The local school district joined residents in donating meals. Meanwhile, the municipal building was set up as a place for people to store their belongings and get disaster aid information. In many ways Patriot, in Switzerland County 44 miles west of Cincinnati, is quintessential small-town America. There is only one street light, a blinking 4-way stop at Third Street and Route 156. He supervised construction of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and was appointed director of the Bureau of Reclamation by President Calvin Coolidge.
Neighbors here take pride.
None of this is news to residents here, except for maybe Randy and Mindy Sturgeon. The cops, too.'' And a neighbor and fellow Baptist parishioner they barely knew came by and offered to loan the Sturgeons her pickup truck. The neighbor said she didn't want her name in the paper because neighbors helping each other is no big deal. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.