From the Buffalo News: Niagara Falls is a healing place for Sharon and David Gauthe. The Louisiana couple volunteered nearly two years of their time, helping with relief and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. Now they’re on a different kind of R & R. The Gauthes were offered an all-expenses paid vacation to anywhere in…
From The Source Weekly (including a nice picture): Niagara Falls is one of those places where you can forget its beauty because the falls are surrounded by cheesy attractions in Canada and by rather squalid urban areas on the American side. But the falls are still impressive.
From WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo: An old Niagara Falls attraction is getting new life. For the first time in 29 years, a funicular will be transporting people from the bottom of Clifton Hill into the Niagara Gorge. See also: The Buffalo News – Hornblower Cruises restores Clifton Hill cable car to gorge after 29…
From Niagara This Week: In the words of director Lee Siegel, he’s taken some sterling silver and gave it some polish. Siegel was describing some changes that were being made to the venerable Oh Canada, Eh? Dinner Show, which is about to embark on its 20th season. “The iconic characters will still be there —…
From Buffalo Business First: The Rainforest Cafe is expanding its local footprint by adding a second location — this time on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls. Canadian Niagara Hotels, owners of the Sheraton at the Falls complex in Niagara Falls, N.Y., are bringing a Rainforest Cafe to their property. The 14,000-square-foot restaurant, which will…
Last week I received an email newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa. You can subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the Special Email Offers link on the side of the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa main page
The Making Of special of the Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic DVD is 20 minutes long. There is a fair amount of “raw” or untouched footage shown that is exactly the same as the movie. It wasn’t coloured or adjusted for lighting, and didn’t look nearly as good as the real movie. There was some…
From the Toronto Sun: Aerospace engineer Julian Sharpe is so confident in the disaster-proof pod he has invented that he is willing to test it by going over Niagara Falls. “I’m aware there are huge restrictions, and it may not even be possible, in which case we would be looking for an alternative waterfall,” said…
From the St Thomas Times Journal: Niagara’s mayor and regional chairman have asked the province to scrap plans to select new operators for the region’s two casinos. In a letter to Finance Minister Charles Sousa, Mayor Jim Diodati and Niagara Regional Chairman Alan Caslin asked the government to terminate an ongoing request for pre-qualification and…
Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (part 1 was on a different blog): We originally planned our Niagara Falls trip for three days (incl. arriving and leaving days), but soon realized that we would need at least one extra day. This is still a very small amount of…