The following article was found in the Toronto Star and was written by Jim Wilkes.

Gord Fyfe was shivering through his own Seinfeld moment.

“The shrinkage factor is huge!” he said after emerging from the icy waters of Lake Ontario in the Courage Brothers 21st annual polar bear dip off Coronation Park in Oakville.

“I think I’ve lost my manhood. It may have disappeared!”

He was among 400 people who took the plunge yesterday to raise $35,000 for World Vision Canada that will dig wells and lay pipelines for clean water in Kenya.

Fyfe, who carried bikini-clad girlfriend Melinda Li piggyback into the lake and dumped her unceremoniously into the water before carrying her back to shore, said he’d do it again.

“It’s a good way to raise money, a good start to a new year and a little shock to the body,” he said.

It was as a hangover cure that brothers Todd and Trent Courage and a few friends started the frigid tradition in Burlington in 1985. It moved to Oakville 15 years ago.

“Every year it keeps getting bigger and bigger,” said Todd, 42.

“We’re amazed how such a silly little tradition has grown to where we’re eastern Canada’s biggest polar bear dip.

“It’s still a way to get rid of some of the cobwebs from the night before,” he said. “It’s like little needles against your body when you hit the water, but when you come out you’re totally pumped up.”

Water temperature was just over the freezing mark as three separate waves of fearless folks ran and splashed their way into the fog-shrouded lake….

It cost $25 to register for the swim, plus registrants were asked to find pledges to help raise even more money.