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		<title>2025 Avalon Polar Swim and Polar Plunge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After nearly two weeks of overcast weather, the sun finally came out on New Year’s Day Morning. At 7:30, about 35 swimmers showed up at Casino Point for their first swim of the year in crystal clear, calm waters. The youngest, a 7-year-old girl, Dillan, from Kansas City, Missouri, was excited to have swum to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dreary weather doesn’t dampen swim</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was dreary, overcast and it nearly looked like it might drizzle when forty-four swimmers gathered at 6:45 a.m. for the 2024 Annual Pancreatic Swim fund raiser on Saturday morning. However, the atmosphere was festive, very festive, with swimmers chatting and welcoming swimmers who had made the trek to Avalon for the event. When asked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A new year brings record numbers for the Polar Plunge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Year’s morning was a little cool and overcast but the weather did not derail a record twenty-two swimmers from showing up for the 7:30 a.m. Polar Swim. Open water swimming in Avalon is gaining legs! Two of the swimmers were young brothers from Pleasanton, California that showed up with no goggles, no caps, in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ideal conditions for annual PanCan Swim</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 19:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The sky was a little overcast but the ocean conditions were perfect for Catalina Island Swim Club’s benefit swim for Pancreatic Cancer, PanCan.org. The ocean was as calm and as smooth as a pool, the water temperature was 71 and the water, so clear, that clear water that Catalina is noted for. Forty-one swimmers showed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Catalina Swim Club’s PanCan swim returns Saturday</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Annual event raises money to help fight pancreatic cancer On Saturday, September 16, the Catalina Island Swim Club will be hosting its annual fundraiser, Pancreatic Cancer Swim. The swim will be from Casino point to Frog Rock and back, 2.2 miles, round trip. Following the swim will be a pot-luck breakfast and social. The swim [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another year, another swim for Pancreatic Cancer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Sept. 17, also the weekend of the Art Festival, at 7:30 a.m. swimmers will start their annual swim to benefit Pancreatic Cancer. Swimmers will gather at Casino Point at 7 a.m. and at 7:30, they will start their 2.2 mile round trip swim to Frog Rock.&#160; &#160; Some swimmers will swim a lesser [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Swim club has perfect day for fundraiser</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The weather was perfect — warm, sunny, clear — with 72-degree calm water for the fourth fundraising swim for pancreatic cancer, pancan.org. About 30 swimmers gathered at Casino Point on Saturday and were off at 7:30 a.m. for their 2.3-mile round trip swim to Frog Rock.&#160; The average person finished the swim in about 90 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Catalina pancreatic cancer swim set for Sept. 19</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Sept. 19, the Catalina Island Swim Club will have it fourth benefit swim for pancreatic cancer followed by a socially distanced pot-luck Breakfast. Meet and sign up at 7 a.m. at Casino Point&#160; and enter the water at 7:30 for the 2.2 mile round trip swim to Frog Rock. Shorter swims and even [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Swim club takes three-mile swim along Catalina coast</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, our Catalina Island Swim Club has an excursion swim along some portion of our coastline.&#160;Last Sunday’s,&#160;for nine of us, was from Blue Caverns at the Isthmus to Rippers Cove, a beautiful 3-mile, two-and-one-half hour swim close to shore, through kelp forests and along shear underwater cliffs. Anyone who thought this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Woven by the wind: Island breezes create unique tapestry of knots</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Canby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 22:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These are wind knots, knots that were tied by the wind in the tattered ends of the flags that flew from the Casino for the past 18 weeks. What is amazing is the randomness and complexity of the knots. This set of flags first flew in the winter/spring of 2017 for four months and then [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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