Basketball fundraiser nets $38K for Ronald McDonald House Charities

BANGOR — The 36th annual Maine McDonald’s High School Senior All-Star Basketball Games raised a record-setting $38,740 for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine.

This year’s event, held March 11-12 at Husson University in Bangor, marked the Maine McDonald’s Owner/Operator Association’s 28th consecutive year as lead sponsor of the event.

The Maine Association of Basketball Coaches founded and co-organized the event, which recognizes Maine’s best senior high school basketball players, coaches and scholar-athletes, and bestows the prestigious Mr. and Miss Maine Basketball awards.

The Maine McDonald’s High School Senior All-Star Basketball Games are the second-largest fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine. The nonprofit operates Ronald McDonald Houses in Bangor and Portland, which provide lodging to families of children with life-threatening illnesses during their stay at a local hospital.

Since its founding in 1998, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine has granted more than $3 million to more than 250 nonprofit organizations that positively impact the health and well-being of children and families in Maine and eastern New Hampshire.