I was out by Queen Victoria Park today around lunch and took this picture with my cell phone: You can see the stage in the background, concessions tents, and barriers. It looks like everything is ready to go for the big New Year’s Eve party tonight. While I was there, there were people on the…
From the Niagara Falls Review: There’s no shortage of places to visit in Niagara Falls on New Year’s Eve. Bars, eateries and hotels across the city are expected to do brisk business Monday night as revellers prepare to ring in 2008. Officials at Niagara casinos expect to see around 80,000 people that night. New Year’s…
From the Niagara Falls Review: At midnight, the calendar will say it’s 2008. But if you’re at Queen Victoria Park Monday, you might check it’s not 1985. This year’s free concert down by the falls isn’t just nostalgic, it’s defiantly retro. Leather pants? Head bands? “Working for the Weekend?” It’ll be like the last 20…
From Niagara This Week: With the announcement of $70 million in provincial and federal money for the city’s long-awaited convention centre project, 2007 may be marked as the year everything changed in Niagara Falls. It’s one of the highlights of a busy 2007, says Mayor Ted Salci, reflecting recently his inaugural year of a four-year…
From the Niagara Falls Review: When the lights go up on New Year’s Eve, classic rock bands Honeymoon Suite and Loverboy will be in the spotlight. But they’d never get there if it weren’t for a group of volunteers who literally set the stage for a successful event. “It’s a big family. Everybody works to…
From the Niagara Falls Review: While many families in the city played with new toys, cooked turkeys and picked up mountains of wrapping paper Christmas Day, hundreds of others whiled away the hours at the Fallsview Casino. Jack, a senior from Burlington, said he and his “gal” turned the prospect of a bleak Christmas Day…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Famed wirewalker Jay Cochrane still wants to make Niagara Falls his retirement project, but a proposed walk across the river could be in the works for 2009 instead of next year. After another summer spent performing in Niagara Falls – his third in six years – Cochrane was hopeful the…
Obviously due to the holidays this week, posting will be light for the next week or so.
From the St. Catharines Standard: Passports won’t be necessary for Americans and Canadians entering the United States by land until mid-2009 – a year later than planned – if a budget bill passed Thursday by Congress is approved by U.S. President George W. Bush. A provision of a budget bill passed Thursday pushes back by…
From the St. Catharines Standard: You can always promise big. But you can’t guarantee good. After a year of hype, Silver Mist Productions’ Beauty and the Beast delivers both. And it does it the most basic way possible – taking what’s on the page and putting it on the stage. It’s a can’t miss show,…