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“Ashlyn’s Angels with attitude,” Michelle Curtis, left, and Colleen Pilsbury take the plunge with Maine Special Olympics President and CEO Phil Geelhoed during the Ice Out Plunge in Winthrop on Saturday. The event saw 59 “plungers” raise over $18,000 for the Special Olympics. After taking the plunge, people warmed up with an open cash bar at the American Legion and food from The Red Barn restaurant and Ye Olde English Fish and Chips.
Plungers in green “Bloom” T-shirts, from left, Corey Rubchinuk, Kayla Diplock and Kim Stoenton, jump into the icy waters of Maranacook Lake on Saturday afternoon to benefit the Special Olympics.
Dressed as superheroes, members of the Rangeley Police Department, from left, Ron Wood, Chief Dennis Leahy, John Bonnell, Sgt. Jared Austin and Rebekah Carmichael, prepare to jump into Maranacook Lake on Saturday for the Ice Out Plunge to benefit the Special Olympics. Since the ice was not out yet, the Maine Warden Service had to cut through over two feet of ice to access the water.
Tasia Lewis from Readfield reacts to hitting the icy cold water Saturday during the Ice Out Plunge in Winthrop.
A member of the Maine Warden Service jumps into Lake Maranacook while being filmed for North Woods Law Saturday.
Spectators line the banks of Maranacook Lake to provide warm clothes to plungers after they climb out of the icy waters Saturday.
Rangeley Police Sgt. Jared Austin reacts after plunging into Lake Maranacook in Winthrop to benefit the Special Olympics Saturday.
Plungers, from left, Law Enforcement Torch Run Director Ray Gastia, Ian Alexander of the Kennebec Sheriff’s Office, Larry Hesseltine of the Waldoboro Police Department and Richard Alexander of the Monmouth Police Department plunge into Maranacook Lake in Winthrop for the Ice Out Plunge to benefit the Special Olympics on Saturday.