Editor, Gazette-Journal:

The Casino Night Planning Committee and the Board of Directors wish to express our deep-felt thanks to all those that supported the GMCC Casino Night Online Auction: Safer at Home Edition. Many members of this community (and beyond, from all over the country) made this event possible by sharing it with family and friends on social media, bidding on items, buying raffle tickets and/or making donations; it’s because of you this event was a success.

We appreciate the Gazette-Journal and WXGM radio for helping us spread the word. Thanks to your support, the event grossed just shy of $10,000—and with donations continuing to trickle in, the final total may surpass that number.

Casino Night has been a Middle Peninsula tradition for 14 years, and has historically been a night of great food, fun games, exciting live and silent auctions and good times with fellow supporters of this community. The disappointment felt by the Planning Committee and Board at the ne...