Amid mixed messages being spread by online media sources about plans for Tybee Island’s annual Polar Plunge event on Jan. 1, 2021, organizers are reiterating that the popular fundraiser will only be held virtually to help avoid the transmission of COVID-19, emphasizing that no official activities will be occurring for the event at its usual location beside the pier on New Year’s Day.
Held annually as a fundraiser to support the Tybee Post Theater, the Polar Plunge ordinarily welcomes hundreds of hardy souls in wild costumes to start the New Year by wading into the Atlantic along a stretch of beach adjacent to Tybee Island’s pier.…
Amid mixed messages being spread by online media sources about plans for Tybee Island’s annual Polar Plunge event on Jan. 1, 2021, organizers are reiterating that the popular fundraiser will only be held virtually to help avoid the transmission of COVID-19, emphasizing that no official activities will be occurring for the event at its usual location beside the pier on New Year’s Day.
Held annually as a fundraiser to support the Tybee Post Theater, the Polar Plunge ordinarily welcomes hundreds of hardy souls in wild costumes to start the New Year by wading into the Atlantic along a stretch of beach adjacent to Tybee Island’s pier.…