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Issue #220 – Wednesday, 19 February, 2014
Albury Wodonga’s largest circulating newspaper
Roll up for thrills and spills THE Fruit Fly Circus is celebrating 35 years of making people laugh, gasp and applaude with their biggest tour in over a decade. FOR DETAILS TURN TO PAGE 3
Finest queens ever seen
Aaron Taylor and Justin Clausen in their very best impersonations of Lady Gaga.
By KRYSTEN MANUEL, Pictures: ADAM WILSON WHILE many couples across the Border were sitting down to candlelit dinners and foot massages, a small pocket of good-humoured locals gathered at the Commercial Club on Valentines Day. For many of them, it was the first time they had seen a man dressed as a woman - and a fabulous woman at that. But the Queens of the Outback acted, sang, danced and improvised to the sold-out crowd, who gave as good as they got. Between the false lashes, six-inch heels, talonlike nails and diva attitudes was the telling of a hilarious story about three Melbourne drag queens travelling deep into outback Australia. Along the way, the queens sing for their supper, find themselves behind bars, make guest appearances at strip clubs and sort out some manly bar brawls. Aside from being absolutely hilarious, Queens of the Outback was quite impressive, with spectacular costumes, edgy humour, quality voices and legs that made every woman in the house green with envy.
Could it be the end of the big heat?
Cool relief here By KRYSTEN MANUEL AFTER three January heatwaves that slipped into February, which itself brought five 40-plus degree days to date, experts are predicting the latest cool change could be permanent. It’s been 10 days since the Border has seen a 40-degree day and it had been 20 days since experiencing a day under 30 degrees. But the heavens finally opened up on Saturday, delivering one of the highest rainfalls in the
North East at 28.6mm and experts are predicting permanent relief is in sight. “There was a low pressure system in Western Australia that moved down over our area, so there was a lot of cloud associated with that and that’s why some fairly good falls occurred around the district,” Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) technical officer Robbie Lennard said. “The next week should be relatively cooler, high twenties, low thirties, no rain.
“We’re getting near the end of February, the sun’s starting to get lower in the sky and the days are getting shorter as we get to March 21 and 22, which is the autumnal equinox where days and nights are equal again as we head into winter, towards 21 June which is the winter solstice - the shortest day of the year. “So even if the situation is set up where you have the high pressure system out in the Tasman Sea directing generally northerly winds from the
inland, even though it might be unseasonably warm in March, it won’t be a heatwave at around 40 degrees. “The days are shorter and the sun can’t heat us up as much. So touch wood, hopefully it’s the last heatwave of the summer.” It’s been a long hot summer with three heatwaves hitting the Border between 1-3 January, 14-18 January and 28 January - 3 February. The second heatwave was a record
breaker. It began to develop from 12 January, with temperatures more than 10 degrees above normal in southern NSW. While this heatwave broke few records for daily maximum temperature, several stations equalled their record for consecutive hot days including Albury, Hay and Canberra. “It’s up there with the biggest heatwave of the last 100 years,” BOM climatologist Acacia Pepler told NewsWeekly back in January.
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