Oh happy day

    From the Niagara Falls Review: Concerts, fireworks, parades … and the kids from Degrassi High. If you can’t find something to do this Canada Day weekend, you have officially become part of the couch. The next four days are packed with events and most of it won’t cost a dime. Set aside some coin for…

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      Hi-rise condos slated for N.F., Ont.

      From Buffalo Business First: After watching a series of hotel towers dot the Niagara Falls, Ont. skyline in recent years, the city is poised to welcome a different sort of landmark. ORE Development Corp., an arm of the Opus Group, is working with Niagara Falls officials on plans to construct a 29-story condominium tower just…

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        More on Totem and Woodcarving Park

        Yesterday I posted an article about the new Niagara Parks Commision attraction. The Buffalo News has an article called World of wooden wonders that explains more about the Totem and Woodcarving Park. It also has a picture of some of the carvings. As of this morning, the Niagara Parks Commission web site doesn’t have any…

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          Niagara Falls prints going to NU

          From the Buffalo News: “The Charles Rand Penney Collection of Niagara Falls Prints” – a renowned 754-piece collection covering prints of the falls from as early as the 1680s to as recently as 2000 – will soon be at home in the Castellani Art Museum on the Niagara University campus. In a pending agreement between…

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            Cataracts captivate Koizumi

            From the Niagara Falls Review: The roar of water over Niagara Falls appears to have captured the heart of a prominent tourist – the prime minister of Japan. Junichiro Koizumi made his first visit to the falls Tuesday, declaring the Canadian landmark “magnificent” and “beautiful.” The prime minister, who was on a private trip to…

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              Super treasure for Kal-El fan; City man has cape worn by Christopher Reeve during filming of Superman II

              From the Niagara Falls Review: As the warning goes, you don’t spit in the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the Lone Ranger and you don’t tug on Superman’s cape. Mark Saccone doesn’t care about the first two, but he takes the cape part pretty seriously. Hidden in a house quickly filling with memorabilia…

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