Annual Polar Pub Crawl March 24 to benefit Special Olympics

Join the third annual Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Pub Crawl from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 24, at participating restaurants in St. Charles. The $40 entry fee will include three drink tickets (beer, soda or wine). There will be a Jersey raffle at each bar, along with various other raffles. Tickets are six for $5 or $20 for an arm's length. All participants will meet back at Alley 64, 212 W. Main St., at 4:45 p.m. for raffle drawing. The participating bars include: Alley 64, McNally's Irish Pub, Riverside Pizza & Pub, The Crazy Fox, The Filling Station and Main Street Pub.

For tickets, find the event page on Eventbrite.com.

Special Olympics is a global organization that unleashes the human spirit through the transformative power and joy of sport, every day around the world. Through programming in sports, health, education and community building, Special Olympics is changing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities solving the global injustice, isolation, intolerance and inactivity they face. Special Olympics Illinois provides opportunities for more than 21,000 athletes, 40,000 volunteers and thousands more people statewide through 18 Area programs in all 102 counties of the state.

Its mission is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.