From Niagara This Week: It’s known as the toughest two minutes in sports and for the next four days it will be showcased right in front of the falls. The 2006 Firefit Canadian Championships is set to begin at the Niagara Parks Commission’s Table Rock parking lot tomorrow. More than 500 professional firefighters from across…
From Buffalo Business First: Regional and provincial officials gathered in Niagara Falls, Ont., Friday morning for the ceremonial ground breaking for the city’s first convention center. The nearly 200,000-square-foot, $100 million center is being constructed just off of Stanley Avenue and in the shadow of some of the city’s largest hotels. Niagara Falls officials have…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The inaugural Car-Free Day on the Niagara Parkway wasn’t free of suggestions from both tourists and locals who want to see the event evolve from its humble beginnings Sunday. “This is awesome,” said Mike Sherman, a cyclist from Montreal who was riding down the empty Parkway toward the Horseshoe Falls…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls Tourism was on a mission when it travelled to New York City the week before Christmas: To sell Niagara Falls as a year-round vacation place. The Review went along for the ride. Here’s the first of five parts. Part 2 runs Friday. Four-year-old Sophia Griffo sits at the…
There are a few new trees being planted today along Queen Victoria Park / Niagara Parkway #Niagara
I posted about two months ago about Chuck’s Roadhouse Bar and Grill opening in the former Tony Roma’s location. The Chuck’s Roadhouse Bar and Grill locations page shows that the Niagara Falls location is coming soon (no date given). There are now signs on the outside of the building.
The Globe and Mail has an amazing article about Greg Frewin! It is 5 pages long on the web (it must have been a very lengthy article in the actual newspaper) and talks about Greg’s childhood, his rise to stardom, and how he ended up in Niagara Falls. It also talks about the challenges they’ve…
From the Niagara Falls Review: There are two new faces at the zoo. Safari Niagara staff recently welcomed two reticulated giraffes to the 150-acre nature park nestled in the heart of Stevensville. The giraffe yearlings, Moses and Ziphora, arrived from a zoological facility in the U.S., and are now enjoying their new enclosure at the…
More trailers are in place in Queen Victoria Park getting ready for Winter Festival of Lights opening ceremony #wfol http://t.co/EmAafhGR
From the Washington Post: A nine-hour drive with three children younger than 7 is not for the fainthearted, but Cathy Buffington and Don Badrak have a plan. The University Park couple, who’ll be driving from Detroit to Washington with their kids next month, want to veer off track for a few days in Ontario as…