Registrations are now open for kids of all abilities to participate in the 2016/17 Deniliquin Little Athletics season.

Those who are interested in registering their child/children can do so online at the following link
https://memberdesq.imgstg.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Registration_0&OrgID=914 and those who have previously registered athletes will need to login to the page first.

The first registration day to pick up patches and other materials is on Saturday 30th July from 10am to 11:30am at Rotary Park (Deniliquin Soccer Grounds).

There are also registration sessions during the association’s open/trialist nights and they are at 4pm – 5:30pm on Friday 5th August and Friday 12th August down at Rams Oval.

Uniforms will also be available to purchase at these times, $35 for a singlet (boys and girls) or crop top (girls only).

Fees for the 2016/17 season are $70 for the first athlete in a family and $65 for every subsequent athlete.

Further information can be obtained by contacting registrar Belinda Baker
on 0430 103 376 or send a PM to the Deniliquin Little Athletics page.

Brown Park in 2015 was an alright place, you got to see Ducks and Pelicans, See some Cola cans scattered around and wonder about what was on that small island.

Below are some pictures of what it looked like early last year around the time of the Deni Show.

Then there was a vision to transform it and it seemed a tough ask they had to demolish a lot of trees, change the island, drain the water, remove what was on the floor (cans, bottles, Yabbie nets etc.) and then make a new depth and then fill it back up and make it really nice.

Thanks once again to the efforts of Daniel Clark, we can show you what it looks like today and it’s a big difference.

It looks absolutely spectacular now and there is no doubt that locals and visitors enjoy the sights that are presented and with trees yet to grow to their full height, there is no doubt things will look even better in the future.

There are reports once again that rubbish is appearing in large amounts against the fences of Deniliquin Plaza and the yards and nature strips of residents along Henry Street and other streets close by.

As reported in 2014 and 2015, some shoppers are leaving places like Deniliquin Plaza with their purchases, consume the purchases moments down the road and throwing the rubbish wherever they are standing at the time the product is consumed.

As you will see in the pictures taken today by Dan Clark, rubbish lines both sides of the fence that is near The Reject Shop and it continues on to the next property and makes it’s way around the corner and continues on past the rail track.

According to Google Earth, the distance between the Bins in the Plaza and the fence is about 50 metres which isn’t a whole lot of time, one idea is to put a bin on the corner of Henry and Napier Street which is 150m from the fence opening as an encouragement for people to hold on to their rubbish until the get to that point.

This then leaves the question of what to do about Henry Street where rubbish is found dumped along, one suggestion is to place a bin every 100 or so metres to try and limit the amount dumped or encourage somebody to pick a piece up and bin it.

A petition made in 2015 has been relaunched this year with hopes it gathers enough signatures to force the ERC to take action and ensure a cleaner town, signatures can be added at this website.

Rubbish dumping is a problem that affects every town and city in the world but we cannot allow this to keep happening, do we really want to live in a world where a walk down the streets is a trek through bottles and chip packets?