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.