Dorchester Times: Times' Ten Day Challenge: Support The DHS Booster Club

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Times' Ten Day Challenge: Support The DHS Booster Club

Can you spare $1 a day for the next ten days?

We challenge Dorchester residents, parents, alumni and friends of the community to make a $10 contribution to the DHS Booster Club by month's end. If the Booster Club receives more than $500 by Sept. 1, the Times will contribute an additional $50, above and beyond the contributions of our individual staff members. (UPDATE: 8/25, 10 a.m. -- Former DHS principal and teacher Terry Gautreaux has pledged to match the Times' $50 contribution if the $500 goal is reached.)

The DHS Booster Club is comprised of Dorchester supporters of all DHS sports teams who work to raise money for much-needed supplies, equipment, uniforms, and/or capital items beyond what the school budget can provide. Through such financial support, the Booster Club enriches DHS' extra curricular activities for both students and community members.

Your small donation will remind our Longhorn youth that we support their extra curricular efforts. Your contribution will remind DHS students it is a privilege and an honor to represent one's school and to wear its uniform. Your $10 contribution will remind all Dorchester youth that self-motivation, the desire to excel, good health habits, and interscholastic competition are critical to the overall educational experience.

Regardless of a student's athletic talents, the lessons on leadership and self-improvement learned through school activities last a lifetime. Just as true, a student will always recall the level of support shown by fellow community members during his/her school days.

Before Sept. 1, we hope you will take a moment to send your $10 (or more) contribution to:

DHS Booster Club

506 W 9th St., Box 7

Dorchester, NE 68343

9 comments:

AnonymousAugust 21, 2008 at 7:46 AM
What a great idea----I'll be sending my $10.00. Please, I challenge everyone that has had to use the restrooms out at the FB field, to make their donation. NOW is the time to help!!!!
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AnonymousAugust 21, 2008 at 12:05 PM
I live in arizona,but have family in Dorchester.Will be visiting in september.
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AnonymousAugust 21, 2008 at 4:03 PM
I agree with this story because a strong showing will show the kids we care about their performances as athletes. I can handle ten bucks. (Please don't tell me I must be made of money. To the anonymous writer who always resorts to that remark, I think I know who you are anyway.)
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AnonymousAugust 22, 2008 at 12:01 PM
I can swing 10 dollars. Can I just drop it by at the school office?
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AnonymousAugust 22, 2008 at 9:32 PM
this promotion for donations is a good idea -- but people also need to remember that it takes volunteers to make this organization effectice and successful. This organization has been a big boost to the athletics over the years. Please say yes when someone asks you to help out.
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AnonymousAugust 24, 2008 at 11:44 PM
I would like to thank the Dorchester Times for the kind words regarding the Dorchester Booster Club, as well as its challenge to the Dorchester community. I would also like to thank anyone who has supported the Booster Club in the past or present. Your donation of time and money help benefit the youth of the community.
You may indeed leave your donation at the school office or give it to Lisa Wells, Booster Club secretary/treasurer, or Scott Pohl, Dorchester A.D. You may also make a donation this Friday evening at the football scrimmage. The Booster Club will have a table set up where you can donate and/or become an active member. We would love to have you join our group!
Thank you again to the Times and all Booster Club members for your loyal support of Longhorn activities!
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AnonymousAugust 25, 2008 at 9:24 AM
It would be nice if the community could raise 3 or 4 times that amount. Maybe the scrimmage will allow that to happen.
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AnonymousAugust 26, 2008 at 9:15 AM
How about a fund raiser for the booster club? How about a golf tournament to raise money? I know there is a alot of alumni that would come back for a golf tourney to help raise money for the school.
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AnonymousAugust 26, 2008 at 11:36 AM
I agree with the suggestion above. I also think that alot more money could be made during the alumni b-ball tourney in the spring. Bake sales or lunches/dinners served in the cafeteria could make lots of extra cash. Just an idea...
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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."