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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Printed from Niagara This Week

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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