Border agency defends staffing, despite delays

From the Niagara Falls Review: Border delays into Canada — sometimes topping an hour — are unacceptable, says Niagara Falls’ mayor. And it’s not enough for the Canada Border Services Agency to average daily wait times, when peak-flow slowdowns are the issue. “We seem to have a staffing challenge, as a result we don’t have…

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Twitter updates for 2009-08-11

I had a bit of a long weekend away from the Falls, but I'm back, so posting and tweeting will resume… # RT @Hilton_Niagara: Apparently, actor Eric Bana visited Niagara Falls while filming "A Time Traveler's Wife" http://bit.ly/18CAwP #

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10 most beautiful waterfalls

From Today Travel: Few things in nature are as mesmerizing as a waterfall — the thunderous roar as water spills over cliffs, the light glistening off the spray, the sheer force of it all. We found the 10 most enticing cascades on the planet. Some are obvious choices (who could resist the honeymooners’ classic Niagara?),…

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    Niagara Helicopters Honoured as Niagara Falls Tourism Enterprise of the Year

    Regular contributor Dan submitted a link to this story from TourismExchange: Ruedi Hafen, owner and operator of Niagara Helicopters Limited, has been appointed the 2006 Tourism Enterprise Award. The Niagara Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (NEYA) program announced their decision Friday night at the 2006 Niagara Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Gala Dinner. Hafen, along…

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    Downtown Wi-Fi program gets a boost from Destination Niagara

    From the Niagara Gazette: Destination Niagara USA, the renamed tourism bureau of Niagara County, has thrown financial support behind a local push to install wireless Internet equipment on Old Falls Street. The Wi-Fi pilot program, which would allow up to 4,000 simultaneous users to access the web on their telephones, laptops and tablets, is being…

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      Parks unveils its Fury

      From the Niagara Falls Review: The secret’s out. On Wednesday, the Niagara Parks Commission let its staff hear details about Niagara’s Fury – the $7-million attraction being built at Table Rock that has been kept tightly under wraps since plans to overhaul the facility were announced last year. Over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend in…

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      HOW NIKOLA TESLA HARNESSED THE POWER OF NIAGARA FALLS

      From Collective Evolution: Can you imagine if we were still walking around at night using candles to light our way, or heating our homes only by fire? Sure, it’s romantic and nostalgic to do that once in a while, but at the end of the day, society would look extremely different without the use of…

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      UFO over Niagara Falls?

      From the Niagara Falls Review: What the heck were those lights in the sky Saturday night? That’s the question scores of Niagara Falls residents and tourists were left to ponder after seeing an unusual, spectral pattern in the night sky over the tourist district for a period between 9 p.m. and midnight. Some say the…

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