Meeting Places – A Young Garden

    The latest issue of Business Link Niagara has a nice article about the new restaurant, A Young Garden: Stepping through the doors of A Young Garden is like crossing a portal into the realm of the Orient. This uniquely designed restaurant with a Korean and Japanese menu captures the atmosphere of fine oriental dining at…

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      “State of the Blog” address (or a bunch of stats)

      Well, it’s about time I did a state of the blog address. The best way to determine how a web site is doing, is by looking at the stats. No matter how you look at it, Access Niagara and the Niagara Falls Blog are growing well. First, here are the stats (as of the end…

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      Niagara Falls Based Hotel Company To Purchase One of A Kind Muskoka Resort

      This isn’t directly Niagara Falls related, but it still ties in. Apparently Canadian Niagara Hotels is venturing beyond the Niagara Falls area. From a PR Web press release: Canadian Niagara Hotels Inc. is excited to announce that the court today has approved the acquisition of The Rosseau, a JW Marriott Resort & Spa from Alvarez…

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      Sleep Cheap off to rousing start

      From the Niagara Falls Review: One of the city’s top fundraising promotions is off to its usual hot start. Founder Jim Diodati says hotel phone lines were buzzing Monday for the first day of bookings for Sleep Cheap Charities Reap. By Tuesday, five of the 28 properties taking part were sold out. “The first day…

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      Emergency crews use rope to guide stranded hikers to safety at Niagara Gorge

      From CTV News: Emergency crews used a rope line to guide hikers to safety after they got stranded in a gorge at Niagara Falls, Ont. Police say several hikers, including three adults, two children and a dog, got into some difficulty Saturday afternoon while walking up the Niagara Gorge off a marked trail below Thompson’s…

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      Competition: Queen Victoria Park, Canada

      From the Architects’ Journal: The Niagara Parks Commission has launched an international contest to re-masterplan the area surrounding Canada’s most iconic waterfall

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      See Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timerberlake at Movieland :-)

      Sure, it would be nice if they came in person, but that seems unlikely. So the next best thing would be to see them in Movieland Wax Museum of Stars. The likeness of Jimmy Fallon is ok, but I think Justin Timberlake looks excellent! I’m not sure when these figures were put in, but I…

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      Skywalker petitions to cross Niagara Falls

      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…

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        Swingers set for lusty Falls getaway

        I had another one of those short debates in my head (remember the first Hooters newsletter I posted?) about posting this, but it is about tourism, so why not… From the Niagara Falls Review: Sexyboots, 37, and her husband (Mr. Boots) will be among the hundreds of couples expected to attend this weekend’s Valentines in…

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