From the Niagara Falls Review: A new $5 resident’s card will give area golfers a discount at two of the Niagara Parks Commission golf courses. Residents will get 20 per cent off selected green fees and regularly priced merchandise at Whirlpool and Legends on the Niagara golf courses. “When we undertook our community consultations last…
From the Niagara Gazette: The “bottom-up,” “community first” approach to development and redevelopment has been all the rage in recent years. It seems, after decades of essentially telling the people what’s best for them, public officials and entities finally figured out that there are advantages to getting what they like to call “community buy-in” before…
From Bullet News Niagara: Kids have that unique gift for getting right to the heart of the matter. So when daredevil Nik Wallenda stood in front of about 200 students at Notre Dame Elementary School Wednesday afternoon, the famed aerialist faced some of the best questions he’s been asked since he first began to make…
Someone with a LiveJournal blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls & Clifton Hill was great, makes me feel like to kid when I visit every few years. Went on the Maid of the Mist ride for the first time, and I must have spent 3 hours in the arcade, minimum.
Yesterday I received the latest issue of the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter. They are promoting April packages. There is also some history of William “Red” Hill, Sr. You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.
From the Orlando Sentinel: The Canadian theme park Marineland has sued SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment in U.S. court, in the latest chapter of an international custody battle over a killer whale. In its lawsuit, filed last week in Orlando, Marineland asks a federal court judge to issue an injunction that would prevent SeaWorld from retaking…
Last week I received the latest email newsletter from the Embassy Suites by Hilton Niagara Falls – Fallsview. I know that this sale is over now, but I still wanted to post it. This is a great example of why it’s a good idea to subscribe to these newsletter. $145 for a room in the…
As Lonny mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the City of Niagara Falls has information about the steel structure behind the Niagara SkyWheel. The attraction will be called Dinosaur Park Adventure Golf. The city web site doesn’t really have any other information on it. It says it is new construction and that it is currently…
A couple of weeks ago I received the latest email newsletter from Falls Avenue.
This was inevitable… After the arrival of the Niagara SkyWheel this Spring, the Falls Tower Ride managed to make it through one summer season, but now it’s coming down. It has been a fixture on Clifton Hill for ~40 years, but as rides, towers, and hotels popped up along the parkway, it was no longer…