{"id":317,"date":"2005-06-29T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T18:11:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-03T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T15:24:49","slug":"two_nations_celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/29\/two_nations_celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Nations Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unusual year in that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/July_1\">July 1<\/a> is a Friday and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/July_4\">July 4<\/a> is a Monday. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada_Day\">Canada Day<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Independence_Day_%28United_States%29\">Independence Day<\/a> holidays are the bookends of a long weekend. The Niagara Parks Commission is hosting an event called Two Nations Celebration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Celebrate the birth of two great nations at the only shared bi-national wonder in North America during the &#8220;2 Nation Celebration&#8221; in Niagara Falls. Cool activities will take place throughout Niagara Parks during the day and the nights will become hot with spectacular entertainment on the main stage in Queen Victoria Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This great summer line up is the result of tremendous partnerships we have been able to establish this past year&#8221; said Jim Williams, Chairman of The Niagara Parks Commission.  &#8220;Our goal is to make Niagara Falls and certainly Niagara Parks the place to be this summer.  Thanks to partners such Niagara&#8217;s Casinos, Coca Cola Company, Kodak, Pizza Pizza, Nestle and Cool Brands the 2 Nation Celebration will be a landmark event at North America&#8217;s most recognized natural wonder.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken a few pictures of them setting up Queen Victoria Park:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/media\/canada_day_01.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/media\/canada_day_02.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/media\/canada_day_03.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unusual year in that July 1 is a Friday and July 4 is a Monday. The Canada Day and Independence Day holidays are the bookends of a long weekend. The Niagara Parks Commission is hosting an event called Two Nations Celebration. Celebrate the birth of two great nations at the only shared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}