CHARLESTON, W.Va. – For nearly 60 years, the Frank Veltri Thanksgiving Dinner has provided a meal for Charleston’s most vulnerable residents, and this year will be no different.

The dinner brings the holiday spirit to thousands of seniors and others in need around the city thanks to Veltri, the self-made Charleston entrepreneur who first organized it in 1966. After Veltri died in 2001, he left an endowment to continue the dinner, managed by the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.

“Volunteers will prepare roughly 2,200 meals for the seniors living in the high rises and the low rises. Our delivery volunteers will deliver 1,500-1,700 meals with about 550 eat-in,” volunteer lead Candice Arthur said.

In addition to the copious amounts of turkey and ham being served over the next three days, v

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