Statement of Newsletter Purpose: To inform the entire Tippecanoe County Community about the opportunities available for participation as athletes, partners, coaches and volunteers in our local Special Olympics Program.

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A Big THANK YOU For Your Support Goes To:

Lafayette Sports Center
Lafayette Orthopedic Clinic
Caterpillar
Bank One Indiana NA
A.E. Staley Mfg. Co.
Omicron Chapter of Gamma Nu
Robert & Jacqueline VanOstran
Woodruff Tire & Auto Service
Walter's Auto Repair, Inc.
The Exchange Club of Lafayette
Wal-Mart Store #01-1547
State Farm Insurance Co.
Subaru-Isuzu Automotives

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A GOLF Thank You

   We would like to thank the following for their support of the golf program:
Jerry and Cindy Reynolds for allowing us to practice at Edwood Glen AND for hosting the sectional tournament.
Henriott Insurance and Homewood Suites for their financial support.
Partners for giving of their time to play with the athletes.
Tournament volunteers for their time on August 17 to be scorekeepers.
  THANK YOU ALL for your support.

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Thank you to HOOTER'S RESTAURANT for your fundraiser to support our Special Olympics program!!!

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Thanks to Everyone who sold raffle tickets for the Harley-Davidson Raffle to benefit both our local and the State Special Olympics programs!!!

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NOTICE:  The Athletes Awards Banquet has been moved from November to January 2003. 
                   Watch for time and place to be announced later!!!!

ATHLETE CORNER

ALPs Input Council Meets Monthly

  The Input Council needs you.

  Ideas you might have to make Special Olympics better can be heard.  How?  By being in ALPs.  It is where you can be free to say what you wish as long as it's about Special Olympics.  ALPs can help you become a better person by talking to others about your sport and so on.  This allows you to explore other opportunities.

  ALPs is about giving you a say in Special Olympics besides just being an athlete.  Ask yourself, What could I do to change Special Olympics?

  The athletes are in charge of each month's Tippecanoe County ALPs Input Council Meeting.  Brian Glick, who is head of our Area 4 ALPs Input Council, and Mike Doyle, a coach and volunteer, are there each month to facilitate the meeting.  Brian helps lead the meetings and Mike takes minutes and answers any questions we might have about Special Olympics.

  One of the things we have been talking about is a social activity.  One we agreed on recently was going to Indiana Beach.  What others can you think of?

Letters - I like Special Olympics:

   I have been in Special Olympics for 19 years.  I do bowling and golf.  I did bowling lots of years and golf 4 years.  I got a lot of medals and ribbons.  And I went to Terre Haute a lot of years.

  I would like to thank my parents and all of my old coaches and my roommate Bill Willey.

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ATTENTION ATHLETES

The MEET OF CHAMPIONS will be held on Sunday October 27, 2002.  The MEET will be held at Lambert Fieldhouse at Purdue University from 10 noon until 3 p.m.  The Meet is sponsored by Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Kappa Tau.  Have lunch and join in the sporting events and other special activities with Purdue Pete and the Purdue Cheerleaders and other Purdue athletes.  We look forward to seeing you all there!\

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Current Sports Practice Sessions:

Bowling:  Market Square Lanes <> 1 p.m. - Sundays

Volleyball:  Happy Hollow Elementary School, WL <> 6 p.m. - Mondays

Swimming:  West Lafayette High School <> Saturdays

Basketball:  Miller Elementary School, Lafayette <> 7 p.m. Mondays - beginning December 2, 2002 and Saturdays - time and place to be announced.