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Zina Linnik Project at Wright and McCarver Parks

The $3.5 million Zina Linnik Project capital campaign will build a playground and sprayground at Wright Park and completely renovate McCarver Park.  This community-wide effort will improve two parks that bookend and bridge the Hilltop/Central Tacoma neighborhoods where Zina lived and played.

The Zina Linnik Project gives us a chance to embrace our community and expand opportunities for our children to become strong, compassionate, and creative adults who can help make a better world.

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This video, produced by TV Tacoma, captures the journey taken by the students of McCarver Elementary School to the state capitol in Olympia in pursuit of support and funding for the revitalization project of Wright and McCarver Parks.

 

For recent articles and news about the Zina Linnik Project at Wright and McCarver Parks, click on the links below.

Exit 133 3/24/09

The News Tribune 3/25/09

The Tacoma Weekly 3/26/09

TV Tacoma 3/24/09

 “The Fourth of July was a beautiful evening that, at the last moment, disintegrated into a nightmare for one family…Just as the sky began to darken, Zina Linnik, age 12, was apparently snatched from the alley behind her home… The news that [she] had been found dead eight days after she was abducted was hard to take.”

(The News Tribune, July 11 & 20, 2007)