Dorchester Times: News Update: DVFD Open House & Roast This Saturday

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

News Update: DVFD Open House & Roast This Saturday

DVFD Open House On July 26: All Dorchester area residents and vistitors are invited to the Dorchester Fire & Rescue Dept. open house this Saturday, July 26. The DVFD members will be roasting a hog for the event. The event begins at 5 p.m. at the Dorchester Fire Hall. Take a few minutes from your day and say thanks to our volunteer first responders!

Husker Tire Owners To Merge With Dorchester's Farmers Co-op?: According to the Seward County Independent, Seward's Nebraska Tire closed its doors for good July 17. Terry Samuelson, interim manager for Countryside Cooperative -- parent company for Nebraska Tire -- said the corporate entity is "looking to merge with the Farmers Cooperative in Dorchester, though nothing is final." We at the Times wonder what, if anything, such a merger might mean for Dorchester area residents?

DHS Featured In Rivals.com: In less than 45 days, the Dorchester Longhorns football team will kick off another season. In an article titled "Big Bruha-ha Building at Dorchester," the renowned sports publication Rivals.com recently previewed the 2008 Longhorns. Huskerland Prep reporter Bob Jensen writes: "With all their skill players back, including an outstanding quarterback, the Dorchester Longhorns need only to develop a line to make some noise in its district race. Co-head coaches Ryan Voelker and Brent Zoubek led the team to the playoffs in 2006 and after a 3-5 season in 2007 look for a rebound next fall, saying the team will strive to maximize its potential, knowing that good things will come if that's the case." The Dorchester Times is predicting a 6-2 regular season for the Longhorns this season. The first game is a home contest against Shelby on Sept. 5.

10 comments:

AnonymousJuly 23, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Interesting tidbit about Husker Tire. I remember when Terry Samuelson managed the Wilber Co-op.
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AnonymousJuly 24, 2008 at 9:45 AM
I haven't been able to find this article on Bruha. Not to take anything away from Bruha but maybe they should be talking about Jensen too. Look at what happened to the Dorchester team after Jensen was injured last year. Seeing him this year he looks bigger and stronger than last year. He must have put some time in at the weight room again this year.
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AnonymousJuly 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM
I'll take Zoubek and Voelker over Bo Pelini any day!!!!! DHS had better get an offensive line this year though. We need more guys to go out for football ... what's happened to DHS? When I was in high school we had 40 guys on the team every year. The school enrollment is about the same in my school days. Some of these kids today must be more worried about playing "guitar hero" or watching the crap that's on tv. We need a change in the culture at DHS. That football camp the coaches are holding this week is a good start. Parents, turn your kids into productive members of the community, not couch potatoes. If there's no daddy around, turn them onto something positive like sports!!!
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AnonymousJuly 24, 2008 at 1:51 PM
How about turning your kids on to opera,Shakespeare,art,etc.
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AnonymousJuly 24, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Two comments for you.

1. My thanks to the firefighters. They do a great job. Had it not been for them Dorchester wouldn't have had fireworks this year.

2. I find myself agreeing with CJs comments above. Why arent more kids getting involved in sports? I see lots of kids unsupervised downtown and they would be much better in a team environment that sports or other group activities could provide.
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AnonymousJuly 24, 2008 at 6:29 PM
I have to agree with CJ and Anonymous #2.

The slide from participating in sports has been going for many years. Are the kids more lazy or do the parents care less than in the past? These kids need to join organizations and parents need to encourage their participation. Sure, everyone is busy, but find time for your kids - get involved!

I know kids don't like to be forced to do things but they gain so much! For example, look at McCool Junction. Every student has to be involved in some sort of non-academic activity -- sure it takes coordination and time to offer more types of activities but those kids are thriving and successful. And that district continues to grow!

Dorchester would do good to take a few lessons from McCool. Over the years, McCool has lead the pack in school and community pride. It's not just the parents and grandparents that go to the game...support your hometown team!!!
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AnonymousJuly 24, 2008 at 11:16 PM
I don't notice the problem with female students.

Actually, I think the females at DHS are mostly leaders and more focused.

All it takes is one or two students in each class to change the culture of an entire school. Bring back the days of the Orange and Black attack!
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AnonymousJuly 25, 2008 at 11:53 PM
Congrats to Mr. Bruha...it's nice to see his name added to the distinguished list of quality Dorchester Longhorn quarterbacks.
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AnonymousJuly 26, 2008 at 12:51 AM
Take it from an old timer ----- don't let envy or jealously divide your team. Win as a team, lose as a team. COACHES ------- be sure to smoke those boys in 2-adays! That is the only way to make them see the team aspect. They need to realize that football is like going to war together ------- you only live to see another day if your buddy makes it also.
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AnonymousJuly 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM
The wife and I will be at the fire department open house tonight. It sounds like a good time.

As for the football team, git 'r done Horns!
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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."