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Special Olympics Illinois athlete Dylan Thompson (#3 in the front row) is pictured with his teammates. (The Thompson Family)
Special Olympics Illinois (SOILL) has been a defining passion over the last 17 years for the Thompson family of Lake Zurich. Twenty-five-year-old Dylan, a SOILL athlete and the oldest of the family s triplets, is the reason why his parents, two brothers and a sister have been so deeply involved with SOILL since 2004.
Dylan s mother, Betsy, has been an avid volunteer and active fundraiser since Dylan began competing at the age of 8; first in track and field, and later in gymnastics, bowling, basketball, bocce ball and golf. His father, Tom, has served on the SOILL board of directors since 2008. The couple, together with the Pro-Am committee and The Grove Country Club, are hosting a Special Olympics Charity Pro-Am Golf Tournament and Dinner fundraiser on Monday, June 7 beginning at 5 p.m. at The Grove Country Club,
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While the pandemic has hurt fundraising efforts for the Special Olympics, the annual Polar Plunge is still going on, but in a different way. Kimberly Talley with Special Olympics Illinois says this change means the popular event will still go on, while keeping people safe from COVID-19. We re calling it a plunge at home for 2021. Where the groups are actually doing their own plunge so that we can keep our numbers under 50 people.
A donated dunk tank was recently used to drench Jackson County State s Attorney Joe Cervantez and Talley says it went over well. And his staff jumped in multiple times.and I mean literally, each of them went in two, three, four times to get dunked.