From Niagara This Week: Coffers have swelled by more than $21 million since the city signed on to a new casino hosting agreement with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming. The city received its a fourth-quarter (January to March) non-tax gaming revenue payment — $4,452,570 — to bring the total to $21.2 million for hosting Casino…
I hope you all read the article in the Globe and Mail about Greg Frewin. It had some great information on him and how he ended up in Niagara Falls. There were also some unexpected interesting tidbits. One of those was information about who owns the land. In a previous posting, Dan and Rick had…
From Le Parisien: Découvrir les Chutes du Niagara sous un autre angle. On connaît l’image des Chutes du Niagara, ces impressionnants murs d’eau en forme de fer à cheval où la rivière Niagara effectue un saut de 51 mètres dans le vide. C’est en été que le spectacle est le plus impressionnant. Mais on oublie…
From the Niagara Gazette: The final week of the 2012 calendar is featuring quite a few youthful visitors in Niagara Falls. More than 2,000 youth and adults from across the United States and Canada have piled into area hotels, restaurants and convention halls for the Joshua Revolution 2012 Conference “Niagara ’12 The Last Trump.” The…
This was posted recently on the Chow Hound web site: Known more for the casinos than the chow, does anyone have any dinner suggestions? I am tempted to keep it safe and go to the Keg, but would love to hear of any decent alternatives, a little more high-end if possible. Visit their site to…
RT @CriminalsMuseum: Buy any two books or more in our Crime book section and receive a free Hat or Gangster Poster!!!!
My current web hosting provider has been just awful of late. They do not respond to service requests, and the performance of the server it is on is terrible. I’ve signed up with a new provider, and so I will move the site this weekend. It should go fairly smoothly, but you may find the…
This week I received the latest email newsletter from Oh Canada, Eh? Dinner Theatre.
Rich Ralph is rollerblading across Canada to try to raise money for cancer research. On June 25 he made it to Niagara Falls: We arrived at Oaks Park in Niagara Falls where we stopped for lunch and were met by a reporter from the Niagara Falls Review. The actual waterfalls were only a few kilometers…
This past Tuesday the IMAX Theatre in Niagara Falls had a “hospitality” night. I was able to go with my two sons to see the film Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia. The theatre of course will still be showing the Niagara Falls IMAX film a dozen times a day, but there are a few showings of…