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Polar Plunge going mobile with help from Alexandria company


Polar Plunge goes mobile with help from Alexandria company
The Polar Plunge is now also mobile thanks to the Plungester which will be used at events across the state to benefit Special Olympics Minnesota.
Author: Heidi Wigdahl
Updated: 10:47 AM CST March 13, 2021
ALEXANDRIA, Minnesota Every year, people go to the extreme to support Special Olympics Minnesota through the Polar Plunge.
These plunges typically play out on frozen Minnesota lakes. But they also happen on-site at schools across the state through the Cool School Polar Plunge.  
What traditionally started out as year-round sports training for somebody who has an intellectual disability, now we ve got all kinds of programming, said Bill Fish, executive vice president for Special Olympics Minnesota. We re here at a school supporting our Unified programming where anybody can participate. ....

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Taking the plunge: 'Admiral BigGun' raises money through polar plunge for Special Olympics | News


Scott “Admiral BigGun” Backstrom and his “FAN-tastic Purple Plunger” team brought in over $4,000 for the Special Olympics in the 2020 Polar Plunge, the first of its kind to take place on Otter Tail Lake. Backstrom is back in his fourth year of raising funds for the organization with a personal goal of $3,000 in funds raised. 
“I have been involved since 2017 (fundraising) doing my first plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota in Febr uary of 2018,” explained Backstrom. “I jumped with my associates in the VWO (Viking World Order - a worldwide Minnesota Vikings fan group). We jumped in the Twin Cities. I raised over $1,250 that first year and the feeling of giving back to a nonprofit organization that really appreciated the effort hooked me.”  ....

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