PLACE Landscape Architecture Helps Wishing Star Foundation with 'Ninja Warrior' Dream

"This girl is already a fighter she is in the biggest fight of her life," said Zimmerman. "For her to get to come experience Ninja to just get a break from everything going on in her life and get to play on obstacles and get to interact and get to be with her it has just meant a lot and it’s a responsibility as a role model that I take really seriously."

The Wishing Star Foundation is a non-profit based out of Spokane that grants the wishes of children ages 3-21 with terminal, life threatening or medically complicated conditions. 

Friday the non-profit granted the wish of a young Richland girl named Oaklee McBride. Oaklee has Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency an inherited condition that puts her lungs and livers at risk. She is currently on standby for a liver transplant. Oaklee's wish was to become an American Ninja Warrior, the popular show on NBC in which contestants compete on challenging obstacle courses. Oaklee's family watches the show together which is why Oaklee became such a huge fan. 

PLACE-LA has partnered with Wishing Star on other projects like Benji’s Bus, Dria’s Wish and the Serenity Garden.

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