SOMO to host bocce tournament fundraiser

August 20, 2021 at 4:05 a.m. | Updated August 20, 2021 at 10:07 a.m.

A Jefferson City Police Department motorcyclist rides past the Special Olympics Missouri Training Center, leading the Restoring Hope Care-A-Van through Jefferson City Friday morning. The Care-A-Van, organized by the Cole and Miller County Long-Term Recovery Committee and other community leaders and organizations, included approximately 20 vehicles. The Care-A-Van was hosted in honor of Jefferson City's one-year anniversary of the EF3 tornado, which swept through the city on May 23, 2019.
A Jefferson City Police Department motorcyclist rides past the Special Olympics Missouri Training Center, leading the Restoring Hope Care-A-Van through Jefferson City Friday morning. The Care-A-Van, organized by the Cole and Miller County Long-Term Recovery Committee and other community leaders and organizations, included approximately 20 vehicles. The Care-A-Van was hosted in honor of Jefferson City's one-year anniversary of the EF3 tornado, which swept through the city on May 23, 2019.

Special Olympics Missouri is to host a bocce tournament at the Training for Life Campus.

Fifty four-person teams from across the state are signed up for the nonprofit's Super Hero Bocce Tournament, which is set for Aug. 28. Learn more on the SOMO website. (https://somo.org/calendar/super-hero-bocce-tournament/)

The SOMO event is to occur in five flights, made up of Central Missouri, St. Louis and Kansas City teams. Staff members at SOMO are to assign a Special Olympics athlete to each team.

The partnership gives the athletes opportunities to meet community members and share their stories. It also gives community members chances to meet and interact with the athletes, to learn more about someone who has an intellectual disability.

The annual tournament - this is the seventh - has been fun for all participants, according to Carol Griffith, SOMO health partnership manager.

The fundraiser will also feature music, barbecue (offered by Wardsville Lions Club volunteers), a cash bar provided by Shrunken Head Mobile Bar & Tropical Drinks, a silent auction and a "drive-it-home" raffle for a car, trips and cash prizes.

Proceeds to benefit SOMO State Outdoors Games.

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