New Year’s offers cheap chills
OLALLA, Wash. (AP) — Mow'd you spend New
Year's Day? Nursing a hangover or other regrets
about 1993? Watching college football’ Shopping?
All of the aljove?
Some folks also celebrated Saturday with a brac
ing plunge into icy waters, greeting 1994 invigo
rated — and chilly.
"We do it because it's them, man It's refreshing,
it’s exciting and it wakes you up!” said Ion l orseih,
45, of Home in Pierce County. He is a founding
member of the Olalla Polar Bear Club, whose mem
bers have been saluting the new year with goose
bumps in Olalla Lagoon since 19H4
The annual plunge into that arm of Colvos Pas
sage along the Kitsap Peninsula is a community
event, and a crowd of about 300 — including dozens
of leather-clad bikers — gathered to watch.
Strings of firecrackers popped in a beach bonfire
as the celebrants arrived. Some said they were reiv
ing on liquid fortification to see them through their
annual baptism — indeed, some said they had been
up all night trying to attain the proper level of
"antifreeze.”
A cannon blast at noon sent 200 "bears'' into the
52-degree water.
"Well, that was fun,” said shivering first-timer
Chrystel Tat man. 45. of Purdy. "It really felt good
What a trip!”
"It's a rush! Everyone does it." said Ryan Wade,
12, of Tacoma, who cut his foot charging into the
water.
Because of an exceptionally low tide, most opt
ed to wade in rather than try the traditional 15-foot
leap from Olalla Bay Bridge. |oe Zimsen. 24. of Seat
tle tried it and was treated at a Bremerton hospi
tal for abrasions to his foot
The senior bear Saturday apparently was Ruth
Parmlev Oakes. 75, of Harper near Port Orchard
The event marked her ninth plunge — and proba
bly her last,
"This is not a seemly thing for a great-grand
mother to do." Oakes said.
A similar event at Port Angeles’ Hollywood Beatlt
was hampered by water pollution.
"It stank like the sewer.” said Bobbi Croxford
of the Olympic Peninsula Sports Club, which orga
nized the sixth annual Port Angeles Polar Bear Dip.
"I was nervous and didn't dunk — the smell of
the water turned me off.” Croxford said
Some were undaunted Twice, with shrieks and
veils, more than 4t) people waded into the 4H-degree
harbor waters About half of them waded in chest
deep and dunked their heads i'he others were
unwilling to dip their heads in the w ater.
About 40 feet away stood the yellow warning
signs posted in August by the Clallam County Health
Department to alert swimmers to possible K. coli
bacteria along the beach just south of City Pier fecal
contamination from an unknown source was re port -
ed by city health offii ials in Septemlrer.
It was not clear whether the waters are still taint
ed Health officials could not be reached
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Centerfold thefts prompt
library to hide magazines
SALEM (AF) — Somebody is
stealing the centerfold pin-up
photos from certain glossy mag
azines at the Salem Public
Library, forcing the staff to hide
the popular issues behind the
counter.
The centerfold models, how
ever, probably don't cam. They're
real dogs. And cats.
The magazines are Cat Fancy
and Dog Fancy, each featuring a
very furry-faced pin-up pet.
The animal magazines appear
to be more popular than Playboy.
which has been available only on
microfilm since 1991.
As one library staffer who pre
ferred not be identified said: I
guess you could say that we’ve
gotten to the point that wo art"
really buying it only for the arti
cles."
Now that the dog and cat mag
azines are tucked behind the
counter, the library hopes that
damage, vandalism and theft will
decline.
Also under protection are
Polling Stone and Spin, the
music magazines coveted for
their pictures of rock musicians,
and Hoad & Track, prized for its
photos of sleek new cars
Perhaps most at risk is the pop
superstar. Madonna.
“Anything with pictures of
Madonna in it. kiss it goodbye."
said library director Oeorge
Happ.
Art books are also a perennial
favorite, he added
One man was found silting in
a comer, inothodicnilv slit ing out
pic tures of landscapes and naked
women.
When police confronted him.
the man appeared to Ihi on med
ication and didn't realize what
he was doing was wrong, Hupp
said. The man eventually paid
back the S'Pit) in damage tie had
caused.
Beginning in March, signs will
go up, reminding library patrons
to look through their books for
damage before checking them
out. said Beverly Harris, a library
worker.
“It lets them know, in a nice
way, that they aru responsible."
Harris said.
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