Help us Support Rhino Conservation this Saturday

Early this week I received the latest email newsletter from Safari Niagara.

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August ending with beautiful summer weather

I took these pictures on Saturday, but all weekend was like this, and it looks like we’ll have beautiful weather through the end of this weekend.

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Canada Day on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls

Saturday was Canada Day and we celebrated Canada’s 150th birthday. Normally Canada Day is a huge draw, but this year it definitely did seem to be bigger. I was in the Falls until around 5 pm, and took these pictures late in the afternoon. There were lots of people around, but there were still more…

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Cross border fandom

I hadn’t even heard about this until I read this article… From the Niagara Falls Review: It was William Kircher’s second visit to Canada. The New Zealand actor, best known for his role as the dwarf Bifur in the The Hobbit trilogy, was one of the celebrity guests at the inaugural Fan World event held…

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Niagara Falls to go dark for Earth Hour

From Niagara This Week: It’ll be lights out at the Horseshoe and American Falls Saturday. The Niagara Parks Commission (NPC), in partnership with the Niagara Falls Illumination Board, plans to participate in the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) global Earth Hour initiative by switching off the evening Illumination of the falls from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30…

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Wind damage from Saturday

If you live within a few hours of Niagara Falls, you probably experienced some very high winds last Saturday. Occasionally we experience that, but this lasted for 18 hours or so. However, with all of that wind, there was actually very little damage. Other than some small branches around, the only damage I saw was…

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Travel photo of the day: Colorful Niagara Falls

From the Travel section of the NBC Today Show web site (including photo): Mary Umbricht of Seekonk, Mass., captured this beautiful photo of Niagara Falls. Umbricht took the picture on Saturday while spending a long weekend in Canada. There was “a lot of color,” she told TODAY.com, and visibility was great due to no leaves…

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