By Nathan Gaddie
Manhattan residents braved the rain Saturday to take the plunge for Special Olympics Kansas.
Event coordinator Katelyn Andrist said the Polar Plunge is one of the organization’s biggest fundraisers of the year.
“I think for people, it is very overwhelming, but you’re jumping in for our athletes,” she said. “You’re showing them that at the end of the day, we can all be comfortable or uncomfortable together. It’s breaking the ice, literally, of inclusion, of trying to come together and find something that really allows us to just bridge that gap and build community.”
