Regular visitor Lisa from Rochester sent me this story from a local TV station (WHAM channel 13 in Rochester): By next summer, drivers will need a passport or an enhanced driver license to return to the United States from Canada. An enhanced license will look similar to the one you already have with an American…
From the Niagara Falls Review: There’s plenty Jim Cooper will miss about Oh Canada Eh?, the patriotic dinner show he co-founded 12 years ago. The songs won’t be one of them. “When you’ve sang the same songs about 1,700 or 1,800 times, it might be nice to put some of them to bed,” he says…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission has reached a three-year collective agreement with its restaurant servers. The Niagara Parks and Unite HERE union Local 2347, which represents restaurant servers, ratified the deal Friday. Union members voted in favour of the plan April 7. The deal includes improved working conditions and wages for…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Fay Booker is not on a first-name basis yet with some members of the Niagara Parks Commission, but the new chairwoman is getting up to speed on the commission’s business, including its finances that show a slight improvement over last year, but $1.6 million less than three years ago. “There…
I have a bunch of articles that I will be posting that are a few days to a week old, but I still want to get them up. Then I’ll be back to regular posting. It will take a couple of days to get caught up…
You can tell that school is back in now. During the week, there seems to be a lot more bus tours of seniors around. # RT @NiagaraParksPR: Last day of the season for the Maid of the Mist is October 25 #
From the Niagara Falls Review: After a wildly successful Niagara Falls run, don’t rule out a “Beauty and the Beast” comeback for 2008. That’s what producer Linus Hand is leaning toward, along with a possible production of “Footloose” in the spring. In fact, after two seasons of testing the waters Hand’s company, Silver Mist Productions,…
From the Niagara Falls Review: About the only thing faster than Olympic gold medallist Jon Montgomery going downhill on his skeleton is how quickly his popularity across the country has exploded. From his joyous acceptance of the gold medal to his spontaneous beer-jug hoisting celebration on the streets of Whistler, B.C., Montgomery has become a…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls is blooming brilliant! That’s the consensus from a group of judges who toured the city during the summer as part of the Communities in Bloom contest. Recently, judges awarded Niagara Falls five blooms in the annual competition, the highest rating available. This was the city’s first entry into…
From Niagara This Week: More off-site parking will mean less impact to a sensitive area of the escarpment overlooking the falls when a new, 26-storey hotel is built on the brink of Queen Victoria Park, proponents say. Despite planning staff calling for no off-site parking for the project, council gave its blessing Monday night to…