When EarthCorps geared up on Bainbridge Island last spring, Daisy Torres built trails on Blakely Hill and rooted out blackberries at Blakely Harbor. 

When she returned this week with an all-new crew, Torres looked forward to more of the same – especially the trail building, which she quite enjoyed. The heavy equipment was fun.

The new assignment, though, came as a surprise, and a welcome one: restoration work at the Exclusion Memorial at Pritchard Park, on the eve of the 80-year observance of the forced wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

“I’d been wanting to come to this place, and I didn’t think we’d actually be working here,” Torres said. “It feels really meaningful and purposeful to be doing this right before the 80th anniversary, and being a small part of that for people.” 

The Parks Foundation is partnering with the Bainbridge Island Japanese American […]