I wonder what’s going on? There used to be a space-scape painted on the side of the Galaxy Golf building. It looks like it is being painted over.
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
On Friday I received a newsletter from the Great Wolf Lodge. They are celebrating their 10th anniversary (the chain of lodges, not the Niagara Falls location) and are promoting a special rate.
You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.
Work continues on the space where Bronto’s Adventure Playland is going to be. The first picture below is of the space where the souvenir photo place used to be. I assume this is where the entrance will be. The second picture is from inside the retail store that is under the Haunted House. You can see the back part of the store has been emptied and in the distance there is work going on. I think this will be part of Bronto’s Adventure Playland.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Has the ghost of the gondola been banished from the Niagara Parks Commission? Plans the commission unveiled Thursday to renovate Table Rock House will go a long way toward exorcising the memory of the Great Gorge Interpretive Tour that has haunted them for three years now.
As the commission’s seasoned vice-chairman, Archie Katzman, greeted people at Thursday’s ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion of the historic Table Rock House, he said, “This is a home run.”
We’ve heard that from the parks commission before. Really. What else is he going to say? But this time around, it seems to be more than salesmanship.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
It was Becky Puddicombe’s first time on radio, but it likely won’t be her last.
In two minutes and speaking via telephone from the school office, the 17-year-old Westlane Secondary School student faced the nation on CBC Radio One’s morning show Sounds Like Canada, and admirably painted a rosy picture of the honeymoon capital, Friday.
Ranging from its awe-inspiring Horseshoe Falls to the hundreds of tourism attractions that bring in close to 12 million visitors each year, the teenager made her case as to why Niagara Falls should be considered one of the country’s seven wonders.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
The Niagara Parks Commission has broken ground on a $32-million facelift to Table Rock House, a project chairman Jim Williams said will bring the 19th-century edifice into the 21st century.
Built in 1856, Table Rock has become one of the most popular landmarks in the city.
It has been upgraded a number of times since the Niagara Parks Commission took ownership in 1886, but said Williams, “(it) is no longer the stately facility it once was and deserves to be.”
He said the improvements will not only make Table Rock fully accessible to visitors, it will become a year-round destination with covered walkways, panoramic views and more to entice people into the building to meet, eat and shop.
“What we anticipate is creating a new meeting place in the park,” Williams said of the plans, revealed at a press conference at Table Rock Thursday morning.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
A 180-foot high and 2,500-foot wide waterfall with about 35 million gallons of water roaring over its edge every minute - much of it diverted for hydro-electric power.
Maid of the Mist. The Skylon Tower. Journey Behind the Falls. Marineland. Two world-class casinos and more than 12 million visitors each year.
Becky Puddicombe will take that ammo to the airwaves this morning when she tries to convince CBC Radio One listeners that the honeymoon capital is the place to be in Canada.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Niagara Helicopters took home three pieces of hardware during the 40th annual Misty Awards, but it was Tony Zappitelli who scooped up the biggest prize of the night Thursday.
The director of operations for the Sheraton Fallsview hotel was recognized with the Grand Misty Award, presented to the person who has contributed the most to the tourism industry in a given year.
Read the article for a complete list of this year’s winners.
That’s a lot of concrete!
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