This weekend will be busy in Niagara Falls. Saturday, July 1 is Canada Day, and so Canadians will have either Friday or Monday off work. Tuesday, July 4 is Independence Day so I assume that many people will be taking Tuesday off in addition to Tuesday and have a nice long weekend. Here are a…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Concerts, fireworks, parades … and the kids from Degrassi High. If you can’t find something to do this Canada Day weekend, you have officially become part of the couch. The next four days are packed with events and most of it won’t cost a dime. Set aside some coin for…
From Buffalo Business First: After watching a series of hotel towers dot the Niagara Falls, Ont. skyline in recent years, the city is poised to welcome a different sort of landmark. ORE Development Corp., an arm of the Opus Group, is working with Niagara Falls officials on plans to construct a 29-story condominium tower just…
Yesterday I posted an article about the new Niagara Parks Commision attraction. The Buffalo News has an article called World of wooden wonders that explains more about the Totem and Woodcarving Park. It also has a picture of some of the carvings. As of this morning, the Niagara Parks Commission web site doesn’t have any…
Yesterday I posted about a new Niagara Falls documentary that will be shown on PBS. It originated with the local PBS affiliate, WNED. I went to their web site, and they have a page about the production with some more information than the article had. You can read more on the WNED site.
From the Niagara Falls Review: Spongebob Squarepants has moved from his pineapple under the sea in Bikini Bottom to a sunny spot in the Niagara Glen. Among his neighbours are The Simpsons and Dora the Explorer. Gen. Isaac Brock and several members of his army are just a few steps away. They’re among 500 wooden…
From the Buffalo News: “The Charles Rand Penney Collection of Niagara Falls Prints” – a renowned 754-piece collection covering prints of the falls from as early as the 1680s to as recently as 2000 – will soon be at home in the Castellani Art Museum on the Niagara University campus. In a pending agreement between…
From the Toronto Star: Our closest PBS affiliate in Buffalo had to go no farther than its own backyard for this splashy new high-definition documentary being broadcast across the entire PBS chain. We mention that because it means for sure they won’t bump it at the last minute. Narrated by actress Mariette Hartley, Niagara Falls…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The roar of water over Niagara Falls appears to have captured the heart of a prominent tourist – the prime minister of Japan. Junichiro Koizumi made his first visit to the falls Tuesday, declaring the Canadian landmark “magnificent” and “beautiful.” The prime minister, who was on a private trip to…
From the Niagara Falls Review: As the warning goes, you don’t spit in the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the Lone Ranger and you don’t tug on Superman’s cape. Mark Saccone doesn’t care about the first two, but he takes the cape part pretty seriously. Hidden in a house quickly filling with memorabilia…