Twitter updates for 2009-12-12

RT @WinterFestival: Tomrrow the Rink at the Brink will host the professional figure skating team of Jodeyne Higgins… http://bit.ly/5KyGbQ # RT @WinterFestival: A very special thank you to the Niagara Parks Commission. NPC is lowering the price of parking… http://bit.ly/7uk8xy #

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    Veteran Maid of the Mist pilot departs

    From the Buffalo News: Tourists on the deck of the Maid of the Mist get wetter the closer the boat inches to the Horseshoe Falls. There’s a cold wind blowing. But it’s warm and dry in the wheelhouse. Captain Richard Schuyler has spent 32 years there, piloting Maid of the Mist tour boats. “I like…

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      Millions to view party in the park

      From Niagara This Week: It’s the gigantic New Year’s Eve bash that almost didn’t happen, that nobody wanted to see die and that is about to fill Queen Victoria Park with tens of thousands of people Saturday. It’s been a couple of turbulent months of planning and fundraising for organizers of the annual free New…

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      Movie shoot news to city

      From the Niagara Gazette: Published reports about plans to shoot another motion picture in the Falls came as news to Mayor Paul Dyster on Thursday. Although an article appearing in The Hollywood Reporter suggested the American side of the Falls would serve as the backdrop for an upcoming film featuring Dennis Hopper, Dyster said, at…

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      Virtuoso® & The Knot Announce 30 Top Honeymoons

      From a PR Newswire press release seen on Yahoo! Finance: Wedding Couture used to mean the bridal gown … now it means the honeymoon. Niagara Falls is being replaced with zip-lining in rain forests, summer skiing in Chile, or a desert safari in Arabia, according to Virtuoso® the leading luxury travel network who today announced…

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        Falls 4 Tea facade changes

        The small tea shop on Victoria Avenue, Fall 4 Tea, has changed their sign. The sign used to take up the entire up part above the door, but now it is smaller and you can see the brick work. Still on the topic of Fall 4 Tea, when I search for that, there are currently…

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        We’re back (hopefully with no more interruptions)

        Last summer I changed web hosting providers so I could save some money. I had a friend who was using this other company and had never had any problems, so I went with them. At first things seemed fine, but then there were regular outages. It would be down for a few minutes to a…

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        Reynolds, Dawson to film in Falls

        From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: Hollywood is invading Niagara Falls. Actor Ryan Reynolds and Rosario Dawson are going to be filming the movie “Queen of the Night.” I know this is old news, but I saw the contradiction and wanted to point it out. Both the headline and the first sentence indicate that Ryan…

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