July 2, 2007

The Olympian has this entry for the history of June 30: In 1859, French acrobat Blondin (born Jean Francois Gravelet) walked a tightrope above the gorge of Niagara Falls as thousands of spectators watched.

Rich Ralph is rollerblading across Canada to try to raise money for cancer research. On June 25 he made it to Niagara Falls: We arrived at Oaks Park in Niagara Falls where we stopped for lunch and were met by a reporter from the Niagara Falls Review. The actual waterfalls were only a few kilometers…

From the St. Catharines Standard: Around the corner from Fallsview Casino and a wall of towering hotels, the two-storey Ritz Inn Niagara features a sign boasting deep discounts heading into the peak tourist summer season. The 25 per cent price cut is the only way Niagara Falls motel owner Hoat Oey foresees surviving what some…

From the Niagara Falls Review: It should have been his first outing onto a slender wire 20 storeys in the air near the Skylon Tower. Instead, Jay Cochrane was a no-show Saturday evening. The famed wirewalker’s 4 p.m. show – what was supposed to be the first of many this summer – was cancelled. According…