From the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal: It appears that the declining value of the U.S. dollar means more than just overcrowded mall parking lots on weekends. The cable financial network CNBC sent a crew to the Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls USA on Tuesday to examine the issue, which has seen the U.S. dollar worth…
From Niagara This Week: Several years ago, officials from the Japanese province of Hyogo were wrapping up a 10-year search for the best horticultural schools in the world to model a new $23-million horticultural school on. The Japanese found their model at the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture, nestled in the stunning Botanical Gardens…
Standing at the corner Murray St and Fallsview Blvd I had a couple ask me where the casino was. Uh, right there 🙂 # It is hot and my son looks like he's going to pass out he's been running around so much (@ Bronto's) http://4sq.com/9jzuno # I just unlocked the "Crunked" badge on @foursquare!…
The Travel Tips section of the USA Today web site has information on Museums in Niagara Falls, Ontario: Niagara Falls, Ontario is a tourist destination for its main attraction, the world-famous Falls, which stand at 177 feet high on the Canadian side, and carry nine times more water than the U.S. Niagara counterpart, according to…
“A new zip-line attraction and aerial adventure course is coming to Niagara Falls. The Niagara Parks Commission announced Tuesday it received provincial approval to enter into an agreement with Niagara Adventure Excursions Inc., to develop and operate the new attractions at the Grand View Marketplace and Thompson Point locations along the Niagara Pkwy., starting in…
From Niagara This Week: As far as Wendell Wilks is concerned, Niagara is distinct from Toronto and Hamilton and deserving of its own television station. And to deny the region its own voice is to deny it its constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of expression, he adds… “TVN Niagara will not apply further,” he said. “But Wendell Wilks,…
From the Niagara Falls Review: No sooner does Brenda Manning start talking about the scorn she’s endured as a Marineland protester over the years than a woman exits her vehicle, glares at her and proceeds to tell her she should “fight for human lives” instead. Manning offers a smirk, then points out the woman left…
From 610 CKTB: A tightrope walker who wants to walk a highwire across the Niagara Gorge now has considerible political backing in the U.S. Nike Wallenda was told he wouldn’t get a permit to perform the stunt because the Parks Commission on both sides of the border say stunting along the gorge or the river…
Last Thursday last week I received the latest newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa. They are promoting Valentine’s Day packages again. You can subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the Special Email Offers link on the side of the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa main page.
From the Globe and Mail: Nik Wallenda walked his first tightrope when he was 2. He’s bicycled 45 metres across a wire suspended 20 storeys high. He even proposed to his wife on a high wire. But the famed funambulist’s most hair-raising feat yet may be a political one: persuading g the embattled government agency…