From the Buffalo News: More than 80 eighth-grade students from Rosemont Middle School in Los Angeles were in Niagara Falls over the weekend to take two plastic jugs of water from the Niagara River. After seeing the sights in the Niagara area, they boarded a tour bus for New York City, where they will pour…
I’m sure many of you get those junk mail booklets or envelopes that are filled with coupons for various local operations. The other day I received one of these, and for the first time there were coupons for a Niagara Falls attraction. Coincidentally, it was for Skylon Tower Fun Centre, a place I’ve covered quite…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Despite a spring fling in Toronto, Cirque Niagara will â€Ŕdefinitely†return to Niagara Falls this summer, says a company spokesperson. The $10 million production of â€ŔAvaia,†which debuted to solid reviews and decent box office last year, heads to Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto for a month-long run, April 28 to…
From the Dallas Morning News: Canada and upstate New York glare at each other through the mists of Niagara Falls. Each side thinks it’s the better pick for viewing the cascade, for fun things to do, casinos, parks, hotels and food. Here’s a report card to help you decide who’s right.
From the Niagara Falls Review: Last spring, longtime Niagara Parks Commission gardener Sam Marchioni hinted it would be his final year planting the famous Floral Clock before retirement. He was right. Only it was cancer that made the decision for him. To the heartbreak of family and countless friends throughout Niagara Falls, Marchioni died of…
From the Niagara Falls Review: There are 660 steps to the top of the Skylon Tower and as Dave Low climbs up everyone of them year after year, he can’t help but think of the people he has lost to cancer as well as the people who are still around to fight it. Low is…
I don’t have many details, but the Barrie Examiner reports that a play, “Queen of the Mist”, is being put on at the Allandale Recreation Centre in Barrie. It is about Annie Taylor, “the only woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel”.
From Niagara This Week: The Binational Tourism Alliance is investing in the Nexus program to provide a boost for the region’s struggling tourism industry. Nexus, which is designed to speed the border clearance process for low-risk, pre-approved travellers into Canada and the U.S., allows carriers to zip past long lines waiting to clear customs on…
It’s pretty rare these days that you actually get a room key when you go to a name-brand hotel. Over the last several years the industry has changed to various types of cards. In the beginning the locks were mechanical and the cards had holes in them (almost like old-fashioned programming punch cards for computers)….
From the Shelbyville Daily Union: Niagara Falls probably has thrilled visitors since before the arrival of European settlers. Recent technological advances, though, seem to enhance the euphoric experience of falls watching even more. One of the newest ways to enjoy the spectacular scenery is to ride one of the fully enclosed gondolas on the gigantic…