One million expected for Niagara festival

From the Toronto Star: It’s Canada’s largest illuminated lights festival, with more than three million tree and ground lights twinkling in the Winter Wonderland. It features not only the world’s largest Canadian-American flag but also Canada’s largest illuminated menorah. This year, the more than 120 illuminated and animated light displays that make up Niagara Falls…

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Another restuarant closed

On Victoria Avenue next to the former Little Caesars location, there used to be an Italian restaurant. Then it became a Chinese food restaurant. Then it became a kosher restaurant. Then it became an all day breakfast buffet. Now it is gutted. I wonder what is going in their next.

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    “Action packed week”

    Another Google Alert led me to a blog where someone mentioned coming to Niagara Falls. There was nothing terribly exciting about her visit, but her closing comments were interesting: We couldn’t believe that for such a touristy place the town of Niagara is really well ….. a hole! The falls and this crazy street call…

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    “Clifton Hill in the late 80s” video

    Here is a cool video I saw the other day. It’s short, but shows what Clifton Hill looked like 20 years ago. [dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x81jus_clifton-hill-in-the-late-80s_travel[/dailymotion] Note: Sometimes the Dailymotion site says that the video has to be reloaded. This is a problem with their site or the video that they host, not on my end. If you…

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      Spring in Bloom concerts

      From the Niagara Falls Review: The new Spring in Bloom Concerts is expected to attract 7,000 people to the city in May. The concert series, hosted by the Winter Festival of Lights, recently secured $75,000 from the Ministry of Tourism’s Celebrate Ontario 2008 program. The Niagara Falls event was one of seven Niagara recipients to…

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        Niagara Can Still Make Me All Misty

        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…

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        Twitter updates for 2010-04-01

        I’m here for dinner with my wife for our anniversary. Yummy! (@ Canyon Creek Chophouse) http://4sq.com/9A0sxR # It is an absolutely gorgeous day out. Wow! # This is my father-in-law’s fav course! RT @NiagaraParksPR Niagara Parks Whirlpool & Legends on the Niagara golf courses now open for season #

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