From Niagara This Week: This year’s Red Bull Crashed Ice Tour will begin and end in Canada — and Niagara Falls will be front and centre. “This is going to appeal to sports fans,” Mayor Jim Diodati said Monday after the energy drink maker revealed the city would be a part of the 2012-13 series….
From the Niagara Falls Review: All the talk is about The King’s Speech to win best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards, but George VI wasn’t very chatty himself during his 1939 visit to Niagara Falls. It was the last stop on a 23-day royal tour, the first time a reigning monarch set foot in Canada….
From WSTM-TV: Witnesses told State Parks Police that a man went over Niagara Falls yesterday afternoon. They reported seeing a man, who appeared to be in his 40s or older, going over the Horseshoe Falls near Terrapin Point. Lieutenant Peter Radwanski tells The Buffalo News this afternoon that nobody has been recovered.
From Niagara This Week: The tourism industry deserves the city’s support, says the head of Niagara Falls Tourism, as council bucked a trend that would have cut funding for the agency over the next few years. After hearing a presentation from Anna Pierce, head of Niagara Falls Tourism, during a corporate services meeting Monday where…
I found an old pamphlet the other day from Maple Leaf Resort. There is no date on it (probably from 1987), but at the time it was owned by York-Hannover Hotels. The holdings included the Sheraton Brock, the Sheraton Foxhead and the Village Inn. These are the properties that Canadian Niagara Hotels owns. The reason…
Last week I received the latest email newsletter from the Falls Avenue Resort.
Yesterday I posted a few links to articles about Nik Wallenda and how Governor Cuomo has approved his proposal. If you are interested, here are bunch more links. Note that many of them use material from the Associated Press, but then add in their own comments: Niagara Frontier Publications – Statement from Wallenda and Western…
From Niagara This Week: The Niagara Falls Illumination Board is looking to the community for help to revitalize lighting of the Horseshoe and American falls. The last update to the lighting system came 20 years ago when the current Xenon lighting system was installed. Following a thorough Request for Qualifications (RFQ) and Request for Proposal…
Last week I received an email newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa To subscribe to the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa newsletter, visit the main page of their site and enter your email address in the “Subscribe to Offers” form.
This is not a great picture (taken with my camera phone), but it is off a 2007 Tim Hortons calendar I saw in a store. Each month has a picture of a Tim Hortons location (near the ocean, beside a mountain, etc) and the June 2007 picture is of the Tim Hortons on Clifton Hill….