Law enforcement officers will carry a Special Olympics torch in a run through 30 Kansas counties in June.
The torch will be carried from Olathe, Kan., to Kansas City, Kan., on June 3. The torch eventually will reach Wichita, where the Special Olympics Summer Games is scheduled.
The torch run is the largest grassroots fundraiser and public awareness vehicle for Special Olympics. Officers volunteer hundreds of hours each year and in 2013 raised $451,482.00 in support of Special Olympics Kansas programs.
Runners from different agencies will meet in Olathe for an opening ceremony and start their run at 9:15 a.m. June 3. The runners plan to be at the Schlitterbahn water park at 94th and State in the afternoon. At 4 p.m., the runners are expected to run east on State Avenue, and north on 78th Street to the FOP Hall at 7844 Leavenworth Road, Kansas City, Kan.
A closing ceremony will be held around 4:45 p.m. June 3 at the FOP Hall.
Thirty miles will be run through Johnson and Wyandotte counties.
For more information, visit www.kansastorchrun.org.