Invictus Games athletes take in the falls

From the Niagara Falls Review: As Romania’s Doru Hamza stepped off the Via Rail train in Niagara Falls Wednesday, it felt like “fate” he was here. Before he was an athlete with the Invictus Games, he was a sergeant with his country’s 300th Infantry Battalion. In 2008, while patrolling the Qalet-Kandahar highway in Afghanistan, his…

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Falls ready to welcome Invictus athletes

From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara tourism partners will host hundreds of international athletes and their families next week as part of the upcoming Invictus Games in Toronto. Up to 500 athletes, family members and coaching staff will take a specially chartered Via Rail train to Niagara Falls on Wednesday for a day-long outing to…

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‘One of the best years’ for tourism

From the Niagara Falls Review: A co-ordinated marketing campaign and hosting a live American talk show helped make for another great tourism season in Niagara Falls. “I just talked to one of the major players the other day, and he said he was up 10 per cent last year, and he’s up 10 per cent…

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Canadian parks police pull man from waters above Horseshoe Falls

From the Niagara Gazette: An apparent suicidal man was grabbed by Canadian emergency personnel Sunday night as he stood in the waters above the brink of the Horseshoe Falls. Niagara Parks Police Service officials report that about 6:30 p.m Sunday they were alerted to a man standing waist-high in the waters of the upper Niagara…

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Niagara Parks partners with Metrolinx for new Go Train travel package

From the Niagara Falls Review: Metrolinx and Niagara Parks are teaming up to make it easier for people to experience one of the country’s top tourism destinations. The provincial transit agency’s seasonal Go Train service from downtown Toronto to Niagara resumes June 23 and, with the new partnership with Niagara Parks, visitors will be able…

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Incline railway idled to spring

From Niagara This Week: A watermain break last month has left the Niagara Parks Commission’s incline railway out of commission until spring. The 48-year-old attraction, which ferries riders up and down between the Table Rock and Fallsview tourist districts, underwent a $7-million renovation in 2013 and NPC general manager John Lohuis, said that without the…

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Break in water main closes Falls Incline Railway

Again, old news, but I still wanted to post it… From the Buffalo News: The Falls Incline Railway, which connects the Table Rock tourist area next to the Horseshoe Falls and the hilltop hotels, has been closed indefinitely because of a major water main break at Main Street and Stanley Avenue, the Niagara Parks Commission…

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Sudbury native to walk between buildings in Niagara Falls daily for 12 weeks

From the Sudbury Star: It’s the summer of skywalks. Hot off the heels of Nik Wallenda’s historic wirewalk across the Horseshoe Falls, Jay Cochrane is getting ready to perform the greatest building-to-building skywalk in North American history – every day for 12 weeks. “It will be a continuation of a blockbuster summer of what this…

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Wallenda still working on wire logistics

From the London Free Press: Nik Wallenda is set to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a wire in eight days, but first he has to figure out how he’s going to get the wire from one side of the Niagara River to the other. The logistics of stringing the 550-metre wire from Goat Island…

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