Area law enforcement is taking it to the streets Monday to show their support for the Special Olympics as they participate in the annual Torch Relay for the Special Olympics.
“Law enforcement all across the state carry a torch to the opening ceremonies, which will be May 31 in Richmond, Kentucky, at the stadium at EKU for the Special Olympics, and we do it in support and to bring awareness and to prop those athletes up,” said Elizabethtown Police Department Communications Supervisor Chris Lee.
The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office starts the county leg with the torch and is scheduled to hand it off to the EPD around 9 a.m.
“The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office will start their leg of the run, I believe they start on U.S. 62 West where it goes from two lanes to four lanes, and then they will run to the Cecilian Bank at Leitchfield Road and Ring Road by Central Hardin” Lee said. “We will take the torch from them there and we’ll run our leg, which is up Ring Road to Patriot Parkway and then northbound on Patriot to KY-220, where we will pass the torch off to the Radcliff Police Department and they will continue their leg, and I think they run from there to their station.”
Area residents can support the torch relay by cheering the officers on along the route, and you can make donations to the Special Olympics at each of the agencies’ offices.
