Last week I posted some pictures from the CAA Winter Festival of Lights 2010-2011 Opening Ceremonies. I also took a very short video. You can see/hear a short clip from a couple of the performances. You can also get a sense of how big the crowd was. I would have taken a longer video and…
I heard about this originally this morning on the Buffalo NPR station. From WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo (includes a video): In Niagara Falls, the term “Cataract City’ takes on new meaning after two sea lions become the first in the area to receive a unique eye surgery. Thousands of guests come to the Aquarium…
From the Niagara Falls Review: As families started checking into their hotels Monday for what has become a Niagara fall tradition, organizer Jim Diodati says this will be “an odd year” for Sleep Cheap, Charities Reap. “It has been great, especially having the water parks all on board and having a great big inventory. It’s…
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This isn’t directly Niagara Falls related, but it does have a tie-in… Last week I was listening to an episode of On Point, a radio show on NPR out of WBUR in Boston. The episode was called The Magic of Harry Houdini and had information from one of his biographies, as well as information about…
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From the Niagara Falls Review: The head of Niagara’s tourism marketing organization says it has been “as transparent as we can” and insists it played by the rules when it issued a $500,000 untendered contract to publish a promotional magazine. “I trust the folks around this table. They vetted it and decided it was a…
At Dinosaur Park Miniature Golf, a couple of the dinosaurs that are supposed to be in that fenced area are gone ri http://twitpic.com/368ibd # Wow! There is some very thick fog out today. This was taken on Centre St by the Kraft/Post factory. http://twitpic.com/364uvg #
From the Niagara Falls Review: More changes in senior management are coming up at the Niagara Parks Commission where two of its nine directors have left recently, says chairwoman Fay Booker. The sudden departure of revenue, marketing and business development director Joel Noden Tuesday and the planned retirement of engineer Nick Murphy mean there are…
Last Saturday I went to the opening of ceremonies for the CAA Winter Festival of Lights. It is the first time I’ve ever been. I spoke to my wife about it earlier in the week, and we thought our kids would enjoy seeing Mickey and Minnie Mouse, as well as Greg Frewin, so we made…