One ingredient too many

    From the Buffalo News: Sweet potatoes, eggs, nuts and flour were part of a concoction Jeff Stewart simmered last week in the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory – and dried scorpions, water beetles, bamboo worms and red Amazon ants. Stewart, a professor at the Niagara College Culinary Institute in Niagara Falls, Ont., was carefully creating a…

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      The lost city of Niagara Falls; Old maps reveal a vanished time

      From the Niagara Falls Review: Mayor Ted Salci recalled a few childhood memories of his neighbourhood as he peered down at an ancient, yellowed map of Elgin, which came to be Niagara Falls. “We lived right here,” said Salci, running his finger over the crumbling tissue dated 1847. “I grew up in a hotel and…

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        The man who lights up the falls

        From the Niagara Falls Review: Pete Gordon is full of bright ideas. For the past 45 years, the Niagara Falls resident has been behind the helm at one of Niagara’s most popular, most-photographed attractions. People from around the world have marvelled at his handiwork, something he achieves nightly with a flick of the wrist. Gordon…

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