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Volunteers clean up memorial for March 30 event

Published 1:30 am Friday, February 25, 2022

By Nancy Treder

Three volunteers wearing water waders remove invasive grasses from the pond. Nancy Treder/Bainbridge Island Review photos
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Three volunteers wearing water waders remove invasive grasses from the pond. Nancy Treder/Bainbridge Island Review photos
Benjamin Woersching, 5, collected sword fern fronds.
Michael Stokes was one of the volunteers who cleaned up the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Feb. 19.

More than 100 volunteers observed the Day of Remembrance of Japanese American Incarceration during World War II Feb. 19 by participating in a day of service to clean up the grounds of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial.

The cleanup was organized by the BI Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Association and the BI Parks Foundation in advance of a larger observance to be held March 30.

Volunteers trimmed and pruned overgrown brush and ferns, and washed the stone and cedar memorial that guides visitors to the Eagledale ferry dock, where the first of more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps during World War II.

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