A beautiful day in Terrace...and Grove Lake, to name a few

Later today, I'll have good news to report from both Terrace and Grove Lake, communities on the outer corners of the Bonanza Valley Voice coverage area. It is always exciting to report good news!

Also exciting: the temperatures are supposed to climb into the upper 70s on Monday with a great deal of sunshine. This bodes well for farmers of all types as well as all gardeners!

I've been working to get this updated at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's SmugMug photo galleries: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/BBE-Fall-Sports-2025. Besides traveling to Grove Lake and Terrace today, there's been a giant mountain of catch-up work completed.

I recorded numerous videos at Friday night's game in Barrett. It was an unusually high number of videos in what was a thoroughly entertaining game. It will take a while to get caught up on that.

Here's a cell phone video from early in the 1st quarter against West Central Area:


Here's a video from the 4th quarter at WCA:


The B-B-E school board meets in regular session tomorrow night at the elementary school media center. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. The Brooten city council meets at 7 p.m., and the meeting agenda can be found at the Bonanza Valley Voice editor's blog: lifeinbonanzavalley.blogspot.com/2025/09/brooten-city-council-meeting-agenda-for.html.

Coming next...tomorrow!
On Monday, the varsity volleyball and tennis teams compete in non-conference events. The volleyball team travels to Parkers Prairie (2-0 overall), while the tennis team travels the opposite direction to Montevideo. The temperature is supposed to climb towards 80 degrees on Monday. The outlook is really terrific in terms of the warm weather that's in the forecast. This is what farmers (and gardeners) need this month.

Today was Labor Day

This was Labor Day, Monday, September 1. I hope you got a chance to get some rest. I did not! No rest for small business owners. I don't even know what rest means!

I want you to take special care to consider attending the Bluegrass Festival this Sunday, September 7 in Terrace. It will be well worth the small price of admission! Just $20. You can read more here: https://shorturl.at/tDy00. This was also advertised on page 10 of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's August 28 issue.

You can skip right ahead to purchasing tickets by clicking as follows: (adults) https://terracemill.org/store/product/p_3350645; (and children ages 6 to 17) https://terracemill.org/store/product/p_3350647.

Terrace Mill grand reopening is June 21-22; Saints win by one run!

In a complete change-of-pace from high school sports, here's a chance for you to get familiar with one of the most exciting weekends of the summer that's right on the horizon. Two weeks from now, everyone is invited to Terrace, Minnesota, to join in the fun of the Grand Reopening celebration for the historic Terrace Mill. Read more at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's website: https://shorturl.at/vMfPX.

The summer art class offerings are also noteworthy. It's terrific that the community of Terrace is getting the Mill open again and ready to be part of our lives again!

In amateur baseball news...
The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team plays at Freeport at Black Sox Park on Saturday night in an exhibition game, and first pitch is at 7:30 p.m. They are hosting St. Martin tonight in a Stearns County League game. This week Wednesday, they defeated Paynesville at Paynesville in an exhibition game by a 4-2 score. Against the Pirates, Torii Johnson pitched a complete game for the Saints with 6 strikeouts and no earned runs.

UPDATE: in tonight's home game, the Saints prevailed by a 6-5 score over St. Martin. The Saints scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 6th inning to erase a 5-2 deficit. The Martins extended a 3-2 lead with 2 runs scored in the top of the fourth. This was a terrific win for Elrosa, as the Martins entered tonight's game in first place in the SCL-South division. They banged out 12 hits against four St. Martin pitchers. Ashton Dingmann started for Elrosa and got the win in 7 innings. Luke Dingmann closed and earned the save and surrendered just 1 hit, no walks with 1 strikeout.

Elrosa improved to 5-3 in the SCL-North division, while St. Martin is now 7-2 in the south. The Saints won't resume SCL action until they travel to Roscoe on Sunday, June 15. Their next home game is not until Friday, June 20 against Royalton in the opener for the Elite 8 tournament.