Daily Archive for June 1st, 2006

Clifton Hill and Niagara SkyWheel booths

It looks like the Niagara SkyWheel is getting every closer to opening. There is a large booth that has been setup in the plaza area on Clifton Hill between Tim Hortons and Boston Pizza:

The ticket booths at the wheel have also been put into place:

3-D image of Niagara Falls

Aero-Data Corporation is a remote sensing consulting firm that offers high quality current and historical aerial photographs, custom aerial photomissions, photointerpretation, mapping, and expert witness testimony.

They also turn some of their pictures into 3-D pictures, and they have some samples on their site. One of the sample images is of Niagara Falls. Unfortunately I don’t have a pair of 3-D glasses around, but if you do, you should definitely check it out.

TGI Friday’s patio open

The new TGI Friday’s patio (see here and here) is ready to go, but with all the heat this past week, I haven’t seen anyone out there yet.

Keep up passport pressure: Tory

From the Niagara Falls Review:

Despite what looks like a recent softening in Washington D.C., on the so-called passport requirement, Canadian political and business leaders need to keep pressing for change, says Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory.

Tourism operators in Canada celebrated two weeks ago after the U.S. Senate passed amendments to the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, the policy that will require everyone, including American citizens, to show a passport or some other form of secure identification when entering the United States.

The amendments pushed the implementation date from Jan. 1, 2008 to June 1, 2009.

“Just because these amendments have got to where they’ve got to doesn’t mean the job is done,” Tory said Wednesday in Niagara Falls. “We have to keep making the case because it’s far from over.”

Mayor Ted Salci hosted the roundtable meeting where Tory listened to the mayors of Niagara-on-the-Lake and Fort Erie, as well as representatives of the tourism industry.