Twitter updates for 2009-07-22

There are now Beluga whales in Friendship Cove at Marineland. They are hoping to have a "swim with a Beluga" option in a couple of years # No animal protestors at Marineland on Saturday, but several people protesting the trailer park closing # @adamwhite Not sure why. A comment was just left by someone else…

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    Ghost Blasters in Summer 2008

    One of my favourite attractions on Clifton Hill is Ghost Blasters. This is the “dark ride” inside the Great Canadian Midway. You sit in a little cart that takes you around a circuit where you shoot at targets. When you hit a target, different parts of the set move. I admit it… I’m not very…

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      Final day for Seven Wonders voting

      From the Niagara Falls Review: Safeguarding Niagara Falls’s spot among Canada’s most notable sites is down to the final hours. After two weeks of getting the vote out in the CBC’s Seven Wonders of Canada contest, the polls close at midnight. “There’s nothing else we can do. Everybody has done all they can do,” said…

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        Day by Day: Evangecamp #1–Buffalo/Niagara (Part 3–Friday)

        Here is something a little different… Someone with a Blogger blog posts about a how he was in a group that came to Niagara Falls to preach: Ken and I stood on Clifton Hill for the most part, Ken encouraging, almost goading me, to get into one-to-one conversations as I passed out tracts. But I…

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          Make the Most of Summer – Visit Great Wolf Lodge in August

          On Monday I received the latest newsletter from the Great Wolf Lodge. They are promoting special rates for August. You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.

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          Falls park to see more improvements

          From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: Further improvements are getting underway in Niagara Falls State Park. On Tuesday, the governor’s office announced that NY Works is investing $2 million into the viewing areas at Three Sisters Islands and Luna Island in the park

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          Crowne Plaza Niagara Falls-Fallsview Receives Award as Host of National Leprosy Conference

          From a PRWeb press release: The Crowne Plaza Fallsview welcomed delegates from around the globe as the Leprosy Mission of Canada held their bi-annual conference in Niagara Falls in June. The International conference brings awareness to the disease which to this day continues to grip a portion of the world with a child diagnosed with…

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          A natural wonder

          From the Buffalo News: Nik Wallenda wire-walked into history at Niagara Falls on Friday, but the effects quickly rippled around the world. “As far as feats of derring-do go, they don’t get much more primal or more terrifying,” wrote the Guardian of England. Wallenda hovered over the gorge like a “latter-day Moses,” said the New…

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