It was just two weeks ago, when the Union Street Brick Church in Bangor announced they would not be able to open their warming shelter this season due to a lack of funding. Officials with the ministry said they did not receive grant money they have come to rely on each season to heat the facility (which costs about $50K a winter) so the 70+ people that usually rely on those services every winter will have to find somewhere else to stay this year. Bangor Homeless Warming Shelters, Cori Skall Bangor Homeless Warming Shelters, Cori Skall loading...

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This news came on the heels of an announcement by the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter earlier in the summer, that it would not be opening it's warming shelter, either.

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