2015 POLAR BEAR PLUNGE
FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS
Sponsored by the NJ State PBA
Four pages of Commemorative Coverage
STORIES BY MITCHELL KRUGEL AND JENNIFER TRATTLER • PHOTOS BY ED CARATTINI JR.
Freezin’
for a Reason
PBA members make Polar Plunge
good to the last dip
OK, this is getting a bit ridiculous.
But in a good way.
Maybe the best way.
The 2015 Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics, cosponsored by the NJ State PBA, splashed into its 30th minute, but
these guys just wouldn’t get out of the water. Not just these guys,
but these cops, these PBA members.
Guttenberg Local 88’s Joe Keselica once again emerged as the
one who stayed in the ocean the longest, just slightly outdoing the
members of Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility in Bordentown who were part of the State Corrections Local 105 contingent, the ice men and women from Rahway Local 31 and the cold
players from West Windsor Local 271.
PBA members are always leading the charge off the Seaside
Heights beach into the ocean, and they have taken great pride in
being the last ones out the past several years. As NJ State PBA
Executive Vice-President Marc Kovar noted that the Polar Bear
Plunge shows how the cops are the truly the good guys, the members went to a ridiculous, albeit wild, albeit altruistic extreme to
show as much.
“Yes, I’m frozen,