From the Niagara Falls Review:
About the only thing faster than Olympic gold medallist Jon Montgomery going downhill on his skeleton is how quickly his popularity across the country has exploded.
From his joyous acceptance of the gold medal to his spontaneous beer-jug hoisting celebration on the streets of Whistler, B.C., Montgomery has become a national icon.
The [...]
As you read on Saturday, I went to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum to see the sword swallower. This was the second year that they did it, and I thought Vanessa Neil was better than Riley Schillaci, last year’s performer. I can’t really explain what I didn’t like about Riley, but she just didn’t [...]
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From the Niagara Falls Review:
Think your line of work got hurt in the recession? Try sword swallowing.
“The last few years have been tough, economically. People aren’t going to pay $1,000 to have a sword swallower at their kids’ birthdays,” said Vanessa Neil, who shocked a Niagara Falls crowd Saturday when she downed a 24-inch sword [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review:
It’s not a holiday yet, but sword swallowers have made today their own.
World Sword Swallowers Day will see performers send steel down the hatch at more than a dozen Ripley’s Believe It or Not museums throughout the world, including Clifton Hill.
Toronto’s Vanessa Neil does the deed at 2:27 today, symbolic of [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Shawn Fleckney says he was “just a kid” when he started volunteering as a mascot with the Winter Festival of Lights.
More than 20 years later, he’s still at it. He says he can’t think of a better way to spend his leisure time than by making new friends, learning skills and [...]
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From a PRNewswire press release (via Yahoo! Finance):
Fallsview Casino is once again proud to host international rock legend Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band as he kicks off his North American tour with two shows at Fallsview Casino on June 24th and 25th.
As a result of a long-standing relationship with Fallsview’s VP of Marketing, Larry [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Playing tourist for a day was a welcome escape for the Hesse family of Niagara Falls.
Mike, Melissa and their 10-year-old daughter Sara enjoyed several of the tourist attractions along Clifton Hill as part of the annual Loonie Museum Day to benefit the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
“It was fun,” Sarah said.
The Hesse [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review (includes pictures and videos):
When you put a rock band named after a mythical river next to one of the world’s legendary rivers, it’s a recipe for a soggy experience.
But thousands ot New Year’s Eve revellers rang in 2010 with the powerful rock band Styx, named after the mythological river in [...]
From AuburnPub.com:
New York City drops a crystal ball in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., 2010 will be ushered in with the dropping of a big guitar.
A 10-foot fiberglass guitar will be dropped at midnight at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Niagara Falls. The model of a Gibson electric guitar [...]
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Here are some pictures I took yesterday and today of the work going on in Queen Victoria Park in preparation for the big show tomorrow night.
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