Tiffany Murray, keeping the flame alive
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November 18, 2012 |
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Bonners Ferry Police Officer Tiffany Murray
participated in a 5k law enforcement Torch Run
while attending the International Law
Enforcement Torch Run in Indianapolis, Indiana,
last week.
The conference hosted about 1,000 law
enforcement officers from around the world for
the purpose of building up the law enforcement
Torch Run, which benefits Special Olympic
Athletes.
Law Enforcement Officers are the Guardians of
the Flame for Special Olympics and are the
largest grass-roots fundraising group for the
athletes.
Locally, officers do Tip-a-Cop events and a
Penguin Plunge in the Kootenai River for Special
Olympics. Dave and Andrea Kramer were also at
the conference as the official photographers.
Some of the keynote speakers included Tim
Shriver, CEO of Special Olympics, Carl Erskine,
who played with the Brooklyn Dodgers and pitched
in five World Series, Bobby Gene Plump who
inspired the movie “Hoosiers” and Bob Kennedy
Jr. Olympian who is regarded as one of the
greatest U.S. distance runners in history.
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