OFFICERS TO CARRY SPECIAL OLYMPICS TORCH.Byline: Daily News SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- Law enforcement officers from across the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. will take part this afternoon in the Special Olympics Special Olympics International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants. torch run as it passes through Santa Clarita en route to Long Beach for the June 16 summer games This article is about the Epyx video game series. For the international multi-sport event, see Summer Olympic Games. Summer Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games. . More than 50 local runners will carry the torch from Castaic to Newhall. Members of the Los Angeles County sheriff's and fire departments, California Highway Patrol, FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will participate. The event will run from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. ``The Law Enforcement Torch Run The Law Enforcement Torch Run Campaign to benefit Special Olympics began in 1981 in Wichita, Kansas and is the largest grass-roots fundraising movement for Special Olympics. is a great tradition with Special Olympics,'' said Chris Clark, area director for the local chapter of the Special Olympics, a sports program for the developmentally disabled. ``The cross-agency efforts and generosity of the donations raised provide a tremendous amount of support to the athletes and get the community solidly behind its local athletes.'' The run is an annual event that involves some 3,000 law enforcement personnel and athletes to carry the Special Olympics torch through Southern California. The run is designed to generate awareness of Special Olympics and the summer games, a three-day competition. This year, 1,500 special athletes from throughout Southern California -- more than 100 from Santa Clarita -- will compete. The run helps raise money for the program along with other fundraisers including restaurant nights in which police officers serve as waiters and collect tips for the organization. So far this year, local law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). have raised $33,644 for the Special Olympics. Their next fundraiser will be Saturday a chili cook-off from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Jack Bones Equestrian Center in Castaic. For information, call Clark at (661) 253-2121. |
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