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Any Dorchester citizens or natives run the marathon or half marathon in Lincoln on Sunday?
ReplyDeleteHello Dorchester!! In April I challenged all of you to join Box Top for Education and am sadly DISAPPOINTED that no one has risen to the challenge. Come on people, when you wnat to complain about how this town is run or the condtioned of the roads evryone jumps in, but to support our kids. NO one wants to help. Even if you don't have kids in school, it's still a great program to join and help support our school. PLEASE JOIN NOW!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe will be painting the new snack shack, and the old one, we need to give them both 1 more coat. If anyone is interested on helping give me a call. 946-2491. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Will get back to everyone as soon as I find out how many would be willing to help. Also the new fence needs one more coat.
ReplyDeleteDiane Velder
I don't have any Box tops, but I do have Campbell soup labels I've been saving, do those help you?
ReplyDeleteanyone know when the kids start playing softball and baseball this year?
ReplyDeleteJust wondering if there was an update from the latest board meeting held Monday night?
ReplyDeletemy guess is that the people who were complaining two months ago have forgot about the condition of the streets and got other things to worry about.
Just like it always goes.
This may be of interest due to the proposed wind farm here in Saline County.
ReplyDelete"Google Invests in North Dakota Wind Farms"
BISMARCK, N.D. -- Google Inc. has bought a $38.8 million stake in two North Dakota wind farms - an investment that a state regulator believes will spur more interest in the state's growing wind energy industry.
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God bless and look over the Filipi family in this time of sorrow. Arnold was a great man and wonderful town steward. He'll be missed tremendously.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Anonymous who asked about the last Village board meeting -- There is a difference between complainers & people who genuinely care about their community. Those who stepped forward in support of paving Dorchester aren't your "coffee group complainers", they are the ones who you'll find volunteering both their time & money when the community or a member has a need & they are the ones who are active in their churches. Those people feel & have felt for a long time that paving would be a real asset to the community, but past boards have discouraged or flat out refused to see its benefits in the towns betterment & growth. Some of the current board have shown the desire to at least listen & are taking steps to keep the possibility of paving the streets alive.
ReplyDeleteDon't make fun of those who are supporting pavement, they are the reason the town looks as good as it does (boulevards, the city park, the ball park/field). Try to imagine what this town would look like if these people didn't exist or they started to not care like so many others who reside here.
Can't wait until the Class of 1990 gets together again this month at the alumni banquet. Does anyone know if there will be any after hours gatherings held in town???
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ReplyDeletego back and look at the minutes of the board meetings and see how much time was spent on paving....
the people didnt want it then, and obviously they dont want it now
see you at coffee
to anon may 10
ReplyDeleteSome people in this town only do what they need to do to impress the public.
They will do the jobs that give them plenty of press and glory, but not the dirty work.
when descisions are tough, these are the people who go hide. Its has happened alot.
This is for the Wolfe family. The information appeared in the May 5edition of the Wilber Republican.
ReplyDelete"1930-The wedding of Miss Libbie Wanek to Joseph Stirba of Swanton occurred in Lincoln on Wednesday, April 16. The young people will make their home on a farm in the Swanton area."
To Anonymous May 12th
ReplyDeleteIf a person is trying to improve the town how is that running from dirty work? If those are the people that are helping with the community projects and are spending their extra time in those efforts how is that not participating in the dirty work? It seems to me that you have it all wrong. "when it comes to tough decisions they go run and hide"??? If they are trying to improve this town how are they running and hiding when everything is public and there is obvious opposition for their beliefs and it is all in the public eye?
Wow, 5/12 anonymous, that is possibly the most immature comment I have read in a long time.....the "dirty work" is exactly what the 5/10 anonymous was talking about. The park, the boulevard, the ball field. Do you think that stuff was easy to accomplish? I was not directly involved with any of these projects but I know some of those who were, and instead of running them down you should be thanking them for caring enough about Dorchester to do the things they do. And what they do is "DIRTY WORK" and I don't see any of them "hiding" when things get tough, if anything, they step up even more. So take your petty, immature comments elsewhere, because attitudes like yours are what keep Dorchester in a rut, and actually it's keeping Dorchester in a literal rut, one of which I nearly lost my car tire in just yesterday.
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ReplyDeleteI already have that posted to my Ancestry.com tree!
But thanks for thinking about us!
JR
yea, yea, yea.....
ReplyDeleteall goes back to paving
is that all there is to worry about in this town.
I have tons of examples...lived here for many, many years.
lets sit down and chat.
Perhaps one of the most famous commencement speeches wasn’t a commencement speech at all, but a column by Mary Schmich, titled “Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young.” “Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. … “Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.”
ReplyDeleteI am concerned with the condition of the park and ball diamond. Two weeks ago my family attended a picnic at the park. The grass was not mowed, and dandilions were not sprayed. The shelter had 12 inches of leaves in it along the south wall. Today, the school field day took place. There was a 10' by 50' pond beside the curve. The grass had not been cut, and the weeds weren't sprayed. We are a week into the baseball/softball season. This should be a priority NOW. If this town is to prosper or even survive, changes had better take place this November. We are dangerously close to losing the next generation to other towns. If you think Dorchester is immune to this outflow of good hard-working families, think again.
ReplyDeleteDEPRESSION IS NOT A SIGN OF WEAKNESS-it is a sign that you have been trying to be strong for too long. It's mental health week and 1 in 3 of us will suffer at some point.
ReplyDeleteObama to aides: 'Plug the damn hole'
ReplyDeleteAs critics question whether the White House is being tough enough with BP, Obama is reportedly showing his frustration behind closed doors. The Washington Post reported:
Since the oil rig exploded, the White House has tried to project a posture that is unflappable and in command.
But to those tasked with keeping the president apprised of the disaster, Obama's clenched jaw is becoming an increasingly familiar sight. During one of those sessions in the Oval Office the first week after the spill, a president who rarely vents his frustration cut his aides short, according to one who was there.
"Plug the damn hole," Obama told them.
What a fool he is!
Why is Obama a fool? Everything I have said for years has come true. Industry and the regulators are TIGHT. You government is not anti-capitalist. It is literally in bed with big business......even agri-business.
ReplyDeleteHello to all our Dorchester friends. The Wilber-Clatonia class of 1980 would like to invite you to our pre-alumni banquet gathering on June 4 (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. at Foxhole Tavern in Wilber. We have many fond memories of our Dorchester friends from Saline Center dances and gatherings at Joe's Place. The June 4th event is open to everyone.
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