{"id":10397,"date":"2011-11-23T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2011-11-20T17:41:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:41:49","slug":"mickey-and-minnie-light-up-winter-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/mickey-and-minnie-light-up-winter-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey and Minnie light up winter festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3359641\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a> (includes video):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the push of a button by Mickey and Minnie, the CAA Winter Festival of Lights kicked off its 29th year Saturday night. The festival got under way in familiar fashion with a pair of free shows at Queen Victoria Park featuring magician Greg Frewin, the cast of the Oh Canada Eh? dinner show and local dancers and singers.<\/p>\n<p>There were back-to-back Ontario Power Generation Opening Ceremony shows, but the first one ended with the illumination of the festival&#8217;s three million lights along a 6 km stretch of the Niagara Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>The park was packed with thousands of people for the opening night events thanks to temperatures that were less frigid than normal. &#8220;It&#8217;s like an early gift. It&#8217;s a nice way to start off the season,&#8221; said Winter Festival of Lights general manager Dino Fazio.<\/p>\n<p>The nice weather made the kick-off more appealing this year, said one of the many parents who brought their kids to see the Disney characters perform. &#8220;The kids love it because they get to see action &#8211; the characters, the Christmas music. It&#8217;s good for the community,&#8221; said Lorraine Bradshaw, who brought her nine-year-old daughter Kaitelyn to the event for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review (includes video): With the push of a button by Mickey and Minnie, the CAA Winter Festival of Lights kicked off its 29th year Saturday night. The festival got under way in familiar fashion with a pair of free shows at Queen Victoria Park featuring magician Greg Frewin, the cast of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,2,503],"tags":[6466,4516,6469,2878,6464,671,6468,47,102,1440,6471,6470,2460,2461,297,841,2194,6467,721,6465,46,2708],"class_list":["post-10397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-29th-year","tag-caa-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-christmas-music","tag-community","tag-dancers","tag-dino-fazio","tag-disney-characters","tag-festival-of-lights","tag-greg-frewin","tag-illumination","tag-kaitelyn-bradshaw","tag-lorraine-bradshaw","tag-mickey-mouse","tag-minnie-mouse","tag-niagara-parkway","tag-oh-canada-eh","tag-ontario-power-generation","tag-opening-ceremony","tag-queen-victoria-park","tag-singers","tag-wfol","tag-winter-festival"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}