Dorchester Times: Dorchester's Stich Is Co-Owner Of Waverly Vet Clinic

Friday, August 10, 2007

Dorchester's Stich Is Co-Owner Of Waverly Vet Clinic

Dorchester-area native and DHS graduate Kelly Stich has returned to Nebraska and started Hillcrest Animal Clinic in Waverly, according to the Waverly News. The clinic is a horse and small animal veterinary facility owned by Stich and her husband Pat McInteer of Falls City.

According to the Waverly News, Stich and McInteer were married two years ago and started their own private practice in Albany, N.Y. The couple moved back to Nebraska last September to be closer to their families. The facility has been up and running since the beginning of May. The couple makes house calls for horse care when necessary, but encourages use of the facility.

McInteer and Stich both received their Bachelors degree from UNL and their Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Kansas State University. After vet school, Stich worked at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and in a Texas practice. Stich is board certified in veterinary reproduction with a focus on equine reproduction. She is also a veterinary chiropractor offering adjustments for horses and dogs. Her parents, from Dorchester, work on a farm and her father teaches agriculture at the Southeast Community College in Beatrice. The couple has a nine-month-old son, Chase.

Hillcrest Animal Clinic's office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information about the clinic or to make an appointment, contact the office at 402-785-1025 or visit their website www.hillcrestanimalclinic.com.

4 comments:

AnonymousAugust 10, 2007 at 3:43 PM
way to go Kelly..... very nice to see this........ we need more young people who follow their dreams and turn into job-makers, not just job-takers....... our small towns depend on that kind of attitude.
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AnonymousAugust 11, 2007 at 4:41 PM
This one goes out to those who whine about the prospects of paving the streets or investing in our community...Kelly Stich could have been a vet in the Dorchester area. Craig Slepicka could have been an optometrist in the Dorchester area. Shane Carr could have been a doctor in the Dorchester area. In the past 20 years, we've had DHS grads who went on to become bankers, doctors, computer specialists, engineers, architects, advertising agents, cops, chefs, etc., etc...

We paid a lot of tax dollars to educate them. They may have considered returning to Dorchester and raising their family here. They could have easily commuted to a nearby town. But, more than likely, they did not because they wanted to find a better quality of life in towns that had new development, thriving business, good schools, and so on. So who lost out? Dorchester did. We lost their smarts; their earning power; their connection to our community.

It's time we start telling and showing our kids we want them to stay. That means expending blood, sweat, tears -- and some dollars -- in improvements across town. We are competing against towns like Friend, Wilber, Milford, and Seward. Geographically, we have an ideal position to Lincoln and other large employment centers. I commend whoever is putting in the development in the northeast part of town. That's what we need in good ol' Dorchester.

To turn things around, it will take a community effort, not just a handful of active citizens. If you're already involved, get your neighbors and your friends in town off their butts. Revive the community spirit in those you associate with.

To borrow a line from the movie Shawshank Rededemption, either get busy living or get busy dying. Just as that philosphy applies to people, it applies to communities. Thanks for letting me rant.
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AnonymousAugust 12, 2007 at 12:03 PM
speaking of horses, if anyone needs a good gooseneck stock trailer, call 402-826-7269 ---- asking $1200 but will negotiate.
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AnonymousAugust 12, 2007 at 5:24 PM
Congrats Kelly!!! Great to have you back in NE.
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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."