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Injured families back texting-and-driving ban Bill faces long odds to pass Legislature
NEWS.......................... 10 Chandler announces downtown development with movie theater
COMMUNITY .........16 Mesa boxing club teaches students more than how to fight
SPORTS...................... 22 Racial, disrespectful chants at basketball games addressed by AIA
COVER STORY BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
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my Kiefer-Berard of Chandler holds her 1½-year-old daughter, Ann, born after a driver suspected of texting while driving ran her mother down, fracturing her skull and knocking her unconscious for a month. Kiefer-Berard’s daughter, Gabrielle, 4, who was 29 days old when the pickup truck slammed into her stroller that morning near Kiwanis Park in Tempe, playfully mugs for a camera. It’s hard to imagine that, like her mother, Gabrielle survived a brain bleed. It is a remarkably good outcome for the Berard family, with Amy returning to work this year as a science teacher at Chandler’s Hamilton High School. Despite their pain, anguish and even some small deficits caused by the life-threatening injuries, the Berards know they are among
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the lucky survivors of a collision caused by distracted driving. When asked about Arizona’s lack of a law banning texting while driving and the decade-long drive to pass such a law, Kiefer-
Berard says she hopes for “anything on the books that would say, ‘pay attention to your driving.’” See
TEXTING on page 6
The unique style of the East Valley Weather, casual attitudes emerge in funky fashions
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(Larry Mangino/Tribune Staff Photographer)
Amy Kiefer-Berard and daughter Gabrielle, 4 (sitting in dad Daniel Berard's lap), were injured by a driver suspected of being distracted by texting. Daughter Ann, 1½, sits in Amy's lap.
BY RACHEL EROH Tribune Contributing Writer
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oth men and women are paying more attention to fashion trends in the East Valley, a local expert says, but trendy styles still take a back seat to staying comfortable in the Arizona heat. Is there any dominant “look” for the area?
Julie Tenny, owner of Lorelei Boutique in Tempe, says East Valley fashion is influenced by both coasts because of Arizona’s location near the fashion hub of Los Angeles in addition to the influx of Eastern transplants and visitors. Casual is always appropriate in the desert, Tenny said. But our short winters and long summers directly influence the East Valley’s sense of style when it comes to clothes, jewelry and hair.
“I don’t want to say it’s ‘anything goes’ here. But our warm weather enables locals to take more risks,” Tenny said. In the East Valley, that translates to more relaxed looks and See
STYLE on page 8
(Rachel Eroh/Tribune Contributor)
Sareena Dominguez of Tempe says East Valley style is eclectic. "There are so many different styles. I love it. Everyone is unique and unafraid to dress the way they wish.”