Choose Your Rates this Summer
Last week I received the latest email newsletter from the Hilton Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel and Suites.
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Secrets of ‘The Office’ Wedding
From “The Morning Call” TV Watchers blog: Visitors to Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, N.Y., were pleasantly surprised last Thursday when they walked onto the set of NBC-TV10’s “The Office” and found actors John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer taping a scene for the upcoming season’s fourth episode, according to The Buffalo News… Fischer’s makeup was…
GO trains returning for tourism season
From the Niagara Falls Review: The return of GO Transit trains to Niagara Falls is “absolutely wonderful,” says Niagara Falls woman Denise Kurek, one of the first passengers aboard last summer’s “excursion train” to Toronto as the provincial agency tested weekend service between Ontario’s two most popular tourism destinations. “We don’t like driving to Toronto,”…
Something sweet on Queen Street
From Niagara This Week: Here comes the fudge. Things just got a little sweeter on Queen Street with the arrival of the Niagara Falls Fudge Company. But while the store may be new, there’s a lot of tradition being packed into those near half-pound bricks being sold in 12 different varieties. That’s because co-owners Ross…
Take Advantage of our Early Holiday Special
Last Tuesday I received the latest email newsletters from the Embassy Suites by Hilton Niagara Falls – Fallsview.
America proves too tough for hitchhiking robot after vandals end cross-country trip
From the Verge: It seems the tough streets of Philadelphia were too much for a friendly little robot from Ontario. All the Hitchbot wanted to do was see the United States. But just two weeks after starting its cross-country journey in Boston, Hitchbot’s trip has come to an unfortunate end. Last night, the cute little…
Plans continue for Wallenda’s Falls tightrope walk
From WHEC Channel 10 in Rochester: Daredevil Nik Wallenda says the world is watching as he moves forward with plans for a tightrope walk across Niagara Falls this summer. Wallenda is scheduled to be in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Friday to meet with a task force of business and tourism officials. State Sen. George Maziarz says…
The Dudesons coming to Niagara Falls; GUMBALL 3000, New York to L.A. Celebrity Car Rally
This is a press release that is dated on Friday for an event happening the same day. If they wanted to get more publicity, they probably should have given people more notice that celebrities were going to be around. For those that don’t know, GUMBALL 3000 is a car rally. I know this is late,…
ATTENTION – I’ll be on the radio tomorrow morning!
Wow, it looks like my 15 minutes of fame is lasting for 16 minutes…Tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 7:55 am I will be interviewed by the morning host of 610 CKTB, Tim Denis. I got a call yesterday from the producer, Mike Saunders, and we played phone tag a bit, but I finally confirmed with him…
The man behind Marineland: 50 years of controversy
From the Toronto Star: One spring day in 1963, John Holer, the owner of Marineland, found himself on a Lake Ontario beach in a struggle with a 100-pound sea lion. Jeff, a sea lion that had escaped from Holer’s animal park in Niagara Falls three days earlier, sunk its teeth into Holer’s bicep as it…