Skylon Tower in the mist

    For the last several days the weather has been rainy and foggy. I took this picture of the Skylon Tower yesterday afternoon. It looks like it is coming out of thin air (or fog): Click here to find other Niagara Falls Blog postings about the Skylon Tower…

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    December visitor figures gloomy

    From the Niagara Falls Review: The weather wasn’t the only thing that was dreary in December. The latest figures from Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism and Culture show border crossings into Ontario from the United States were down 12.4% compared to the same period the previous year. Same day travel was down 15.5% while overnight crossings…

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    Wallenda needs Canadian approval or Falls walk proposal is dead: New York State Parks

    So as the details of the Nik Wallenda/Michael Chan meeting were coming out, there were also reports that if this is going to happen at all, it has to happen as a walk between the two countries. Apparently New York State officials have said a walk solely on the US side is not an option….

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      Brookalicious: Fun, fun and more fun…

      Someone with a Blogger blog has posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: On Thursday we drove into Canadia to do all the Falls stuff on that side since Jaime has already done all the stuff on the American side. Plus the Canadia side is better even though I hate Canadians because they come…

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      Dogged voting could make Falls a shoe-in on Monopoly board

      From the Niagara Falls Review: Vote, vote, vote. That’s the only way Niagara Falls will have a chance to end up on the new Canadian version of the ever-popular board game Monopoly. Sixty-five cities were preselected for the national vote – but Niagara Falls isn’t on the list. Nothing to worry about, said Hasbro Canada…

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        Kiters conquer the falls

        From Niagara This Week: The Niagara Windriders Kitefliers Association won bragging rights among their kite-flying kin during a competition to see who could fly a kite over the Niagara Gorge. The Windriders are a fixture at Port Colborne’s annual Canal Days marine heritage festival with their enormous colourful kites in the skies over H.H Knoll…

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        Stunting wall ‘knocked down’

        From the Niagara Falls Review: If Nik Wallenda is allowed to walk over Niagara Falls, then daredevil Peter DeBernardi wants a chance to go over them — again. For those who don’t remember his name, rewind to Sept. 27, 1989. Peter DeBernardi, then 42, and Jeffrey Petkovich, 24, climbed into a home-made barrel at about…

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          Couple weathers storm to trade Valentine’s Day vows in Falls

          From the Buffalo News: A Valentine’s Day wedding seemed like a romantic idea to Johnathan Semchyshyn. His bride-to-be thought that exchanging vows in the Honeymoon Capital of the World would make it even better. The tan groom from Bermuda marveled at the snow falling Wednesday outside a stained glass church as he waited for his…

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