August 26 2017

There is a change happening in the local area, people are becoming more vocal, more ideas are proposed and change is slowly happening.

The ERC’s new Councillors will be having plenty to do as there is now two trains of thought established, ‘Open Space Strategy‘ and ‘Public Space Strategy‘.

The above two links will take you to the two sections and below explains the two.

For ‘Open Space Strategy’, there are three questions asked and they are wanting to know the following;

• Are our parks, playgrounds, sporting reserves and open spaces important to you?
• What do you use our parks and open spaces for?
• How can our open spaces better meet the needs of our community?

  People can have their say thanks to a seven section survey that can be visited by clicking on the linked section of this paragraph or you can just submit your idea on the ‘Open Space Strategy’ page.

  For ‘Public Space Strategy’, the Council wants to know the following

• What do you like and value about Deniliquin?
• What could be better?
• What do you want to see in Deniliquin’s future?
• What are your ideas to make Deniliquin’s public spaces more welcoming and inviting?

  Like ‘Open Space Strategy’ there is a survey but it is only three sections instead of seven so it is the quickest way and there is also the idea submitting section on the ‘Public Space Strategy’ page.

  The forums close on October 30 so locals throughout the ERC have plenty of time to think about and answer the questions and help shape the future of the local area.

August 23 2017

Edward School may become very famous in the coming days if a video of their staff turning Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ into a song that fits nicely into book week gets picked up the masses.

The song is called ‘Read All Day’ and as you can imagine the song is pretty self explanatory.

The video has it all, teachers and staff miming, reading, skipping, dancing and acting and its actually nicely done and the song recording ain’t that bad too as it is done with quality.

If this video does go viral it is not a bad thing because reading is important and if it makes people think about reading and think about the purpose of Book Week then it is a win.

So do what the song says, read all day and then do it every day.

August 17 2017

It is that time of year again when those who love the outdoors have to look up and/or keep their ears open as Magpies are starting to swoop on people around the country.

There were 65 recorded attacks across Australia this time last year and this year alone there have been 206 recorded attacks resulting in 39 injuries.

If you are attacked at all by a Magpie, make sure you sign up to and report the attack at magpiealert.com.

The website has a map showing past attacks across Australia as well as incident reports and even tells users what attacks resulted in injuries or non injuries.

Be safe out there readers.

August 15 2017

Readers may recall a time earlier this year that a ghost story was making the rounds in the thumbs up/thumbs down group.

It was quickly revealed to be a widely spun story with names and places changed to suit locals but there is actually a ghost story that happened early on in the local areas history.

It apparently started way back in around 1860, there was reports of a headless horse ridden by a headless horseman in the north of Deniliquin, this was called ‘The Ghost of the Trotting Cob’

It was said that the colt was black but the legs and body were whitewashed whilst the rider was wearing light coloured clothing but had blackened his face and neck and the two were scaring mobs of travelling cattle.

This story was written down in 1933 but it appears the sightings stopped at the time they started as they said 70 years had passed, perhaps it was just a yarn or there was a prankster around causing trouble in the night or perhaps for those who believe a true event.

There’s only 76 days to go until Halloween, perhaps the Trotting Cob will get restless and scare some cattle (or some people) again.

August 15 2017

If you want to see a local gamer doing their thing then consider giving ‘Belcat’ a like or a view.

People who follow Belcat’s Gaming page on Facebook are always kept in the loop on when he’ll be streaming games and when he acquires new gaming hardware to improve the spectacle.

People can also go on Twitter to follow progress but all the action is on Twitch as every couple of nights, viewers can watch all the latest plays of games.

Tonight’s game of choice was Kingdom Hearts 2.5, an excellent choice considering this afternoon and this evening has been rained out.

On this particular night we see that there have been 682 views of the live stream which is a pretty good haul.

The quality of the stream is pretty good with everything easy to see and hear to the point its like watching a movie but then something comes up that reminds you it is a game that you are seeing.

We’ll keep reporting on Belcat’s gaming as news comes to hand.