From a Nanaimo Daily News: Nanaimo daredevil Dean Sullivan has landed a summer job in Niagara Falls, where he is being paid to leap off a 155-metre tower and break the world record for the longest rappel out of a helicopter. Sullivan is no stranger to risk-taking. He made calculated jumps off Niagara Falls last…
On Wednesday I received the latest newsletter from Zooz. They have a Father’s Day special. To subscribe to the Zooz newsletter, click on the Zooz News page and register.
Someone with a Blogger blog, and who is apparently from Niagara Falls, compares Niagara Falls with New Orleans: My home town is Niagara Falls, Ontario. I’ve always considered it the universal hometown because just about everyone has heard of it. There has always been a carnival side to Niagara Falls, you can see it in…
Someone with a Blogger blog has posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (pictures included): After that we took the subway to pick up our car (nice Dodge Charger) and Phil was the first one to test an automatic car (with success) to drive to Niagara Falls. Another sunny day and not to many…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The very name engenders a sense of excitement. For decades, the magnificent splendor and awe-inspiring power of the area has cultivated a feeling of wonder, tinged with more than a little reverence. Writers, artists and countless throngs of squealing tourists have thrilled to the sight of the emerald cascades or…
On Monday I received the latest newsletter from NiagaraFallsBestHotels.com: To subscribe, fill out the form to join the Best Hotels Mailing List.
From the Niagara Falls Review: Among the thousands of people who will be looking skyward this weekend during the annual Friendly Foes Above the Falls air show will be a man who already conquered the stratosphere. Bjarni Tryggvason, a professor of flight dynamics at the University of Western Ontario, flew aboard the shuttle Discovery in…
truTV has an article on their site about Sir Harry Oakes: In the early morning hours of July 8, 1943, a rainstorm raged on the small island of Nassau in the Bahamas. The rain pelted through the open window and doused the flames that engulfed the body of millionaire Sir Harry Oakes as he lay…
Someone with a LiveJournal blog has posted a kind of review of the Hilton: Every four months or so I go to Niagara Falls to hit the slots and try a different hotel in the process. I had heard about their pool so I chose to stay at the Hilton this time.
Someone else with a Blogger blog has posted about a trip to Niagara Falls to celebrate an anniversary: So, today was our eleventh anniversary. To celebrate, we headed to Niagara Falls, where Spills had never been. We walked along the parkway to the falls, marvelling at the rapids and the falls themselves. Then we headed…