Outdoor skating rink to open Nov. 23 at ‘brink’ of Horseshoe Falls

From a Canadian Press article found at Yahoo! Canada News: A new public skating rink will open next month “a stone’s throw from the brink of the Horseshoe Falls,” say organizers of the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights. The outdoor Rink at the Brink, two-thirds the size of an NHL rink, will be located…

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Barrels used by daredevils on display in Niagara Falls exhibit

From the Canadian Press (via Yahoo! Canada Travel): Twenty-five years after stuntman Karel Soucek survived his trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel, a new exhibit highlights the daredevils who have been drawn to the site. Soucek, from Hamilton, suffered only minor injuries in his plunge on July 2, 1984. He died, however, about six…

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