WAITSBURG - Three months after the old food bank operation moved from a cramped basement into a street-level store front, community members in need are finding a lot more than nutrition at the new Waitsburg Resource Center.

"We're bigger than the food bank," said Rev. Mike Ferrians of the Waitsburg Christian Church who serves as the center's treasurer. "It's everything we envisioned it to be."

The center, with its cleaner, more accessible and more central location in the America West Bank building on Preston Ave., is more hospitable for clients and more pleasant for volunteers, he said.

It...