Businesses are being asked if they are able to donate to an upcoming ‘Fundraiser for the Byrne Family’ raffle.

As many locals know Elisabeth Byrne is currently battling TALL (Readers can follow the story here) which is a form of Leukaemia and it requires the best treatments and care possible.

A raffle is a great way to get people to support a good cause and potentially win great prizes at the same time and so it is hoped that businesses will be interested in contributing to it.

There is also a GoFundMe fundraiser in operation which has raised $6,600 of its $10,000 target.

Anyone who has a business that is interested in donating a prize to the raffle can visit the ‘Fundraiser for the Byrne Family‘ page and inbox them your interest.

The hot days that have been around Deniliquin gave way to rain in the early hours of this morning.

The rain started to fall around 4:30am this morning and at one stage 5.8mm of rain fell in just ten minutes (6:40-6:50am).

Temperatures are currently predicted to stay reasonably cool (around 30) until Sunday where it will once again jump to 35 degrees before jumping up further to 40 degrees on Monday before going back down thanks to rain and other factors.

Morning Temperatures over the last nine days have been a mixed bag with five days starting over 15 degrees and four below that mark.

Maximum temperatures have been the same or hotter than the previous day for five days whilst four days had conditions were cooler than the previous day.

A total of 25mm has fallen this month and there is the potential to get the total over 30mm and keep up with the January rainfall average of 28mm.

DNS will keep readers appraised on the weather as it happens.

It was one week ago today that Sussan Ley stepped aside as Federal Health Minister before stepping down as Minister later in the week.

Politically the local area has had a golden run when it comes to Politics as its State and Federal MPs have been on the front bench of the Baird and Turnbull Governments respectively for several years.

Late last year it started to come crashing down as the Nationals lost the seat of Orange and Adrian Piccoli resigned as deputy leader of the Nationals in response but has remained as Education Minister.

If Adrian Piccoli resigns or is replaced as Education Minister then the local area will not have any Ministers in office for the first time in a long time.

DNS is currently polling locals to see if the Liberals will lose Farrer over what has happened with Sussan Ley and we will conduct a poll to see if the National Party will retain Murray in the next NSW Election sometime in the near future.

Stay tuned.

Pokémon Go Deniliquin

Pokémon Go Deniliquin is steady on 179 members and has no new posts since November 24.

Ditto can be caught in Deniliquin with the example in the picture below caught in the Waring Gardens after originally beginning life as a Pidgey.

For those who want to see memes, stats and other news visit the Pokémon Go page that has over 2.9 million likes.

There have been updates made for Pokemon Go and as with most updates they come with some new bugs which have made gaming a bit quirky.

It will be interesting to see if the Generation 2 Pokemon spotted in the game code will mean an increase in gamers when they are released for playing.

Pokémon Shuffle News

Past and present locals are still making progress on Pokémon Shuffle though it is currently  like walking through mud.

As you know our two regular gamers Boony and Tiggy are racing each other on the mobile version of the game but have stalled in recent weeks with Boony currently holding at Stage 191 and Tiggy has slowly moved up to Stage 209 and we will continue to follow the race as it progresses.

Boony still has a narrow lead on Tiggy when it comes to totals of Pokemon caught with Boony boasting a total of 198 Pokemon to Tiggy’s total of 196.

Pokemon Sun and Moon

Boony tried out Pokemon Sun and Moon and his evaluation of the game is that he wasn’t a fan of the games that opened to great fanfare.

We’ll be back next week with a new edition of The Deni Pokemon Wrap.