From the Niagara Falls Review:
Ontario Tourism Minister Peter Fonseca backs the Niagara Parks Commission’s approach in developing tourism attractions and the role it plays in Niagara’s economy even though it competes with private-sector businesses.
“I’m happy. I’m excited,” Fonseca said after visiting Niagara’s Fury, the $7-million attraction the parks commission built onto Table Rock House, at the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.
“This is a giant step for Ontario tourism,” Fonseca said about the renovations at Table Rock. It was a ringing endorsement for the parks commission from the provincial cabinet minister who is responsible for overseeing the agency.
The parks commission has been criticized by the head of the company that owns the Imax Niagara Falls theatre for developing an attraction he said goes head-to-head with its businesses.
This isn’t anything earth shattering, but I thought I’d point out that it appears the new East Side Mario’s on Clifton Hill is going to have windows along Clifton Hill and along Oneida Lane.
In the previous posting, you can see that on the East side of the building, there will be no windows. I thought this was a little strange, as you would be able to look down Clifton Hill from that side of the building.
From a PRNewsWire press release seen on Yahoo! Finance:
After years in the making, months of speculation and interest from around the globe, The Niagara Parks Commission (NPC) today officially celebrated the opening of its newest attraction Niagara’s Fury. Ontario Minister of Tourism, Peter Fonseca, was joined by NPC Chairman Jim Williams, Niagara MPP Kim Craitor, Niagara Falls Mayor Ted Salci and children from the Boys and Girls Club of Canada to help mark the grand opening of this spectacular, new attraction that allows you to experience the extreme, violent and beautiful birth of Niagara Falls in a way you’ve never dreamed possible.
According to NPC Chairman Jim Williams “We’re confident Niagara’s Fury will provide that exciting, educational and interactive experience our visitors have been looking for when they visit Niagara today. And who better to tell the dramatic story of Niagara than NPC, an agency dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of the Falls and the entire Niagara River Corridor for future generations.”
From the Niagara Falls Review:
When his two-year-old twin sons and a crowd from the Boys and Girls Club of Niagara “survived” Niagara’s Fury, Peter Fonseca declared the new attraction a winner.
“You get the thumbs up from kids, you know you’re right,” said Fonseca, Ontario’s Minister of Tourism, himself the parent of young children.
Fonseca, his wife Christina and their sons Alexander and Sebastian were among the first visitors to test out the Niagara Parks Commission’s $7-million moving-theatre attraction, built over the past year as part of an overhaul of Table Rock House. It has began operating in the spring, but officially opened Sunday.
The moving theatre attraction takes visitors on a ride through history, explaining the formation of Niagara Falls from the Ice Age, geological changes and the erosive effect of water over thousands of years.
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