Eleanor Hills, a second-grade student at First Baptist Christian School, touches animal furs brought to the school from Moraine State Park on Friday. Eddie Trizzino/Butler Eagle

Second-grader Eleanor Hills went to school Friday dressed as a police officer. So she was excited during an assembly to see two Butler police officers speak to students at First Baptist Christian School about their jobs and their K-9 officer.

Friday was Community Helper Day at First Baptist Christian School, which invited people in different careers to the school to talk to students in kindergarten through fifth grade about their roles in the community.

Hills was even more inspired after the event than she was when she first arrived at school that day.

“My dad told me a story about police, and I said I wanted to be one,” Hills said.

Kelly Oesterling, First Baptist Christian School program coordinator, said Community Helper Day is an annual event at the school, which introduces children to people in the community they may not be aware of.

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