When Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones helped launch the volunteer registration for this year’s Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner, she recalled her time as a teen working at the event.
“I was thinking about my own Thanksgiving that I spent in high school — I mean, did you go to high school in San Antonio if you didn’t spend at least one volunteering at the Jimenez Dinner in some form or fashion,” the mayor said at the Oct. 28 kickoff.
The Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner, a nonprofit that provides free turkey meals to anyone in need on the holiday, is in its 46th year. Generations of San Antonio families have participated in the event that feeds about 25,000 each year…