Originally printed in the Globe and Mail
Tales from the crypt
While mummies are still among the most popular museum artifacts in the West, many of them are returning to their ancient homes
VAL ROSS
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
There’s no smell like it — the cloying, nasty, burning-tooth stink created by cutting into the bones of an Egyptian mummy. A few weeks ago, a small group of Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto scholars inhaled the smell in the form of weird, brown-black, bitumen-saturated dust when they gathered to extract a sample of shin bone from a mummy lying in the apartment of antiquities dealer Billy Jamieson. After drilling, the scholars carefully prised away an olive-sized bit and dropped it into a plastic bag so it could be taken to the university for carbon dating.
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Re-Printed in the Hamilton Spectator
Raising the Falls
Manhattan lawyer has daring revival plan
By David Segal
The Washington Post
NIAGARA FALLS (Nov 28, 2006)
Walk 20 minutes due north of the wax museums and honeymoon motels at the tacky core of this perennial tourist stop and you will find the eight-block stretch that locals call downtown. It looks like any other main street in a death spiral: empty storefronts, cheap rental apartments and a few holdout businesses limping from month to month.
But these blocks will soon be the scene of a nervy experiment in urban revival. The plan is to close most of the downtown, throw a tarp over the buildings and spend more than $200 million on renovations.
A year or so later, the place would reopen, hopefully with marquee retailers and spiffy residences in a setting that might look like a live Norman Rockwell painting.
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Shredd & Ragan show sends PS3 Over Niagara Falls!
Shredd & Ragan, from Buffalo’s 103.3 WEDG radio station, sent a new Playstation 3 (PS3) over Niagara Falls; they were fed up with all the people selling the ones they gave away on the show.
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Originally printed in the Washington Post
Developer Wants To Reverse the Flow In Tiny Niagara Falls
Plan Would Create Old-Style Downtown
By David Segal
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 20, 2006; Page A03
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — Walk 20 minutes due north of the wax museums and honeymoon motels at the tacky core of this perennial tourist stop and you will find the eight-block stretch that locals here call downtown. It looks like any other main street in a death spiral: dozens of empty storefronts, plenty of cheap rental apartments and a few hold-out businesses limping from month to month.
But if all goes as planned, these benighted blocks will soon be the scene of a nervy experiment in urban revival. The plan is to close most of the downtown, throw a tarp over the buildings and spend more than $200 million on renovations. A year or so later, the place would reopen, this time — hopefully — with marquee retailers and spiffy residences, in a setting that might look like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life.
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Panamerican 20,000: Buffalo, The city and Niagara falls
Source DueMotori.com
This section for the two Berlinettes is short. From Toronto the Tour drives to one of America’s tourism hot spots: Niagara Falls.
Before the team leaves Toronto they ride through Little Italy. This part is full of billboards in Italian and English and celebrates the two Berlinettes from Ferrari. Of course, the team members stop at a bar to have some real Italian Espresso. Then they leave in the direction of the Niagara Falls. The Niagara river is short and carries water from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. The Falls themselves are spectacular. While one part is on the American side the other one is on Canadian soil.
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Originally Published: November 13, 2006 01:18 pm in the Tonawanda News
Seven Wonders of WNY: No. 2 – Niagara Falls
BY DON GLYNN
The Tonawanda News
For millions of people around the globe the mere mention of Niagara Falls evokes images of a great natural wonder.
Since Father Louis Hennepin became the first white man to describe the cataracts after his visit in 1678, the falls have drawn countless tourists to both sides of the border.
The numbers have often varied, but it has been generally agreed by tourism officials and park commissioners that an estimated 8 million tourists annually gaze in awe at the American and Canadian Falls, the rugged canyon below and the water-tossed rapids above and below the cataracts.
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Printed in the Nov 8th edition of Niagara This Week
Roads to be closed for development
Sections of Grassy Brook and Crowland Roads off limits
Robert Lapensee
Nov 8, 2006
NIAGARA FALLS — Access to sections of Grassy Brook Road and Crowland Road will be closed off to neighbours of the Grand Niagara Resort once the $300-million tourism complex reaches a significant amount of development.
Council voted 7-2 in a recorded vote to close sections of the roads after a public meeting Monday. Aldermen Carolynn Ioannoni and Janice Wing were opposed. The roads include a section of Crowland Road between Biggar Road and Grassy Brook Road as well as a section of Grassy Brook on either side of Crowland.
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Garry Beck figures he has a way to reduce gridlock on the highways between Niagara and Toronto. His idea, he said, would save provincial taxpayers millions of dollars and give the region’s economy a big shot in the arm.Beck, a candidate for alderman in the city of Niagara Falls, thinks it’s time for a tunnel to be bored beneath Lake Ontario, linking Niagara and Toronto in much the same way the Channel Tunnel project, nicknamed the Chunnel, connected England with the European mainland beneath the English Channel.
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NIAGARA FALLS — The King and Queen of Sweden visited Table Rock Thursday as part of their second official visit to Canada.King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia met with Niagara Parks Commission Chairman Jim Williams, Mayor Ted Salci, and St. Catharines MPP and tourism minister Jim Bradley.
A trail of Ontario Provincial Police officers on motorcycles followed the tour bus to Table Rock, where an area was cordoned off by Niagara Parks police for the Royal couple’s visit.
After viewing the falls, the Monarch travelled to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a tour of Peller Estates Winery.
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