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FESTIVALS
Festivals by their very nature are a mixed bag of venues,
some of which are accessible and some not. Take for instance our own Niagara
Wine Festival held every year in St. Catharines. Most events are in Montebello
Park which is, for the most part, accessible including the huge pavilion
there.
There are many festivals throughout Niagara every year but
in November and December the main one is:
The Winter Festival of Lights at Niagara Falls www.wfol.com
November to January every year
Lights on daily from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Featuring more than 50 light displays, 21 of them Disney-theme motion
lights, the Winter Festival of Lights is an event anyone, whether physically
disabled or elderly, young or old, can enjoy without even getting out
of the car. Strung all along the Niagara Parkway, throughout Dufferin
Gardens and in Queen Victoria Park these incredible displays are quite
something to behold as you slowly drive by them in the dark.
Ron and I like to have a special wedding anniversary evening out near
New Year's Eve that includes dinner out and then a drive down to the falls
to see these light displays. Maybe it's the kid in me but I always look
forward to playing tourist in our own backyard.
The Festival of Lights opens Nov. 23 with a concert at Queen Victoria
Park and there is a special fireworks display over the falls that same
night. If you've never seen a fireworks display over the falls, try to
make it. It's glorious! You'll be looking up over the falls so people
can't block your view and if they do, be a little assertive, shout "Coming
through!" and get where you CAN see.
For more on this lovely festival including times and routes of parades,
fireworks display times and concert venues please go to the www.discoverniagara.com
Web site and click on the Festival of Lights logo on the left side. Everything
is there.
Also check out Angelfest in St. Catharines - Nov.
16 through December - www.niagarawest.com/angelfest
or e-mail niagaraevents@cogeco.ca
for details on accessibility at various venues.
(905)945-6651
Loch Sloy Highland Game - Fort Erie - June
Peach Festival - Niagara-on-the-Lake - July/Aug.
Canal Days - Port Colborne - August
Rotary Rib Fest - St.Catharines - August
Grimsby Festival at the Forty
Niagara Food and Wine Classic
Niagara Bigga TomataFest - August - Club Italia - Queenston
Niagara Wine Festival - St. Catharines - September
Merritton Lions Community Days
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