Supporters of Pete Frates are taking one last chilly plunge for the former college baseball player whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped inspire the ALS ice bucket challenge.
The Frates family says Saturday’s annual “Plunge for Pete” at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester, Massachusetts, will be their last.
The former Boston College baseball player, who lived in Beverly, a suburb north of Boston, died Dec. 9 after a seven-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He would have turned 35 on Saturday. The family will continue to raise money for the separate Peter Frates Family Foundation, which helps other ALS patients cover home health care costs, he said.She has raised nearly $300,000 and promises to jump into the winter waters of the North Atlantic wearing “Pete’s favorite red white and blue bikini that I wore when we met on the Fourth of July, eight years ago,” according to her Facebook fundraising page.
The ice bucket challenge involved pouring a bucket of ice water over one’s head and posting a video of it on social media, and then challenging others to do the same or make a donation to charity. Most people did both.
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