Editor's Note
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 10:46PM 
The summer months are never boring in Buffalo and frankly it is hard to keep up with it all. After the long winter months, I am telling you Buffalonians take full advantage of the summer months—from festivals to camping to business to farmers markets, charitable fundraisers, film and waterfront fun, Buffalo offers it all. Though it may not be as big and flashy as some other big cities, there really is nothing that we can’t offer. By focusing on those things that we collectively are doing well as a community and region our hope is that you would be inspired and proud to live in Western New York.
Our goal is that you would decide to get off the sidelines and get your hands dirty doing something good, putting your money where your mouth is and putting feet to your vision for your city. Our predominate reader— age 25-40 is tired of business as usual. We know that change doesn’t happen through more government programs but rather when ordinary men and women decide to do something, take action and give back collectively that real progress is made. When we go beyond talking about the changes and we become the change.
So it makes sense that in this issue we highlight waterfronts from around the country as our waterfront is one of our region’s greatest assets. While significant progress has been made since last summer’s announcement that Bass Pro was finally pulling out, we thought we would add to the discussion (thanks to The Project for Public Spaces for their generous contribution) with some creative ideas for waterfront spaces from cities around the Northeast United States, not to mention the section serves as a great urbanists guide to summer travel at the same time. Plus we bring you Buffalo’s best in our culture pages with ice cream, chicken wings and more. Additionally you won’t want to miss Stuart Harper’s update on making progress in the fight against poverty and homelessness in Buffalo, Barbara Byers on the East Aurora Cooperative Market plans and so much more including our photo tour of The Salvation Army by photographer Matt Brown. Again thanks for reading and I look forward to hearing from you soon! If you haven’t checked out our website and social media pages I strongly suggest you do, with (almost) daily updates and briefings from “Around Town” THRiVE! brings you the best news in town.!
Kyle Patterson, Publisher and Editor
