Today is Sunburg's day (and Terrace)

Chippewa Falls Lutheran church hosts their Syttende Mai Norwegian Smorgasbord dinner today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in scenic Terrace, Minnesota. Can you just imagine the views in Terrace today! Bright sunshine, and everything is greened up!

Here's a short web article and video featuring Sunburg's Syttende Mai celebration: https://shorturl.at/ogS0B. Here's a direct link to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's SmugMug photo gallery for the 2024 Sunburg Syttende Mai parade: https://shorturl.at/DMbY9.

Currently, Sunday morning church is in the rear-view mirror, and now it's time to go check the rain guage to see what we got for rain since Friday night. I dumped our rain gauge in Brooten on Friday afternoon, and at that time, it said that we received about 1 3/4 inches of rain between Thursday morning and Friday afternoon.

Sunday night update...
The Sunburg Community Music players performed two outdoor concerts today as part of the town's Syttende Mai celebration. You can watch the first video I recorded of them near the former Sunburg Cafe by clicking here to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's website: https://shorturl.at/NVQEP.

Additional coverage of Sunburg's Syttende Mai celebration is forthcoming. I hope to get a nice spread of coverage in this upcoming issue of The Voice. Fingers crossed.

And a quick sports update...the B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team opens the playoffs with a 4:30 p.m. game on Tuesday, May 20 in Granite Falls. Please pass the word! The Section 3A tournament is set to last through Friday, May 29. First, the Jaguars have to win their playoff opener against Benson on Tuesday. After that, they will likely face Yellow Medicine East (the host team) that same night (May 20) at about 6 p.m. in the opening round of the Section 3A double-elimination tournament.

The B-B-E Jaguars baseball team is set to host a doubleheader on Monday (tomorrow) at 4 p.m. in Elrosa. The opponent will be Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City. I don't know how things will shake out with the weather. The rain is supposed to pick up at around 4 p.m. on Monday.

Circling back to last week...

Here's one of 5 video clips I got from last week's Class of 2025 awards/scholarship banquet:


The video begins with Nancy Young speaking about the Austin Young scholarship. Austin Young was a member of the Class of 2019. This year, the Austin Young scholarship was awarded to Kora Martinez.

For B-B-E's Class of 2025, we have 56 students who will graduate this coming week. The graduation ceremony will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 23.

MONDAY sports update...
The Sub-Section 5A-West track and field meet has been postponed to Thursday of this week, May 22. It begins at 3 p.m. at the Litchfield high school athletic campus.

Sunburg Syttende Mai (VIDEO)

I'll get some video posted here from yesterday in Sunburg. It was a great day! The weather was outstanding. For the record, the Sunburg Fire Department served upwards of 450 at the hamburger feed that followed the grand parade. Also, The Local Pantry in Brooten supplied the potato salad for the supper, and I learned today that they used 125 pounds of it! That's awesome!

Click on the following short link and you will be re-directed to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website, where I've got the full grand parade video posted: https://bit.ly/3w9Tzhh.

In a new blog post, I'll get today's sports schedule up.

Syttende Mai weekend

Three Syttende Mai events happening this weekend in the Bonanza Valley! Today is the official Norwegian Independence Day anniversary.

Tonight is the night to swing by the Padua Pub! from 4 to 8 p.m...more information on page 3 this week.

On Sunday, May 19, both Sunburg and Terrace have Syttende Mai events taking place.

At Chippewa Falls Lutheran church in Terrace, they are serving a hearty Norwegian Smorgasbord from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in their church basement.

And Sunburg has a full day of activities going on lasting over 12 hours! You can find that on the Bonanza Valley Voice website: http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com.


*In other news...
The Brooten Commercial Club is meeting with the Minnesota Gambling and Control Board on Monday, May 20. There are a number of issues that need to be hashed out as the Commercial Club goes through the process of dissolving their state charitable gambling license. It's a meeting that they have been waiting for months to take place.

Hopefully you will be able to read more news on this in next week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Stay tuned!

(VIDEO) ...Syttende Mai in Sunburg

Here's a web article at the Bonanza Valley Voice website that highlights the upcoming Syttende Mai celebration in Sunburg on May 19. It was published last week on page 2 of the May 2 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice. We'll have more coverage on this full day of events in the May 9 and May 16 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice.

(short link) https://bit.ly/2PUAmfQ

The web article includes a 23-minute video clip from the grand parade on May 20, 2018 plus a link to the newspaper's SmugMug photo gallery from that day.