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Suppose you were traveling past the Ray and Joan Kroc Community Center on August 5 and saw hundreds of young people on the field directly across the street from the facility participating in a special lacrosse clinic. In that case, you may have asked yourself, “What is this?” The answer is the fourth Harlem Lacrosse Community Clinic, sponsored by the New Balance Foundation and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

The brainchild of state Representative Simon Cataldo has taken root in Boston’s communities of color, yielding spectacular results. Cataldo started Harlem Lacrosse back in 2008 and watched it spread to communities across America. By the time the program reached the neighborhoods of Dorchester, Mattapan and East Bosto

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