Community Corner
Annual Tunnel To Tower Run is Sunday
Event will raise money for wounded vet and 9/11 victim's families.
The township’s annual Tunnel to Towers Run will be held Sunday, Sept. 9.
The annual event raises money for The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports families with active members of the military.
Siller was a New York City firefighter who was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Stuck in traffic, he strapped on 75 pounds of equipment and ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the World Trade Center where he was killed.
A portion of the funds raised , 22-year-old Parsippany resident who lost both his legs when he stepped on an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan in July 2011.
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A rememberance ceremony for the nearly 3,000 victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks will be held after the run has concluded.
For more information or to register for the run, visit T2Trun.org.
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