Dorchester Times: Youth Football Camp To Be Held July 23 & 24

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Youth Football Camp To Be Held July 23 & 24

Ready or not, the new football season is just around the corner. And once again, the coaches at DHS are offering young players in the Dorchester area a chance to improve their gridiron game.

On July 23 and 24, DHS football coaches Ryan Voelker and Brent Zoubek will hold the Dorchester Area Youth Football Camp for boys who are entering grades 5 through 8. The camp will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. both nights.

According to Coach Zoubek, the camp will introduce and reinforce some of the basic fundamentals of football and education of the game through the instruction, discipline, and the fun and enjoyment that the great game offers.

The cost is $15 per player. Both payment and entry form are due no later than the day of camp. Participants will receive a Dorchester Longhorns Football t-shirt.

For more information, or to register, please contact Brent Zoubek at 946-2198 or brentzoubek@hotmail.com or Ryan Voelker at 416-8058 or rvoelker@edu6.com

A copy of the camp entry form can found below:

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DORCHESTER YOUTH FOOTBALL CAMP

Name: ______________________________________________________

Address: ____________________________________________________

Phone Number: _______________________________________________

Emergency contact and phone number: _____________________________

Grade: ____ Favorite NFL Football Team: ___________________________

Athlete Signature: ______________________________________________

Parent Signature: ______________________________________________

*Please return a.s.a.p. to Brent Zoubek, 1111 Colfax Ave. Dorchester, NE 68343*

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7 comments:

AnonymousJuly 10, 2008 at 9:46 AM
Thanks, coaches, for caring enough to host this camp. I recall back in the 80s and early 90s when Grant High School was always in the state tourneys and winning state championships. The parents of that school credited the coaches for creating a program that started working with the kids while they were in their early grade school years. Crete has established the same type of system in football. We need to copy them and use their model.
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AnonymousJuly 10, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Kids should be working during the summmer ............. not playing kids games................. I'll pay those kids $15 each if they cut the thistle out of my pastures............................................
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AnonymousJuly 10, 2008 at 8:57 PM
Joyce Karl said.....
I think Ryan Volker's email is:
rvolker@esu6.org
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AnonymousJuly 11, 2008 at 9:10 AM
I'm looking forward to seeing this camp. This is exactly what Dorchester needs more of.
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AnonymousJuly 11, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Joyce K said.....

Let's see if I can get it right this time. Ryan Voelker's email is:

rvoelker@esu6.org

Sorry!
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AnonymousJuly 11, 2008 at 4:49 PM
to cynical richard --
your comments aren't really conducive to a positive atmosphere for a community...especially one that is trying to improve its community pride. Providing kids with activities like this is
a great way to bring that pride back. There should be more things like this offered -- for both girls and boys. Give them a desire to succeed and improve themselves along with the community.
As far as your comment on how much you'd pay someone to cut thistle --better be paying more than that. Beside being a cynical p.i.t.a., you're also a tight wad.
Hope your poor wife has your checkbook
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AnonymousJuly 13, 2008 at 1:08 PM
I love cynical richard but he's off base here.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."