Butterfly Conservatory looks at the lives of owls
From Niagara This Week: When staff at the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory planned for exhibits for Ontario’s 150th birthday, naturally they looked up to kick things off.
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Simply Stacie: We’re Back
Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: We also went to Niagara Falls and had a blast there. We went to Clifton Hill and did a few of the attractions there. Nightmares Fear Factory was my favourite. It was really scary! The falls are really pretty. I’ve been to…
‘Extremely bleak’ conditions still dog Niagara’s tourism industry
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission wasn’t the only business to struggle in 2009. The tourism industry as a whole had to scratch and claw its way through a year hampered by unseasonable weather, new passport requirements and a deadly influenza strain. “It’s extremely bleak out there,” said Niagara Falls Tourism chairman…
New chairwoman at parks
From the Niagara Falls Review: Fay Booker, a Burlington business consultant who specializes in how corporations govern themselves, is expected to become the next chairwoman of the Niagara Parks Commission at a time the provincial agency is under scrutiny for the way it operates. Tour ism Minister Michael Chan’s office announced in a 5 p.m.,…
Twitter updates for 2010-06-30
These new signs/banners were just put up along Victoria Avenue over the last few days. They say "The Clifton Hill http://twitpic.com/2197bd # RT @20pfm10: Jun 30, 1859: French acrobat Charles Blondin walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. http://viigo.im/437L #
E Tours LLC Launches New Tours to Niagara Falls
From a PRWeb press release: Currently featured on Tripedition.com are tours to Niagara Falls from various cities throughout the East Coast, including Boston, New York, and others. Tripedition.com plans, arranges, and provides bus tours of numerous sightseeing locations throughout the United States and Canada. Trips to Niagara Falls include the Thousand Islands Boat tour, American…
Not giving up despite ‘roadblocks, frustrations’
From the Niagara Falls Review: Despite facing hurdles to get a $1.5-billion development off the ground in Niagara Falls, the chairwoman of the company behind the proposal remains confident the project will eventually move ahead. “My vision to this project, and to the future of the project, has never been changed,” Helen Chang, chairwoman and…
Caught On Camera: Niagara Falls Rescue Drill
WGAL.com has a video on their site of a rescue drill: Rescue crews throw a rope to a man trapped on an icy slope only feet away from Niagara Falls. A tourist shot the video from her hotel room, not knowing park rangers on the New York side were just conducting an exercise.
Clifton Hill / Victoria Avenue intersection construction
The city is doing construction work at the top of Clifton Hill at Victoria Avenue. The traffic lights have been taken out (I assume temporarily) and they’ve taken out the turning lane (I assume permanently) on Victoria Avenue that let you turn down Clifton Hill.
Sleep Cheap Charities Reap 2014 Announcement
Last week I received the following email newsletter from Sleep Cheap Charities Reap: