POULSBO — Less than a week after Americans take a day to remember the sacrifices of their fallen heroes, the Poulsbo Tree Board will do its part to beautify a city park with a similar expression.

Tree Board members and a host of other volunteers will flock to American Legion Park at 9 a.m. June 3 as part of their eighth annual cleanup effort.

“All of the construction that’s going on at Poulsbo Place makes this an important park,” said Poulsbo Tree Board member Elizabeth Hutley.

The park is located on the shores of Liberty Bay across from Martha & Mary on Front Street and the Tree Board considers it one of the best kept secrets in town, Hutley said.

Many service organizations have worked to improve the park’s facilities and appearance as the Poulsbo Noon Lions not only rebuilt the boardwalk, but installed new playground equipment there in March as well.

The city has also made improvements to the public restrooms in the past two years.

“We consider it a regional park because it’s on the water and you can walk down to the beach from there,” said Parks and Recreation Director Mary McCluskey.

While the recent additions to Poulsbo Place and Poulsbo Place II have increased the number of potential users for the park, its improvements have been part of the city’s overall plans to care for its parks and recreational facilities, McCluskey said.

“The Tree Board has taken a special interest in the park for quite a few years,” she said, adding that members have made great strides in removing the blackberries and English ivy from the park to open up more of it to public use.

That work could not be done without volunteers, because the city’s public works department has so many other projects that it simply doesn’t have the time or manpower for such an endeavor, she said.

In addition to improving the park’s appearance, the removal of the ivy also helps preserve many of the old trees in the park that would otherwise be harmed, McCluskey said.

For more information on the cleanup, call McCluskey at (360) 779-9898.