Co-founder of Belmont County Pawsitive Placements Ashley Barto and Flushing Fire Department chief Bob Eberhart team up to raise funds for their organizations and the Harrison County Dog Pounds Volunteers this Sunday at the fire department. Photo Provided

FLUSHING — Belmont County Pawsitive Placements, Harrison County Dog Pound Volunteers and the Flushing Fire Department are teaming up again to raise funds for their organizations.

The fundraiser will be at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Flushing Fire Department, 104 E High St. in Flushing.

A chicken dinner is available for $20, which includes chicken, homemade bread and two sides.

A chance auction, 50/50 and quarter auction will also all be featured to raise more funds for each organization. The quarter auction will begin at noon. The chance auction contains gifts, such as gift certificates for restaurants, wine bottles and coffee baskets.

Visitors will also be able to purchase from a bake sale, which will include all homemade treats, such as bread, dog treats, pies and cookies.

Pawsitive Placements is raising money to build the first non-commissioned dog rescue in Belmont County while the Harrison County volunteers are raising money for vetting costs of the dogs. The Flushing Fire Department is raising money for its general fund.

Ashley Barto is the co-founder of Belmont County Pawsitive Placements and vice president of Harrison County Dog Pound Volunteers and spent more than a decade volunteering at the Flushing Fire Department, so seeing these organizations work together is important to her, she said.

Each organization is a 501(c)3, which means they depend on community support and fundraisers.

Barto said because the organizations are dependent on fundraisers, it’s important to have them to raise money for good causes.

“Community support is very important for people to know what we do and what we stand for,” Barto said. “I strive to show that dog rescue groups can work with other dog rescue groups within the neighboring county.”

She added members of the fire department are all volunteers but on call 24/7, so it’s important for them to raise money because they provide aid to the community during local emergencies.