Spectacle at the Falls

From 50plus.com: It’s the season for winter wonderlands, and Niagara Falls delivers its own unique twist with its annual CAA Winter Festival of Lights. It’s not a small undertaking — over one million visitors come each year, injecting enthusiasm and much-needed tourism dollars into the area. Here’s what there is to see.

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Williams goes out fighting

From the Niagara Falls Review: The way Ontario Tourism Minister Monique Smith wants to tender the right to run boat tours on the Niagara River will harm the Niagara Parks Commission, Niagara Falls’ tourism industry and tourism provincewide, says former Niagara Parks Commission chairman Jim Williams. He’s not going quietly after resigning his $250-a-day government-…

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    Funeral of Karel Soucek

    Many of you may remember a couple of years ago I performed a marriage in the Minolta Tower. I’m able to do this because of certain responsibilities with my church. I was recently speaking with an older man that had these same responsibilities years ago. We were talking about Dean Sullivan’s jump, and it made…

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    Niagara Falls Tunnels

    From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: 10 stories beneath the raging waters of the Niagara River sits a maze of massive tunnels, each of them 30 feet across. The remnants of the industrial break-through that introduced the world to the power in water. These tunnels are called tailraces and they are just part of the…

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    Tours4Fun Announces “Best of Summer” Travel Photo Contest

    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….

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      Lancastria.net – Niagara Falls

      I can’t find any information about who’s site this is or what the purpose of it is, but someone has posted some information about Niagara Falls as they were planning on going there: Tomorro we shall be going to Niagara falls, with the aim of seeing the falls at night, and to see some of…

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      Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum music display

      This has got to be one of my favourite displays on Clifton Hill. As mentioned previously, the lobby/entrance to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum was recently renovated.  One of the displays ia of a group of misfit musicians. There is just something about it that I find quite clever, and funny. I’ve posted…

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      Tweet: One or Two $100 Power Play Cards with Access to Mi…

      One or Two $100 Power Play Cards with Access to Mini Golf and Laser Tag at Dave & Buster’s – Up to 73% Off #pd – groupon.com/deals/dave-bus…

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        Motel 6 progress

        As reported previously, there is a Motel 6 being built at the corner of Stanley Avenue and Forsythe Street. There is now a sign up recognizing that it will be a Motel 6 and that it will be open in Spring 2007: I looked for more information, but there is nothing on the Accor Hotels…

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          Convention centre could bring more funding

          From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls is in store for special marketing funding from Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism once its convention centre opens, says Tourism Minister Jim Bradley. But a tourism industry official says they could use the money sooner.

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