The weather held out for the 50 to 60 participants who took part in the Flame of Hope Torch Run for Special Olympics on Tuesday. Dickinson-Iron Mountain special education students, staff members and volunteers traveled the roughly 2 miles along U.S. 2 from the Michigan State Police Post to Iron Mountain Police Department. They were joined by family, friends and law enforcement officers. This was the 41st year of the event in Michigan and the 12th year Iron Mountain has taken part. The Law Enforcement Torch Run is the single largest grassroots fundraising effort for Special Olympics International. Jeff Solka, director of the Iron Mountain Police and Fire Services, and Karla Lehmann, victim advocate with the Michigan State Police, ran the entire course and were the first to return. Iron Mountain Detective Adam Ray, who has participated for the past six years and helped lead the group, said the event went well. “We dodged some weather and we had a lot of fun,” he said. (Marguerite Lanthier/Daily News photos)