Portsmouth Polar Plunge slated for Friday
PORTSMOUTH With a year like 2020, many are ready to take the plunge into 2021.
The 20th Annual Portsmouth Polar Plunge will take place January 1, 2021. A parade to the Court Street landing will start at the American Legion Post 23 on Court Street at 11 a.m., with the plunge following at noon. Funds raised this year will benefit the Jim Saddler Fund at the American Legion.
“Sam Simon started it 20 years ago, but it has been for a great cause,” Portsmouth- Scioto County Visitors Bureau, Executive Director, Kim Bauer said. “Some years it has 20 people others it has 70. It just depends.”