MARTINS FERRY — What started out as a simple fundraiser more than a decade ago has become a true community event, according to Pat Hartenstein of The Daily Bread Center.

And community is what the center is all about. In fact, a wide variety of community members help make it possible for the center to complete its mission.

Hartenstein said the churches of Martins Ferry came together several years ago to create a program to provide food to residents of the Martins Ferry City School District who were in need. Originally housed in a building on the opposite side of Fifth Street from the City Building, the center later moved to the recreation center and now is housed at 100 N. Zane Highway in a building owned by the Naylor Brothers with its rent paid by Unified Bank.

“Things are tough,” she

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