Christmas

From the Welland Tribune:
The Christmas spirit has arrived at the Niagara Parks Floral Showhouse.
A Festival of Winter Colours includes traditional red, white and pink poinsettias as well as many unusual varieties and forms. Cyclamen, azaleas, Christmas cactus and paperwhite narcissus add to the display.
The Floral Showhouse is also adorned with lights, garland, ribbon, a Nativity [...]

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Graham on November 27th, 2009

From Canada.com:
Magician Greg Frewin will star in a CBC Christmas special that will climax with a stunt over Niagara Falls.
Greg Frewin Magic Man: Home for the Holidays will focus on Frewin as he balances family and career while running a dinner theatre. The veteran Las Vegas performer will cap the hourlong show suspended upside-down in [...]

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Last Thursday I received the following newsletter from Safari Niagara.

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Graham on April 30th, 2009

On Sunday I received an email newsletter from the Winter Festival of Lights. It seems a little early, but I guess they want people to have time to plan.

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Graham on January 14th, 2009

I was off for pretty much the entire two weeks around Christmas and New Year’s, and I kept meaning to come down and take some pictures of the Winter Festival of Lights. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to. The lights are now being taken down.

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Graham on December 25th, 2008

I know that there are people from all over the world with all sorts of backgrounds who read this blog. I’m sure there are a variety of cultural and religions traditions represented. However you celebrate Christmas or the other holidays, I do hope you have a safe and peaceful time. Thank you for your contributions. [...]

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Graham on December 9th, 2008

From the Niagara Falls Review:
The Beast is back. So is Beauty. But this time, they’ve brought the cat. The one in the hat.
Not content to just remount “Beauty and the Beast” for this Christmas, Silver Mist Productions is doing double time with a production of “Seussical” as well. It means two immense shows running concurrently, [...]

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Graham on November 10th, 2008

From the Niagara Falls Review:
It didn’t feel a lot like Christmas, but the Winter Festival of Lights made the most of it on a rainy opening night Saturday.
Under a steady downpour, a soggy crowd at Queen Victoria Park sat through an hour of speeches, Christmas carols and magic acts before Disney favourites Goofy and Pluto [...]

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Graham on October 25th, 2008

From a PRWeb press release (via Yahoo! News):
Niagara Falls is preparing itself for this year’s Winter Festival of Lights, one of Ontario’s most exciting winter events. The Winter Festival of Lights includes over 125 animated lighting displays and 3 million sparkling tree and ground lights which can be seen within the Niagara Parks Winter Wonderland, [...]

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Graham on October 15th, 2008

I previously posted about some of the setup for the Winter Festival of Lights. They are now working on the Disney displays in Queen Victoria Park.

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