January 26 2018

Today is Australia Day and readers are taking in events like BBQ’s, Ceremonies, Protests, Drinking, Eating and doing nothing.

But there is no doubt that many readers will be listening to music at some stage of today, below is some music videos that you may enjoy.

So here are some tracks out of the millions made by Australians, it would of been bad to not include ‘Eagle Rock’ and ‘Friday On My Mind’ usually voted #1 and #2 (or in reverse) when it comes to the greatest tracks in Australian music.

Then you got the likes of John Farnham, Skyhooks, Icehouse then Goanna and Yothu Yindi and Silverchair and Taxiride plus add in some Pseudo Echo, 1927 and the Wiggles.

Of course we had to have Johnny O’Keefe at his best, live in the early 60’s singing ‘Shout’ with the energy that brought rock music to Australia in the 1950’s.

Most of the songs below made it onto ‘Australia’s Ultimate Songs’ that was aired by Channel Seven on January 1 2000, a great night that was where they oddly played the Top 10 first then went from to 100 to 11 probably so people didn’t have to wait until 6am to find out the outcome.

Enjoy your day readers.

January 25 2018

Deniliquin was hit by a storm late this afternoon resulting damage to the roof of the Globe Hotel, A drone was reported downed by the winds, Trees have fallen, at least one trampoline was sent tumbling over and there is also fence damage to several properties.

The storm was spotted between Swan Hill and Deniliquin early that afternoon and it slowly made its way across Southern NSW before it was appearing to be turning away from town before it spread north and hit the town.

At 6:30pm it was 35.7 degrees and by 6:40pm it was 27.4 degrees as winds jumped from 11km/h to 61km/h during nine minutes of that time span with the wind gusts peaking at 80km/h at least at the airport.

The Globe Hotel took the most damage with part of its roof landing in the middle of the street in front of it, the veranda also taken heavy damage with sections of it now drooping close to the footpath.

Pictures and details have been posted in various groups reporting of damage including at least one tree, a trampoline, a section of fence and more.

The above picture was taken by Daniel Clark shows a tree that has been uprooted by the storm.

0.8mm of rain fell at a time when the BoM reported an hour earlier that the chances of rain for the rest of the day was 20% and winds were expected to be 20km/h.

January 24 2018

The Coach House is back on the internet after some time offline.

Visitors to denicoachhouse.com.au will see a nice picture of the Hotel/Motel followed by a video, some nice images of the Waring Gardens and surrounding areas, a list of available services and at the bottom the all important contact information.

Clicking on ‘Rooms and Rates’ will give you all the facts such as when you can check in from and when to check out by, list of facilities, general details and room service and dining options.

Hover the mouse over ‘Rooms and Rates’ to get options such as ‘Rooms’ and ‘Policies’ and going to ‘Menu’ shows you what is on offer during the month with one example being Salmon Mango Salad for $28.

Overall the website looks really good, it is nice and clear and users should have no trouble finding out what they need to find out.

January 24 2018

There is plenty of events happening on Australia Day in town and the surrounding areas.

A Community BBQ Breakfast will be run by the Rotary Club of Deniliquin and after the Breakfast comes the Citizenship Ceremony, an address by the ERC’s Australia Day Ambassador Robbie Mackinlay and the morning finishes up with the presentation of the 2018 Australia Day Awards.

The Edward River Hotel has the North Westers playing for patrons from 3pm, Happy Hour is between 5pm and 6pm, a Raffle at 6:30pm and there is a BBQ and a Best Dressed competition.

The RSL Club has a busy Friday lined up as they have a Rock n Roll Weekend which starts on the 26th and in the Main Lounge from 7:30pm is “Who Was That Cat”.

They also have Bingo from 11:30am with half a book $2.50 and a full one for $5,

In the Gallery Room they will have a Seafood Buffet from 6pm to 9pm and costs $45 for adults, $22.50 for kids aged between 8 and 14, $12 for kids who are between 3 and 7 and kids who are under 3 are free.

It is advised that you book at reception for the Seafood Buffet.

Their Raffle tickets start selling from 5:30pm and prizes are drawn at 7pm with lots of prizes to be won.

For kids there is ‘Build Your Own Sundae’ between 2pm-3pm down in the Little Diggers Area.

If you want to travel down to the border, there is ‘Revving the River’ down in Echuca that goes from the 26th until the 28th of January.

The North takes on the South in a 20/20 Cricket match at Blighty, the action starts from 10am.

January 19 2018

A petition has been created urging Edward River Council to speed up their plans to keep the Deniliquin Cemetery looking in pristine condition.

As recorded over the last couple of months, volunteers had taken it upon themselves to clear the cemetery of weeds that surrounded graves leaving the cemetery in an appalling state as you can see in these linked photos.

Community Service has been reinstated after its controversial cancelling earlier but urgent action to combat the weeds is required now so that when Community Service does get to work they can handle tasks such as grave restoration instead of losing precious hours tackling weeds.

So far over 100 people have signed the petition and it is hoped that hundreds more will do so in the near future.

https://www.change.org/p/edward-river-council-deniliquin-cemetery-needs-to-be-cleaned-up-edward-river-council-please-help

We will continue to record how the situation unfolds as it comes to hand.