{"id":96790,"date":"2019-11-24T00:41:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=96790"},"modified":"2020-01-23T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:27:13","slug":"2020-lehigh-valley-polar-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=96790","title":{"rendered":"2020 Lehigh Valley Polar Plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up TODAY to be apart of the 2020 Lehigh Valley Polar Plunge! You can create your own team or join ours!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classy.org\/event\/2020-lehigh-valley-polar-plunge\/e256246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to register as an individual or start your own team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classy.org\/team\/268771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Or click here to\u00a0 join or support The Valley Ledger&#8217;s team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><u><strong>PLUNGE<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>February 22, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Scott Park, Easton<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><em>9:30 am Registration opens<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><em>12:00 noon Plunge<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><u>SUPER PLUNGE<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>February 21-22, 2020<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Grand Eastonian<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><em>12:00 noon, plunge every hour for 24 hours<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-START-<\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classy.org\/team\/268771\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pp50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pp50.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pp50-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-END-<\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Lehigh Valley Polar Plunge is an event held to raise funds\u00a0<\/strong><strong>and awareness for Special Olympics\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Pennsylvania. Plungers commit to<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u201cFreezin\u2019 for a reason\u201d and raise money\u00a0<\/strong><strong>to dip a toe, wade, or jump on into the icy waters of the Delaware River.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Funds raised from the plunge support nearly 20,000 athletes\u00a0<\/strong><strong>that participate in Special Olympics activities\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0across Pennsylvania.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Special Olympics Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special Olympics is a life-changing movement of people helping people. The athletes of Special Olympics &#8212; more than 20,000 strong here in Pennsylvania &#8212; are constant reminders of all that is right with the human spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.<\/p>\n<p>All training and competition opportunities are provided free of charge to the athletes and their families, enabling everyone to experience the benefits of Special Olympics that extend well beyond the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Pennsylvania Special Olympics and contacts, their website is:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialolympicspa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.specialolympicspa.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sign up TODAY to be apart of the 2020 Lehigh Valley Polar Plunge! You can create your own team or join ours! Click here to register as an individual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=96790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2020 Lehigh Valley Polar Plunge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/freezin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}