Wrestling event to benefit Leahy-Holloran teens

Beantown Athletics will host a charity wrestling event at its Granite Avenue location on Saturday, May 13 at 4 p.m. The event— dubbed “Chaos for Kids”— will help raise money for a new teen fitness room and related programming at the Leahy-Holloran Community Center in Dorchester. The six matches will be staged in a ring in the sporting goods store’s parking lot along Hilltop Street. (The rain location is the Leahy-Holloran gym.)

“Leahy Holloran Community Center has been with us since day one,” said Tony King, who owns Beantown Athletics. “We’re hosting this event to just give back to the kids. We’re right next door to a playground and we see hundreds of kids every day, and we thought we had a great location for something like this.”

Radio host Danny Picard will serve as master of ceremonies for the event, which will also feature food, a 50/50 raffle and a video game truck. A special half-hour performance from Quincy’s Music Ball Studio will take place after the fifth match.

The event will also offer kids a chance to win a Richard Pacitti Summer Camp Scholarship— a $1,000 opportunity that will be split between two lucky winners. It is one chance per child, and the child must be present to win. Guests will also have the chance to browse Beantown Athletic’s 50-percent off everything sale from beginning to the end of the event that day only.

To donate to Leahy Holloran Community Center, visit their website at leahyhollorancommunitycenter.com.


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