Dorchester Times: Children's Wellness Day This Wednesday

Monday, October 27, 2008

Children's Wellness Day This Wednesday

Wednesday is Wellness Day at Dorchester Public Schools.

A "developmental wellness check-up" will be offered for all area children age 5 and under this Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The check-ups will be conducted at the school, according to Cheryl Perkins, speech and language teacher at DPS.

This wellness check-up is free and completely voluntary. It will also be conducted in a confidential manner. However, it is available by appointment only.

Please call Dorchester School at (402) 946-2781 to schedule an appointment for your child. When it comes to children's health, early intervention counts.

6 comments:

AnonymousOctober 27, 2008 at 10:54 PM
When do I get free check ups for my cattle .................... early intirvention is important for them too..................
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AnonymousOctober 28, 2008 at 1:08 AM
your cattle will have check up on halloween.Cynical Richard at the same time we will check your brain and your behind.
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AnonymousOctober 28, 2008 at 8:38 AM
What ever happened to the TYKE
program? I miss those ladies.
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AnonymousOctober 28, 2008 at 7:33 PM
TYKE went out the door when Alan Ehleres came in.

Remember the day care which was run by his wife.
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AnonymousOctober 30, 2008 at 9:57 AM
TYKE did not go out the door, it is just located at a different school. Depending on the severity of a child's disability, a child may still attend TYKE. To cynical richard: It is a federal mandate that children with disabilities be served from birth to age 21. In order to identify children we need to have a time for screening. If you would like your cattle to be checked for free, go before the legislature or federal court system, present your case and see if they can get a bill passed so your cattle can get checked for free. We are just following the laws! It seems to me a child is a little more important than cattle. Early INTERVENTION may have helped you be a better speller.
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AnonymousOctober 30, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Is it true or untrue that Dorchester Public Schools was making money on the type program?

Dorchester was being paid rent for the building and the workers in the program were spending money in our town.

Lets face the facts, there was a lot of opposition from the administration on keeping this program in Dorchester
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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."