Clifton Hill Update – October 2011
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Nov. 24: Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls to open life-sized gingerbread house for family dining
The following is a press release I received recently from the Great Wolf Lodge: Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls Creates Life-Size Gingerbread House for Family Dining Life-size gingerbread house will open for dining on Nov. 24 to raise money for the Child Advocacy Centre Niagara Niagara Falls, ON (Oct. 13, 2011) – For many families…
$5 admission at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! during “Gimme Five Food Drive”, Nov. 6-10
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article from Niagara This Week about a special promotion that Ripley’s had on to support Project Share in Niagara Falls. Here is the full press release: Ripley’s Believe It or Not! To Hold “Gimme Five” Food Drive to Fight Hunger in the Niagara Falls Area …
Next tour boat operator could be named by year’s end: NPC
From the Niagara Falls Review: The winner of the much-publicized bid to provide boat tours in the Niagara gorge could be named by the end of the year, says Janice Thomson, interim chairwoman of the Niagara Parks Commission. “We’re currently still in the review process. There has been a lot of detail throughout the whole…
World tunes in to Fear Factory faces
From the Welland Tribune: When Frank LaPenna received a text message saying the website for his business was seeing some unusually high numbers, he didn’t think too much of it. One of his employees wanted to let him know that the Nightmares Fear Factory website, which was typically getting 600 hits per day, had received…
Get into Ripley’s for $5
From Niagara This Week: Admission to a Niagara Falls attraction on Clifton Hill for just five bucks? Believe it — or not! There’s a catch, however, but that OK. It’s all for a good cause. Ripley’s Believe it of Not! Odditorium on Clifton Hill is staging what the museum calls its Gimmie Five Food Drive…
Dino Rampage is no more
Dino Rampage, the ride simulator on Victoria Avenue has been closed for a while, but just the other day they finally took down the signs and the t-rex head. I had meant to go and give it a try, but never did. I wonder what is going into that space…
Believe it or not, Hudak skips potentially embarrassing Niagara Falls attraction
From the Canadian Press (via Yahoo! News): Campaign officials work hard to keep their leader in the best possible light and out of potentially embarrassing situations. So it seemed too good to be true Saturday when Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s schedule indicated he would visit the Ripley’s Believe It or Not attraction in Niagara…
Send killer whale back to Florida, court tells Marineland
From the Toronto Star: Ontario’s Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court decision ordering Marineland to return a killer whale to the Florida water park that loaned it out. In July, an Ontario Superior Court judge ordered the Niagara Falls amusement park to return Ikaika, a 9-year-old male orca, to SeaWorld, the Orlando, Fla.-based…
‘This is not a laughing matter’
Yesterday I posted about seeing Steve Santini, the escape artist, at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls. If you haven’t seen the video, you should check it out on YouTube I mentioned in my posting that there were lots of people with cameras. John Law, the write for the…