COLUMBIA — When Scott Drochelman and Cassie Shields participated together for the second time in the Polar Bear Plunge, a yearly fundraising event for Special Olympics Missouri, they took the plunge in more ways than one. A week before the event, which coincidentally fell on Valentine's Day this year, the couple got engaged. Unfortunately for the couple, their recent engagement didn't make the waters any warmer.
PHOTO GALLERY: Polar Bear Plunge
Saturday, February 14, 2009 | 11:38 p.m. CST;
updated 10:35 a.m. CST, Sunday, February 15, 2009
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