Niagara Helicopters, Operator of Helicopter Niagara Falls Tours, Wins Canadian Business-of-the-Year Award

From a PR Web press release seen on Yahoo! News: Niagara Helicopters Limited, an aerial tour company offering Niagara Falls tours based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, was presented with Canadian Business-of-the-Year Award. Niagara University’s College of Business Administration was pleased to recognize a company that flies above its competition and believes its employees are the…

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    Ex-trademark agent questions legal claim to name

    From the Niagara Falls Review: Steve Alek’s registered trademark of the word Fallsview could be undone by a semicolon, says a Niagara Falls woman with 20 years of experience in trademark law. “If all of these services (listed on his registration) have not been provided since the date claimed, I would question the validity of…

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      The Spilly Files: The Circle of Life

      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…

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        Updated Image Gallery

        While I was walking yesterday at lunch, I took a lot of pictures. There are now 724 images in 72 galleries. The main thing was that I took a lot of pictures of restaurants. It seems like Niagara Falls has a restaurant every other store front. I’ve taken pictures of Wolfgang Puck Restaurant (it seems…

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        Fireworks Monday to Friday at 10pm

        Earlier this week I  received an email newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview and Spa. 

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        The hidden history of Niagara Falls

        From WIVB channel 4 in Buffalo: In Niagara Falls, historians and members of the community are working together to uncover the hidden history of the Underground Railroad in the Cataract City.

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          Two Studies of Increasing Mist at Niagara Falls Find Two Different Culprits

          As was reported previously, there are studies that are saying that the increased mist at the Falls is from temperature, not from the wall of hotels. The New York Times has an excellent article about the 2 sides of this debate: From his seventh-floor office at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Marcus…

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          Top 10 names in mining

          Surprisingly this article from the Sudbury Star talks about Harry Oakes but doesn’t mention at all his time in Niagara Falls or his contributions to the city, and the many locations that are named after him. For those who don’t know, Harry Oakes is connected to Oakes Garden Theatre (at the foot of Clifton Hill), Oak Hall (the…

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