Parks Police may get 11th hour reprieve from province

From Niagara This Week: Niagara Parks Police may soon get a new lease on life — at least for five more years. Just days before the 123-year-old police force faced being shut down, the Niagara Regional Police Services board voted last week to recommend to Community Safety and Corrections Minister Rick Bortolucci that the Parks…

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Getaway Guy: White Water Walk Getaway

From YNN Rochester (includes video): Since the 1930’s, this classic destination has been taking visitors on an elevator ride down 230 feet to the edge of the mighty Niagara River. A well-constructed boardwalk allows you to stroll along at your own pace right next to the river with 2 opportunities to descend stairs to take…

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Annual gorge wall clean up

From the St Catharines Standard: Depending on how one looks at it, the great gorge can either be impressive or frightening. For the crew in charge of the annual rock scaling operation along the great gorge wall on the Canadian side of the Horseshoe Falls, however, it’s the former. “I don’t find it nerve racking…

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Summer Couples and Family Packages at Doubletree Fallsview Resort & Spa by Hilton

On Monday I received this information from the Doubletree Fallsview Resort & Spa by Hilton – Niagara Falls: Explore Niagara Falls with the ones you love! Niagara Falls Hotel Doubletree Fallsview Resort & Spa by Hilton offer Summer Couples and Family Packages. The Summer Couples Package includes a $50 dinner voucher for Buchanans Chophouse (on-site),…

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Behind the Butterfly Conservatory

From the Niagara Falls Review: More than 400,000 people toured the Butterfly Conservatory last year. Employees at the facility are used to seeing and hearing people’s positive reactions to the roughly 3,000 winged wonders around them. But it’s unlikely many of the visitors fully understand the work and effort that goes into keeping one of…

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Sullivan laying low after latest falls stunt

From the Niagara Falls Review: Daredevil Dean Sullivan is back in town. Sullivan filmed two stunts this month in which he used his face-first rappelling technique to jump from the top of the Niagara gorge, near the Horseshoe Falls. “(Wednesday’s) was great. It was awesome. It was fantastic. It took me a couple seconds,” he…

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For Gale and the Parks, the divorce appears final

From the Niagara Falls Review: It looks like any bid to get Bob Gale a second term on the Niagara Parks Commisison is almost out of gas. Niagara’s own oil baron was sidelined from the government agency in February, when his three-year term expired. Now, after Friday’s reaffirmation by the commission of its 2008 decision…

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