Friends of Niagara Glen organize clean-up day

From Niagara This Week: When the sun comes out and the snow finally melts, revealing the earth beneath, most Niagara residents feel the immediate desire to head outdoors. After months of being cooped up because of the early sunsets and often dreary weather, a nice spring day is a welcomed wake up call. Friends of…

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Defining Niagara through a new lens is our key to the future

From Bullet Media: A common mistake that we human beings regularly make is not being able to see the forest for the trees – missing the big picture because we are so focused on the small details we are involved in that we take the progress we are making or the assets that we have…

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Convention Centre nearly done

From Niagara This Week: Kerry Painter has a busy week ahead of her. As the president and general manager of the soon-to-be-complete Scotiabank Convention Centre, there are a lot of last minute details to tend to before the grand opening next Friday. The $100-million project on Stanley Avenue in Niagara Falls is coming in on-budget…

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NPC to remove ‘unfriendly’ fence

From the Niagara Falls Review: It’s not exactly tearing down the Berlin Wall, but the Niagara Parks Commission plans to remove the iron fence that funnelled visitors to the Table Rock complex into its gift shop before they could even get a closeup view of the Horseshoe Falls. “This was a very unfriendly action, this…

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Dinosaur Adventure Golf March 2011 update

First off, let’s start with the old Dinosaur Park Miniature Golf that was right beside the Comfort Inn Clifton Hill. It has been slowly dismantled over the last few months. Since I was last there, the booth is now gone. They have also dug up a lot of the holes. The booth for the new…

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Freebies slashed at Niagara Parks Commission

From Bullet Media: If they want to play, they’re going to have to pay. Niagara Parks Commissioners have decided they’ll no longer take free passes to play golf on NPC courses, ending a practice that some saw as a perk and others a useful promotional tool. Politicians too, with few exceptions, will have to bring…

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Justin Bieber at Movieland Wax Museum

I haven’t been in to see the figure, but apparently there is a new Justin Bieber wax figure in Movieland Wax Museum on Clifton Hill.

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U.S.-Canada border traffic remains in decline

From Herald Net: Stricter travel document requirements in place since 2009 haven’t meant endless waits for motorists along one of the busiest stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, as many had feared, but Americans are avoiding short trips to Canada anyway, a study released Friday found. They seem to think there’s no reason to go. The…

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$4 Million Restoration Completed for Ramada Niagara Falls Hotel

From a PR Web press release seen on Yahoo! News: The Ramada Hotel on Stanley Avenue in Niagara Falls, Canada announced that the properties comprehensive restoration project totaling more than $4 million is now complete. The property improvement plan included newly renovated guest rooms, indoor heated pool, business center, exercise facility and on-site restaurant. The…

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