Hoping to help students embark on a path to success, two Ellsworth Correctional Facility (ECF) residents gave both time and money recently to the Ottawa Middle School.Invited to speak to a group of sixth graders in October, the two inmates made such a powerful impact that they were asked to return to speak to seventh and eighth grade students in mid-November, all as part of a grant-funded program called Communities in Schools that aims to assist at-risk students.“It was powerful. You could have heard a pin drop,” said Ottawa Middle School Principal Carmen Schaefer of the first visit by the inmates. “It was so well received that we wanted to give the other students at the school the chance to hear from them.”But unbeknownst to Schaefer and the students was that they had also had an impact on the inmates.