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Word on the Street gives you what a Fridley neighbor said, word for word.
Cory Doyle, who lives on Liberty Street NE in Fridley, is getting ready to do the Polar Plunge in White Bear Lake on Saturday for the second year. (See a great YouTube video clip from last year.) You can help Doyle reach his goal of raising $750 by pledging at this Polar Plunge page. (As of Tuesday morning he is at $250.) Here, in slightly edited form, is what he had to say about it in a series of emails Monday: It is a charity event for the Special Olympics of Minnesota. On the schedule for Saturday is a costume contest at 10 a.m. at Jimmy's, then the plunge starts at noon.  You go, they …

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