Deniliquin during this month of March has shown that it is a generous and compassionate town after it enthusiastically supported many great causes over the month.

Residents had donated generously to those past and present Deniliquin residents participating in the World’s Greatest Shave and also brought lots of well made treats from the Cake Stall on March 19 which boosted the donated total greatly.

Deniliquin continued to be covered in blue in support of the Nurses as restructuring of the local system has been bad news as the nurses have to now do more with less at Deniliquin Hospital which adds to nurses level of stress and fatigue and other factors.

Residents turned up in strong numbers for World Water Day and give a strong voice to what the town believes is wrong with the Murray-Darling Basin Plan especially with the Blue-Green Algae crisis now in it’s second month plus the fact that farms will be cut off by the rising river and channel water levels as the River system gets a flush.

Donations have been coming in steadily for the Burumbuttock Hay Runners, hundreds of earrings were brought as were treats at the Cake Stall and Earring Sale on March 23 plus money has been donated at Bakers Delight and at Deniliquin Rams training sessions as well donated fuel cards at Purtills and in turn Purtills and other businesses have greatly assisted in donation totals as well.

There was also the Good Friday Appeal for the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne where several Deniliquin residents both past and present have or have had received the best of care at many decades of the Hospital being in operation.

All of the above is just some of the events and causes Deniliquin has supported or lent it’s voice during this month and .it is an impressive amount of causes and events to get behind in just 26 days at this time of writing.

Some say the donations is all part of the ‘Aussie Spirit’ but in reality we are just human beings and we are not hesitant to give humanitarian aid to those around us who need it and this month so many people needed it and it was given and it will be given for many years to come.

Be proud of your efforts Deniliquin.

Good Friday is tomorrow and with that we wish all readers a Happy Easter this year and may it be enjoyable no matter the way it is commemorated or celebrated.

The weather for Good Friday is a 45% to 61% chance of rain between 1am and 4am before the day improves with the temperature expected to be a maximum of around 28 degrees.

Saturday will beginning with a low of 11 degrees before becoming a nice and cool 25 degree day with clouds rolling in during the afternoon.

Easter Sunday will open with a low of 9 degrees before improving to 24 degrees with some clouds around lunchtime.

Monday will be the same temperature wise but clouds will be hanging around throughout the day but there is no chance of rain during the day or night.

Once again we wish all readers a Happy Easter and may the rain prediction come true for everyone.

On this World Water Day, DNS reports that the DPI has recently updated it’s report on the Algae situation in the Edward River and it’s branches.

The report is that the Red Alert level is steady for Gulpa Creek as well as the entire Edward and Wakool River system.

This update is no doubt what farmers and residents have not been wanting as it this situation has now dragged on for several weeks, some residents and farmers believe it is the Murray-Darling Basin Plan that is responsible for this problem and it’s annihilation will be what is needed to reverse the situation.

As with previous reports, please keep yourselves, fellow human beings, pets, stray animals and farm animals away from any affected areas.

DNS will continue to report on the situation as it continues on.

Every now and then families have to have a garage sale, sometimes it’s because the family is moving out of town, sometimes down the street and you’ve found stuff you need gone but is too valuable to dump or you just have so much stuff you got to empty the house a little bit.

There are excellent choices for promoting your garage sale, there’s the proven method of signs on power poles and below stop signs and other signage, there’s getting an ad in the paper or Facebook post it so your friends can see it.

There is another choice and that is the page ‘Garage Sales in Deniliquin’, a page where Garage Sales are listed from the local paper and also from contributors on the page.

The page has 148 likes at this stage and DNS hopes that this number will increase as more people have successful Garage Sales and people also pick up items of great value more often.