Hundreds take a chilly plunge to fight children’s cancer
Posted January 2, 2011 9:50 am.
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It may have been a day of record high temperatures, but a dip in the Ottawa River Saturday was still an icy proposition.
Over two hundred people plunged into the icy water of the Ottawa River to raise money for children fighting cancer.
The Sears Great Canadian Chill Polar Bear Dip event raised $4,500.
The money provides 17 different hospitals in Canada money for children’s cancer research.
The polar bear dippers who signed up plunged into a hole carved through a foot of ice at Britannia Beach.
The organization has big plans for the future, hoping to have at least eight different dips going on throughout the country by the year 2012.
The money raised in Ottawa will go to the CHEO Pediatric Oncology Unit.
