Dorchester Times: DHS Tracksters Accumulating Honors

Thursday, May 1, 2014

DHS Tracksters Accumulating Honors

This week's edition of the Friend Sentinel provides excellent coverage of area track and field athletes, including Dorchester’s Jacee Weber who finished second in the long jump and third in the triple jump at last week's Friend Invitational.

In the boys’ competition, DHS' Riley Zahourek placed in three events with a second and two thirds. He was second in the long jump with a jump of 20-7.5, third in the triple jump at 40-3 and third in the 100-meter dash in 11.8 seconds. DHS teammate Corey Bird cleared the bar at 6-0 to finish second in the high jump. Bird was also fifth in the long jump and sixth in the 200-meter dash.

At the April 28 Tom White Invitational in McCool Junction, the Dorchester girls had a good day in the throws, with Bailey Velder and Avery Behrens each winning third place. Velder was third in the shot put with a throw of 33-2, while Behrens was third in the discus with a throw of 91-6.

Jacee Weber finished fourth in the triple jump at 32-2.5 and was part of the fourth-place 4x100-meter relay team with Kacey Zoubek, Velder and Cassidy Olson. Olson also finished fifth in the 100-meter dash and sixth in the 200.

Zahourek of Dorchester was the triple jump champion with a jump of 40-3.25 and was second in the long jump at 20-2.5. Bird won the high jump at 6-1.

Dorchester’s next meet is the Crossroads Conference meet at Osceola this Saturday, May 3. Events are scheduled to start at 9 a.m.

The Longhorns will end the regular season at a meet at McCool Junction Thursday, May 8, with events starting at 9:30 a.m.

3 comments:

AnonymousMay 1, 2014 at 1:48 PM
Congrats you (all) did a great job.!!!!
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AnonymousMay 15, 2014 at 2:10 PM
Let's see some information on the kids at districts or do you plan to forget about them.
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Village DwellerMay 19, 2014 at 9:03 AM
Dear Anonymous:

Have you e-mailed us stories about results? Pictures? Links to stories online?

If you had, they would be up.

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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."