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Icy Oyama waters no problem for 7-year-old

Winter Starr welcomed the new year with a polar bear swim
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Winter Starr, 7, and Amber Anderson dive into the icy waters in Oyama Jan. 1, 2021. (Contributed)

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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About the Author: Brendan Shykora

I started as a carrier at the age of 8. In 2019 graduated from the Master of Journalism program at Carleton University.
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