Dorchester Times: March 7 Chili Feed Will Support Next Generation Of Longhorns

Thursday, February 11, 2010

March 7 Chili Feed Will Support Next Generation Of Longhorns

Want to support the next generation of Longhorn athletes? Here is your opportunity.

A chili feed will be held on March 7, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Crete Eagles Club to help support the Little Longhorns Basketball League. According to organizers who contacted the Times, the league is aimed at helping Dorchester's elementary students -- grades 3 through 6 -- with the fundamentals of the game of basketball and prepares them ready to play at the junior high and high school levels.

Funds raised by this special event will help pay for upcoming tourneys, camps and uniforms.

Support Dorchester's future athletes. Plan to attend the chili feed on March 7!

10 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 8:28 AM
GREAT idea! We need to develop these kids in to some prime time players! Its been a little questionable as of late, having football players filling a basketball team. We need some basketball players playing the greatest game on earth baby! It starts at this young age when the whipper-snappers need to start their fundamentals! Its been some time since DHS has had that. Besides, Chilli is Awesome with a capital A!

Dickie V.
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AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 8:46 AM
Can we put some of those players from the 1980s in diapers again?
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Fulton St. GalFebruary 11, 2010 at 9:46 AM
To the organizers of this event, how about setting out a jar for free-will donations at the upcoming alumni basketball/volleyball tourneys? I'll bet the donations would make it worth your while.
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AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM
Great idea about the free-will donation jar.
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AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM
Why isn't this being held in Dorchester?
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AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 4:47 PM
To anonymous above --- If I recall correctly from last year, Eagles Club hosts the event for free and may even make their own contribution. Can't turn that down regardless of location.
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AnonymousFebruary 12, 2010 at 8:12 AM
That is so awesome and thoughtful for the Eagles Club to do this. Eagles Club is also another place "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
I love it!
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AnonymousFebruary 12, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Maybe someone or some business in Dorchester will offer to host the chili feed next year and it would be a major PLUS if they gave matching donations like the Eagle's Club did!
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H.D.February 12, 2010 at 3:44 PM
I'll put $50 in a free will jar if they put it out.

I can't make the March 7 event. Sorry.
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AnonymousFebruary 20, 2010 at 4:43 PM
If I've heard correctly, part of the charter of the Eagles organization is to promote youth activities and to help fund them, As a service organization they do a lot for many youth programs in the area, as well as other worthwhile causes in the area. The free will offering jars at the alumni event would be a great 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."