2007

Visit this site to see a very cool 360° panorama of Niagara Falls taken from the Niagara Falls, NY side.

Last Thursday I received the latest newsletter from the Great Wolf Lodge. They are promoting special rates for September. The rates get better as we get further away from the summer. You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.

From the Niagara Falls Review: Call it a buyers market. With a decline in tourism spending in recent years, that has many Niagara-area golf courses locked in a tug-of-war for local patrons, low prices and attractive package deals are the order of the day. The competition is so fierce, some private owners say they don’t…

From WSTM-TV: Witnesses told State Parks Police that a man went over Niagara Falls yesterday afternoon. They reported seeing a man, who appeared to be in his 40s or older, going over the Horseshoe Falls near Terrapin Point. Lieutenant Peter Radwanski tells The Buffalo News this afternoon that nobody has been recovered.

I found another interesting site that talks about the Harry Oakes murder. The Crime & Investigation Network is a channel available in the UK and they have a section of their site that covers the events. The section is split up in the following smaller sections: Profile Timeline On TV Related Key Figure The Investigation

From the Buffalo News: Twenty people scrambled to safety after an elevator malfunction left them stuck inside one of the yellow bug-like lifts near the top of the 520-foot Skylon Tower, the city’s tallest structure. The elevator stopped at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday between floors to the Summit Suite dining room and the observation deck,…

From Niagara This Week: The owners of Thundering Waters Golf Course are planning to build a high-end condominium subdivision with a 10-storey apartment tower on the property, but local residents want developers to find a way to preserve what’s left of the urban forest. Residents aired their concerns Tuesday at a neighbourhood meeting with Rick…

From the Niagara Falls Review: Fill up the printer ink cartridges and load up the letterhead. The St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce is urging its members to send a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asking it to modify the requirement that anyone entering the U.S. will need a passport by June 2009….

Chris gets a daily email from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! with an interesting fact. The one he got yesterday mentioned Niagara Falls: The frozen waterfall of Mount Beardmore in the Antarctic has a height of more than ten thousand feet—sixty times that of Niagara Falls. Mount Beardmore is essentially now a high glacier, but…

As many of you know Harry Oakes was one of the big names in Niagara Falls 70 years ago. There are many things in the city named after him, and his family still operates the attractions and hotels on the south side of Clifton Hill (HOCO stands for Harry Oakes COmpany). The original Harry Oakes…