April 30, 2008
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Historic Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club is a Niagara Falls’ treasure
By Chris Baldwin,
Senior Writer
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario – Turn down a side street on a town that looks like it’s straight out of the 1950s (it’s Canada so you’re not far off), and they’re there. People walking down the street with golf bags on their backs, strolling to a course.
It’s a scene you’d expect to see in St. Andrews or some other shrine to golf. Instead it’s found in this town of almost 14,000 that stands out as one of the most unique towns in North America – one that happens to have one of the best nine-hole golf courses in the world.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club stakes a claim as being the oldest golf course in North America, tracing its roots back to 1875. Royal Montreal Golf Club counters that it came on the scene in 1873 and actually is older. (more…)
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‘Prince of the Air’ grounded by security costs
Costs for hiring off-duty police ‘destroy’ return of wirewalker Jay Cochrane, coucillor says
Posted By Corey Larocque
The $40,000 cost of hiring police to close Clifton Hill every day “destroyed” plans to bring tightrope walker Jay Cochrane back to Niagara Falls this summer, says Coun. Wayne Thomson, a go-between for Cochrane and tourism operators.
Tourism operators had been making arrangements to bring Cochrane, “The Prince of the Air” back to Niagara Falls this summer, this time to perform on Clifton Hill.
“It was going exceptionally well. In the final analysis, it came down to the police costs which were in the area of $40,000 for the summer,” Thomson said in an interview Tuesday.
Niagara Falls Tourism’s website says Cochrane “is expected to return to Niagara Falls” this summer. His plans were to walk a wire between the Sheraton-on-the-Falls hotel, at the corner of Falls Avenue and Clifton Hill, to a platform erected on the south side of Clifton Hill on land owned by HOCO. (more…)
April 25, 2008
Movieland Wax Museum on Clifton Hill launches brand new exhibit!
Be sure to check out Movieland Wax Museum in Niagara Falls, Canada…they have just launched a brand new entrance exhibit featuring a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean!
Featured are two of the most famous characters from the popular movie series:
Captain Jack Sparrow
Will Turner
April 23, 2008
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Review your source for Fury details
Posted By JENNIFER PELLEGRINI and RAY SPITERI
The Niagara Parks Commission has rolled out its latest teaser for Niagara’s Fury.
A short video clip – found online at www.niagarasfury .com – shows a weatherman predicting “catastrophic activity … cataclysmic flooding and glacial devastation” in the Niagara Region.
It cuts over to a live-on-the-scene reporter in a blinding snowstorm being swept away.
The screen then asks: Niagara’s Fury. Will you survive? (more…)
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Creating art, connections at artist’s gallery opening
Posted By JOHN ROBBINS
It’s not much larger than a press-box eatery – a small, almost unnoticeable Queen Street store front, with a plain sign affixed above the front window that says House of Art.
But step inside and there’s a whole new world to discover – one where spirits and fairies come to life.
A place where mystical visions are recorded in minute detail on canvas and paper and building materials.
A friendly, earthy space where contemplating the deeper meaning of life is encouraged. (more…)
April 22, 2008
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GO Transit to city hot topic during Niagara Days
Posted By RAY SPITERI
Mayor Ted Salci took several issues of importance from his office at city hall to Queen’s Park this week, but it was the push for getting GO Transit service to Niagara that garnered a lot of his attention Monday.
Salci said he had a “very interesting and informative” meeting Monday with Rob MacIsaac, chairman of the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority.
“I’d love to see GO extended to Niagara and we, as politicians in Niagara, made it quite clear that transportation is a hot topic right now,” Salci said from his cellphone in Toronto.
Salci is among several local politicians and business leaders in Queen’s Park this week, as most Niagara mayors and regional councillors are attending Niagara Days – three days of lobbying, meeting and informing provincial cabinet ministers and opposition MPPs about the peninsula’s needs and desires. (more…)
April 21, 2008
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Review
Spa, resort could be new use for old quarry
Posted By KARENA WALTER
A plan to turn the defunct Lefarge Canada quarry into a resort, spa and golf course mecca is now in the hands of the Niagara Escarpment Commission.
Commission members heard the proposal Thursday at a meeting in Georgetown, but have deferred a decision until they tour the 248-acre property at Stanley Avenue and the QEW in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
At issue is the resort component of the proposal. Other uses in the $50-million plan, such as a winery and trails, are permitted. (more…)
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Rescue crews go way up; Training exercise prepares them for work in gorge
Posted By ALISON LANGLEY
For Canadian and American emergency service workers, it was truly high-level training with Niagara Helicopters.
A team of about 20 people underwent helicopter short-haul training Friday, which involves suspending rescuers on a 40-metre rope underneath a helicopter and flying them a short distance to conduct a rescue in a location that would be too dangerous or time consuming by other means.
Participants were tethered in pairs and flown from Niagara Helicopters on Victoria Avenue to a landing pad at the bottom of the Niagara gorge. The flight took approximately two minutes.
First developed in Switzerland in the 1960s, the local version of the program started as a joint venture between the Niagara Parks Police and Niagara Helicopters in 2003. (more…)
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Pot protest was smokin’
Posted By JOHN ROBBINS
Pro-pot activists say it’s high time the federal government legalizes marijuana.
And hundreds of those who believe Canadians should be able to smoke up without fear of being charged took to the streets of Niagara Falls Sunday to draw attention to their cause.
“You need to legalize it,” said Marco Renda, one of the demonstrators who took part in what has come to be known as the annual Highway 420 Anti-Prohibition Rally.
“I have no problem with the government regulating it, just like they do alcohol,” he said. (more…)
April 20, 2008
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The Brothers of Mount Carmel
Guided by an 800-year-old Rule of Life
Posted By RAY SPITERI
They are prayerful and prophetic. Active and reflective – very much in love with God and humanity.
They are Carmelites, a Roman Catholic religious order.
A small, but passionate and dedicated Carmelite group calls Niagara Falls home – the picturesque and serene Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre, along Stanley Avenue.
From that castle-like structure, surrounded by the roar of the falls, six Carmelite priests and one religious brother follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ, listening to God’s voice within and engaging and sharing it compassionately with His people in the community.
Two more Carmelite priests live out their devotion to the Church from a house next to St. Patrick Priory and Parish on Victoria Avenue. (more…)
