Chilly Polar Plunge Offers Fun for a Cause

  • The Fifth Annual Maggie Drew Peters Polar Plunge took place Saturday at Lake Beckwith to raise scholarship funds for Rye High School students, and as a memorial to Maggie Peters. Photo by Emily Colton
    The Fifth Annual Maggie Drew Peters Polar Plunge took place Saturday at Lake Beckwith to raise scholarship funds for Rye High School students, and as a memorial to Maggie Peters. Photo by Emily Colton
  • Rye High School teacher and parent, Karen Hopkins (L), founded the Maggie Drew Peters Polar Plunge and scholarship fund in memory of her daughter. Photo by Shirley Pigg
    Rye High School teacher and parent, Karen Hopkins (L), founded the Maggie Drew Peters Polar Plunge and scholarship fund in memory of her daughter. Photo by Shirley Pigg

    Saturday, November 20, was mostly cloudy and the thermometer had barely topped 50 degrees when approximately fifty brave and caring people took the pl…