The shelter serves 72,000 meals a year and provides eye, foot and health care for 1,600 children, women and elderly annually. MacGregor noted the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. It was the nation's first such center and one of the largest for research and treatment. It's still a laid-back place.'' ''We work hard, but we make time to enjoy ourselves,'' echoes Alan Kegler. I love the coldest, snowiest days here because everyone grows closer.
People come out of their houses, smiling and greeting one another on the street.
It's not how much snow we get. It's how we handle it. Our city never closes. We clean up and get going where others can't,'' says Philip Wiggle. Of course, problem-solving is second nature here in the birthplace of ''brainstorming,'' a creative thinking process developed by a local advertising executive, Alex Osborn, that soon spread worldwide.