This is part 2 of Margin’s thoughts on the convention centre. Therefore, to avoid the wailing and gnashing of teeth that has occurred annually with respect to the relatively minor payments the casino has made to the city, a Community Development Agreement would set some easily definable payments that the private proponents of the center…
A person with a Blogger blog posted about their trip to the Niagara Falls. They stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn in Niagara-on-the-Lake and visited many of the sites in Niagara Falls. The person posted a lot of pictures, with short captions under each one.
From Niagara This Week: A U.S. government plan which will allow enhanced driver’s licences as acceptable identification when crossing the border along with passports is being hailed as good news for travellers and business people alike. But while most like the idea of a new high-tech licence, some frequent border users hope rolling out the…
Last week a new user joined the community here at AccessNiagara and is going by the handle Margin. He has submitted a document with his thoughts and concerns about the convention centre. As I asked him why the interest in this, he said that he has “no axes to grind or money to be made…
Last Friday I received an email from Niagara Falls Tourism about a new Niagara Falls Photo Contest they are holding in conjunction with the Winter Festival of Lights. You can find out more on a special page on the Winter Festival of Lights site. The contest runs from Contest Runs from November 9, 2007 –…
From the Niagara Falls Review: When he was a high school student at NFCVI, Rodney Pentland stood on the theatre stage and made a vow to himself. “I remember standing there thinking, ‘Some day I’m going to come back here and people are going to pay to see me,’” says the Niagara Falls comedian. The…
Autumn is well on its way, and winter is almost here. We’ve had a few snow flakes fall, but they haven’t stayed. Most of the leaves are off the trees now, but a couple of weeks ago I took a set of pictures of the autumn leaves along Queen Victoria Park. As is always the…
This doesn’t have much to do with Niagara Falls, but I came across a web site about miniature golf. In passing, the person mentioned Galaxy Golf (although not by name) on Clifton Hill and has a picture: I love miniature golf, the more preposterous the holes the better. I like loop-de-loops, rotating obstacles, crossing wood-plank…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Regis Philbin started the week off telling the world about meeting Claudia Santini-Visca, but the Niagara Falls girl was making it through another Monday morning in Grade 5. “I didn’t know anything. I was surprised when I heard about it,” Claudia said Monday after hearing she was featured prominently when…
Last Sunday’s (Nov 11) Ripley’s Believe It or Not! cartoon featured a connection to Niagara Falls (click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of the cartoon): “American Icon” Annie and Ken Burkitt of Niagara Falls, Ontario, used over 1,000,000 Swarovski crystals to decorate a 2004 Mini Cooper with images of U.S. landmarks and…