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…
From the Boston Globe: Some facts and figures about daredevil Nik Wallenda’s Friday night wire-walk over Niagara Falls: Length of wire: 1,800 feet Weight: 7 tons Diameter: 2 inches Material: Steel How it’s installed: Be sure to visit the site to read the rest of the “facts and figures”
From Niagara This Week: Nik Wallenda’s walk across Niagara Falls nearly two weeks ago is still casting a glow over the city, one councillor said Tuesday. And councillor Wayne Thomson said he would like to see that glow carry over to the Horseshoe Falls itself — permanently. Thomson was impressed by the backlighting of the…
From the Las Vegas Weekly: At this time last week, Lijana Wallenda-Hernandez was feeling a little stressed. There was the water, the height, the mist. There were the cameras, the reporters, the 125,000 Canadians waiting in the dark, the two years of negotiating and changing laws, all leading to this one day: the day her…
From the Buffalo News: More than 13 million people around the globe tuned in June 15 to watch Nik Wallenda walk across Niagara Falls, and many say the thundering waterfalls has never looked better. But can the city use the stunt to spring itself forward, or will June 15 be remembered as another perfect opportunity…