Tune your dials to 850 AM Tuesday night to hear a local student on the radio.
Shayla Smith, a second-grade student at Bissell Elementary, will be on air with Je'Rod Cherry, a host of Three-Deep, on ESPN 850 WKNR from 7:30-8 p.m.
Smith won the guest spot as part of Bissell's two-week Read-A-Thon. The programs goal was to raise $10,000 and have the students read more than 185,000 minutes. Official results will be tallied Friday.
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Cherry participated in the reading program's kickoff.
"He was very inspiring and the kids were so pumped to participate," PTO Secretary Joanne Schuas said.
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She said there will be a "shout out" to Twinsburg and Bissell and that it's a great way to recognize the community.
Cherry is a former safety who won three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots.
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