CHP JOINS IN RUNNING FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS.Byline: Stacy Brown Daily News Staff Writer A dozen local California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers participated Wednesday in a torch run to help kick off the summer games of the Special Olympics and raise money and awareness for the organization. The run began June 9 at the United States-Mexico border with ceremonies involving representatives from the Secret Service, FBI, military police and other agencies. California Highway Patrol officers picked up the torch at Balboa Boulevard and San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the at the edge of Los Angeles before Deputy Ralph Casillas ran the CHP's last leg and handed the torch over to the FBI. ``It's fun and for a very good cause,'' said Doug Sweeney of the CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan . The culmination of the 1,200-mile run is scheduled for Friday, when opening ceremonies will begin at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . More than 3,000 officers participated in the run, which featured athlete runners surrounded by emergency vehicles with their lights flashing. The torch traveled through San Diego, San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. , Orange, San
Bernardino and Los Angeles counties to raise money and increase
awareness of both the Special Olympics and their Summer Games, according
to Sweeney.
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