Niagara Falls Blog

From Niagara This Week:

Niagara Falls has a new spokesperson. Well, not officially.

But Becky Puddicombe this week threw out her strongest plug for the falls as one of the country’s seven wonders. Now she just has to sit back to see if it works.

The Grade 12 student at Westlane Secondary School appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s The National newscast Tuesday night in an effort to tell the country why the falls should be included in the CBC’s list of Canada’s seven wonders.

The National and the CBC’s daytime radio show, Sounds Like Canada, first put out the call for nominations for Canada’s seven wonders April 23. Potential wonders must have essential ‘Canadian-ness’ — historical significance, character-filled, valued — they must come with a unique pitch, be a spectacular physical site or an amazing human creation, they must have the ability to inspire and must fit well as part of a diverse group of seven wonders.

Last Friday, Puddicombe defended her view against Catherine Small, a Grade 12 student from Grand Manan, N.B., who argued for the Bay of Fundy, which is a 270-kilometre ocean bay that stretches between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

From Niagara This Week:

Regional councillors have given approval in principle to a plan to lease a 20-acre parcel of land to the City of Niagara Falls to provide parking for the proposed Niagara Convention and Civic Centre.

The decision was made during regional council’s meeting Thursday evening, following a presentation by Dragan Matovic, the convention centre’s project director, and Brian Stanford, of PKF Consulting, the firm engaged to perform a feasibility study on the convention centre proposal.

They urged regional councillors to see the lease of the property, located between Stanley Avenue and Ailanthus Avenue, as the region’s contribution to a project that will benefit all of Niagara’s citizens, not just the residents of Niagara Falls.