Today is Veterans Day...and more! (VIDEO)

The Belgrade VFW and VFW Auxiliary invites the public to B-B-E high school on Tuesday, November 11 for their Veterans Day program at 1:10 p.m. in the main gymnasium with the student body included.

I am thrilled to say that three green patches of lettuce, spinach and kale are still going strong in our family garden! With the use of some blankets, somehow, they managed to survive multiple freezing nights last week. Today, we have strong sunshine that I hope the vegetables will soak up. And! The high for this Friday is supposed to be 62!

I'm juggling numerous tasks today in order to prepare the November 13 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice issue for press. Currently, I'm on the fence on whether or not we'll see 14 or 16 pages in the layout. Time will tell! Just a few hours will tell...

Meanwhile, you can take in a large portion of Sunday worship at Sunburg Free Lutheran church. The video is at the newspaper website; click here to see: https://shorturl.at/dPJw7. Sunburg Free Lutheran is guided by Pastor Ron Knutson, who is a 1958 graduate of Brooten high school.

Here's a video from tonight's rehearsal at Olson Auditorium:


Additional fall play coverage is posted at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website: https://shorturl.at/axIhC.

*Wednesday update...
Here's a link to see the elementary Veterans Day program: https://shorturl.at/WXG5C. Tonight, a new blog post will be added.

(HD VIDEO) Veterans Day

Forgot to post this until now. This was from November 11 at the B-B-E high school.


Other coverage from Veterans Day was published in the November 19 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.

(VIDEO) Veterans Day at B-B-E elementary

Coverage of Veterans Day at B-B-E was published in yesterday's issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.

Readers, and everyone else out there, are invited to take in video from the elementary school's program on Monday, which was held in conjunction with the highly-revered members of the Brooten American Legion and the Brooten American Legion Auxiliary.

Click here to watch that video (short link): https://bit.ly/2CQxdHS.

Veterans Day

As it has been the past couple of months, the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper office is closed today, Monday. Today we are also closed in honor of Veterans Day. The bank in town is closed as well as city hall.

The elementary school and Brooten American Legion hosted a wonderful Veterans Day program this morning. Coverage to follow in this week's Voice.

Today at 1:30 p.m., the high school and Belgrade V.F.W. Post. No. 1825 will host a Veterans Day program. Due to a thousand-and-one conflicts, the Voice regrets that the newspaper will be unable to attend that program.

From the office of Superintendent Walsh!

Very important information below! All great news to share, and it takes much of the wonder and confusion out of the week that lies ahead.




Good afternoon! 

We are just concluding the first quarter of the school year. How quickly time flies when you are connected with kids. Many have grown two inches since we've begun the year! 

We have a number of things to connect on, so I'll share them as briefly as I can with you. 

REFERENDUM TUESDAY

Tuesday, November 5, is another big day for our district. We are asking our patrons to make sure to vote for our levy and bond referendum. Information was provided in an earlier mailing. Early voting is available tomorrow at the Belgrade office from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Voting takes place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in Brooten and Belgrade. We thank you for voting! 

INCLEMENT WEATHER

It's November now. With that, we need to remind you of all of our weather-related procedures. In fact, we're already anticipating some more snow tomorrow. *Note: information on this will be published in the Bonanza Valley Voice. It has been e-mailed out to parents.

VOLLEYBALL/SCHOOL DAY CHANGE

Congratulations to the girls volleyball team for making a return trip to the State tournament! We will be playing Medford on Thursday, November 7 at 3pm at the XCel Energy Center in St. Paul. 

Due to the large number of anticipated absences K-12, we will NOT have school on Friday, November 8. Instead, a makeup day will be scheduled for Monday, November 11. The JKC schedule will continue as normal. 

Fan buses will be running and signup will take place Monday-Tuesday of next week. Prices for the ride are $5/student, $10/adult. K-6 students may ride, but only with a parent chaperone. Community members may ride also.

There are two options.

1) Take the school bus for a $10 ride or

2) take a coach trip for $20.

To sign up for either of these two options, please e-mail Tessa at tschoenberg@bbejaguars.org to sign up or call the office at 320-346-2278, extension 1218. All riders will pick up a ticket at the Xcel Energy Center. 

If you have a prior attendance conflict on Monday, November 11, please let your building principal know! 

Any student attending will be given an excused absence from school. This must be verified with a signed note, a direct email or phone call from a parent to the respective office.     

 elemoffice@bbejaguars.org.

 nbertram@bbejaguars.org.

VETERANS DAY PROGRAM 

The Veterans Day ceremonies scheduled for Friday, November 8 at 9:30 a.m. at the elementary and 1:30 p.m. at the HS have been rescheduled for Monday, November 11 at the same times. 

Go Jags! ~Mr. Walsh, Superintendent

Veterans Day programs - TODAY

As announced early last week, the B-B-E elementary school will host a Veterans Day program today, Monday, November 12 at 10 a.m. at the main gymnasium. It was moved from November 9 due to school closing - which was precipitated by the Jaguars volleyball team competing at the state tournament.

The B-B-E high school Veterans Day program is at 1 p.m. today.

I hope to see a nice crowd at the programs!

Also, here's additional information on the upcoming fall musical at B-B-E...coming this next weekend! https://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com/story/2018/11/08/bbe/b-b-e-fall-musical-is-coming-november-16-17-18/733.html.

*And updated at lunch time...in case you missed it, you can watch the elementary Veterans Day program at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website. Thank you to all the business sponsors who help keep our print and website coverage going each week! (Link shortened, click here: https://bit.ly/2RNFdPu.)

I want to give a quick shout-out to the Terrace Sportsmen's Club. The Terrace Sportsmen's Club will hold its fall Holiday Bingo at 7 p.m. on Saturday, November 17 at the Sportsmen's Club hall in Terrace. Prizes include cash and meat (turkeys or certificates) with proceeds to benefit area food shelves. Same family fun you've come to expect! Concessions by members of the Busy Beavers 4-H Club.

Also! The Sunburg Fire Department invites everyone to their fall ham/turkey bingo and gun raffle on Saturday, November 17 at 7 p.m. at the fire hall/community center. Get your raffle tickets ahead of time from any fire department member for just $10!

Finally, the Bonanza Valley TrailBlazers snowmobile club 20th annual banquet and raffle is coming on Friday, November 16, with social hour from 6 to 7 p.m., and dinner to follow at 7 p.m. The cash raffle grand prize is $10,000! ($100 per ticket, talk to any member to purchase) Smaller raffles for various items are happening all night for $1 to $5 for tickets. The Pub will be serving chicken and ribs.

##ConquerEveryDay

Veterans Day programs at B-B-E

A couple links with coverage by the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper on both our website and also on Twitter:
http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com/story/2017/11/02/bbe/veterans-day-programs-at-b-b-e-schools/537.html. (HD video included)

...and Twitter!
https://twitter.com/bonanzavalley/status/929026750532804608.

Today was conquered.

##ConquerEveryDay

(HD video) Veterans Day program

Shown is a video of numerous clips from the second part of the Veterans Day program held at the B-B-E elementary school one week ago:

This week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper has many color photos on the front and back pages this week. If you're not a subscriber, here's a link where you can take care of that for either $18 or $20 a year depending on where you live:
http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com/cgi-bin/htmlos.cgi/007.1.1717773211912573654/subscribe

We are still working on the database required to launch the online version of the newspaper, where subscribers will be able to view all printed pages on their computer.

Great programs!!!

I was fortunate enough to take in both B-B-E Veterans Day programs at both school buildings today.

I'll post more later tonight. Video is uploading as I type this.

Here's the first video clip I have:


I have more to post at http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com.

Thank a Veteran today!

So true!!!

Veterans Day programs at B-B-E will be held at 10:00am at the elementary school and at 1:15pm at the high school.

**Monday night...giving a quick shout-out to the fine staff members of B-B-E. We are extremely blessed to have our family be a part of this school district. I can't say enough good things about how hard they work and how great they are with our kids.

Also, I'm seeing a ton of "deer hunting" success stories on Facebook. Great job to all the hunters around the B-B-E area!! Many of the pictures include first-time hunters in the lower-junior-high grades. That's nice to see. Take care of those deer so my car doesn't have to!!!! Not only that, but being hunted/killed by humans with guns is 100 times more humane than getting creamed or maimed by an automobile.

Veterans Day program at the B-B-E elementary

Pastor Bryant Kaden of Trinity Lutheran Church in Brooten:

Finally got the photo album uploaded

Here's the Sauk Centre Herald photo gallery from last week's Veterans Day programs at B-B-E: http://saukherald.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1567015&CategoryID=69413&ListSubAlbums=0

Here's a clip at the Sauk Centre Herald website from the elementary Veterans Day program held on Friday morning:
http://www.saukherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=381&NewsVideoID=169

Also, don't forget to get your tickets to Jesus Christ, Superstar presented this weekend by the B-B-E Theater Company! Get more information at the B-B-E school website homepage: http://www.bbe.k12.mn.us/se3bin/clientschool.cgi?schoolname=school647

Here's a clip from the final part of the elementary Veterans Day program...

Thank you Veterans!

Members of the B-B-E high school choir are shown performing at the Veterans Day program on Friday afternoon.

Shown are some of the veterans on hand at the elementary program on Friday morning.

More to follow today.

'Salute to the Armed Forces'

At the B-B-E Elementary school yesterday...led by the Pope County Men's Chorus...

Veterans Day programs held at B-B-E

Two clips from the elementary program this morning...

More will follow later tonight.

Veterans Day program at B-B-E is tomorrow

The Veterans Day program at B-B-E will be held on Friday, November 9 from 10:00am to 11:00am at the elementary school main gymnasium. Faculty, staff and students invite the public to join them for this important event.

More details from the desk of Activities Director Gossen: At the elementary during the Veterans Day program there will be songs performed by the Pope County Men's Choir, the B-B-E High School Choir, the B-B-E high school band, and we will have poems read by elementary students as well as a Reader's Theatre performed by elementary students.

Also, don't forget about the following weekend's B-B-E musical performances at the high school auditorium stage. I am straightening out which days the performances will take place. I have a feeling the original schedule was laid out while keeping in mind that the football team could be playing in the Metrodome on Saturday, Nov. 17 in the state semifinals.

**Here's something fun: a clip from the sub-section volleyball semifinals last week...click to view at the Sauk Centre Herald website:
http://saukherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=381&NewsVideoID=168