The Holts Summit Soup Kitchen provides free holiday (Thanksgiving and Christmas) meals every year - just on a little different schedule than many other people.
Because it is closed on the holidays, the soup kitchen offers the meals a week early.
The Thanksgiving meal will be from about 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday. The meals are provided at the Holts Summit Civic Center, 282 Greenway Drive.
This year, the Samuel F. Gearhart Detachment Marine Corps League Auxiliary, based in Jefferson City, is preparing the meal, said Jan Crowe, the organization's president.
The league intends to have enough food for about 100 people. It will prepare turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, salads, rolls and dessert.
"The auxiliary plans, prepares and serves a whole meal at the kitchen every four to six weeks," Crowe said. "We've done it since about 2013."
When not preparing turkeys, she said, the meals have consisted of taco or tater tot casseroles, lasagna or other treats.
"Our mission is that we are all about serving - not only the Marine Corps veterans," Crowe said. "We also do a lot for the community."
Thousands of Thanksgiving meals will be offered on the holiday, Nov. 28.