Read the June Issue of the Torch Run Newsletter highlighting: World Games Final Leg, Great Wolf Lodge Car Wash, #BeaFan, Fiscal Year-End and MORE! Click the logo below to read the Newsletter.
It’s Torch Ride Season… Fire up those motorcycles!
We are very excited to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Torch Ride for Special Olympics. What started as three rides in 2013 has grown to 10 rides scheduled in 2017 and raised close to $350,000. This year, our goal is to raise $100,000. We’ve got some great incentive prizes so register today and start fundraising! Click HERE for the full …
Police Raise Money at Mall Toll for Special Olympics
thewhig.com April 16, 2017 Kingston Police and their Community Volunteers set up a voluntary toll to raise funds for Special Olympics Ontario at the Walmart in Kingston on Saturday. They raised $2,737.46 in four hours. The Ontario Provincial Police also had a toll set up at Walmart in Napanee, they raised $2,274.77 in five hours.
Polar Plunges Raise $330,000 for Special Olympics!
16 Polar Plunges 1,200 Plungers $330,000 Raised! Thank You Plungers & Supporters! What a year and what a result! Provincially, we hosted 16 Polar Plunges and raised $330,000. This money will directly benefit over 23,000 Special Olympics Athletes living in Ontario with an intellectual disability. We are so grateful for all plungers, volunteers, sponsors and supporters who worked hard to …
Special Olympian shows what’s possible at Plunge
www.owensoundsuntimes.com Saturday, April 1, 2017 Aimee Gilchrist was nervous before running into Georgian Bay on a cold but sunny April Fool’s Day – one of about 30 people who donned costumes silly or not and jumped into the bay for the 18th annual Polar Plunge for Special Olympicss. But the 38-year-old Owen Sound Special Olympian emerged declaring the water wasn’t …
Torch Run Newsletter – March 2017
Read the March Issue of the Torch Run Newsletter highlighting: 30th Anniversary, Torch Run T-Shirts, Polar Plunges, Torch Rides, Fiscal Year-End and MORE! Click the logo below to read the Newsletter.
March 1st – Join us in saying there’s #NoGoodWay
Alongside Community Partners, Special Olympics Canada and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, we’ve teamed up to encourage Canadians to eliminate the use of the R-word! We believe that most Canadians, will gladly stop using the R-word, once they understand the pain it causes. So we’re asking them to eliminate the word from their vocabulary and to share the …
Torch Run 30th Anniversary T-Shirts Now Available!
2017 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Ontario Law Enforcement Torch Run. The Torch Run was brought to Ontario in 1987 by Cst. Lorne White from the Toronto Police and raised $100,000 in the inaugural year. What happened next has been nothing short of miraculous… Over $40 Million raised and over 65 Agencies in the Province actively participating in a …
‘Hooked’ on Special Olympics
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 www.thewhig.com A staff sergeant with Kingston Police will be representing all law enforcement officers in Ontario this March when he takes part in a run through the countryside of Austria prior to that country hosting the Special Olympics World Winter Games. Jody Armstrong, who has been involved in Special Olympics events for people with intellectual difficulties here …
NHL Alumni visit Petawawa for Charity Game
Saturday, December 31, 2016 www.thedailyobserver.ca NHL alumni and local law enforcement once again took to the ice for the annual NHL Alumni Benefit Tour to usher in this weekend’s Hometown Hockey Tour. The NHL legends and Pembroke Law Enforcement All-Stars have been squaring off for the game every year to raise funds for the local Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch …
