From Niagara This Week: Last year, Eleanor Blair travelled more than 2,400 kilometres from her home in Gainsville, Fla. for an exciting new artistic challenge. The painter, accustomed to creating landscape portraits with oils and a fine-tipped brush, said she needed a challenge, and after hearing about the International Plein Air Painters Paint-Out event in…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort needs to push its Avalon ballroom concerts and hotel accommodations to bring gaming revenue back up at the casino and Casino Niagara, says Ontario Lottery and Gaming spokeswoman Teresa Roncon. “What we’re doing is concentrating on our non-gaming amenities – the entertainment portion. We are concentrating…
From the ground, it doesn’t look like much has been done at the future site of Dinosaur Park Adventure Golf (on Clifton Hill behind the Niagara SkyWheel). However, from above you can tell they’ve done a lot of work. At the end of August I went on the Niagara SkyWheel and took a few pictures…
From the Canadian Press (via Yahoo! News): Campaign officials work hard to keep their leader in the best possible light and out of potentially embarrassing situations. So it seemed too good to be true Saturday when Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s schedule indicated he would visit the Ripley’s Believe It or Not attraction in Niagara…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Since he was a boy Nik Wallenda has dreamed of walking over Niagara Falls on a tightrope. “It’s just something I’ve wanted to do my entire life,” said Wallenda, 32, a U.S.-based highwire walker who hopes to do a 2,200-foot crossing of the Niagara River Gorge and Horseshoe Falls next…
The Howard Johnson by the Falls on Victoria Avenue now has a KFC Express on site:
TravelPod has a posting about someone’s recent trip to Niagara Falls: Today we got up early to take Chris to Niagara Falls since he has never been there. We had a leisurely breakfast and then parked at the Casino (it’s really cheap there, especially if you are a casino member, it’s free to join, and…
The other day I noticed that the Qila Restaurant at the corner of Victoria Ave and Magdalen St was torn down. I don’t know why, and I don’t recall seeing any signs. Just one day I noticed it was gone. The first image shows what it looked like (a screenshot from Google Maps). The other…
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