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While Brookfield High School student Ivy Foust looks to place a shovel full of mulch, Yusef Rasoul loads up his shovel and Robbie Myers waits his turn. Environmental Club Adviser Mike Stone also is shown.
Members of the Brookfield High School Interact Club and Environmental Club spent a class day in the field, as it were. They placed mulch, pulled weeds and picked up grass clippings on the green in Brookfield Center.
The activity on May 10 arose from a discussion among members of the Interact Club, which works with the Brookfield Rotary Club on community projects, said adviser Lynn Pegg.
“This was one of the things they wanted to help with,” Pegg said.
Pegg recruited the Environmental Club, which has some of the same members, and coordinated with Trustee Shannon Devitz, who trimmed hedges and roses while the students did other work.
“It’s good to have the kids up here,” Devitz said.
Environmental Club adviser Mike Stone said one of the goals of the club, which recycles paper at the school and holds trash pickups, is to maintain natural spaces used by people.
Kali Chavers sweeps away grass clippings from the green in Brookfield Center. Madison Obermiyer is at right.
Freshman Kali Chavers said the green is something everyone in town sees.
“I like making things look pretty,” she said. “Everyone has to see it, so it’s nice to make it look pretty.”
Freshman Madison Obermiyer said she likes to be out in the community and make public spaces look nicer.
“A lot of kids nowadays don’t like to get out and do stuff like this,” she said.
Junior Ivy Foust said she hopes to model a different way for those who don’t like to do stuff like this.
“I think it’s good to get out into the community, let them know they can do things for their community,” she said.
Junior Yusef Abdul Rasoul said he wanted the green to look nice for events held there, and appreciated that he could spend time with classmates away from school.
“I think it’s a great way to help the community out,” he said.
Senior Robbie Myers said the activity was a way to give back to the community.
“They were there for me in my time of need and I think I should be there for them,” he said.
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