Polar Plunge

This year's Polar Plunge to benefit the Brandywine Valley Association will be held Saturday, Feb. 8, at the Brandywine Picnic Park (formerly Lenape Park) at Routes 100 and 52.
You can register online at the BVA's website or on the day of the plunge from 10 to 11 a.m. The plunge into the Brandywine takes place at 11:30.
In this one case, merely participating rates a trophy, as far as I'm concerned, but the official prizes (which are hotly contested, as it were) go to the person raising the most money; the team raising the most money; the group with the most plungers; and the best costumes. One entrepreneurial young fellow I know is asking his friends to join him in the icy waters; if they refuse, he assesses them a $1 "Chickening Out Tax."