Twitter updates for 2010-11-04

This was taken yesterday morning on Clifton Hill. Things are pretty slow around here mid-week… http://twitpic.com/33ut6w # I don't know how long this has been there, but I've never noticed this "scoreboard" outside Ghost Blasters (inside http://twitpic.com/33ur50 # RT @SafariNiagara: 2011 Season Memberships on sale soon for Christmas… stay tuned! #

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Convention Centre progress

If you follow the comments, you noticed that regular visitor StEC left a comment with a link to some pictures he took from the top of the Hilton. There are many that are nice, but the one that stood out to me was the picture of the Convention Centre. It is a nice looking building,…

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Scaring up weekend fun in Niagara Falls

From the Niagara Falls Review: From haunted hayrides to ghostly battlefields to Norman Bates back on the big screen, there’s plenty to do Halloween weekend in Niagara Falls. All types of scares are in the air. With Halloween on Sunday night, it allows two full days of scary hijinx for families to freak out at….

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Chasing smokestacks is just ‘wishful thinking,’ experts say

From the Niagara Falls Review: High-rise hotels, like the 53-storey Hilton that opened last year, have replaced smokestacks as the symbol of where the jobs are in Niagara Falls. It’s a sign of Niagara’s changing economy and evidence municipal leaders have to be able to adapt to new economic trends, say experts who monitor the…

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First Falls photo

From Niagara This Week: It was a picture-perfect moment, over 170 years ago. The world known attraction in Niagara Falls will be getting back a piece of its history that was once thought to be lost. Now, 13 years after its re-discovery, one of the earliest known photos of the Falls will return to its…

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More articles about “historic first photo” of Niagara Falls

If you’ve been hanging around the Niagara Falls Blog for a while, then you might remember that on April 18, 2006 I posted something called “Oldest picture of Niagara Falls?“. I included some links to the Newcastle University Special Collections where there were some old photos of Niagara Falls. The links don’t work anymore, but…

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Nice photos of Niagara Falls in Autumn 2010

Yesterday I walked along the Niagara Parkway next to the Falls and in Queen Victoria Park. I took a bunch of pictures. It was overcast, so the sky doesn’t look great, but the colours of the leaves look good. I should have probably taken these a couple of weeks ago to get some more leaves…

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**Wild Wednesday’s at the Embassy Suites**

Yesterday (Thursday) I received the latest email newsletters from the Embassy Suites by Hilton Niagara Falls – Fallsview.

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From Frightening to Fun, Niagara Events Have It All This Halloween

From a PRWeb press release seen on Yahoo! News: Halloween is not for the faint of heart in Niagara Falls with ghoulish Niagara events all around the popular districts of Clifton Hill, Fallsview Boulevard and Lundy’s Lane. Clifton Hill is the destination for family fun on Halloween with attractions such as the House of Frankenstein,…

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A rewarding getaway on a tight budget

From the Toronto Star: Problem: The family needs a weekend getaway in the middle of a July heat wave, but cash-flow is tight after repairs to our aging minivan. Solution: Use our Aeroplan and Air Miles reward points to “get out of Dodge” and bankroll a glorious weekend getaway in Niagara Falls. Maybe this isn’t…

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