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Graham on October 27th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review:
Talks aimed at creating an integrated people mover system are underway.
After parting ways more than a year ago, city and Niagara Parks officials are back at the table discussing opportunities to create a single, seamless transit system to link tourist districts with areas currently serviced by the NPC’s familiar green-and-white people [...]

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Graham on October 26th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review:
There’s a new picture hanging inside Table Rock House -one that symbolizes the friendship and co-operation between two famous attractions a world apart.
On Thursday, Niagara Parks Commission chairman Jim Williams, Mayor Ted Salci and Regional Chairman Peter Partington welcomed a delegation from China’s YanQing County and the Badaling Great Wall Administration [...]

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Graham on October 21st, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review:
Niagara Falls is blooming brilliant!
That’s the consensus from a group of judges who toured the city during the summer as part of the Communities in Bloom contest.
Recently, judges awarded Niagara Falls five blooms in the annual competition, the highest rating available.
This was the city’s first entry into the program that’s designed [...]

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Graham on September 29th, 2009

From a Marketwire press release:
he City of Niagara Falls will soon benefit from a new bus system thanks to a joint investment by the Governments of Canada and Ontario, the Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., Member of Parliament for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, the Honourable George Smitherman, Deputy Premier [...]

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Graham on September 16th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review:
Close to 50 families facing eviction from a trailer park owned by Marineland are hoping city council will be their white knight, but councillors themselves are warning them not to pin their hopes on city hall.
Council deferred again Monday a decision on whether or not to use a rarely used section [...]

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Graham on August 13th, 2009

From Niagara This Week:
The federal government has issued the city an extension to apply for a $25-million grant for its version of a people mover system.
The deadline to submit an application was June but Mayor Ted Salci recently reported he secured a one-year extension to allow for more time to prepare a business plan, which [...]

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From the Niagara Falls Review:
The future of a proposed $65-million entertainment complex is uncertain after city council removed from Monday’s agenda an agreement on the possible sale of the city-owned property to the developer.
“It’s obviously questionable at this point,” said business development officer Serge Felicetti whose office has been dealing with Andrzej Kepinski, an investor [...]

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Graham on July 4th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review:
Mayor Ted Salci said he’s impressed with the response to GO Transit’s new weekend and holiday train service between Niagara Falls and Toronto. More than 3,800 passengers travelled on the train on its first three days, which included last weekend and Canada Day, according to numbers GO provided the mayor’s office [...]

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Graham on July 4th, 2009

Someone wrote a letter to the editor of the Niagara Falls Review:
Thumbs up to councillors Diodati, Ioannoni, Kerrio, Maves, Pietrangelo and Mayor Ted Salci for voting with their heads and not their emotions in supporting the proposed Loretto Hotel Project…
It’s encouraging to see that we have a majority on city council that use common sense.

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Graham on June 22nd, 2009

From the National Post:
If Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake were to be embodied by two grumpy old men and played in a movie, The Odd Couple would be the perfect film. Niagara Falls, uncouth, out-of-fashion and badly in need of a new coat of paint, would be Oscar; while Niagara-on-the-Lake would be Felix, stuck-up, tony and [...]

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