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Tenth Annual Event


Annual Date Number of
"Swimmers"
Air
Temp
10th 01/01/1996 106 +22°F

Describing the strong winds and choppy waves with floating ice chunks as “like a giant slurpee,” reporter Jon Gast joined the now triple-digit crowd of swimmers in the noontime jump into the lake. Although some had hoped to come down with the flu or worse to give them a good excuse to stay home, most people had no such luck. T-shirts with the new JPPBC logo were sold with the profits going to the Fire Department, who provided the bright-red-attired frogmen (icemen?) as safety & rescue crew.

Lemmings among the floes