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Friends and volunteers raise funds for charity, share memories at Sugra golf tournament a decade after 9/11
By TAMI QUIGLEY Staff writer
"Bill takes care of the weather," Ed Mangold said with a smile, casting an eye to the blazing blue sky and bright sun that shone on the Bill Sugra Memorial Golf Tournament Aug. 26 at Green Pond Country Club, Bethlehem Township. The weather mirrored the dazzling weather that was the backdrop to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when Sugra lost his life in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Sugra, 30, was a network administrator in Cantor Fitzgerald's eSpeed division on the 103rd floor. The golf tournament is the lynchpin of fundraising for the Bill Sugra Memorial Fund launched by his family, parents Bill and El Sugra and sister Tracy Sell. The Sugras have been parishioners of St. Thomas More, Allentown since 1973. The fund has raised $300,000 in the past decade to help those in need, an apt reflection of the young man who was a victim on America's darkest day. And the weather for the tournament has almost always been perfect. For Mangold, it's personal – Sugra was the best man in his wedding. But he was there at this year's golf tournament, with so many others, playing golf, sharing memories and raising money for charity. And just like Sugra would want it, sharing some laughs along the way.
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