Special Olympics...there is no off season!

Hey Gang, Sorry to take so long to write. It's always busy and crazy here. We have so many cool and exciting things going on and coming up. It never ends here! A couple of weeks ago we held our 25th annual Maine Law Enforcement Torch Run Kick Off Conference in Wells. We had over 100 members of ME Law Enforcement in attendance as well as several athletes. The event started with a very exciting Unified Swim Meet with SOME athletes and officers paired up for competition. So much fun...many of the ladies commented how much they missed "Bull" this year though! A few prestigious awards were given out at the annual athlete luncheon. Tom Harriman of Oxford County Sheriffs Dept received the Unsung Hero awards, Colin Cougle of the Bangor area was inducted in to the Hall of Fame and Mari Smith from Freeport PD received our highest honor...the Bob Bell award. Congratulations to all of our winners. I think 2009 is off to an excellent start and we are going to have a very successful run this year.

Our SOME basketball tournaments in Central and Southern Maine are just around the corner. The Northern Maine tournament has already been held. The Central ME one will be held at the Old Town YMCA March 25th and will offer team play and basketball skills competition. The Southern Maine tournament will take place April 4th at USM in Gorham and will offer the same. Over 250 athletes are signed up for the Southern ME tournament! Wow!

This Saturday night should prove to be a ton of fun as Lewiston Police Dept takes on the Lewiston Fire Dept in their first annual Battle of the Badges to benefit SOME! Tickets can be purchased at the door for a small $5 donation. T-shirts and concessions will also be on sale. Hope to see you there. I think it is going to be a fun fight...I mean night!

We have Harley Raffle Tickets! they are only $20 each and all proceeds go to SOME. The bike is a 2009 soft tail classic! Only 2500 tickets printed. Call us at 879-0489 or visit our web site at www.specialolympicsmaine.org

03-31-09 Mark your calendars because this is the day we are going to spread the word to end the word. Make posters for your schools or work place with a big red R and a line through it and www.r-word.org on the bottom.

Finally- We are excited to announce that DVM sports/action photographers are going to be on hand at several events to take some awesome pictures! You can purchase photos during event or online later by visiting our web site and clicking on theri link. As of today they will be at our Southern Maine Basketball Tournament April 4th at USM, our State Swim Meet at Bates College in Lewiston April 17th and our State Summer Games at UMO on June 6th. I can't wait until you see these pictures. If you know for sure that you are intereswted in purchasing photos you can even ask the photographers to focus on your team or on individual athletes to be sure you get a lot of great shots.

That's it for today. I'll get back to you soon. Don't forget to join us on Facebook for up to the minute events, videos, discussions and more.