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I was out by Queen Victoria Park today around lunch and took this picture with my cell phone:
You can see the stage in the background, concessions tents, and barriers. It looks like everything is ready to go for the big New Year’s Eve party tonight. While I was there, there were people on the stage practicing and doing a sound check. I’m not sure who it was.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
There’s no shortage of places to visit in Niagara Falls on New Year’s Eve.
Bars, eateries and hotels across the city are expected to do brisk business Monday night as revellers prepare to ring in 2008.
Officials at Niagara casinos expect to see around 80,000 people that night.
New Year’s Eve is traditionally Casino Niagara’s and Fallsview Casino’s busiest night of the year, said Greg Medulun, director of communications for Niagara casinos.
“You can dress up or down … but essentially, it’s come as your lucky self because the party atmosphere is like no place else from Toronto to Buffalo,” he said.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
At midnight, the calendar will say it’s 2008. But if you’re at Queen Victoria Park Monday, you might check it’s not 1985. This year’s free concert down by the falls isn’t just nostalgic, it’s defiantly retro. Leather pants? Head bands? “Working for the Weekend?” It’ll be like the last 20 years never happened.
Forgoing the youth movement, the Niagara Parks Commission has whipped up an old school lineup for tonight: Loverboy, Honeymoon Suite and Styx singer Dennis DeYoung.
And if you think they’re crazy booking such old fogies, you haven’t grooved to “New Girl Now” lately: It might be one of the biggest crowds in years.
From Niagara This Week:
With the announcement of $70 million in provincial and federal money for the city’s long-awaited convention centre project, 2007 may be marked as the year everything changed in Niagara Falls.
It’s one of the highlights of a busy 2007, says Mayor Ted Salci, reflecting recently his inaugural year of a four-year term for the current council.
“I’m very proud,” said Salci. “I think it will change Niagara Falls forever.”
From the Niagara Falls Review:
When the lights go up on New Year’s Eve, classic rock bands Honeymoon Suite and Loverboy will be in the spotlight. But they’d never get there if it weren’t for a group of volunteers who literally set the stage for a successful event.
“It’s a big family. Everybody works to help everybody else,” said T.J. Singer, one of about 10 high school students volunteering with the Niagara Parks Commission.
They started three days of work Wednesday to set up the stage in Queen Victoria Park that will be the focal point for the parks commission’s annual New Year’s Eve show.
Stamford Collegiate has been the source of the parks commission’s pool of volunteers for years.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
While many families in the city played with new toys, cooked turkeys and picked up mountains of wrapping paper Christmas Day, hundreds of others whiled away the hours at the Fallsview Casino.
Jack, a senior from Burlington, said he and his “gal” turned the prospect of a bleak Christmas Day without their families who are in the sunny south into a mini-break of their own.
“It’s a break from the regular Christmas routine,” said Jack who, like all of the people interviewed in the Fallsview Casino’s food court and foyer did not want to give their last name.
It’s the same for John and his family from Hamilton, who also decided to forsake the hustle and bustle of Christmas by spending time away together.
“It was strange (waking up in a hotel room on Christmas morning),” John admitted. “But we’ve had a lot of fun.”
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Famed wirewalker Jay Cochrane still wants to make Niagara Falls his retirement project, but a proposed walk across the river could be in the works for 2009 instead of next year.
After another summer spent performing in Niagara Falls - his third in six years - Cochrane was hopeful the Niagara Parks Commission would let him be the first man in more than a century to walk a wire across the falls.
He pointed to the summer of 2008 for the event, which he predicted could attract a million people to the city.
To that end, he said he was preparing a detailed presentation for the parks commission that would answer any and all questions.
“This is something that takes time, and has to be done very, very thoroughly,” he told The Review in August. “You’ll only get one opportunity to do this correctly.”
The good news is, the commission hasn’t said no to the proposal.
That’s because they haven’t seen it yet.
Don’t forget to sign the petition!
Obviously due to the holidays this week, posting will be light for the next week or so.
From the St. Catharines Standard:
Passports won’t be necessary for Americans and Canadians entering the United States by land until mid-2009 - a year later than planned - if a budget bill passed Thursday by Congress is approved by U.S. President George W. Bush.
A provision of a budget bill passed Thursday pushes back by a year the plan by the Department of Homeland Security to require passports from border-crossers from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean as a way of strengthening national security.
From the St. Catharines Standard:
You can always promise big. But you can’t guarantee good. After a year of hype, Silver Mist Productions’ Beauty and the Beast delivers both.
And it does it the most basic way possible - taking what’s on the page and putting it on the stage.
It’s a can’t miss show, really - eight years on Broadway must mean something. The challenge is assembling a cast and crew who can pull it off without insulting the audience’s intelligence.
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