@EmbraceNiagara It's not going to be a regular thing. I did the same thing during the Wallenda walk. Normally it'll be a tweet here or there in reply to EmbraceNiagara # @EmbraceNiagara I was just tweeting as I walked. I'd have to slow down if I wanted to spread the tweets out 🙂 in reply…
From the Daily Mail (it includes some nice pictures): He is called ‘Prince of the Air’ and in the first of a planned 81 death-defying walks he truly lives up to his name. Wirewalker Jay Cochrane ticked the first walk off his long list as he treaded the two inch wire between the Skylon Tower and…
From the Buffalo News: With workman-like precision, Jay Cochrane put one soft-soled shoe four inches in front of the other across 1,300 feet of wire some 581 feet above the ground to walk into the record books Friday. The acclaimed wire-walker made the 31-minute trek from the Skylon Tower to the Hilton Fallsview Hotel’s north…
From WBEN AM: He’s been walking tightropes for 50 years, and Jay Cochrane will be spending his summer walking over a part of Niagara Falls, Ontario. He’ll be walking each night for 12 weeks from Niagara Fallsview Hilton Hotel’s north tower to the top of the Skylon Tower, 600 feet in the air. Cochrane says…
From Niagara This Week: The checkered flag has been waived and the Ontario Municipal Board hearing for the proposed Canadian Motor Speedway is over. Proceedings continued until last Thursday, wrapping up one day earlier than the initial two-week block set aside, and well short of the four-weeks originally scheduled for the hearing. “Finishing early is…
This isn’t directly Niagara Falls related, but it is still interesting… From the Nelson Star: This month, stuntman Nik Wallenda became the first person in over 110 years to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. One person who would have known the feeling was William Leonard Hunt, aka the Great Farini, an American-born, Canadian-raised daredevil…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Nik Wallenda wasn’t the only celebrity in Niagara Falls this weekend. On Saturday, Katy Perry made a stop in the city after taking part in rehearsals in Toronto for the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards. She’s known for her hits I Kissed a Girl, Firework and Part Of Me. She tweeted…
From The Telegraph: 1. Mid 1880s Niagara Falls froze over and was reduced to a trickle. 2. 1860, William Hunt aka ‘The Great Farini’ traversed the Niagara Gorge with a handed cranked washing machine on his back. He paused half way to rinse out his underwear, to the delight of his female fans. 3. In…
From the Buffalo News: The Niagara Falls skyline in New York will soon look a little more like the Niagara Falls skyline in Canada. The Seneca Gaming Corp. on Monday announced it is building a billboard-sized video screen atop its Niagara Falls casino. Like its competitors across the Niagara River, the Seneca casino by month’s…
From the Sudbury Star: It’s the summer of skywalks. Hot off the heels of Nik Wallenda’s historic wirewalk across the Horseshoe Falls, Jay Cochrane is getting ready to perform the greatest building-to-building skywalk in North American history – every day for 12 weeks. “It will be a continuation of a blockbuster summer of what this…