Kimmy Hillebrand (center) from Early Learning Connections leads Mary Jones and other members of the Butler County Chamber Leadership Group on a tour of the center's environmental education trail Friday.

FRANKLIN TWP — About 15 adults walked a kiddie trail Friday afternoon to see what a group dedicated to improving their community can accomplish.

The members of the Butler County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Butler County Class of 2020-2021 participated in their class’ Education Day Friday, when they walked the .25-mile trail at Early Learning Connections on Rieger Road.

The Leadership Butler County Class of 2016 built the trail, said Amy Pignatore, who was a member of that class and is now on the board of Leadership Butler County.

Pignatore also walked the trail, and regaled the current Leadership class with the hard work and sweat equity the 2016 class put in as they worked each weekend for 3.5 months to install the $40,000 trail in the woods outside Early Learning Connections.

“We just plowed through it,” Pignatore recalled. “We kept saying, ‘It’s for the kids. It’s for the kids.’”

Read more in Sunday's Butler Eagle.