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.

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.