WFOL honours best and brightest displays with annual Sparkle Awards

From Niagara This Week: Four new homes have earned a place on the Ontario Power Generation Winter Festival of Light’s Sparkle Lighting Awards list of top residential light displays in the city. The awards are an annual competition that recognizes the best residential and commercial property holiday light displays in Niagara Falls. Participants are judged…

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Niagara Falls Hotels Get Ready for the Country’s Biggest Holiday Lights Event

From a MarketWired press release: Few things evoke the holidays as powerfully as a good lights display. And the Winter Festival of Lights at Niagara Falls is about as spectacular as they come. Boasting more than 3 million lights and 125 animated displays, this annual event, now in its 33rd year, will attract thousands of…

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Niagara Falls, Ontario adds more sparkle to the season with fantastic festival of holiday lights, off-season deals

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: Does the home of one of the world’s most magnificent natural wonders really need more sparkle? When it comes to the holidays in Niagara Falls, my answer is, “It may not need it, but why not?” For the 31st year in a row, the Canadian city is hosting a holiday…

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‘Holiday Lights of Niagara’ opening soon

From the Niagara Gazette: Several business and civic groups are combining efforts to stage the Holiday Lights of Niagara Trail that will feature more than 60 illuminated displays in Hyde Park and around the city. The event opens Nov. 21 and runs through December. In addition, the event organizers said area business owners along Pine…

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You’ll find a steady stream of family fun at Niagara Falls

From Cleveland.com: Spectacular natural beauty. Gloriously tacky man-made fun. Niagara Falls is overflowing with both. We experienced the dual sides of the falls on a long family weekend excursion to Canada to see the holiday lights — and then some. And we loved most of it, especially our 4-year-old. So if you decide to head…

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Holiday Lights Shine in Hyde Park

WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo has a report (with video) of the Holiday Lights of the Niagara Trail: Families can now visit the Holiday Lights of the Niagara Trail. The first lighting took place Wednesday night. There are 50 displays located throughout Hyde Park in Niagara Falls. There are an additional 10 displays on Pine…

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Ceremony set Nov. 23 to open Holiday Lights

From the Buffalo News: The Holiday Lights of Niagara Trail, which has raised more than $120,000 for the United Way of Niagara since 2004, will open for this year’s season with a ceremony at 5 p.m. Nov. 23 in Sal Maglie Stadium. Sponsors said there will be more than 50 lighting displays in Hyde Park,…

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