{"id":9051,"date":"2010-09-08T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9051"},"modified":"2010-09-08T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:01:33","slug":"second-chance-for-rink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/second-chance-for-rink\/","title":{"rendered":"Second chance for rink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2746943\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rink at the Brink might see another winter after Niagara Parks Commission and Winter Festival of Lights officials smoothed over some of the commission&#8217;s concerns about the fledgling tourist attraction&#8217;s first season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are cautiously optimistic the parks commission board will approve the rink operating within the parks&#8217; land this year as they did last year,&#8221; said Winter Festival of Lights manager Dino Fazio after a lunch meeting with parks chairwoman Fay Booker and vice-chairwoman Janice Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>They got together Tuesday because the parks commission in August put the festival on notice it might not renew the lease it gave the festival last year to run a temporary, open-air skating rink near the Horseshoe Falls.<\/p>\n<p>The festival operated the rink, which is about two-thirds the size of an NHL rink, but it was assembled on parks land.<\/p>\n<p>Parks commissioners were upset the rink wasn&#8217;t dismantled until July, despite festival assurances it would be gone in April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The Rink at the Brink might see another winter after Niagara Parks Commission and Winter Festival of Lights officials smoothed over some of the commission&#8217;s concerns about the fledgling tourist attraction&#8217;s first season. &#8220;We are cautiously optimistic the parks commission board will approve the rink operating within the parks&#8217; land&#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":[2,503],"tags":[3308,2862,671,3068,1941,3827,1154,4426,99,2114,46,44],"class_list":["post-9051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-chairwoman","tag-commissioners","tag-dino-fazio","tag-fay-booker","tag-ice-rink","tag-janice-thomson","tag-lease","tag-nhl-rink","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-rink-at-the-brink","tag-wfol","tag-winter-festival-of-lights"],"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\/9051","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=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}