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Maine basketball team and Hollywood Casino spend Thanksgiving at homeless shelter

The University of Maine men's basketball team and the staff of the Hollywood Casino prepared and served Thanksgiving dinner to members of the community at the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter.

BANGOR (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- The holidays are a time to spend with family, but also a time to give back to those less fortunate than you.

This is the fourth year the staff of the Hollywood Casino has prepared Thanksgiving dinner at the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, and the third year one of the two University of Maine basketball teams has served the meals.

"The Hollywood Casino, really great neighbors to have." Boyd Kronholm, executive director of the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, said. "They not only support us on Thanksgiving but they have hired and given employment to some of our overnight guests."

The shelter serves three meals on Thanksgiving and expects to serve about 100 hungry members of the community.

"43 of those people will probably be people who stay here but everyday at noon we open up our doors for a soup kitchen for anyone who's hungry in the community. So those are people who may have been through our shelter at one point but are housed, but may not know where their next meal is coming from." Kronholm said.

Junior guard on the Maine Black Bears, Isaiah White, says he's not new to giving back to the community he lives in.

"When I'm back home, back in high school our church used to do things like this around the holidays too." He said.

While this isn't the community White grew up in, he says he enjoys giving back to a place that welcomed him with open arms.

"Maine, you know, the city of Bangor, Orono, the school, has fully embraced the basketball team." He said.

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