Dorchester Times: DACF Steak Feed & Fundraiser This Saturday

Friday, March 5, 2010

DACF Steak Feed & Fundraiser This Saturday

This Saturday evening, March 6, the Dorchester Area Community Foundation (DACF) is again hosting its Steak and Hamburger Feed. The event will be held from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the Dorchester Legion and Community Building. Those attending will be treated to a delicious 12 oz. rib eye steak for $12. The meal will include a dinner salad, baked potato, dessert, and beverage. The Legion bar will be open also. This event was a hit last year, with nearly 200 served. For smaller appetites, a hamburger meal is also available.

With the recent completion of the Charley Havlat Memorial marker, located on the grounds of the Saline County Museum, will use the proceeds from Saturday's steak feed for their next project -- a permanent "welcome" sign place along the highways coming into town. The Dorchester City Park shelter was the first project spearheaded by DACF. Those interested in serving on the DACF Welcome Sign Committee should contact Dale Hayek at (402) 641-4075.

Plan on joining your friends and neighbors from all around the area and help us "welcome" everyone to Dorchester.

8 comments:

AnonymousMarch 3, 2010 at 6:46 PM
how about using some of the money for a good cause.

paved streets.
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AnonymousMarch 4, 2010 at 5:23 PM
I agree with annoymous...

we have spent alot of money on monuments and park shelters when we should have been spending it on real time problems. The streets
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AnonymousMarch 5, 2010 at 8:36 AM
If we don't continue to improve the community you could have paved streets to nowhere . . . so let's support all our community improvements.

I agree paved streets would be nice, but even some road maintenance, cleaning the ditches, pulling the road back up to a crown so the moisture runs to the sides would be a far cry better than what we've got now. The old Lover's Lane, believe it's now 12th street,OMG! A better question to ask at of the employees at City Council next month is "what do you guys do with your time?"
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AnonymousMarch 5, 2010 at 9:51 AM
Paving the streets is not a function of a Foundation. That responsibility lies with the Village Board. If you want to see changes let them know, right now several of them don't even believe residents want paving; plus they aren't holding their employees accountable to keep maintained what's there now; so, start knocking on their doors & calling their phones.
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AnonymousMarch 5, 2010 at 10:22 PM
you people need something else to crab about, the town people are doing all the can, is what happens this time of year. Get real and get over the roads, it has been this way for many years, the roads dry out and life is normal, the roads people are doing all they can, if you dont think they are, I would like to see some of you try to work the roads, then maybe you would know what it is like to maintain them, some of you dont have any idea what you are talking about. Find something else to crab about, life will go on, just get use to it.
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AnonymousMarch 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM
I agree with anonymous on March 5

the city employees have a lot of responsibilites for two people to handle.

They do the electric, sewer, water and other things that go on in the city.

and, i thought that the blog didnt allow comments directed to individuals. With only two people on the maintanance crew it is obvious that everyone knows who is being criticised.

if it is not ok to let everyone take cheap shots, then no one should be able to.
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AnonymousMarch 6, 2010 at 8:32 AM
I guess this is just another reason to get paving. To make it easier on the people maintaing the streets.
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AnonymousApril 6, 2010 at 11:37 AM
come on people if we really want Dorchester to grow clean the town up. What I hear from people is not paved streets but getting rid of junk everywhere. We have nothing to offer young people. Finally some of the East side of main street looks good thanks to Ben's but we could use some work on the north end of the block. Every board members wanting elected is going to do so much then when we trust them to do their job, wrong ansewer clean house and I do mean city building first.
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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."