Police had a strong crowd attend Coffee with a Cop in Mathoura.
A strong number of community members turned out for Thursday’s Coffee with a Cop event in Mathoura.
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Coming just days after three break-ins were reported in the small community, residents came to meet the local police officers and express their concerns for community safety.
Business owner Tom Weyrich, who hosted the event at the Mathoura General Store, also used it as an opportunity to raise the need for a new Mathoura Police Station.
Through the Pastoral Times last week, he urged Murray River Council to lobby NSW Government for the upgrades, as he had done when he was a councillor.
Murray River Police District Chief Inspector Michael Fuller was pleased with the turnout.
“We had a lot of conversation and coffee with community members. We thank everyone who attended for the opportunity to chat with them and thank the team at the Mathoura General Store for hosting our event.”
Cold, but not the coldest
Some areas of Victoria reported their coldest February day in history over the weekend, after temperatures plunged with a cool change.
While locals were also reaching for the blankets or winter woolies, we didn’t come close to a record.
Our lowest maximum temperature of this month so far is 22.9ºC, recorded on Sunday - a few degrees cooler than Saturday.
While this is in stark contrast to the days of 40ºC from earlier in the month, it’s about double the lowest ever on record for Deniliquin.
Data for the weather station at Deniliquin Airport puts our lowest maximum temperature ever recorded in February at just 11.7ºC on February 2, 2005.
At the Peppin Heritage Centre weather station, which goes back to the 1800s but concludes in 2003, the lowest max was recorded at 15.1ºC on February 18, 1951.
As for the hottest February day on record, that was a blistering 47.2ºC recorded on February 2, 1897.
Lucey’s Alex Lutton, Tom Crèmer, Tilly Pinn and Miller Hearn with Birds of Tokyo’s Adam Weston, Ian Kenny and Adam Spark.
Rubbing shoulders with music stars
Former local Miller Hearn and his band Lucey are still on a high after featuring at the Albury Carnival of Cups event on Friday.
Miller is the son of Nicole and Dion Hearn, and the family is now based in Yackandandah.
Lucey is gaining a great reputation in the Albury region, and shared the stage with some Aussie greats like Birds of Tokyo, Things of Stone and Wood and The Superjesus.
The young musicians got to meet most of the band members backstage, with Miller reporting he was given some great advice from the members of Things of Stone and Wood and Birds of Tokyo in particular.
A contingent of locals made the trip to Albury to support Lucey, most of them related to Miller.
Val back as president
The Deniliquin District Veteran & Vintage Car Club held its AGM recently, and expressed confidence in Val Maher, who was returned as president for 2025.
Ian Purkeljc is vice president, Dol Pollard is secretary and Kevin Stonham is treasurer.
The general committee consists of Barry Seignior, Christine Weathers, Max Maher, Gary Plant, Bob White and Mr Stonham.
In charge of publicity is David Lang, who is also the public officer, and Roger Pollard has been elected as editor/printer of DDVVC materials and is registration officer.
Mrs Maher also remains in charge of events, supported by the event committee consisting of Barry and Denise Seignior, the Pollards, Mr Lang, Mr Purkeljc, Mr Maher and Richard Brown.
If you would like to know more about joining the DDV&VCC, call Mrs Maher on 5881 2302.
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