{"id":770,"date":"2006-07-06T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/07\/06\/putting-falls-in-historical-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2006-07-06T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T13:05:13","slug":"putting-falls-in-historical-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/06\/putting-falls-in-historical-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting falls in historical spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?340\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As strange as it seems, this world-famous tourist destination desperately seeks recognition &#8211; from the federal government, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., is drawing up legislation that would establish the Niagara Falls Heritage Area, a designation that would mean up to $1 million in federal money each year for the land near the falls.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer said the bill will be ready to submit to both the Senate and the House within a month. The move recently won the support of the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p>The $1 million in federal money will become available after passage of the legislation, which is expected by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>But there is more riding on this than $1 million a year, said Niagara Falls activist Paul A. Dyster, who has been pushing for the designation since 2000, when he was a member of the City Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just about the money; it&#8217;s about the recognition,&#8221; Dyster said. &#8220;Niagara Falls is an international landmark, but thus far, the federal government &#8211; and specifically the National Park Service &#8211; have not been major partners in the protection and improvement of the area.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: As strange as it seems, this world-famous tourist destination desperately seeks recognition &#8211; from the federal government, anyway. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., is drawing up legislation that would establish the Niagara Falls Heritage Area, a designation that would mean up to $1 million in federal money each year for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}