FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – Broward sheriff’s deputies together with different legislation enforcement officers lace up their sneakers Wednesday morning to boost funds for Special Olympics Florida on the forty first Annual Broward Law Enforcement Torch Run.
The 10-mile relay started with the ceremonial lighting of the flame by Cooper City resident and Special Olympics athlete Fernando Nunez at 1100 Seabreeze Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Nunez is a 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games gold medal recipient.
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“I got a gold medal. I went to Austria for the USA Games,” mentioned Nunez.
This 12 months’s theme was “Lighting The Way To Inclusion.”
The run got here to an finish at A1A and Atlantic Boulevard in Pompano Beach. Nunez carried the Olympic torch firstly and finish of the relay.
Afterward, there was a celebratory picnic at Pompano Beach Fire Rescue Station 11 on N. Ocean Blvd.
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“Today is our day to show the community that this is what we do, this is who we are, deeply invested in our community, and we’re deeply invested in the Special Olympics,” mentioned Broward Sheriff’s Lt. Steve Feeley.
The relay was a part of an intrastate torch relay that began on the finish of March and can culminate on the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics Florida State Summer Games which start on May twentieth.
Each 12 months, over 5,000 officers carry the torch on a 1500-mile relay by way of 67 counties in Florida.
Funds are generated by way of contributions from people and companies alongside the best way and thru gross sales of the favored Torch Run T-shirts and caps.
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