From Niagara This Week: Yondu was in the house and the crowds couldn’t get enough. Michael Rooker, who played the blue-skinned buccaneer Yondu in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” series, was one the main attractions at Niagara Falls Comic Con. The 63-year-old actor enjoys meeting with his fans.
From the St Catharines Standard: It wasn’t fatigue or exhaustion that caused Bernadette Miszk to break down as she approached the finish line at the Niagara Falls Women’s Half Marathon, Sunday. Nineteen-year-old daughter Julianne stood at the finish line, waiting to place a medal around her mother’s neck… More than 1,600 women participated in the…
From Niagara This Week: Visitors to Niagara Falls may have noticed a crane dangling workers over the ledge above the lower observation deck of Journey Behind the Falls on Monday. The workers were chipping away at loose rock in a process called ice-jacking on the Canadian side of the Horseshoe Falls, 13 storeys above the…
From the St Catharines Standard: Niagara Falls is the backdrop for an award-winning Canadian drama opening at the Niagara Square Cinemas Friday. “Mary Goes Round,” the debut feature from Toronto director Molly McGlynn, stars Aya Cash (“You’re the Worst”) as a substance abuse counselor named Mary who loses her job and driver’s license because of…
From Niagara This Week: More than a year after first floating the idea, plans to build a Titanic museum in Niagara Falls are steaming ahead with no icebergs in site. Fuelled with a $3-million commitment from the Niagara Angel Network, proponents of the attraction hope to welcome aboard their first passengers by the middle of…
I know, I know. It has been 5 months now since I last posted. I haven’t given up entirely, but I got close. A few years ago I lost my good Google rankings, and the traffic to the site has gone down every since. I get less people commenting, I make less money from ads,…
Last week I received the latest email newsletter from the Falls Avenue Resort.
The NPR show (from WBUR in Boston), Only a Game, had a repeat of this segment this past Saturday. I didn’t hear it the first time, but heard it on Saturday. It is a neat history of Red Hill and his family. William “Red” Hill Sr. was born on Oct. 27, 1887 in Niagara Falls,…
From the Buffalo News: An estimated 800 million gallons of untreated sewage and stormwater have flowed into the Niagara River from the American and Canadian sides so far this year, eight times more than last year. It’s enough to pour over the Horseshoe Falls for 20 minutes. The American side accounts for about three-quarters of…
Here is the newsletter announcing the February 2018 entertainment line-up at the Fallsview Casino Resort: