January 17 2018

Just over halfway through the first month of 2018 and the while we’ve had some really hot days, there is currently little difference between the monthly average and how current average stands.

The long term January average has been 33.1 degrees, the current average is 33.4 degrees though this is expected to rise thanks to the next couple of days falling between 39 and 43 degrees.

On the rainfall front, the local area is currently 3mm down on rain from this time last year, we’ve had 6.4mm of rain so far this month whilst this time last year we had 9.4mm which is still a pretty poor total when we need more to keep water supplies up and pastures and crops healthy.

Deniliquin’s long term rainfall average for January is 23.8mm of rain so we got a fair bit to go before catching up and little or no rain is expected at least until the 23rd.

We’ll keep readers informed on the totals as it comes to hand.

January 13 2018

Readers may recall some time ago that we made a quiz game and it done reasonably alright.

We are pleased to tell readers that The Deniliquin Quiz II game has been launched for testing.

This free game is a replacement of the original game that was sadly lost due to hard drive failures that killed both the primary and backup hard drives.

Players can download the game .exe file from here and install it onto their computers, there are 22 questions and each question can be answered by pressing 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Questions are varied with questions of Hotels, Railways, Football, KFC and more.

The game also comes with an uninstall option as well for those who wish to delete it after a play.

The game will be improved over time as there are a few things needed to be straightened out such as finding a suitable opening picture but hopefully the game as it stands will give some people at least five minutes of enjoyment.

Let us know how you go in the game.

January 12 2018

If you’ve never seen footage of a plane coming in to land at the airport from the perspective of a plane, now is your chance.

A YouTube video was uploaded at the start of the year and it has a plane coming in to land on the runway pointing to the north, the action starts at 690ft in the air at a speed of 109km/h and ends as it is coming to a stop at 16km/h and 334ft and the video moves to Riddells Creek.

It should be noted that Deniliquin is at an elevation of 305.18ft and the music you hear is from Pink Floyd and their song ‘Learning To Fly’.

Hopefully in the future we’ll see more film of Deniliquin from the air.

January 7 2018

Cinema Pop Up ends tonight with a screening of ‘Step Brothers’, Cinema Pop Up has been occupying Edward River Oval for the last four nights and showing one movie per night.

The prices of food and drink have surprised or angered many, unfortunately the high prices is pretty much universal in cinemas around the country as everyone searches for a profit to keep afloat.

Some may of felt that the open air setup would of allowed a relaxation of rules concerning food and drink but like a traditional cinema, food and drink from outside is either not allowed or frowned upon although drive in cinemas can’t really enforce rules unless they do car checks which is a time consuming process.

Yesterday’s 43 degree heat led to calls for people to be allowed to bring in drinks to combat the heat, perhaps they will think about a heat rule or lower prices if temperatures reach a certain point in the future.

Overall Cinema Pop Up has been a success with those who have attended the screenings, hopefully this will lead to a desire for more screenings in the future and hopefully one day The Regent Theatre Mark III.

December 31 2017

The year is winding down and at this time last year many were wishing 2017 would hurry up because so much bad happened around the world in 2016.

2017 has treated us well as we have written 248 pieces across the year, we had just over 13,500 website visits and over 9,600 visitors.

Let’s take a look at what stories grabbed your attention month by month.

January started off with a call for raffle prizes and that locals also noticed that the weather was going up and down as hot days were followed up by cold ones and quickly replaced by hot days again.

News of a fundraiser got the interest of locals in February, the fundraiser shown that when it comes to helping locals out Deniliquin does really care.

The return of Deniliquin History in Photos topped the readers charts for March, the return of the popular Facebook page saw the news of its return reach #8 on our most read about list for 2017.

A new design of shopping trolleys and the moving of a popular Deniliquin sports team topped the charts in April, these news items did not have the same impact as the report on the merging of Deniliquin’s schools in April 2016.

The question of what does Deniliquin want and research into a postcard from 1916 topped the charts in May, readers helped make sense of the message on the postcard that was never sent to a Connie at Carrigan Villa.

The hunt for the Lyceum Theatre/Lyceum Hall topped the charts in June as locals discovered that the building was dismantled, shortened and rebuilt as an engineering building in Deniliquin North.

Drone footage of the Court House and Waring Gardens was the story of choice in July as the YouTube videos gave a spectacular view of the two areas and was sharp enough to read the rude messages on the bridge.

Also interesting readers was the story on Walking Stick Mick and the search for the site of the Methodist Church, readers discovered a cinema almost ended up on Cressy Street in the late 1930’s.

Images of Deniliquin in the 1960’s dominated the August charts and so did a report on Deniliquin’s many hotels both past and present ones which made a long list and lots of time spent reading up on them, research that continues to this day.

September saw the ERC election take place and so it dominated readers attention, Norm Brennan waltzed into the Mayor’s office after dominating the polls, the voters of the ERC went with a mostly former Conargo Shire lineup with five ex Conargo Shire Councillors, two ex Deniliquin Council members and two from neither council being elected.

October saw readers take a trip back in time thanks to Google Earth leaving most of Deniliquin’s streets stuck in 2008, Google Earth currently has images of Deniliquin’s streets in either 2008, 2010 or 2017 shape.

November had readers learning how to use the ‘Return and Earn’ machine which turned out to be a success in December and a petition to keep the Peacocks at Waring Gardens was launched after the ERC started eyeing the removal of them due to expense of updating their facility.

Finally we come to December and this month saw readers take an interest in the book ‘From The Banks Of The Edward River’, the fireworks at Waring Gardens also got the attention of readers and fine photos were taken by Daniel Clark.

December also saw the demolition of the old Police station and the closing down of Burchfields.

Below is the Top 10 most read stories on DNS for the year 2017.

1. Exploring Deniliquin in 2008
2. Shopping revolution coming to Deni
3. Images of Deniliquin
4. Deniliquin from the Air
5. ERC Election Wrap
6. Deniliquin’s Hotel History
7. ‘Return and Earn’ – December 1 2017
8. It’s Back!!!!!!!!!
9. Hunting down the Lyceum Theatre
10. Election Complication

That was the story of 2017 in terms of what readers of Deniliquin News Service read the most about.

Thank you for reading, we will see you in 2018.