My sister picked up the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire board goard at a local thift store. My wife and I were playing with my parents tonight and there was a $1000 question that was about Niagara Falls: Between which two Great Lakes are the Niagara Falls? A ) Huron and Erie B )…
I know I posted about this yesterday, but this article has more details. From the National Post: New York officials are considering temporarily turning some of Niagara Falls into a trickle. Plans to replace two 115-year-old pedestrian bridges could involve shutting down the water flowing over one section of the falls by building a temporary…
Surprisingly, I’ve actually seen very little written about the show in the local papers. I thought there would be more, but the even kind of came and went without much fanfare. There were definitely lots of people there for the show, and I know people who saw some famous people in town, but other than…
From November 2 – 4, the Skylon Tower will host the 13th Annual Wheel World Car & Bike Exhibition. It will be on the plaza level, the level that is almost always closed. I’ll try to make it over to see what the area looks like.
Apparently someone really dislikes Marineland commercials. In fact, he dislikes them so much he has started a petition. At the time of this posting, 12 people have “signed” the petition…
From Buzzle.com: Celebrating the New Year in a new and exciting environment is highly desirable – and one of the main bi-products of the increasing number of cheap flights and greater global mobility is that this is becoming more and more possible. People living in Chicago can now choose to celebrate the New Year in…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Oh, Can-ada! The USA is closer than ever. The Bush administration appears to have annexed a major Canadian landmark as part of a slick new campaign to promote U.S. tourism and welcome foreign visitors to America. A Disney-produced promotional video released last week by the departments of State and Homeland…
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From the Toronto Star: Tucked between Screamers House of Horrors, a $12.95 prime rib special and a slew of motels with heart-shaped Jacuzzis is a near-empty parking lot where the attendants, on the first Saturday in June, are parked on lawn chairs. The odd vehicle cruises by on the once-gridlocked main drag. Mike Piccirillo, who…
From the Globe and Mail: Vancouver billionaire Jim Pattison has shelved a potential $100-million investment in a Niagara Falls entertainment site until he can assess the progress and impact of new U.S. rules requiring all cross-border travellers to carry passports starting in January, 2008. The threat to U.S. travellers’ ability to move back and forth…