When Lizzie Udeschini scored first, she was ecstatic to get things rolling for her Bear Creek team.

“The first goal feels so good because it sets the pace for the rest of the game,” said the Grizzly senior captain, adding that her 24th-minute netter “freaked out” the Napavine players because they knew it was time to strike back or a win would elude them.

But Bear Creek’s defense held tight and the Grizzlies tacked on three second-half goals en route to a 4-0 victory and second straight 1B/2B state championship last Saturday at Sunset Chev Stadium in Sumner.

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People sang and prayed, hugged each other and cried and released 369 blue balloons to mark the amount of days Sky Metalwala had been missing as of last Saturday during a gathering at Downtown Park in Redmond.

Hope was in the air among the 65 attendees who joined Sky’s father, Solomon Metalwala, at the event.

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Mekenna Mossman rolls up her right pant leg and points at the spot near her knee cap where the injury occurred.

However, the small bandage doesn’t even begin to tell her harrowing story. After looking up with a slight smile, Mossman, 15, then runs her hand along part of the scar that begins at her knee cap and continues up to her hip.

What started as a deep puncture the Redmond High School sophomore cross-country runner suffered after falling on the Hartman Park trail during a pre-season training session, turned into a severe case of necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating bacteria). It could have taken her leg — or her life — if it hadn’t been treated properly, says Kristen Mossman, Mekenna’s mother.

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When Patti Margeson found out she had breast cancer, she admits to being angry and sad, but the Redmond resident wasn’t going to let her body and mind back down.

“I never thought that this would take me — death was never an option. I knew I caught it early. I had a great attitude about that,” said Margeson, who learned of the cancer following her yearly mammogram appointment in November of 2011.

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“Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.”
That’s what Redmond’s Cassandra Searles said to herself when she stood at the front of the stage with fellow top-two finalist Whitney Young, waiting to see who would be crowned 2013 Miss Washington USA last Sunday at the Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien.

“Don’t pass out.”

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As Seattle Sounders FC soccer players watched, 3-year-old Vallory Hurlimann first booted a soccer ball with gusto and then ran up the field as fast as her little legs would go.

Lisa Hurlimann kept a close eye on her daughter, who has Down syndrome, and rooted her on the whole way during last Sunday’s afternoon of celebration for young athletes with disabilities at Arena Sports in Redmond.

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Patrons poured into Tully’s Coffee at the Bella Bottega Shopping Center in Redmond this morning.

One customer mentioned that she’s never seen it so crowded on a Friday before. As the morning rush continued, some people gave baristas greeting cards and said they were sad of the store’s upcoming closure at 5 p.m. this Sunday.

First, the Redmond Town Center Tully’s Coffee store shut its doors on Oct. 7 and now the Bella Bottega location will follow, a manager confirmed earlier this week, due to the company filing to reorganize its business operations under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws.

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Janeen Olson knows that she’s ready in case of an emergency. She always has a backpack close by that’s filled with a flashlight, blanket, bottled water and more.

What Olson is concerned about is getting others prepared for emergencies like power outages, snowstorms, fires, earthquakes and whatever else may hit the area. She’s in charge of Redmond Ready, a service of the office of emergency management that encourages city employees and citizens to take a personal preparedness class and get trained in first aid and CPR.

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Eight months after Claire Thompson, a 20-year-old Sammamish native, was fatally shot at a Redmond house party, Diane Benveniste gathered with her husband, son and her deceased daughter’s friends in a room at the King County Courthouse in Seattle.

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Jackson Roos was a competitive boy who loved to play baseball. And the 12-year-old pitcher was joyously proud of himself when he made the Redmond North Little League All-Star team last summer, said his father, Bryan Roos.

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King County Sheriff’s detectives said Friday that 12-year-old Jackson Roos died Wednesday as a result of being strangled by his own helmet strap while zip lining in the family’s backyard in the 8800 block of 255th Avenue Northeast near Redmond.

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