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Pat Drennan

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Hi,

Article on swim:

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=31&id=32775

images of swim:

http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/tonyblog/2010/01/photos-coney-island-polar-bear-clubs-annual-new-years-day-swim/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/georginebenvenuto/sets/72157623014851015/

It is that time of the year again - the Annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Years Day Swim / Polar Plunge. This is my 7th one.

Please join us in the fun by taking a dip and helping to raise money for a worthy charity - Camp SunShine.

http://www.campsunshine.org/about_camp/

If you can't make the swim or cold water repulses you please make a donation of whatever you can afford.

We will be in the water at 1:00 pm. Get there early so after you make your donation you can enjoy the free breakfast, and join in the boardwalk party pre & post swim. The bars & restaurants on the boardwalk will be open, a DJ will be spinning, band, costumes, and the atmosphere that only Coney Island can bring to a party.

WHAT:    The Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Years Swim

WHEN:    Friday, January 1. 20010 @: 1:00 Pm

WHERE:  Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY - Stillwell Ave and the Boardwalk, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club is sponsoring a fund raiser with Camp Sunshine for their 2010 Polar Dip.  Together we can send many more children with life-threatening illnesses and their families from New York & the entire country to a one-of-a-kind retreat in Maine.

Last year, the Coney Island Polar Dip raised $25,000 for Camp Sunshine! With the strength of a world renowned event such as the Coney Island New Year’s Day Polar Dip and the resources of Camp Sunshine, it is our goal to raise in excess of $30,000 in 2010 on this New Years day. That is enough to send more than 20 families to Camp Sunshine.

Since the start of Camp Sunshine in 1984, they have provided a haven for more than 30,000 family members from 47 states and 17 countries.

Camp Sunshine relies on voluntary donations and fundraising events to provide their programs free-of-charge. Camp Sunshine are a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

Take the plunge with Planet Green and Martin Strel, four-time world record holding endurance swimmer and star of the documentary film Big River Man airing on Planet Green Saturday, January 9 at 10pm ET.

Camp Sunshine and the Coney Island Polar Dip have also teamed up with New York Cares Coat Drive and the event marks the final opportunity to support the New York Cares Coat Drive by donating a gently used coat on the boardwalk at Stillwell Avenue. Plungers will be freezin for a reason but other New Yorkers shouldn't be left out in the cold.

Since the opening of our year-round campus in 2001, more ill children and their families have come from New York than any other state in the nation. In 2008, 158 families from New York participated in our program. Sadly, even with multiple sessions being added annually at Camp Sunshine, there are still many more children from New York being newly diagnosed each year.

The program continues to be recommended by the following New York treatment centers: Mount Sinai Medical Center, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Schneider's Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, Brooklyn Hospital Center, Westchester Medical Center,  Stony Brook Medical Center, and numerous others.

Thank you, be well & have a wonderful 2010.

Pat

Pat@PatrickDrennan.com

www.PatrickDrennan.com

718.310.7199