The Special Olympics Kansas Flame of Hope will be carried by law enforcement officers through Fort Riley and Junction City on May 30.

Torch Runs are held in Kansas leading up to the annual summer games in Wichita. Law enforcement officers raise money for Special Olympics Kansas throughout the year by participating in these runs as well as events like Polar Plunges, Tip-A-Cop and Cover the Cruiser.

Agencies participating in the Fort Riley portion of the run include the 97th Military Police Battalion, Fort Riley Directorate of Emergency Services and the Fort Riley Police Department.

Law enforcement officers will begin the Fort Riley run at noon on the Ogden Access Control Point and continue along that route along Heubner Road. The route will remain on Heubner Road until it reaches the Grant Access Control Point where the torch will be handed off to the Junction City Police Department. At Grant Park there will be remarks by attending personnel, and there will be a mass formation of participating Soldiers.

In Junction City the runwill begin at 2 p.m. at the Grant Avenue Park and travel west on Grant Avenue, cross over Washington Street, head west on 18th Street,then turn south on Jefferson Street until they reach Heritage Park.

At the conclusion of this leg of the torch run the torch will be headed to McPherson for the next leg on June 1.