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. 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