From the Toronto Star: Brendan Kelly left after his shift last week as MC of the stadium show at Marineland, and hasn’t gone back. The grinning guy in the bright red shirt who invited children to feed the dolphins couldn’t take it anymore. “I can’t go back now. I just can’t face being that happy…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Art Frank is president of Niagara Casinos. Since 1998, the CAW has attempted unsuccessfully to become the trade union representing the associates at Niagara Casinos on four separate occasions. The fifth such attempt will take place Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at polling stations at Fallsview Casino and As an organization,…
From the Canadian Press (via Penticton Herald): Getting competitive bids for one of the world’s oldest and most famous tourist attractions – the Maid of the Mist boats in Niagara Falls – may not be as straight forward a proposal as the Ontario government hopes. The Niagara Parks Commission came under fire last year for…
From the Buffalo News: Virginia Celenza is not the kind of person to just sit down and take it easy. At 80-plus years old, she admits she is taking it a bit more slowly – but you would never know. For Celenza and her late husband, Joseph, who died last year, retirement meant opening their…
City Councillor Janice Wing wrote a letter to the Niagara Falls Review expressing concern about their coverage of the City Council meeting where Canadian Niagara Hotel’s application for off-site parking at their Jolley Cut hotel was approved: Some important facts were missed in your coverage of the Canadian Niagara Hotels’ new development atop the moraine…
From Niagara This Week: Boomer’s back, and he’s up to his old tricks. Boomer is one of five Siberian tigers that are a part of Greg Frewin’s magic show but one day back in July, it looked like the tiger’s life was in jeopardy. “We noticed a small, teeny mark,” Frewin said. “It started to…
Last week I received the latest email newsletters from the Embassy Suites by Hilton Niagara Falls – Fallsview.
From the Niagara Falls Review: A new $5 resident’s card will give area golfers a discount at two of the Niagara Parks Commission golf courses. Residents will get 20 per cent off selected green fees and regularly priced merchandise at Whirlpool and Legends on the Niagara golf courses. “When we undertook our community consultations last…
From the Niagara Falls Review: One of the best-known and oldest business names in Niagara Falls is no more. For all the nearly eight decades of its life, the landmark hotel on Falls Avenue directly across from the Rainbow Bridge has had “Brock” as part of its name. Now, as a new member of the…
From a Marketwire press release: Los Angeles-based Tours4Fun announced that beginning today they will be taking entries for their “Best of Summer” travel photo contest. Photos must be originals and of landscapes, not people, and prizes include a shopping tour of Niagara Falls, a Washington, DC tour, or Grand Canyon helicopter or airplane highlights tours….