Today the shops of Deniliquin were busy as residents were snapping up food and drink of all kinds as they prepare to send off 2015 and welcome 2016.

One supermarket was reported to have been ‘sooo busy’ and the pubs around town are expecting big business as townspeople seek to get the best possible fun out of their night.

New Years Day is expected to be one that few will remember for some house parties enter the realm of being ‘epic’ and in order to be epic a certain level of forgetfulness is required, this is usually achieved by having lots of drink and lots more music.

DNS will report on the aftermath of some of the celebrations as news comes to hand.

It will be an not unusually warm Christmas for Deniliquin as it is expected to reach 34 degrees on the big day.

Those who are going outdoors for Christmas may need to take advantage of any shade and the Waring Gardens provides plenty of shade and as you can see in our picture, the Waring Gardens is looking spectacular at this time of year.

There is potentially bad news especially for those who like to get some Cricket in on Boxing Day for is rain expected on the day therefore plan for some rain delays between all the backyard or river action.

The weather is expected to heat back up with an expected 36 degrees on December 30.

Picture taken by Crystal Hofbauer.

Facebook users looking for something about Deniliquin to like have a new page to look at with a Deniliquin page now operational.

There’s not much information wise but those who like good photography/picture editing will absolutely love some of the pictures available on the page.

22 people like the page at this present time, there is no doubting that this page like total will grow once word about it spreads.

DNS hopes this page will continue to grow in the coming weeks and months for it will be interesting to see what gets posted next.

Readers can visit the page today at
https://www.facebook.com/Deniliquin-517412991745407/

Homes and Businesses around Deniliquin are being decorated with Christmas lights.

There’s even a competition where if you enter your home and business you could win one of four vouchers that make up the prize pool of $1000.

Entries can be made by getting the Pastoral Times tomorrow (December 10) or by going to Wired, maps will be available for people to look at on December 15 and 18 whilst registrations close on December 16.

For further details click here.