Christmas 2017 playlist

News

December 24 2017

Tomorrow is Christmas Day and below is a list of songs that may come in handy if you want to listen to some tunes from a variety of artists from different time periods and level of fame.

Santa Claus Is Back In Town & Blue Christmas – Elvis
The Little Drummer Boy (Peace On Earth) – Bing Crosby and David Bowie
Love Love Love – Maddie Wilson
Wonderful Christmas Time – Paul McCartney
All I Want For Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey
Santa Claus Is Back In Town – Celeste Kellogg
Have Yourself A Merry Christmas – Michael Buble
Aussie Jingle Bells – Bucko and Champs
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas – Michael Buble
White Christmas – Josh Groban
Wiggly Wiggly Christmas – The Wiggles
Finally It’s Christmas – Hanson

If you want YouTube audio instead of music videos, there is a wide selection and here are some possibilities available to you.

Christmas Songs by Frank Sinatra
Christmas Jazz
Christmas Time Again – Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Classic Christmas Album – Elvis

We hope all readers find the music they desire tomorrow no matter what it is in the end.

 

Christmas 2017 weather

News

December 22 2017

We’ll start off with the forecast for Saturday December 23 and it will be a hot one with the maximum predicted to be 37 degrees, there will be winds of up to 35km/h and the Fire Danger level is at High.

Sunday December 24 is predicted to be cooler with a predicted top of 32 degrees, winds are expected to be around 30km/h and there could be rain and thunderstorms in the South East part of the Riverina.

Monday December 25 is predicted to be 31 degrees with winds up to 30km/h, more details will be added closer to the date.

Tuesday December 26 is currently predicted to be up to 35 degrees with winds up to 30km/h, more details will be added closer to the date.

We will continue to keep readers informed of any changes as best as possible over the coming days.

From The Banks Of The Edward

History

December 22 2017

This week we picked up a book by Deniliquin Creative Writers called ‘From The Banks Of The Edward’.

It is a 128 page book filled with various stories, some discuss relationships that lasted for decades or they discussed sport, a couple are poems about the Edward River and a couple of stories talk about achievements and more.

One example of a story is ‘The New Chum’ by John Russell and it tells the story of Ada Jinks who moved to Deniliquin from England and the story tells how she and her husband John came to town, got their first house and it also describes how the conditions were and how locals got through times such as drought.

The story is insightful and accurate because of meticulous research through Ada’s own writings.

There are several pictures scattered throughout the book, most are of the subjects of the book but there is pictures of the now demolished Deniliquin Goal, the Community Centre when it was looking great and more.

Overall it is a great book and if any locals come across it they should give it a read.

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New monthly rainfall record – December 2017

News

December 20 2017

The December 2008 record of 68.8mm of rain was broken in the early hours of this morning.

4.8mm of rain fell from around 6:04pm until midnight with 4mm of it falling in just an hour and sixteen minutes.

The local area was also battered by high wind gusts between 5:56pm and 6pm, the winds reached 70km/h whilst the gusts were blowing at 100km/h.

The last of the major gusts was at 6:06pm with the gust recorded at 76km/h.

There was one report of a power outage around Wirraway Drive and lasted for several hours according to the Essential Energy power map.

The rain returned between 5:30am and 6:50am this morning which broke the tie between December 2008’s record and this month and now that we have a new December rainfall record.

Deni Speaks (19/12/17)

Deni Speaks

December 19 2017

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been running our routine polls here on the website to see how locals feel about local issues.

We asked readers for thoughts on Christmas, The ERC and Crime, we like to thank everyone for their participation this year as it has provided us great insight and lots of discussion.

Questions

1. Do you find the Christmas ads are annoying?
2. How do you rate the ERC so far?
3. Is Deniliquin experiencing a Crime Wave?

Results

55% of voters believe that Christmas ads are not annoying compared to the 45% that think they are annoying.

30% of voters have given the ERC a grading of D so far, 25% gave the council an F grade followed by 20% each of A and C and B was far behind on 5%.

74% of voters believe that Deniliquin is currently experiencing a crime wave despite the new flashy Police Station opening, 26% believe there is no problem.

Conclusion

The results of the Christmas ads are a little surprising considering viewers around the country were bombarded with Target, Big W and Jeweler Store ads with Target really annoying people with ‘Must Be Santa’ playing every 10 minutes particularly on Pay TV.

Those who voted on the Council question seem to think the Council is struggling in the early going.

The fate of the Peacock Enclosure may make the waters rougher unless they come up with a great plan to compensate for the loss of the well known attraction or pony up the cash to modernize the enclosure to suit all standards.

Crime is worrying locals, there has been a constant stream of reports concerning thefts, vandalism and car damage on social media groups and locals are starting to lose patience as thieves are eager to steal anything, anywhere and drivers are hitting other vehicles and are driving off leaving car owners with repair bills.

That concludes our report on the voting, thank you for reading the Deni Speaks series throughout 2017.