon:


I hope you've operated with more class than Vice President "Enjoy the long weekend" Harris has this weekend! It's important to know why we have a Memorial Day in the U.S.A. It's very unfortunate that she is holding that office. It would behoove her to read up on Memorial Day. Perhaps click over to the History channel and get educated: https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/memorial-day-history.

I digress.

Meanwhile, where I come from, our town of Brooten is proud to have donated over $1,000 to the Brooten American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Drive. This includes donations from businesses and individuals. What a tremendous effort! Read more about that in the June 3 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice.

Enjoy that sunshine, today, Jaguar Country! 

Inactivity = don't go there! (VIDEO)

We'll always promote the opposite of what can be described as a "sedentary lifestyle" and here's a video from a podcast that outlines why physical inactivity is such a bad thing:


I hope you've been busy and active on this extremely wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

The more you know!

Memorial Day programs

Click on the link to go to the Bonanza Valley Voice website...which has information about upcoming Memorial Day programs (tomorrow) in Brooten and Belgrade: https://bit.ly/2McAc55.

This information was published on page one of the May 16 and May 23 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.

Also just posted tonight at the Voice website is elementary spring concert video from May 15.

Big Grove Lutheran church

Big Grove Lutheran church is holding a special Memorial Day dinner, silent auction and cash raffle on Monday, May 27. Below are details that were published on page one of the May 16 and May 23 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.

The Big Grove Lutheran church WELCA group will serve a Memorial Day dinner with Silent Auction from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, May 27 in the church basement. A silent auction will take place from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and that includes over 300 donated items from very generous families and our awesome business community.

 We will serve BBQs, salad, chips, pickles and bars with lemonade and coffee provided. The meal is free-will offering, and the big cash raffle to follow after 1:30 p.m. See more on page 10.

The Big Grove Lutheran church family and extended family gathers for a large group photo outside the church building on July 23, 2017.

You can watch a short video clip taken on July 23, 2017 at Big Grove Lutheran church during their 150th anniversary celebration worship (short link): https://bit.ly/2K3yXCt.

Here's the Bonanza Valley Voice photo gallery from that special day (short link): https://bit.ly/2K3zeW1.

(HD video) Brooten Memorial Day program

Here's a video taken six days ago at the Brooten American Legion Memorial Day program. It was a simply fantastic morning for this event, and best of all, it was well-attended in my opinion.


Great job to everyone involved in it or who attended this!

(HD video) Memorial Weekend in Grove Lake

Here's video from Grove Lake Township park on Sunday afternoon:


Here's another video and some photos: http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com/story/2018/05/24/regional/memorial-weekend-program-honors-the-fallen-in-grove-lake/636.html

I hope you are having a terrific and safe weekend with loved ones.

Remembering the fallen (Video)

Remembering the fallen at the Belgrade V.F.W. Memorial Day program.

The Bonanza Valley Voice will have a large spread of photos throughout this week's newspapers from three separate Memorial Day programs held in Grove Lake, Brooten and Belgrade.

Below, HD video from the Belgrade V.F.W. program on Monday, starting with the B-B-E senior high choir performing.


I hope you took the time to attend a Memorial Day program or event over this past weekend!! Remembering Memorial Day should consist of more than just posting a photo on Facebook.

Memorial Day broadcast

The Brooten Memorial Day program will be broadcast live on the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's streaming station. Here's the link...the video goes live just before 10 a.m. today!
http://citylinktv.com/channel/brooten-bonanza-valley-voice

(Videos) Concert and Memorial Day

So in the vice grip that was the past two weeks...I forgot to post the video from the high school Spring Concert...so below is video from last Monday's Memorial Day program at the high school and then from the spring concert:




And a photo gallery from the Memorial Day programs in Brooten and at the high school: 
http://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2015-BBE-Bonanza-Valley-area-e/Brooten-BBE-Memorial-Day

And a photo gallery from Benson during the Section 5A golf meet on Wednesday:
http://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/BBE-Jaguar-spring-sports-15/BBE-Jaguars-at-Section-5A-golf

Today is the big day at B-B-E! Graduation of the Class of 2015. They are the 26th graduating class of our school. The first was in 1990.

Remembering those who served with great honor

And in case you missed it, Memorial Day program information is on page four of the May 21 Bonanza Valley Voice.

(Photos) Spring concert and Memorial Day

Still horribly behind on office work, big time. Today didn't bring much progress my way after spending the day at MSU-Moorhead with the Sauk Centre track and field team at the Section 6A meet...I finally uploaded photos from the spring band/choir concert that was held on May 19. Here's that link:
http://saukherald.smugmug.com/2014-Events/2014-BelgradeBrootenElrosa-are/BBE-Spring-band-and-choir-conc

...and here's the Memorial Day program/parade photos at the Sauk Centre Herald website:
http://saukherald.smugmug.com/2014-Events/2014-BelgradeBrootenElrosa-are/BBE-Memorial-Day-program-526

I'll hopefully be caught up by the middle of June!

Memorial Day

The parade is shown finishing up down main street.

May we never forget their sacrifice.

The B-B-E Acoustics group is shown performing.

As always it was a wonderful and moving program with great participation by B-B-E high school students. The Voice of Democracy program winners gave their speeches: 1st place Katie Hieserich, 2nd place Alex Evenson, third place Peyton Miller.

Honoring our Fallen Heroes

A scene from the Memorial Day program at the high school this morning.

 
At the V.F.W. Post in Belgrade after today's Memorial Day parade...



And from the program at the high school auditorium... 

Gathering for the parade after the program was complete...