Daily Archive for April 3rd, 2007

Offered free trip anywhere, they pick Niagara Falls

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on April 3, 2007
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From the Buffalo News:

Niagara Falls is a healing place for Sharon and David Gauthe.

The Louisiana couple volunteered nearly two years of their time, helping with relief and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina.

Now they’re on a different kind of R & R.

The Gauthes were offered an all-expenses paid vacation to anywhere in the world for much needed rest and recreation. They chose Niagara Falls.

Or perhaps Niagara Falls chose them.

While they were still deciding where to go, David Gauthe was clearing out a house that had been devastated by the hurricane.

The only object to survive was a souvenir plate of Niagara Falls.

“We’re religious people,” Sharon Gauthe said. “We took that as a sign.”

This is the first visit to Niagara Falls for the couple, who are in their late 50s and have been married 37 years. They have three children and 13 foster children.

City doesn’t buy firm’s proposal to make too-big sign fit bylaw

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From the Niagara Falls Review:

Frustrated by the spread of billboard advertising, Niagara Falls council got tough with Pattison Outdoor Advertising for putting up two signs they say exceeded their height limit only to turn around and ask for minor variances to make them legal.

Great Wolf aquarium held up by passport issue; Ripley won’t decide until border questions are answered

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From the Niagara Falls Review:

It might be next year before work starts on a $90-million aquarium next to the Great Wolf Lodge.

But the owners could still pull the plug.

Ripley Entertainment, which opened Canada’s first Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls last April, is still undecided on its proposal to swim with the fishes, despite a large sign on the River Road / Victoria Avenue site promising its arrival soon.

Ripley Entertainment Inc. president Bob Masterson says a final decision likely won’t happen until there’s a clearer picture of the passport issue at U.S.-Canada borders.