From the Toronto Star: Okay, you’re up and moving gingerly on the new skates Santa brought, but can you stop? That question may arise in your mind this winter as you glide toward the brink of the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls. The Rink at the Brink returned last month, but skaters this year are…
From Niagara This Week: With mild weather and a great musical line-up, Niagara Falls was the place to be on New Year’s Eve. Canadian supergroups Barenaked Ladies and Great Big Sea were joined by hip hop artist Kardinal Offishall to ring in 2011 in style at the brink of the world famous Niagara Falls.
From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo (includes video): Old Falls Street was packed with thousands of patrons for the 2nd annual Hard Rock Cafe New Year’s Eve Guitar Drop Friday night. The event was headlined by a live performance from Smashmouth and also included food, drinks and fireworks.
From the Niagara Falls Review (includes video): A great big sea of New Year’s Eve revellers flooded Niagara Falls where a lineup of popular entertainers and unusually warm weather led to a bigger-than-normal crowd for the annual concert in Queen Victoria Park. Barenaked Ladies, Great Big Sea and rapper Kardinal Offishall ushered in 2011 from…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Pinocchio need not apply to the Niagara Parks Commission. Honesty, integrity and independence have been added as qualifications expected of future commissioners as the Ontario government prepares to fill six vacancies on the agency responsible for running the public parks and attractions along the Niagara River. Chairwoman Fay Booker said…
From Niagara This Week: The list of people to turn to is short, and getting shorter for Bob Gale in his ongoing push for what he considers a proper investigation of the Niagara Parks Commission. As a former commissioner, Gale has spent the last few years crusading for change at the arms-length agency of the…
From the Niagara Gazette: More than 50 years ago, the Robert Moses Parkway served as a modern arterial shuttling motorists along the Niagara River offering sweeping views of the gorge rim and a direct road to the brink of the American Falls. It was built in a time when Niagara Falls was bustling, small villages…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Some of the city’s biggest and long-awaited building projects will either be completed or closer to completion in 2011. The Scotiabank Convention Centre, currently under construction about 500 yards from the Canadian Horseshoe Falls on Stanley Ave., is scheduled to host its first event — a home and garden show…
After a truly wonderful Christmas break, I will be back to regular posting. It will take me a few days to get caught up, but then things should be back to normal.