Best of Access Niagara – My visits to Canyon Creek Chophouse

This is a continuation of my “Best of Access Niagara” series. This series looks back on popular posts, highly commented posts, my favourite places, etc. It looks like my first mention of Canyon Creek Chophouse was in April 2007 as a result of a newsletter from the city talking about how they had opened. To…

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Niagara Parks unveils Canada 150 projects

From the Niagara Falls Review: Canada’s 150th birthday will have Niagara Parks Commission gardeners busy this spring. Interactive gardens, a revitalized Niagara Glen and 30,000 red and white tulips will greet tourists this summer for the NPC’s commemorative programming for the country’s year-long celebration. Backed with $563,000 from the province’s Ontario150 Funding Program, the NPC…

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HIGGS: Before Niagara Falls was a city

From the Niagara Gazette: What was life like in the early days of the Niagara area — even before it was a fully fledged city? I hope you are somewhat interested as I am part of the planning committee for the Niagara Falls 125th celebration and will be writing about the early days in Niagara…

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Nik Wallenda on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

Speaking of Nik Wallenda… Every week I download the podcast for NPR‘s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! It is a news quiz that is usually quite funny. Each week there is some kind of famous person on to play part of the game. A couple of weeks ago Nik Wallenda was on to talk about his walk across the…

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A year after walk, Falls officials balance expectations, realities of Wallenda’s walk

From the Niagara Gazette: …Saturday was the one year anniversary of Wallenda’s historic walk over this city’s giant waterfalls, and an informal Gazette survey showed that while the impact of the media storm of publicity last year is still unclear, the good news is that the city is now able to take advantage of additional…

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Convention Centre finds its groove

From Niagara This Week: Employees at the Scotiabank Convention Centre could be excused for wanting to have their cake and eat it, too. Staff were marking the centre’s second anniversary, and a brief cake cutting ceremony was held to celebrate. Mayor Jim Diodati joined board chair Wayne Thomson and SCCN president and general manager Kerry…

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