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24 days to the Games!

Ric's Grill in St. Albert will hold a fundraiser for Special Olympics Alberta with a six-course meal with Craig Simpson and Jamie Salé.

Team Alberta and the Special Olympics Alberta office are still riding the high of the past weekend.

Team Alberta's newest addition has been featuerd in the St. Albert Gazette

Help support Special Olympics Alberta and you could win

The St. Albert Gazette has published an article supporting and promoting the Draft an Athlete program.

Happy New Year from Special Olympics Alberta!

Oiler Defenseman Cam Barker and Oiler supporter and superfan Joey Moss visited the Special Olympics Alberta office on December 20, 2011

A night to remember. A night that will never be forgotten. Red Deer’s Arlene McTeer braced herself to be the first to go to the stage at the Special Olympics Canada Awards Ceremony.

The Give a Toonie. Share a Dream. Campaign provided by Staples across Canada was a resounding success again for the 2011 year. Staples customers across the country offer their donations and raised over $400,000 during the three week campaign.

Special Olympics Alberta's Draft an Athlete was featured in today's St. Albert Leader newspaper.

Special Olympics Alberta's Kelly Zackodnik, head coach of the Athletics (Track) team that excelled in Athens during the Special Olympics World Summer Games, was a recipient of a very esteemed and well-deserved award.

Sergeant Wendy Nelson was honoured earlier this month at the National Gallery in Ottawa with the Canadian Forces' Female Coach of the Year Award

Last week to shop and donate at Staples!

100 Days to the 2012 Winter Games! The home stretch is here!!

TSN has been an amazing supporter of Special Olympics for more than 25 years and tomorrow, Saturday, November 19, is their annual Special Olympics Day.

6 West Central athletes went to the Oilers game last night as part of the “HORCOFF’S HEROES.” Launched in 2008, the program sees 15 children experience an NHL game in person as a guest of Horcoff and the Oilers.

From November 5 to 26, Staples stores and customers across Canada will be sharing the spirit of Special Olympics through the Give a Toonie. Share a Dream. campaign.

Wendy Nelson, head coach of Special Olympics Lethbridge's swim team, was honoured by the Canadian Forces as Military Female Coach of the Year

ATCO Gas chose Special Olympics Alberta as this year's featured charity in their employee fundraising campaign...and broke records!

Provincial award winners for Special Olympics were celebrated at the annual Fall Conference held on October 15, 2011.

Tune in to TSN and TSN2 for Athens 2011:

Special Olympics Canada today announced the names of the athletes, coaches, and volunteers who will be honoured at its annual awards celebration on December 8, 2011, in Toronto.

At two separate occasions Special Olympics Alberta President and CEO, Kirk De Fazio, had an opportunity to meet Edmonton's Chief of Police, Rob Knecht.

The Hanson Brothers and former NHL referee, Kerry Fraser, played in the Battle of the Battles charity hockey game between the Edmonton Police and Firefighters on Sunday, September 25.