CANCELED: Tunnel 2 Tower 5K Run/Walk

Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers South Carolina 5K Run & Walk CANCELED
 
West Columbia, S.C. –  After carefully monitoring weather developments with Hurricane Florence, the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers South Carolina 5K Run & Walk committee is canceling the race scheduled for Friday, September 14 in Columbia’s Vista. 
 
Tunnel to Towers draws thousands of people to Columbia each year to honor first responders and military service members who serve, save and sacrifice on our behalf every day. It’s named for Stephen Siller, a New York City firefighter who lost his life inside the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
 
Registered participants can still receive their race shirts by going to the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center next Friday, September 21 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. In addition, people signed up for this year’s event can receive free registration for next year’s Tunnel to Towers race. They will get an email with information about that within a few weeks. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation does not offer refunds for race registration.
 
The goal of Tunnel to Towers is to support first responders and military service members who have been catastrophically injured in the line of duty. Proceeds from the 5K will benefit the building of smart homes for quadruple and triple amputee veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation’s “Building for America’s Bravest” program. 
 
There are more than a dozen Tunnel to Towers races each year across the country. Lexington Medical Center is the presenting sponsor for South Carolina’s race.
 
For more information about the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers 5K, visit T2TRunSC.org
 
 
About Lexington Medical Center
Lexington Medical Center is a 438-bed hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It anchors a health care network that includes five community medical centers and employs a staff of more than 6,500 health care professionals. The network also has cardiovascular and oncology care affiliated with Duke Health, an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer’s care center and approximately 60 physician practices. Lexington Medical Center operates one of the busiest Emergency departments in South Carolina, treating approximately 85,000 patients each year. The hospital delivers more than 3,500 babies each year and performs more than 23,000 surgeries. Lexington Medical Center is currently undergoing the largest hospital expansion in South Carolina history by creating a new patient tower that will open in 2019. Lexington Medical Center has a reputation for the highest quality care. For more information, visit LexMed.com.
 
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The Stephen Stiller Tunnel to Tower 5K Run and Walk is a living memorial to honor the life and legcy of Stephen Siller and to champion the heroism of all first responders and military service members who serve, save and sacrifice every day.  The Columbia T2T Run has over 1100 participants annually. Funds raised through registration fees are used to benefit the Foundation's programs designed to assist first responders and military service members.  Lexington Medical Central is the proud sponsor.

The Siller Family started the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation to honor the memory of their brother, Stephen, a New York City firefighter (FDNY) who lost his life on September 11, 2001 after strapping on his gear and running through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the Twin Towers.

The goal of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation is to continue Stephen’s legacy by supporting our nation’s first responders and service members. Building for America’s Bravest, a program of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, constructs specially adapted smart homes for our most catastrophically injured service members.