PREPARATION — Doug Hartlieb, left, president of the Sons of Italy, and Nico DeBlasis, a member of the organization, prepare sausage to sell at the annual Undo’s Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival, which opened Friday at Heritage Port in downtown Wheeling. -- Gage Vota

Members of the Sons of Italy returned to the kitchen Tuesday for the annual tradition of making their famous sausage for the Undo’s Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival.

The festival opened Friday and runs through Sunday at Heritage Port in downtown Wheeling.

Members created an assembly line to prepare the 7,000 pounds of sausage Tuesday. Sons of Italy President David Badia said the organization uses the same process every year to ensure each sandwich tastes exactly the same.

“All of us here have actually

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