This has been around for a while, but Orca Free has a form letter that you can fill out if you want to write a letter to John Holer / Marineland about keeping the Orcas in captivity:
We’ve made it easy for you to help by drafting a letter to John Holer of Marineland of Canada. The letter expresses concern about the orcas that remain captive at Marineland of Canada.
As best as I can tell, the page hasn’t changed since September 17, 2005 at 6:13 PM. I wonder how many people have used this template in the almost 3 years it has been up…
Many of you may remember a couple of years ago I performed a marriage in the Minolta Tower. I’m able to do this because of certain responsibilities with my church. I was recently speaking with an older man that had these same responsibilities years ago. We were talking about Dean Sullivan’s jump, and it made him think of the funeral he did years ago for a daredevil. He couldn’t remember who it was, but after some prompting, we figured out it was Karel Soucek.
Karel had survived going over the Falls, but ended up dying during a stunt in Houston. Anyway, he was from around Hamilton, and this friend of mine was asked to officiate at the funeral. These are his recollections:
That’s him… He was of Czech origin and was buried in the cemetery reserved for the Hill family, one of whose members went over the Falls in a barrel. It was bitterly cold when we buried him I remember… his mother came from Czechoslovakia for the funeral. His manager was a friend of [someone he knew]. He couldn’t do the funeral, so I was asked. As far as I can remember, the Catholic church would have nothing to do with it and so the family came to us through Ernie. The eulogy was short, as you can imagine, because I didn’t know him and it was hardly possible to say more than that he had a dream which he fulfilled. The ‘Red’ Hill family offered the grave site as a measure of respect for a fellow daredevil. The media were present but I disallowed cameras at the service itself.
What a small world!
Davis Day Trips is out of Pennsville, NJ. They have a main web site, but also have a Blogger blog where they post information. They recently posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls:
We’re back from our first trip to Niagara Falls and it definitely won’t be our last! Niagara Falls actually consists of three falls: The American Falls, Canadian Falls (the largest), and the Bridal Veil Falls (the smallest). This first photo is of the Canadian (Horseshoe) Falls. I really didn’t have a good appreciation of the magnificance of this “Wonder of the World” until we went on the Maid of the Mist boat ride.
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