LONG BEACH, Calif. (Oct. 6, 2017) – Sunday will be the 21st Pier del Sol, an annual event featuring the top chefs and restaurants in Los Angeles gathering together in a fundraiser for Special Olympics Southern California and its more than 31,000 athletes. In the previous 20 years, there have been 178 restaurants/chefs on record […]
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (Sept. 25, 2017) – Special Olympics Southern California invites you to a unique Oktoberfest experience this year at the 21st annual Pier del Sol fundraiser on Sunday, Oct. 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This Oktoberfest celebration will be like none other, one that fuses great food and amusement park experiences
LONG BEACH – When you dine at a Chef Gino Angelini restaurant, you can see and taste the amount of passion and pride he puts into his food and its presentation. It is who he is. Why shouldn’t it be, since he has devoted his life to it since he was 14? With that passion
LOS ANGELES — Nothing signals the start of the fall sports campaign like the beginning of the football season, and to celebrate, Special Olympics Southern California will be giving away three pairs of tickets to the season opener for the Los Angeles Rams against the Indianapolis Colts this Sunday, Sept. 10 at the Los Angeles
Michael Sameles of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department picked a good year to participate in his first Plane Pull on Saturday. The law enforcement agency posted the top overall time, pulling a 124,000-pound FedEx plane 12 feet in just 5.1 seconds at Long Beach Airport. In all, 54 teams participated in the 12th annual event
It was an amazing day on the tarmac of the Long Beach Airport for the 12th annual Plane Pull benefiting Special Olympics Southern California athletes. Here some of the images from Saturday. For a recap on Saturday\’s Plane Pull, CLICK HERE. For all the photos, visit the SOSC gallery on FLICKR.
Before heading on stage to emcee the Closing Ceremony of the 2017 Summer Games, Special Olympics Southern California (SOSC) athlete Rachel Osterbach was nervous. The Global Messenger often gets nervous before speaking in front of big crowds. It is a fear she has battled for a long time. But just as she has done her
LONG BEACH, Calif. (August 9, 2017) – Diners at participating Luna Grill\’s Southern California locations (www.SOSC.org/LunaGrill) can help support Special Olympics athletes thanks to a fundraising campaign throughout the month of August. Guests will be asked during the order process if they wish to make an additional cash donation to support Special Olympics. All donations
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (July 26, 2017) – This October, join some of the best chefs and restaurants in Los Angeles for an Oktoberfest celebration like none other, one that fuses great food and amusement park experiences to benefit Special Olympics Southern California athletes. Tickets for the 21st annual Pier del Sol on Sunday, Oct. 8
Andy Ho, co-founder and CEO of Sprive, started his fitness equipment company in November and wanted to find ways to impact the community. With a personal connection to Special Olympics already established, he reached out to Special Olympics Southern California to see if there was a way to help raise awareness. The partnership started by
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