Twitter updates for 2009-09-30

Yikes! It's chilly out today (and I didn't bring my coat)… # http://twitpic.com/jpslc – Obviously it isn't free to stay at the Baymont Inn & Suites, but the pixel board did linger on this word a bi … # http://twitpic.com/jpsi3 – I don't know how long this has been up for, but I noticed yesterday…

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Daredevil still dreams of tightrope walk across Niagara Falls

From CTV.ca: Canadian officials may have turned him down, but an American man says he’s not ready to give up his dream of walking a tightrope suspended across Niagara Falls. Nik Wallenda, a stunt artist hailing from seven generations of circus performers, was told by the Niagara Parks Commission late Wednesday that he wouldn’t be…

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    Falls vs. Bay of Fundy? No contest

    From Niagara This Week: Niagara Falls has a new spokesperson. Well, not officially. But Becky Puddicombe this week threw out her strongest plug for the falls as one of the country’s seven wonders. Now she just has to sit back to see if it works. The Grade 12 student at Westlane Secondary School appeared on…

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      Witness: Niagara Falls plunge ‘amazing’

      From CNN (reproduced below): Witness: Niagara Falls plunge ‘amazing’ Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Posted: 1:49 PM EDT (1749 GMT) Terry McMullen An unidentified man is taken into custody after his plunge over Niagara Falls. NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (CNN) — Tourists visiting Niagara Falls this week were shocked when a man plunged over the waterfall and…

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        Skate for Hope blog, June 25 entry

        Rich Ralph is rollerblading across Canada to try to raise money for cancer research. On June 25 he made it to Niagara Falls: We arrived at Oaks Park in Niagara Falls where we stopped for lunch and were met by a reporter from the Niagara Falls Review. The actual waterfalls were only a few kilometers…

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          Oneida Lane Developments

          As we have mentioned previously, the small strip of land behind the House of Frankenstein on Oneida Lane had applied for a zoning amendment, but it was deferred. At the time we were told that they were just trying to make official what they had already been operating. Well, I haven’t heard that their application…

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          Wyndham Garden almost open, will have Perkins Restaurant

          The fencing is down from around the new Wyndham Garden on Stanley Avenue and grass has been put down. It looks like the outside is virtually done. I wonder what is is like inside. Apparently the restaurant at the hotel is going to be a Perkins.

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          Diodati takes note of Airbnb booth at conference

          From the Niagara Falls Review: One exhibitor booth in particular at last week’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference caught the attention of Mayor Jim Diodati. “One of the booths this year that I’ve never seen before was an Airbnb booth. We (Diodati and the city’s chief administrative officer Ken Todd) spent a lot of…

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