Dorchester Times: Vets Day Ceremony At DPS This Monday, Nov. 12

Friday, November 9, 2012

Vets Day Ceremony At DPS This Monday, Nov. 12

Come honor our area soldiers, saliors, Marines and airmen -- past and present -- this Nov. 12.

Veterans Day is Sunday, but on Monday, Nov. 12, the bank and post office will be closed due to the official government observance of the holiday.

Area residents are invited to salute America's veterans at a ceremony at the Dorchester Public School. There, attendees will hear a presentation from the Dorchester American Legion Post No. 264 and see a slide presentation by Iraqi/Afghanistan veteran Rio Beranek.

The event begins at 10 a.m. on Monday.

At the very least, make sure you personally thank the veterans you know on this special day. Pay him (or her) a visit, give him a call, or send a card or email. Really celebrate the true meaning of this holiday.

6 comments:

diane velderNovember 9, 2012 at 9:21 PM
You go Rio, soooo very proud of you. Wish I could be there.
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AnonymousNovember 10, 2012 at 11:16 AM
You might want to make a change to your story so that parents are not confused about school. Your story says that there is no school but the Dorchester school calendar has nothing about not having school.
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AnonymousNovember 10, 2012 at 9:36 PM
The story doesn't say anything about there being no school... It says that the Ceremony is at the school (the students all attend)
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AnonymousNovember 10, 2012 at 10:27 PM
There is school Monday November 12th
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AnonymousNovember 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Joyce said.....#1 anonymous seems to want to find fault with the Dorchester Times. Thank you Times for publishing what is going on in our Village.

THANKS to Rio for presenting an up close view of what is going on in other countries. You did a great job and your service to our country is appreciated.

Thanks to all the Veterans who have served the United States of America. I complain about the state our country is in but am allowed that privilege thanks to the Veterans who have fought to keep this country free.
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AnonymousNovember 13, 2012 at 6:20 PM
I am anonymous #1 and I wasn't trying to find fault. I was trying to save other parents of Dorchester Students the same panic that I had when I first read the story that said goverment offices and schools were to be closed on Monday. As a parent of young children who I would have to find daycare for I was in a panic. Frantically trying to find out if there was or was not school that day. For the record I check this blog on a regular basis because they do publish nice stories and community information.
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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."