The outside portion of Bronto’s Adventure Playland is moving along quite quickly. A couple of weeks ago there was nothing. Now, the outside looks almost done.
Daily Archive for August 17th, 2007
From Niagara This Week:
In the summer of 1992, Clifton Hill was alive with the sounds of bells, whistles, heavy beats and excited squeals coming from nearby Maple Leaf Village.
There were jingles and jangles, screams and lots of fun as rides like the amusement park’s trademark giant ferris wheel put smiles on the faces of many young and old.
The excitement is something Ken Jones remembers well, since he enjoyed the Village as a youngster and worked there for four years as a teenager. Jones was part of the crew the final year of the park’s 14-year run and had just finished high school when the ferris wheel made its final spin.
Jones, along with another worker, were the last two employees running the 56-metre ferris wheel during its fall offseason spins before it was powered down for good.
“The very last day the wheel ran, I was the last person to shut off the pumps and close the door. It was a typical end of shift.”
From Niagara This Week:
The People Mover project is not dead, says Mayor Ted Salci, and a committee working on making the project a reality should be back at city hall for a report next month.
But if the project is no further ahead than it was seven years ago, the city should look at selling of old railway lands it purchased when it thought the new People Mover would be a monorail system, said Coun. Carolynn Ioannoni.
“What’s dead in regards to the People Mover is the monorail,” said Ioannoni. “Why are we holding onto the railway land? I don’t understand, when we are in a financial crunch, why we don’t sell off that land?”
From the Niagara Falls Review:
It’s a lot like a seesaw. Sometimes you’re up. Sometimes you’re down. The higher the Canadian dollar, the faster local merchants watch as their regular shoppers skip across the border. As the dollar drops, those same bargain-hunting hawks flock back to their nests in the Great White North.
But right now, Canadian shoppers seem to be preying and feasting on the backs of U.S. retailers.
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