Another week… another update… the Hilton keeps growing! It’s about at as tall as the existing hotel.
Daily Archive for June 19th, 2008
Here is something a little different… Someone with a Blogger blog posts about a how he was in a group that came to Niagara Falls to preach:
Ken and I stood on Clifton Hill for the most part, Ken encouraging, almost goading me, to get into one-to-one conversations as I passed out tracts. But I hate doing that, because all of these people keep passing by without ever hearing the Gospel from me. But the conversations that I had with Steve, Matt, and another young man whose name I did not get made it worthwhile to entrust those souls to God and to obey Him in this matter.
From Bloomberg.com:
Ginger Strand is in possession of a sharp eye, a biting wit, a beguiling sense of fun — and a magnificent obsession. As some people collect little porcelain dogs or sports memorabilia, Ginger Strand collects visits to Niagara Falls.
But not only visits. She collects postcards. Myths. Legends about daredevil feats. Stories about disasters. Bits and pieces of flora and fauna. Odd little facts. A few important facts, too. It is a peculiar preoccupation but by and large a benign one.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Go ahead. Try to trip up the Maytag Repairman. He has an answer for everything.
“Are you actually handy? Can you even fix anything at all?” an intrepid reporter asks, grilling Clay Jackson, the actor who plays the longest-running advertising character in TV history.
“I don’t need to,” Jackson answers without skipping a beat. Maytag appliances are so dependable, they hardly break down, he says, rehashing a line the company began using before he was born.
It has been more than 40 years since the Maytag Repairman became TV’s “loneliest guy in town.”
The Maytag Repairman was in Niagara Falls Wednesday for the induction ceremony of the “Dependability Hall of Fame,” a promotional idea the company’s marketing department dreamed up to celebrate its centennial…
Niagara Falls was the backdrop for the dependability hall of fame because the world-famous waterfall was named “Canada’s most dependable landmark.”
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