Air show above Niagara this weekend

    From the Niagara Falls Review: Among the thousands of people who will be looking skyward this weekend during the annual Friendly Foes Above the Falls air show will be a man who already conquered the stratosphere. Bjarni Tryggvason, a professor of flight dynamics at the University of Western Ontario, flew aboard the shuttle Discovery in…

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      Fortune’s End: The Mysterious Murder of Sir Harry Oakes

      truTV has an article on their site about Sir Harry Oakes: In the early morning hours of July 8, 1943, a rainstorm raged on the small island of Nassau in the Bahamas. The rain pelted through the open window and doused the flames that engulfed the body of millionaire Sir Harry Oakes as he lay…

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        this is George’s latest installment….read on

        Someone with a LiveJournal blog has posted a kind of review of the Hilton: Every four months or so I go to Niagara Falls to hit the slots and try a different hotel in the process. I had heard about their pool so I chose to stay at the Hilton this time.

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          The Spilly Files: The Circle of Life

          Someone else with a Blogger blog has posted about a trip to Niagara Falls to celebrate an anniversary: So, today was our eleventh anniversary. To celebrate, we headed to Niagara Falls, where Spills had never been. We walked along the parkway to the falls, marvelling at the rapids and the falls themselves. Then we headed…

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            The Epic Abyss of Incredulity: Niagara Falls, Day 8

            Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: I look back on the past week and recall a nice mix of family medicine clinic with exciting activities around Niagara Falls and the surrounding area. Our schedule for the week was as follows: Tuesday – Maid of the Mist Tour, Dinner,…

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              Falls tourists say they need more amenities

              From the Buffalo News: Pittsburgh resident Adrienne Little was the lead driver in a caravan of Girl Scouts Sunday morning when she came to a fork in the road on the Robert Moses Parkway. She ended up heading toward the bridge to Canada. She was trying to find the Aquarium of Niagara. “It was pretty…

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                You’ll have a whale of a time!

                Last Thursday I received the latest newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa. They are promoting a Marineland package: You can subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the Special Email Offers link on the side of the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa main page.

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                  Niagara’s Fury open

                  From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara’s Fury has finally blown into town. Nearly two weeks after the Niagara Parks Commission’s newest attraction was scheduled to open, the first round of survivors made their way into the massive 4-D theatre Saturday morning. Joel Noden, executive director of revenue operations and business at the Niagara Parks Commission,…

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                    100 Things You Must Do This Summer

                    Artvoice (“Buffalo’s #1 Newsweekly”) has an article about 100 things to do in the summer (presumably in the Buffalo area). #17 is about Niagara Falls. Task-oriented as always, we here at AV reached out to friends and colleagues, and deep into the archive of our own summer idylls, to assemble for you 100 things you…

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                      Clifton Hill Resorts Update – June 2008

                      Last Thursday I received the latest issue of the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter. It is shorter than normal. They are promoting a good mid-week rate for the Quality Inn in June. You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.

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