Special Olympics In The News
Week of 15-19 June 2009
General Media Highlights from Around the World
-- Borneo Bulletein (Brunei Darussalam), 13 June – Top Special Olympics fundraisers awarded
Rose Lim walked away with a return ticket to Kuala Lumpur sponsored by RBA, after collecting the highest amount for the Special Olympics Brunei Darussalam (SOBD) walkathon card collection with a total of B$5,783. Presenting the prize to her yesterday at the Top Fundraisers Prize Presentation ceremony held at The Arch Restaurant in Gadong was the Director of RTB, Awg Hj Mahrub Hj Murni, who is also the chairman of SOBD
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-- Hudson Reporter (US), 13 June – Running and hitting for charity
The North Bergen Police Department raised the 10th highest amount of money in the state in last year’s New Jersey Torch Run for the Special Olympics at $10,000, but that was not enough for Capt. Robert Dowd. Dowd has been involved with the torch run since it began in New Jersey in 1984 and coordinates his department’s fundraising efforts.
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-- Long Beach Post (US), 12 June – On Eve Of Summer Games, Special Olympics Launches Re-Gifting Program
Special Olympics Southern California is celebrating its 40th birthday and is going green by accepting unused (and unexpired!) gift cards. What Miss Manners might view as a “no-no,” Special Olympics sees as a great way to help defray the costs associated with running its programs.
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-- Optometry Today (US), 11 June – Essilor supports the Special Olympics
Essilor is donating Airwear 1.59 lenses to every athlete at the Special Olympics National Summer Games next month. As a sponsor of the Opening Eyes program held at the five-day event, sales and marketing staff from the Bristol-based company have volunteered to help with the dispensing of the lenses during the Games.
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(Note: Translated from German by Meltwater News Service)
-- Wochenblatt (Germany), 11 June – Circus with Handicapp Ones
A handicapped pupil lures a dog by a tunnel from chairs. Obstructed and non-disabled boys and girls climbs one on the other and forms for conductors. By the manege a genuine Pony and horse traben and flutter multicolored birds in airy garbs. In the context of the “Special Olympics Invitational Unified Tournament” of 10. by 14 June in William village, at which obstructed and non-disableds volleyballers fought for olympic medals, typists occur up to 80 mentally handicapped and did not obstruct.
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-- Taiwan News (Taiwan), 8 June – Taiwan police take part in torch run for Special Olympics
More than 300 police and the cast of a television series held a torch run in Taipei in support of the Special Olympics, the National Police Administration said Monday. The torch run is a tradition of the Special Olympics first launched in 1981 by Richard LaMunyon, then chief of police in the U.S. state of Kansas. Taiwan’s NPA joined the tradition in 1999 in cooperation with the nation’s Special Olympics Committee. The international association was founded in 1968 with support from the Kennedy family.
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-- The Spread the Word to End the Word campaign "spreads" to Israel
In one of the leading papers in Israel, the Minister of Welfare, Mr. Hezug, made a statement that the use of the R-word is hurtful and outdated. They are now looking for a better word in Hebrew to best express Intellectual Disabilities!
