CROSSING CULTURES: WORKING TO GET AHEAD
Area offers opportunity, lower cost of living
By Chris Dumond, BUTLER COUNTY BUREAU

HAMILTON — A native New Yorker of Dominican descent, Dionys Del Rosari works as a clerk in the Guerrero Mini Mart on Dixie Highway. A clerk in the store for about a year, Del Rosari left the Big Apple for Hamilton to escape a high cost of living.

The Hispanic convenience store on Dixie is one of two in Hamilton under the same ownership. There's a third on Vine Street in Cincinnati. Because the shops carry ethnic food items not found elsewhere, they draw Hispanic customers from Kentucky, Indiana, Columbus and Dayton, Del Rosari said.

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