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Graham on April 13th, 2009

I went into Boston Pizza on Saturday. It looks quite nice. Almost the whole place has been painted, and there is some new brick/rock work at the entrance and bar. You can also see how there is still more work to do.

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Graham on March 11th, 2009

A week or so ago I posted about some changes to the Boston Pizza Clifton Hill patio. They seem to be working quickly.

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Graham on March 10th, 2009

Last Thursday I received the latest newsletter from the Clifton Hill Resort.

You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resort Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.

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Graham on February 17th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review:
If the province wants to help tourism in Niagara, it needs to create a good business environment and limit regulations to key items so owners are not overburdened, advises Harry Oakes of HOCO Entertainment and Resorts, which operates a number of businesses in the Clifton Hill area.
“Create a good climate, and [...]

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Graham on January 27th, 2009

Fun Factory, one of the HOCO stores on Clifton Hill, used to have a display called Animaland at the front of the store. This was a Build-A-Bear sort of thing, where you picked the animal, and it would be stuffed for you there. You could then pick a variety of outfits for the animal. The [...]

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Graham on January 13th, 2009

Last Friday I received the latest newsletter from the Clifton Hill Resort.

You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resort Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.

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Graham on December 23rd, 2008

The gaming area of Boston Pizza is called Sportszone. With the Quality Inn Clifton Hill being demolished, HOCO is expanding Sportszone.

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Graham on December 10th, 2008

Last Thursday I received the latest newsletter from the Clifton Hill Resort.

You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resort Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.

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Graham on October 27th, 2008

I haven’t tried to add him as a friend, but the original Harry Oakes is on Facebook…

Note: For those who aren’t familiar with this name, this is the Harry Oakes who the Harry Oakes Company is named after (HOCO) and whose name is all over the place in Niagara Falls.

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Graham on October 18th, 2008

From the Niagara Falls Review:
A piece of Clifton Hill’s past will come down this fall, in order to make way for the future.
The Quality Inn, which dates back to the latter half of the 1950s, has a date with the wrecking ball later this year. It hosted its final guests over the Thanksgiving Day weekend.
“It [...]

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