Dorchester Times: Reminder: Jan. 22 Soup Supper and Raffle To Benefit Fisher Family

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Reminder: Jan. 22 Soup Supper and Raffle To Benefit Fisher Family

Plan now to attend this Friday's (Jan. 22) soup supper fundraiser at Dorchester Public Schools, as school leaders seek to help raise money for the Fischer family during the upcoming DHS-McCool Junction boys and girls basketball game.

The soup supper and a coinciding raffle are a joint effort of both Dorchester and McCool Junction schools. Money raised from the event will go towards medical expenses accrued by 13-year-old Gabe Fisher's battle with cancer.

The event will start at 5 p.m. and continue as long as hungry patrons are waiting.

Gabe's mother, Diane, is a faculty member at DPS. See a recent York News-Times story on Gabe -- who was diagnosed this fall with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma -- by clicking here. Everyone from the area community is encouraged to attend Friday's event at Dorchester Public Schools.

7 comments:

AnonymousDecember 21, 2009 at 8:23 AM
If we cannot make it to mccool, where can we donate money to the family. Could someone find that out.
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AnonymousDecember 21, 2009 at 8:23 AM
If we cannot make it to mccool, where can we donate money to the family. Could someone find that out.
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cjDecember 21, 2009 at 9:09 AM
The mccool game is at dorchester.
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JoyceDecember 21, 2009 at 7:18 PM
The Jan. 22 Basketball game is at Dorchester but if you are unable to attend you can send or drop off your donation at the Dorchester School office. Thrivent is going to match the dollars raised up to 20 00.00. Diane just found out today that Gabe will have to have extended chemo treaments. We hope you can attend but if not, donations will be appreciated. Thanks!
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AnonymousJanuary 19, 2010 at 8:40 PM
Great cause ... let's get a huge turn out folks.
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JoyceJanuary 23, 2010 at 9:20 AM
There have been many time I've been proud of our Dorchester Community and School but the "Fisher Night" ON Friday ranks right at the top. Words can't even begin to discribe the pride I felt to see Dorchester and McCool come together to work/contribute to ensure a very special evening for a very special family. I can't begin to list all the people who contributed to the efforts but it was HUGE. The community of Crete also helped us tremendously. THANKS TO ALL who helped us make this event a success. We'll be giving more details on the outcome next week. THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE!!!!
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AnonymousJanuary 24, 2010 at 1:28 PM
Great win by both Longhorn teams on Friday night! Wow, what a thriller the boys game was, even though they had much more talent, McCool scraped back into the game and nearly one.

They only disappointing thing was to see a McCool fan throw objects at the refs. C'mon, is that necessary. I would have confronted that good ol' boy personally had I been wearing the zebra stripes. Guess thats why I don't want to be a ref.
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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."