Dorchester Times: DHS Alumni Basketball Tourney Set For March 20-22

Thursday, February 5, 2009

DHS Alumni Basketball Tourney Set For March 20-22

As announced in the Dorchester Public School's newsletter, the annual DHS Alumni Basketball Tournament will be held this year on March 20, 21 and 22.

DHS Activities Director Scott Pohl is requesting that team captains submit team information by March 6.

Information that should be submitted includes: player's name; shirt number; shirt size; and year of graduation. Cost is $25 per player.

As in past years, there will be a D-Club sponsored concession stand available serving snacks and drinks, we are told. For more information, call AD Pohl at (402) 946-2781.

9 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Even if you arent wearing a jersey and playing on a team, its still great to attend and catch up with DHS Alum! I encourage all former Horns to attent
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AnonymousFebruary 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM
I've always wondered why there hasn't been a school or community group sponsored meal during the tournament. It seems that this would be a good fundraising event and provide yet another chance for people to get together.
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AnonymousFebruary 6, 2009 at 1:51 PM
I agree. Theres so much opportunity to make lots more money for the students and the school.
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AnonymousFebruary 6, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Or funds for the church, foundation, association, baseball, etc.

(Maybe it could go to paving:)
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AnonymousFebruary 6, 2009 at 11:15 PM
whats one meal going to pave?

get a clue
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AnonymousFebruary 7, 2009 at 11:52 PM
In my opinion, maybe there hasn't been concessions or a meal because it might be taking away from the bar or even the grocery store after the different games.
When the games are over, most of the teams goes down to the bar and meets for drinks and hopefully food, too. If they don't want to eat bar food, maybe they could go to the grocery store for a sandwich, bag of chips, and a pop. I am all for making money for different organizations, but shouldn't we support our locals downtown also?
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AnonymousFebruary 8, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Wow anonymous FEB 6, I guess that I will have to illustrate the use of sarcasm for your sake.

SARCASM ON: Maybe it could go to paving:). SARCASM OFF

(The point is that the money can be used for any type of fundraiser. And since everyone is clamoring about paving but is against paying for it, I made that suggestion in jest.)

And to anonymous FEB 7: Unlike some folks in D-town I refuse to take my kids into a smoke-filled bar for their meal. I also don't want to simply sit in my car and try to eat a meal with my family while in town for the tournament. I'm just looking for different options, ones that will keep me from driving elsewhere.
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AnonymousFebruary 8, 2009 at 7:10 PM
The grocery store should advertize sub-sandwich specials at the tournament.

I would stop in each day.
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AnonymousFebruary 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM
The latest plans that I'm aware of are a soup supper at the Community Building on Saturday March 21, with funds going to the Pfc. Charles Havlat Memorial. Cheryl's reportedly will not have the kitchen open that night, but will be having music.

As for Friday night - don't know of anything other than Basketball.
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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."