From left, Erik Johnson, Brian Conroy and Mike Garvey, pull up old plants and begin putting new ones in on Oct. 13, during a Project Neighborhood Involvement in a Clean Environment (N.I.C.E.) in Brookfield. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Tom Tulik, left, a Brookfield gardening club president Cathy Juarez rake leaves during a Project Neighborhood Involvement in a Clean Environment (N.I.C.E.) in Brookfield. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
From left, Brookfield gardening club members Annette Rivera, Cathy Juarez and Tom Tulik clean up the area in front of Village Hall in Brookfield. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Brian Conroy, left, and village trustee Mike Garvey, clean up and add plants to an the corner of Ogden and Eberly Avenues and during a Project Neighborhood Involvement in a Clean Environment (N.I.C.E.) in Brookfield. | ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Brookfield resident Stephanie Johnson shovels out the area around the village welcome sign at Ogden and Eberly. | Alexa Rogals/Staff Photographer
Annette Rivera of the Brookfield Garden Club rakes debris out front of village hall. | Alexa Rogals/Staff Photographer
Volunteers brandished rakes and shovels in order to spruce up parks and other public areas on Oct. 13 during the fall Project NICE event sponsored by the Brookfield Beautification Commission.