We’re told that articles and photos that have so far been shared in the PT’s pages on the basketball camps held in Deni last week have been shared with professional basketballer Patty Mills.
Patty is known as a professional Aussie basketballer but is also making waves in America as a member of the Brooklyn Nets National Basketball Association team.
Last week’s basketball camps in Deni - a girls only session attended by more than 70 and another skills camp attended by more than 100 - were hosted by Basketball NSW.
Its Riverina regional development officer Isabel Forbes said she would be sharing the outcome of the camps with Mills at her earliest opportunity.
Bigger venue to meet demand
Such is the demand from theatre lovers, South West Music is moving its performance of Songs for a New World to a larger venue this weekend.
It will be held this Saturday at the Deniliquin Baptist Church in Edwardes St - which was once the Regent Theatre.
Partly driving the demand in bookings for the free performance is that South West Music was forced to cancel its Sunday showing of the play, due to a scheduled power outage for a section of the Deniliquin CBD.
The Songs for a New World performance is the culmination of an inaugural summer theatre program hosted by SWM.
Students have been learning the skills essential to musical theatre - performing, sound engineering, design, event management, stage management, production and marketing.
The performance will take place from 4pm to 6pm this Saturday.
While free to attend, you must RSVP to secure your seat. Email concerts@swmusic.org.au.
Keep busy at the library
It’s a common holiday quandary for parents.
How do you encourage the kids to get off the computer or their phone at home and go out an enjoy their school holidays.
The Edward River Library might have the answer for you.
Your children can still explore the digital world they love so much at the library, where there are virtual reality games or you can travel the world with YouTube 360 videos.
Both are available from 10am to 4pm weekdays, but bookings are required for this in demand equipment.
The library also has Lego available to play with at any time, and of course there’s a huge variety of books and other resources to keep an inquisitive mind busy.
Hot, but not as hot as expected
It was a sauna of a weekend as predicted, but surprisingly the mercury failed to reach that 40ºC mark we all expected.
It came very close though, with the highest recorded temperature for January so far being the 38.8ºC high on Saturday.
We came slightly closer last month with a top of 39ºC on December 27.
We’re yet to have any days of 40ºC or above so far this summer, but if the long term data is anything to go by they could still be on the way.
Bureau of Meteorology statistics from the Deniliquin Airport weather station - which started in 1997 - suggest the mean number of days above 40ºC for Deniliquin is 3.8.
Looking back a little further in history - using data recorded at the Visitor Information Centre site dating back to 1858 - the mean number of days above 40ºC locally is 3.2.
The hottest January day on record for Deniliquin is 49.6ºC on January 12, 1878. This doubles as the hottest summer day on record.
In more recent times, using the airport data, the highest was 47.2ºC on January 25, 2019.
Today is predicted to get to 39ºC, but after that we can expect a little reprieve from the scorching conditions.
From Wednesday to Sunday the mercury is not expected to rise much past 30ºC, with possible rain Wednesday and cloudy conditions predicted for the rest of the week.
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