Source: The Journal News / Dan Reiner Nearly 500 swimmers put on their caps and jumped into Long Island Sound on Saturday for Swim Across America’s signature event, which raises money for cancer research. Swimmers gathered at Larchmont Yacht Club around 7 a.m. and hopped off the docks to embark on the open waters. After swimming distances…
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Woman to swim Lake Monona for metastatic breast cancer awareness, research
A woman will swim in Lake Monona as part of a “triathlon” across the country to raise awareness for metastatic breast cancer. Mary Gooze has the terminal form of cancer, and she’ll be swimming more than two miles in Lake Monona at 11 on Tuesday. At that same time, her counterpart in California will climb…