PITTSBURG, Kan. — Brave community members took a jump for a cause, plunging into cold water to raise funds for Special Olympics Kansas. Every year, volunteers gather for the Polar Plunge.

Joe Fusco Jr. is a Worcester humorist/stand-up poet. He hosts the Richard Fox Poetry Series at Root and Press Café and Books in Worcester.

it’s pretty awesome,” said Pittsburg Police Department Lieutenant, Chris Moore. The event featured a costume contest before participants cannonballed and made a splash.

OTTERTAIL — As people cannonballed, belly-flopped, and pencil-dove into a plunge pool on Otter Tail Lake, water droplets from each splash mixed with snowflakes and wind at the Otter Tail Polar Plunge ...

“Matty English, someone hit him off the ball and cannonballed him. I’m not sure whether he did it on purpose, but the opposition scrum-half just seemed to dive at his knee, so that’ll get ...

“(Elliot) Wallis came off with a bad back, and he doesn’t look like he’s too bad, but Sam Halsall‘s dislocated his elbow. “Matty English, someone hit him off the ball and cannonballed him. I’m not ...