Daily Archive for April 18th, 2007

Great Wall and great waterfall administration form bond

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From Niagara This Week:

Canada’s great waterfall and the Great Wall of China have come together.

Niagara Parks Commission (NPC) chairman Jim Williams and Weidon Wang, deputy director of Badaling Great Wall Development Zone Administration in China, met Thursday at the Historic Oak Hall to commemorate a partnership between the administration behind the two world icons.

In 2004, the NPC and representatives of the Great Wall signed the World Famous Locations Alliance Agreement to promote the exchange of ideas for park administration and to raise public awareness of the presentation and preservation of the two famous locations.

Climbers conquer Skylon steps to help fight cancer

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From Niagara This Week:

By the time Victoria Marcotte reached the 660th step of the Skylon Tower, she was having difficulty catching her breath. She could feel her heart pounding and her legs burning.

But as temporarily uncomfortable as the 11-year-old might have been, she welcomed the feelings as a reminder of the real pain others endure.

Like her “nanna,” who died from cancer seven years ago and was the reason why Victoria climbed the tower Saturday morning during a cancer research fundraiser. She brought in $164.

As Niagara Falls / Tales of the strange but true

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From the Buffalo News:

More than 80 eighth-grade students from Rosemont Middle School in Los Angeles were in Niagara Falls over the weekend to take two plastic jugs of water from the Niagara River.

After seeing the sights in the Niagara area, they boarded a tour bus for New York City, where they will pour one of the jugs into the mouth of the Hudson River.

It’s all part of an educational class trip to recreate the “Wedding of the Waters” ceremony conducted by then-Gov. De- Witt Clinton during the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.

The other jug of water will be flown back to Los Angeles, where the students will pour it into the Pacific Ocean in a symbolic gesture of bicoastal unity.