With organized polar bear plunges taking a back seat to the novel coronavirus this year, fewer people have welcomed the new year with a customary frigid swim.
Not so for seven-year-old Winter Starr, however, who went for an icy dip in Oyama and spent eight and a half minutes in the cold water Jan. 1.
Amber Anderson also made the swim. To warm up afterwards, she spent “a good 15 minutes in a hot bath.”
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