 Big Stone Gap Tourism is hosting their annual Polar Plunge 5K and Chili Cook Off Saturday, February 3rd. Participants in the 5K will end the race by submerging in ice-cold water. This has been going on for as long as I can remember of my adulthood. So it's a 5K, they run around our green belt and when they return back from the visitor center they get on a platform and jump into a bin full of ice water and it's a good shock to the system. After that they all get an award and then they get to taste the chili from the Chili Chili Cook Off for free. Appalachian Community Care offers outpatient medication assisted treatment for addiction, counseling and behavioral play therapy for children accepting Medicare and all major insurance. Recovery is hard, regret is harder. Appalachian Community Care, Pikeville, Whitesburg, 606-432-5660. Find them on Facebook. The Chili Cook Off will also feature a People's Choice Award and will feature over 15 different chilies. This has been a goal of the Gap Partnership for years is it's fun to have different things available in our area and the polar plunge is one that I personally haven't seen locally and it's just to get people out. We've brought in last year people from Florida, Ohio, Indiana this year. No, I'm sorry that's for this year's Florida, Ohio, Indiana and then last year we have people from Nashville to Charlotte, North Carolina. So it really opens up Big Stone as a tourist area too. For more information go to Big Stone Gap Visitor Center on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.