October 18 2018

Deniliquin will have a busy Halloween this year with several events planned for the day and even earlier.

Deniliquin RSL Club is hosting a Halloween Disco fundraiser for the Deniliquin Girl Guides, entry is $5 and Under 10’s have their disco between 5pm and 6:30pm while those over 10 years old will have theirs at 7pm until 8:30pm.

Waring Gardens on Halloween afternoon (October 31) will be the scene for an event to help prove that mental health is not as scary as you think as part of Mental Health Month.

Locals can go and collect a bag and a list of shops and then go trick or treating at over 40 selected shops around town and there will be stalls, activities, live music, busting myths about mental health and a BBQ at the gardens as well.

But that’s not all as there will be four age groups where people can enter for best costume and that event starts at 5:30pm with gift card prizes to be won.

The page ‘Halloween In & Around Deniliquin‘ is still running so there will be plenty of information posted there as Halloween gets closer like addresses of houses that will be welcoming trick or treaters and more, there are even tips and ideas up now for people to look at.

Our FB page will be posting a couple of classic Halloween tunes through the night and we might even come up with a playlist for people if requested or is thought of to be a better idea.

We hope everyone will have a fantastic Halloween on October 31.

October 15 2018

The Deni Uke Muster is coming up in November, some readers may be thinking we are in a time loop and are meant to be saying Deni Ute Muster but it is the Deni Uke Muster that will happen in November.

Their YouTube Channel was recently updated with three new videos taking the total up to eight videos.

There are renditions of ‘You Are My Sunshine’, ‘Going up the Country’ and ‘Down on the Corner’.

‘You Are My Sunshine’ is a classic from the 1930’s and most people only perform the chorus compared to this 1942 version by Harry Roy and his Orchestra, probably because the chorus is more cheerful.

‘Going up the Country’ was a song by Canned Heat that was based on a 1928 song called ‘Bull Doze Blues’.

‘Down on the Corner’ is a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival and written by band member John Fogerty.

Unfortunately the three new videos are low in quality but you will see and hear that they can perform a range of material.

If you are interested in going to the Uke Muster, visit the Facebook event page, indicate that you’re going or are interested and have a great time in November.

October 10 2018

Deniliquin woke up to the sound of rain just before 6am and by 9am it had reached 8.4mm even though Weatherzone has put down 8mm.

Weatherzone has a unique rainfall chart and that is because it only counts rainfall from 9am to 9am and so history will record Deniliquin receiving 8mm on Wednesday even though it continued to rain through the day.

9.8mm between 9am January 30 and 9am January 31 was the record and so some may of felt disappointed that a new record for 2018 wasn’t set but they weren’t disappointed for long.

The rainfall didn’t stop at 9am as it continued to rain steadily and between 10:30 and 10:40am it rained 0.6mm to send the post 9am total to 10mm and a new rainfall record.

By 11am the total amount of rain between 6 and 11am approached 20mm but the rain was slowing down as the band of moderate rain moved past and the town received lighter rain.

By 12pm the rain was almost on its way out of town and was heading west to dump its cargo on other towns ensuring that they get some rain too.

We ended up with 23mm of rain, 23.5mm in some other areas, we needed every millimetre as a dry couple of months is expected to occur.

Monday’s forecast looks interesting according to Weatherzone, if the rain forecast for that day comes true then our local farms will be in much better shape than just a day ago as water tanks and dams will be getting more of a fill and the soil will be more deeper soaked than before..

October 6 2018

We have three new questions up for readers to consider and answer on the side of the page (computer users) or at the bottom of the page (phone users), one asks for a rating on the ERC, one asks how the local economy is going and the last asks if the Federal Government has improved under Scott Morrison.

Questions asked

1. What Rating Do You Give The ERC?
2. How is the local economy?
3. Has the Government improved under Scott Morrison?

The rating for the ERC is asked as it has been over a year since the council was elected and we are hoping to get a snapshot of how they’re going.

The local economy question is to see if bad drought conditions and the status of the economy on a national scale have affected the town.

The Scott Morrison question is asked because it has been after a month since he was made PM and it will be interesting to see if the LNP is back in contention after many political experts have called the next election to the ALP.

Polls will run until Saturday October 20.

October 1 2018

Noisy Street Design has released a lot of videos this year and late last month they released their longest one yet, one on Deniliquin Golf Club.

It is a video that runs for just under 20 minutes and features all 18 holes that the Golf Club has to offer all in 1080p quality (High Definition).

It is always something unique to see something from above and viewers will see things from a couple of golf carts driven in a line, a golfer playing the first hole, the Bowling Club and Memorial Park plus nearby houses.

It is a great video that should entice golfers to come and play in town once they get a good look at all the holes in the video.