No shortage of interest in NPC job fair

From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission is on pace to receive approximately 200 applications from Saturday’s job fair, which would go a long way to achieving the agency’s need to recruit 350 students this year.

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    Public, council deserve to know how much extra tax hotels collect

    From the Niagara Falls Review: Public financing of Niagara Falls Tourism has been a point of contention at city budget deliberation time for years – although it appears the group might get a warmer reception at council this year, despite the fact it wants more taxpayer money… Many tourism operators in the city have been…

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    Marineland threatens to sue former trainer for more than $1 million

    From the Toronto Star: Marineland has threatened to sue former senior trainer Christine Santos for “well in excess of $1 million” for telling the Star its lone killer whale Kiska was bleeding sporadically from her tail. In a five-page letter to Santos, lawyer Andrew Burns accuses her of having made statements “in complete carelessness, reckless and/or…

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      Police praise local pilot

      From the Niagara Falls News: A local helicopter tour operator is being praised by police for his actions last Thursday. Police said the pilot 33-year-old Lonnie Rumig of Niagara-on-the-Lake showed tremendous responsibility toward his passengers when he decided to set an aircraft down in a local park, after noticing it was not responding to his…

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      N.F., Ont. convention center progressing

      From Buffalo Business First: One year to the day that ground was broken on the $100 million Niagara Convention & Civic Centre, the project hit a major milestone. The 288,000-square-foot Stanley Avenue center, being constructed just a short walk from the Niagara Fallsview Casino in the thriving Niagara Falls, Ont., was officially “topped” off Friday…

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        Clifton Hill Resorts Update – June 2008

        Last Thursday I received the latest issue of the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter. They are promoting Marineland and Niagara Parks packages. You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.

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        Proposed Hotel/Residential Condo development

        As was first mentioned by Drafty about three weeks ago and posted here, there is an application regarding a proposed Official Plan policy to permit a future mixed use residential condominium/hotel development on the lands  of the former Loretto Educational Centre building. The proposal is consisting of 3 buildings with heights between 32 and 57…

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          I’m back now…

          We had a great few days away. My cell phone didn’t work… there was on Internet… it was wonderful! However, all good things must come to an end, so I’m back. It’ll take me a few days to get caught on some things, but I should be back to the 5-6 posts a day again…

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