The Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics wound its way through three communities on the northeast Avalon this morning.

The annual event kicked off at the Paradise Double Ice Complex at 10 a.m.

Runners made their way to the city depot on Clyde Avenue in Mount Pearl before finishing things off with a jaunt through St. John’s to Capital Subaru via Kenmount Road.

Andrew Hynes, a resident of Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s, is one of only 10 athletes from Canada going to the International Games for Paralympics next week in Berlin.

It’s the third year trying to get the games in. The Sweden games were about to begin when COVID hit, and last year the venue was Russia when the war in Ukraine broke out.

Lynette Wells, a campus enforcement officer at MUN, will be accompanying Hynes, who she says has been training hard for the event.

They leave Sunday for Montreal, then it’s on to Berlin.