Niagara Parks
From the Niagara Falls Review:
More than 400,000 people toured the Butterfly Conservatory last year.
Employees at the facility are used to seeing and hearing people’s positive reactions to the roughly 3,000 winged wonders around them.
But it’s unlikely many of the visitors fully understand the work and effort that goes into keeping one of Niagara Parks’ premiere [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Daredevil Dean Sullivan is back in town.
Sullivan filmed two stunts this month in which he used his face-first rappelling technique to jump from the top of the Niagara gorge, near the Horseshoe Falls.
“(Wednesday’s) was great. It was awesome. It was fantastic. It took me a couple seconds,” he said.
“It was one [...]
Continue reading about Sullivan laying low after latest falls stunt
From the Niagara Falls Review:
A man who waded into the water about 120 metres above the Horseshoe Falls was convinced to come back to shore by a Niagara Parks Police officer and city firefighters Thursday.
The incident occurred around noon-hour near Table Rock House, when a tour bus arrived at the usual stop on the south [...]
Continue reading about Rescuers talk man away from water above falls
From the Niagara Falls Review:
It looks like any bid to get Bob Gale a second term on the Niagara Parks Commisison is almost out of gas.
Niagara’s own oil baron was sidelined from the government agency in February, when his three-year term expired. Now, after Friday’s reaffirmation by the commission of its 2008 decision to extend [...]
Continue reading about For Gale and the Parks, the divorce appears final
This picture was taken from the same spot in front of the Niagara Parks Police building, and the pictures weren’t touched up at all. One picture was taken facing west, and one facing east. This has been what the weather has been like so far this year. Partly sunny and partly cloudy. The one direction [...]
I am a couple of weeks late posting this, but I figured I’d let you know that Niagara Parks finally took down the chains and you can walk up the Jolley Cut.
This is nothing special, but I thought it was funny. The sign is now gone, but when I took this picture a couple of [...]
Here is a press release from OPSEU that I found on Marketwire:
The public is invited to join an informative bus tour of Niagara Parks on Easter Monday.
When: Monday, April 13
Where: Meet at Kingsbridge Park in Chippawa
Time: Buses will depart at intervals from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Knowledgeable park employees and [...]
Continue reading about Citizens’ Groups and Union Sponsor Tour of Niagara Parks on Easter Monday
The Niagara Falls Review and the Globe and Mail have both covered this story:
The Ontario Ministry of Tourism will not comment on union demands that the provincial government take over management of the Niagara Parks Commission.
“It’s not a matter we will comment on,” Mark Thompson, a ministry of tourism spokesman, told The Niagara Falls Review [...]
Last night was the rescheduled Project Share event at Table Rock Place. Niagara Parks has announced that last Friday you could get free admission to Niagara’s Fury and Journey Behind the Falls if you brought in a donation to Project Share (food, clothes, toys, or money). The big winter storm on Friday caused the event [...]
I know winter has officially started, and we’ve had some pretty brutal weather, but hey… what better time is there to think about summer
This year somehow I ended up with a bunch of complimentary passes to various Niagara Parks attractions. It had only been in the last year or so that I had [...]
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