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August 19, 2020
The Voice of the West Valley for 35 years
Auction set to raise funds for girls’ funeral
BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI West Valley View Executive Editor
When Tamra Foor’s two preteen daughters were killed in a head-on crash Aug. 5, her friends needed to help. They didn’t want her to worry about money, funeral expenses or the stress of everyday life as she recovered from a broken back and grieved. They arranged fundraisers, including an online auction, for which they are still accepting items. “Life has a way of sometimes ripping the rug right out from underneath you, leaving you breathless and struggling to accept the harsh reality of the fragility of life,” reads a flier handed out to families in Tolleson and friends of the Foor girls. At about 4:23 p.m. Aug. 5, a person was driving a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck north on El Mirage Road when he or she failed to brake for a stop sign and collided with Tamra’s car. Tamra was returning from her parents’ house, driving east on Southern Avenue, according to Sgt. Calbert Gillett of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. A Shasta Pools processor, Tamra was
injured, but her daughters, Tanner and Charlee, died as a result of the crash. The Silverado’s driver wasn’t injured, Gillett said. Impairment is not suspected, but the case is pending further investigation, Gillett added. “Tamra, Tanner and Charlee were inseparable,” said Karen Haggard, with the Odyssey 4-H, of which the girls were members. “The girls were the center of Tamra’s world. ‘Beautiful, tough and full of life’ fall short of accurately describing the lives that have been taken.” Like their mother, grandparents and uncle, they had a special love for horses. They raised dairy goats to show as part of 4-H, a club they were involved in for five years. They started as Cloverbuds, which is the 4-H
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Charlee Foor, left, and Tanner Foor, were active members of the Odyssey 4-H Club since they were Cloverbuds. (Photo courtesy Karen Haggard)
West Valley economies surge through pandemic BY TOM SCANLON
West Valley View Managing Editor
According to an Aug. 14 Wall Street Journal story, “U.S. households boosted retail spending 1.2% in July, the third straight monthly increase despite a rise in coronavirus
infections.” At the risk of bragging, the West Valley might comment: “That’s nothing!” Despite slowdowns and shutdowns of restaurants, bars, gyms and movie theaters, the Goodyear/Avondale/Buckeye economy is not
just surviving the COVID-19 pandemic but thriving through it. The West Valley economy soon could get another boost: Amazon recently purchased 90 acres in Goodyear.
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