AUBURN – If you happen to be eating at the Ground Round on Center Street Friday night, snap your fingers and make a police officer come fill your glass.

As part of a yearly effort to raise money for the Maine Special Olympics, Lewiston, Auburn and Androscoggin County police officials will be serving up food and drinks.

The cops will work table after table in hopes of raising donations for the Olympic games slated to get underway in June.

The Special Olympics offers children and adults with mental retardation year-round training and competition in Olympic-type sports. The event currently serves 1 million people with mental retardation in more than 200 programs in more than 150 countries. That number is expected to double by 2005.

Local businessman Michael Courtemanche this year has promised to match every dollar raised by police with one of his own to benefit the cause.