All things Niagara Falls tourism…
I stopped by yesterday and took this picture of Canada Trading Company, the new retail store on Clifton Hill. It is a beautiful store. It is very large and spacious, and has several skylights which bring natural light into the store. There is a large totem pole in the centre of the store as well.
I’ll try to take a few more pictures when I have a chance.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
A seven-year-old Guelph girl was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries early Sunday evening after being attacked by a deer at Marineland. According to Niagara Regional Police, the girl was in the deer park with her family when she was “trampled by a deer.” The girl suffered internal bruising in the incident. Marineland spokeswoman Ann Marie Rondinelli emphasized the park remains a safe place, and said the deer involved in the incident has been removed.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Aladdin and Jasmine will be on hand at the Niagara Falls Public Library, Saturday, to kick off the summer reading program for kids.
The stars of Aladdin Jr., currently running at the Greg Frewin Theatre, will sing a song, answer questions, sign autographs and pose for photos with kids from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday.
From the New York Times:
Wes Hill, who, like the other storied river men in his family, mastered the currents and crevices of the Niagara River and its falls and became an expert at saving lives and recovering bodies, died Monday in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He was 76.
His wife, Sarah, said that he had suffered an embolism, but that she did not know the exact cause of death — except that it was reassuringly natural. One of his brothers died going over the falls, and another brother and their father came close.
Mr. Hill was the last of his clan to live intimately with the river, hunting and fishing and hiking along the spectacularly surging currents. Like the others, he reaped praise and awards for rescuing people who accidentally or deliberately put themselves in danger. And like them, he made extra income from undertakers by retrieving bodies ($50 to $75).
“You might attach the word ‘legendary’ to them,” Sherman Zavitz, city historian of Niagara Falls, said in an interview with The New York Times in 2003. “That word gets overused, but in this case it’s appropriate. Their exploits are the stuff of legends and in many ways rather unique, especially the rescue aspect.”
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