From the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle: If you’re traveling to Canada this weekend, prepare to wait. More than 40,000 vehicles are expected to cross the three main bridges to and from Canada over the long Labor Day weekend. When Shirley Lappi and Pamela Sherry decided to visit this Canadian tourist town this week, they planned…
From Niagara This Week: From whale baby boom to tightrope walks and the start of rebuilding the city’s roads, it was an exciting year
From Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide: A bill to ban whale and dolphin captivity in Canada is finally set to become law after a sinuous process that took over three years to reach a conclusion. The House of Commons passed Bill S-203 on Monday morning. The legislation will help outlaw captive breeding and the import or…
The Classic Iron Motorcycle Museum is now open. It opened last week (10 days ago). I was by on Saturday and saw that they were opened and stopped to ask a few questions: There are over 40 bikes on display Adult pricing including taxes is $10 Child pricing including taxes is $8 They are still…
From the Buffalo News: Tourism officials on the American side of the border are often crying the blues about Niagara Falls, Ont., getting the bigger slice of the tourism pie. Yet, the American side has some fine attractions, from Goat Island to the Cave of the Winds to the Aquarium of Niagara. An odd attraction…
From the Welland Tribune: Green Oaks trailer park residents have lost their bid to have city hall get between them and Marineland owner John Holer, who is evicting 47 families from the Stanley Ave. property. But some say the attention they raised might help Niagara Falls renters in the future. “They don’t want to protect…
From Budget Travel Online: By the time I was growing up there in the ’70s and ’80s, Niagara Falls had ceased to be the honeymoon icon of yesteryear. The region was economically depressed and famously polluted. Forget the 1953 Marilyn Monroe movie Niagara; my experience was better captured in the 1982 made-for-TV movie Lois Gibbs…
No, that’s not what I call my wife! This is a blog entry from someone named Jim Squires. He mentions going to a couple of the arcades on Clifton Hill: Last week the wife and I took our little one out to Niagara Falls for the first time. It’s only one town out, so it’s…
From a PR Newswire press release seen on Yahoo! Canada Finance: For the 10th consecutive year, Fallsview Casino’s luxury 374-room hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario has been granted the coveted Four Diamond honour from CAA/AAA. CAA/AAA is among the world’s best known and highly respected rating system in the hospitality industry, recognizing establishments for their…
Yesterday I posted a press release about escape artist Steve Santini appearing at the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls. I was able to go down and see it. I got there just after 11 am (it was supposed to start at 11 am), and he had already done…