‘Let me be brave’

Idaho Mountain Express:December 20, 2006: "

Special Olympians honored at breakfast in Sun Valley

By DANA DUGAN
Express Staff Writer

A Sun Valley family brought home their accomplishments Tuesday morning at the Breakfast of Champions.

Pirie and Jim Grossman hosted the annual Idaho Special Olympics gathering at the Limelight Room in Sun Valley, where the valley's movers and shakers, celebrities and athletes filled the room to overflowing.

The event is held to expand public awareness of the Special Olympic Games and athletes.

The Grossmans are chairs of the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games, to be held in Boise. It was at last year's Breakfast of Champions in Boise that the duo looked at one another across a table and knew they wanted the games to be held in Boise.

During the next six months, the Grossmans were able to secure sponsors and support in Idaho. Boise was selected by the International Special Olympics board of directors in May 2006. The event will be the largest multi-sport event ever held in Idaho.

The Special Olympics organization, formed by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1962, offers sports competition and training to people with intellectual disabilities.
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