What a way to ring in a new decade!
The Voyageur Lions Club held their annual New Year’s Day Polar Plunge on January 1st at La Place Rendez-Vous. It brought in over $8,300 for all kinds of great causes!
I’m a member of the club, so it’s always a pleasure to emcee the freezing cold festivities…It’s also a great excuse to never actually jump into Rainy Lake myself. I admit it…I’m WAY too chicken to take a dip!
Thankfully roughly 12 groups and 30 jumpers were much braver than I was!
These jumpers went around with pledge sheets collecting money ahead of time for a charity or no profit or fundraising effort that means something to them. Then they split the money 50/50 with The Voyageur Lions Club who do so much good work across the region and right here in The Borderland.
Here are a few photos from the day. A big thank you to Lion Roz Calder who has shared some great pics with us! In fact most of these are screen shots taken from a video that she shot which you can check out on our 93.1 The Border Facebook page.
Here is a full list of the Jumpers…
Top Group Fundraisers
1) Lake Life Adventures
(Going to The I Am Awesome & I Know It Girls Retreat)
Darren Gate & Julia Teeple
$1045.70
2) Emo Express Atom Hockey
Landen Hammond & Brandon Bedard
$911
3) Fort Frances High School Travel Club
Erica Lemelin, Rhyan McLean, Kennedi Gosselin, Naomi Dunn, Matt Dyck,
Nakoda Thunderchief, Grace Petsnick
$760
4) Legion Ladies Auxiliary
Lori Ledu
$701
5) Rainy River District Animal Rescue
Dahlia & Violet Kaun
$365
6) CMHA Fort Frances
Alastair Craig
$360
7) Fort Frances Family Centre
John Danard, Theren Smith, Conner Byzewski, Parker Nastiuk
$300
8) Sunset Country Squash
Mike Barlow
$260
9) Robert Moore School Breakfast Program
Chelsea Craig
$140
Fundraising By Lions Clubs
Emo & District Lions Club
Joanne Ogden, Kent Ogden, Jodi Caul, Fred Paesel,
$2,475
Voyageur Lions Club
Travis Michl, Bill Michl, Dale Gill
$820
5M10 Lions
Wayne Tieman
$240
A HUGE thank you to the crew at HTTV for giving us permission to share their video coverage of the Polar Plunge. Lyndon Hughes and Melanie Williams did a fantastic job!
It was a fantastic day and everyone was getting into the winter weather fun!
Thank you again to all who made the Voyageur Lions Club 2020 New Year’s Day Polar Plunge a huge success!
