Businesses excited for Victoria Avenue revamp

From the Niagara Falls Review: It has been a long-time coming. Businesses along Victoria Avenue say they are looking forward to the streetscape improvements approved recently by Niagara Falls city council. “It’s going to improve the look of the street and I’m all for it,” said Andrew Vergalito, owner of the Italian Ice Cream business…

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Some observations about the new Niagara Falls Margaritaville

As I tweeted last week, I stopped by the new Niagara Falls location of Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville. I walked all through the restaurant to check it out. I haven’t eaten there yet, but here are some observations: They did a very nice job fixing up that building. It has a definite “island” theme to it….

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    Golden Griddle almost ready to come down

    The new HOCO Ferris wheel is going to be where the Golden Griddle is on Clifton Hill. That portion of the building previously housed the Golden Griddle, the Quality Inn Clifton Hill Front Desk, and Q-Balls. Q-Balls hasn’t been open since the Great Canadian Midway and Boston Pizza opened. As previously posted, Ledcor is the…

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    New manager by June, predicts NPC chairwoman

    From the Niagara Falls Review: It could be summer before the Niagara Parks Commission gets a new manager at the helm as the government agency begins the process to fill the shoes of its retired boss John Kernahan. “I’m going to suggest the search process is going to take three or four months,” chairwoman Fay…

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      ABC of Canada

      My sister bought a book for my son called “ABC of Canada” by Per-Henrik Gurth and Kim Bellefontaine. Each letter of the alphabet has something to do with a place in Canada. As could be expected, N is for Niagara Falls: You can learn more about the book at the Kids Can Press web site.

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      Noden leaves parks commission

      From the Niagara Falls Review: Joel Noden, one of the Niagara Parks Commission’s nine-member senior management team, left the provincial agency Tuesday. “Joel has decided to look at some other interests he has,” said Fay Booker, the chairwoman of the provincial agency. He left the commission Tuesday, but Booker wouldn’t say whether it was his…

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      Twitter updates for 2012-02-09

      I want to go! @NiagaraParksPR: New Animals of the Rainforest Exhibit opens this weekend at Butterfly Conservatory:… http://t.co/ZCGJuHO8 # The new Mac's at Stanley/Ferry is now open. I went in and it looks nice. The gas bar isn't open yet http://t.co/nKN4IKt2 #

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