All things Niagara Falls tourism…
From PR Newswire:
Border efficiency and support for the world’s largest trading relationship are getting a significant boost with completion of a major construction project at the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge. The Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario and the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission celebrated the completion of the $45-million, fifth-lane Queenston-Lewiston Bridge expansion project today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the center of the bridge.
From Canada.com:
The first thing you’ll probably notice is the shark. At more than five metres long, it’s the biggest ever caught on rod and reel. What’s left of its two terrifying tonnes now hangs preserved above a dull warehouse floor.
There are also medieval torture devices, human skull drinking glasses, a Coke bottle-shaped coffin and curious mix of embalmed livestock born with too many heads or limbs. These items and many more are stored in a central Florida warehouse - all without an audience.
But their owner, Ripley Entertainment Inc., is doing its best change that. The Orlando-based company of “Believe it or Not!” fame has announced rapid expansion plans over the next year and a half, including at least four new locations from Spain to New York City - where those lonely curiosities might soon find homes.
From the St. Catharines Standard:
Wendell Wilks says he spent the hours immediately after his Television Niagara bid was turned down drumming up more financing for another try at a commercial TV licence.
But it sounds like he was working on his sports analogies.
“It’s like a hockey game,” Wilks said. “The referee has given us a penalty, but in our opinion, the game is not over. You never win a game by beating up the referee.
“It’s a fight,” the TVN president continued. “I’m bruised. I’m battered. But I’m going to take another swing at them.
“It’s kind of like poker,” Wilks also offered. “And we’re going to call.”
From Niagara This Week:
East Coast band Great Big Sea will be coming to Niagara Falls to headline an all-Canadian lineup for Canada’s largest New Year’s Eve celebration.
The Niagara Parks Commission (NPC), joined by its partners for what it is calling “Party in Niagara,” announced Wednesday at Table Rock Restaurant Newfoundland’s Great Big Sea would headline the annual free New Year’s Eve concert in Queen Victoria Park with Vancouver’s Spirit of the West and Niagara’s own Jonesy.
From Newsday:
Each year, millions of visitors flock to the famed Niagara Falls, where 20 percent of the world’s fresh water plunges over a cliff created during the last ice age.
Although tourist season at Niagara is May to October, in winter the falls continue to flow and glow - literally. As temperatures drop, spectacular mounds of ice form from the mist, but the tremendous volume of water never stops flowing and the American and Horseshoe Falls remain illuminated in shades of the rainbow as darkness descends.
More dazzle arrives in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the middle of November with the Winter Festival of Lights. This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the event, which will run through Jan. 2. Fireworks, light parades and 2 million lights brighten an already glistening landscape.
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