Beverly's Ice Bucket Challenge Inspiration Now a Dad

Pete Frates, the Beverly native fighting ALS who helped make the Ice Bucket Challenge a viral sensation to raise money to fight the disease, is now a dad.

Lucy Fitzgerald Frates was born Sunday morning, weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces and 19-½ inches long.

His wife, Julie, is a Marblehead native. It is the couple’s first child. On Monday, WCVB-TV reporter Jorge Quiroga was in Marblehead, interviewing Lucy’s grandparents.

Maternal grandfather Joseph Kowalik described Pete, the new dad, as having a “golden glow” after Lucy’s birth.

Team Frate Train posted on its Facebook page: “Yes!! Little Lucy Frates has arrived and Mom, Dad and Lucy are perfect! Amazing blessing as the exclamation point to the miraculous month of August 2014!”

The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised more than $100 million this summer for ALS research during a period that ALS Foundation raised $3 million last year. The challenge involved dumping a bucket of cold ice water over your head and posting a video of it to social media, challenging others to do the same and donate toward the cause.