Firefighters, police, dentist, pilot, and other local professionals descended on Springfield Plains Elementary for its annual Celebrity Readers day, March 11.
“It’s fun. They come in and donate their time,” said Juanita Kostecki, event chair. ‘We have a good number of repeats, readers who are tried and true, but we also look for new readers.”
Michelle Carson started the program about 11 years ago, when her and her husband Curt’s oldest daughter, now a sophomore in college, was in third grade.
“We wanted people from the community, dentists, firefighters, grocers ? real people to read to the kids and tell them about themselves,” Carson said. “It’s a really neat program.”