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Why You Should Take a Dip in Chicago's Freezing Lake Michigan This Weekend
If someone offered you $100 to jump into Lake Michigan in frigid March, would you do it? Last year, more than 1,200 crazy people took the cash and went for a wintertime dip in Chicago's North Avenue Beach for the Polar Plunge, the main fund-raising event for Special Olympics Chicago.
Those who want to test the waters and help a good cause can put on their bathing suits and head to the lake on March 7 at 9 a.m. for the 10th annual Polar Plunge. The event works similar to a walkathon. Polar Plungers have to raise at least $100 in donations, but instead of walking a certain amount of miles, they have to brave the cold-as-hell water.
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Feted At Charity Ball
George Clooney's mustache popped up this weekend in Berlin at the Ein Herz fuer Kinder gala, where its owner received the Golden Heart award for his work with the Not On Our Watch charity. No shaving before a black-tie event -- really?
It seems like these mustaches are popping up everywhere these days, from Clooney himself on his New Mexico movie set to Brad Pitt sporting one at the premiere of his new movie "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button." Let's face it, we may have a pandemic on our hands.
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Charity Travel: Order A Whitney Houston Of Your Very Own
Want to have Whitney Houston perform at your next birthday party or office function? Better look under the couch cushions; the singer was just paid nearly $2.8 million for an hour-long show to benefit a London charity.
Just think, for the price of Houston's May 8 appearance at the Caulfield Children's Legends Ball, you could buy "I Will Always Love You" over 2.8 million times from iTunes... although, really, once would do the trick.
We here at Jaunted would like to see a Whitney Houston comeback as much as the next bunch, but man, we really need to raise our appearance rates.
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Couple Turns International Wine Tour Into Charity
We're just jealous we didn't think of it first. A French couple is traveling to 80 wineries throughout the world, and has developed enough publicity buzz around their quest to convince vineyard owners to give them free bottles of wine. For charity, that is.
The pair leveraged its round-the-world trip for an altruistic purpose. Wineries they visit donate bottles, and when Nicolas and Geraldine return to their current home base in Spain, they will auction off the booty to raise money for Action Against Hunger.
They set out six months ago and have already collected 500 bottles, from vineyards in South Africa, Thailand, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile. Next on tap: Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru and the United States before returning to Europe to tour the vineyards of Portugal, Spain, Italy, and France.
Highlights include visits to the "floating vineyards" of Thailand, where stretches of land rise between narrow canals. They also learned to appreciate the importance of red wine in Red China -- a symbol of prosperity.
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