Monday, April 28, 2014

Main Street Banners Coming Soon


Coming to Dorchester:  Banners for our main street light poles!

That's the word from the Dorchester Community Foundation and its leaders.

These new banners will line Washington Ave. -- Dorchester's main drive -- and help welcome residents and visitors to our community.  Many of the citizens we have spoken with say this is the Foundation's best project yet and will be a key first step in improving the village's business district.  

Currently, Foundation members are pondering the message and image that will be on the banners.

Established a decade ago, the Dorchester Community Foundation Fund is guided by one central mission:  To raise funds for worthy projects that will enhance Dorchester and our quality of life. To become a member of the Dorchester Community Foundation, annual dues are $20 a person -- or a lifetime membership is $250.  

Contributions to the Foundation are deductible for income and estate tax purposes.  You may consider giving cash, outright gifts (including bushels of grain), memorial gifts, deferred gifts (trusts-life insurance policies etc.), gift annuity or real estate.
Join the Dorchester Community Foundation today -- and contribute to its projects! Make your checks payable to:
Dorchester Community Foundation Fund
c/o Mr. Dale Hayek
652 County Road 1200
Dorchester, NE  68343
A non-profit affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation, the Dorchester Community Foundation has been instrumental in various projects.  These include the city park's new playground equipment and shelter; annual scholarships; the Charlie Havlat Memorial at the Saline County Museum; and the steak and hamburger feeds. The Foundation's most recent project is the construction of new welcome signs along Highway 33 and Highways 6 and 15.

6 comments:

  1. Thank you foundation members - you guys and ladies do a fantastic job.

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  2. The Dorchester Foundation do a wonderful job and the city is looking good from what they have done. Makes me wonder why the City Council doesn't get on the stick and pave the streets? If I was a visitor and pulled into town I would be sorely disappointed by the streets and how some of the lots are kept.

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  3. Very cool. It would be pretty awesome if those street lamps in the picture lined our mainstreet, too. Oh, by the way, I have an idea for the village employees when it comes times for decorating main street at christmas time. http://www.sivallighting.com/ProductImages/LSM4-300.jpg

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  4. Like any town, Dorchester has its leaders and laggers. Our foundation group is certainly the town's leaders. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. I believe the word you're looking for is "laggards"...

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  5. To the blogger at 12:32. I believe there are 3 spots available on the council this election year. Why don't you run. Maybe then the streets will get paved.

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