29th Winter Festival of Lights kicks off with shows By DAN DAKIN Niagara Falls Review Updated 7 hours ago
With the push of a button by Mickey and Minnie, the CAA Winter Festival of Lights kicked off its 29th year Saturday night. The festival got under way in familiar fashion with a pair of free shows at Queen Victoria Park featuring magician Greg Frewin, the cast of the Oh Canada Eh? dinner show and local dancers and singers.
There were back-to-back Ontario Power Generation Opening Ceremony shows Saturday night, but the first one ended with the illumination of the festival's three million lights along a 6 km stretch of the Niagara Parkway.
The park was packed with people for the opening night events thanks to temperatures that were less frigid than normal. "It's a nice way to start off the season," said Winter Festival of Lights general manager Dino Fazio.
In addition to a full schedule of events throughout the festival, which wraps up Jan. 31, there will be fireworks displays every Friday night and nightly illuminations of the falls. New this year is a three-day sports festival that is expected to draw about 1,300 athletes and twice as many spectators.
Fazio said the plans are coming along for the three-day multi-sport event being held Jan. 27-29.
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Ronnie Prophet and Glory Anne (Nov. 28 to 30).
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