UMaine Grad in CNN Report on ‘Dinner’ Project

Sarah Smiley, a 2012 University of Maine master of arts in communication graduate and columnist for the Bangor Daily News, was interviewed for a CNN feature story and video on her “Dinner with the Smileys” project. Smiley and her children invite special guests once a week to share dinner with her family and fill the vacant chair of her husband, a U.S. Navy pilot deployed overseas. The Smileys have hosted U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a local minister, Bangor’s police chief, a cancer survivor and members of the UMaine men’s hockey team, among other VIPs.

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