Dorchester Times: DHS Students Selling Handmade Bracelets For Good Cause

Monday, April 22, 2013

DHS Students Selling Handmade Bracelets For Good Cause

Yes, there are ways you can help a good cause and look good while doing it.

The Dorchester Student Council will be selling YUDA bands for a service project beginning today, April 22, and continuing through May 3.

These are handmade bracelets of leather and coconut shell that were shipped from Guatemala. The bracelets cost $7 each and there are many different designs to choose from.

All proceeds support students in Guatemala -- as selected by the DHS Student Council -- to help give them an education. If you are interested in purchasing one, please contact Mrs. Lutjemeyer at the school or by emailing slutjemeyer@gmail.com.

12 comments:

cynical richardApril 23, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Guatamala ..... shhhhhhhh ........................ there are plenty of education deficiencies right here in our own country ............................... maybe we need to be learning basic arithmetic and spelling instead of making bracelets to feel warm and fuzzy ............................... let the third worlders make bracelets ........... teach our kids how to weld and make homes and cars and machines and design software ......... focus on the classroom not social agendas ........................ leave the social agendas to the church ...................
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DavidApril 23, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Tend to agree with Richard. But, not every worthy social agenda comes from the church. Some worthy agendas are opposite of church dogma.
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AnonymousApril 24, 2013 at 8:26 PM
Richard
Have you ever done anything for anyone, besides yourself, in your life? Find a heart somewhere soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AnonymousApril 25, 2013 at 9:34 AM
Why can cynical dick say things like that and get printed, and the rast of us get shut down?
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cynical richardApril 25, 2013 at 3:48 PM
.........cause the "rast" of you can't spell .............................
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AnonymousApril 26, 2013 at 11:52 PM
Cynical, youre the opposite side of a Richard
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Sneaky SnakeApril 30, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Yea Richard, you're a meanie!
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AnonymousJune 3, 2014 at 6:19 PM
So proud of my grand-daughter and the student council from the Freshman Class at Southwest High School in Green Bay Wi. They sold these bracelets also. Sent over $1,000 dollars to help the students in Guatemala. Helping the less fortunate is not a bad thing.
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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."