To the editor:

The Portage Health Auxiliary awarded $1500 to the Dan Schmitt Gift of Music and Education Fund in their most recent round of giving.

This award will be used to help the Gift of Music to continue offering free after school music lessons in guitar and piano at the Calumet Art Center.

Currently we have 21 children enrolled in these lessons. We wholeheartedly want to thank the Portage Health Auxiliary for their financial gift. Their support and commitment to children and the Gift of Music helps make these free lessons possible.

Thank you on behalf of our students and the Gift of Music.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Parsons orginally sent this “Hat’s Off” letter on Dec. 27, 2021, but due to a mixup in the office, it was not printed in a timely manner. We on the Daily Mining Gazette editorial board apologize to Mr. Parsons for our tardiness in printing this letter.