All things Niagara Falls tourism…
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 concoction called Chupe de Hormiga - ant soup.
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 spent the first 20 years of my life here.”
The map, now protected by plastic, was originally used by William Hamilton Merritt, president of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company.
Found among the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission archives, it was one of two maps donated Monday to Brock University’s special collection section.
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 is a lights operator at the Niagara Falls Illumination building.
He took on the role as a part-time gig in 1961 to supplement his income as a painter with the Niagara Parks Commission. He was paid $6 a night.
More than four decades later, he’s still at it.
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