What’s the Canadian side have that we don’t have? A great view of AMERICA!
A look at the new $43 million Niagara Falls train station
[From BuffaloNews.com]
Trains won’t be pulling up to the new Amtrak train station on 825 Depot St. for another month, but visitors can still get a sneak peak Saturday. The City of Niagara Falls is hosting an open house for the new two-story, $43 million train station and its adjoining historic 1863 custom house…
READ THE FULL STORY HERE: http://live.buffalonews.com/2016/07/30/look-new-43-million-niagara-falls-train-station/
Image of the Day – July 30, 2016
Members of the Surgery Department at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center recently celebrated the arrival of “SAL II,” the medical center’s new daVinci® XI™ Robotic Surgical System. The XI™, a product of Intuit Surgical, represents a major advance over the daVinci® SI™ System in use at Memorial since 2012. It will be used across a wide spectrum of minimally invasive surgical procedures for complex diseases and conditions in gynecology, urology, thoracic, bariatric and general surgery. On hand to welcome SAL II were, from left, anesthesiologist Dr. Justin Eckler, Intuitive representative Tori Schmitz, Carol DiBella R.N.F.A., Tina Owens R.N., Surgical Services Director Shelly Meigs, R.N., CNOR Director Michelle Garvey, R.N., and Dr. Venkat Kolli, Memorial’s chief of surgery. SAL, which stands for Save A Life, was named by then fifth-grader Gabriella Baratta in a countywide naming contest for schoolchildren.
Image of the Day – July 30, 2016
El Sombrero Motel 8601 Pine Avenue (NF Blvd. now) c.1958
Image of the Day – July 27, 2016
Movie Night at LaSalle Waterfront Park
Italian Festival celebrates a way of life in Niagara Falls
[From BuffaloNews.com]
It was just five years ago when organizer Carmine Bianco, an elementary school physical education teacher in Niagara Falls, found himself in the unenviable role of Italian Festival rescuer.
He jokingly called the 2012 festival on the front lawn of a friend’s Pine Avenue restaurant, “The World’s Smallest Italian Festival.” …
READ THE FULL STORY HERE: http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/niagara-falls/italian-festival-celebrates-a-way-of-life-in-niagara-falls-20160724