Fallsview Casino celebrates Chinese New Year

From CANOE Travel: When he gets back to Australia, Daniel Whin will be able to tell all his friends about how the Chinese celebrate the new year. He was sitting in the restaurant at the Fallsview Casino on Thursday afternoon when he heard some loud drums and decided to see what all the excitement was…

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Winter tourism’s guiding light

From the Toronto Sun: It started as a way to keep up with our American competition. Now, nearly three decades later, the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights has no competition. When rumblings of a winter lights festival first started in 1982, organizers watched what was happening across the border with envy. Established two years…

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Festival is a laughing matter

From the Niagara Falls Review: Bigger festival = bigger laughs. After two years as a single night event, the Niagara Falls Comedy Fest has supersized itself for its return in February. With a roster of nearly 20 comics, the event has gone back to its roots to become a three-day affair. And it will be…

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Seeing the tourist sights for $1

From the Niagara Falls Review: It’s become an annual family event for the Goldfinches. And best of all, it benefits a worthy cause. Linda Goldfinch and her son Branden, both from Niagara Falls, took in several of the tourist attractions along Clifton Hill Sunday as part of the annual $1 museum day to benefit the…

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$1 day at Clifton Hill Sunday

From Niagara This Week: For Nancy Clayton there couldn’t be an easier fundraiser than the $1 museum day. As the vice-president of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF)’s Niagara chapter, she’s been organizing the event for the past 23 years. It started with a need to fundraise funds for cystic fibrosis research but what it’s…

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Niagara Falls rocks out on NYE

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.

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Niagara Falls (NY) Rocks 2011 New Year’s Celebration

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.

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Sea of New Year’s Eve revellers floods Niagara Falls

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…

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