From the Niagara This Week:
Every day at lunch, while Graham Wing takes a walk through the city’s tourist area, he’s on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary.
It may be construction at the Hilton inching one floor closer to completion. It may be renovations at a nearby buffet restaurant. It could even be a sign going up or coming down on Clifton Hill.
No matter what it is, Wing is ready to take a photo with his handy camera phone and he can have it online on his blog in the blink of an eye.
Hey… wait a minute… that’s me! 
(I’ll comment more on this another time…)
Yesterday I received the latest newsletter from Hooters.
To subscribe to the Hooters newsletter, visit the Hooters web site, then click on the Niagara Falls location, then click on the Newsletter link.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
The Niagara Convention and Civic Centre has named its new general manager and president. Kerry Painter was hired to manage the centre, which is scheduled to open in 2011.
Mayor Ted Salci made the announcement during Monday’s council meeting.
Painter comes to Niagara Falls from the Northshore Harbor Center in Slidell, La., near New Orleans. That convention centre’s board of directors announced a national search to replace her, according to an article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune last week. Painter managed the Northshore Harbor Center since before it opened in 2005, the paper reported. It was an emergency shelter for about 350 people following hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The Niagara Convention and Civic Centre’s board of directors is hosting a cocktail party Thursday to introduce Painter to the city’s business community.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
In his state of the city address last year, Niagara Falls Mayor Ted Salci talked up anticipated federal and provincial investments in a convention centre to lure year-round visitors to the city.
With the funding now securely in place - and Thursday’s expected introduction of the new convention centre president - this year’s speech turned to building more hotels to accommodate the crowds of conventioneers expected to fill it.
“The City of Niagara Falls (issued) more than 1,300 building permits in 2007,” Salci told Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce members at a luncheon at Club Italia Tuesday.
“This reflects an estimated value of construction in our city of nearly $200 million. We have also seen a number of hotel expansions. In 2008, as we look ahead we expect several others to break ground.” Among those projects, he said, are a “major expansion” to the Fallsview Plaza hotel (formerly the Renaissance Fallsview), Dino DiCienzo’s hotel project proposed for the Jolley Cut “and we also have the hotel behind the Courtyard that has been (in development) for a while.”
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