All things Niagara Falls tourism…
You’d almost think that Greg Frewin was performing today. The Falls have entirely disappeared!
Yesterday was cool and rainy in the morning and then it warmed up in the afternoon. Today is quite warm, and so there is fog over the water, but no where else. Walking along Queen Victoria Park is as clear as anything. The fog in the gorge is so thick that you can’t see any of the waterfalls at all!
I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that recently a man was rescued from the Niagara River. CNN has a video clip that shows some of Niagara Falls and shows where he was rescued. The video is about 1 minute long.
Note that CNN uses pop-ups so you may have to adjust your blocker.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
With Niagara Falls $35 million closer to a convention centre, the federal government’s plan to keep the GST rebate program for conventions and group tours is good news to those who feared millions of dollars in cancelled reservations.
But Chuck Loewen has little reason to celebrate.
Loewen is general manager of the Peace Bridge Duty Free, where some 40,000 rebates to individual travellers were processed last year.
“That’s not an insignificant number,” he said.
From Niagara This Week:
A new convention centre for Niagara Falls could generate at least $93 million in new revenue for the economy and wouldn’t cost the city a cent, says the man heading the drive for the facility.But federal and provincial funding is crucial to the project moving forward.
“The private sector dollars have been committed,” said Dragan Matovic, who’s heading up the Niagara Convention and Civic Centre project. “If they (the provincial and federal governments) don’t commit, the project isn’t going to happen.”
Matovic unveiled plans to council for a $92 million, 231,700-square foot facility for the Fallsview tourist area at Monday’s community services meeting. At the same time, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, was delivering his government’s second budget.
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