Beverly: Alison Cookson, 15, left, and Kate Newhall-Smith, both from Beverly, get help warming up from Alison's mother Mary Alice Cookson, and Kate's husband, Bob Smith, after an icy plunge into the waters off Lynch Park in Beverly to support a fundraising effort by the River House homeless shelter and the Beverly Affordable Housing Coalition during the third annual Polar Plunge on Sunday afternoon. Photo by Matthew Viglianti/Staff Photographer Sunday, February 1, 2009.

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