{"id":138066,"date":"2026-03-14T06:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:03:17","slug":"railriders-visit-wyoming-area-primary-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138066\/","title":{"rendered":"RailRiders visit Wyoming Area Primary Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone loves Champ as second grade students at Wyoming Area Primary Center entertain visitors from the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.<\/p>\n

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Front office members from the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders visited the Wyoming Area Primary Center on Thursday, March 12. Back row, left to right: Krista Lutzick, RailRiders\u2019 Community Relations manager, Jon Stephenson, Assistant GM, Champ, Adam Marco, RailRiders\u2019 Communications director and radio broadcaster.<\/p>\n

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Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders\u2019 Communications Director Adam Marco, right, fields questions from Wyoming Area Primary Center second graders.<\/p>\n

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WYOMING \u2014 Wyoming Area Primary Center hosted members of the front office of the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, along with team mascot Champ, on Thursday to talk about career choices as well as life in professional sports.<\/p>\n

Adam Marco, RailRiders\u2019 communications director and broadcaster; Jon Stephenson, RailRiders\u2019 Assistant GM; Krista Lutzick, RailRiders\u2019 community relations manager; and Champ, the team mascot, spoke about their roles with the New York Yankees\u2019 Triple-A team.<\/p>\n

The trio also spoke on the importance of reading, including Champ\u2019s Home Run Readers Program, presented by Red Robin.<\/p>\n

The reading program is a premier reading program developed exclusively for elementary and middle schools in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and surrounding communities.<\/p>\n

The RailRiders believe in the power of reading as the foundation for lifelong success, and we are strengthening our commitment to education through this signature initiative.<\/p>\n

Wyoming Area Health and Physical Education teachers Erin Viglione and Matt Finn organized the RailRiders\u2019 visit.<\/p>\n

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