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Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Family finds sweet success with candy shop BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor
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Barro’s Pizza raises $415K for St. Mary’s Food Bank
rooke Dallas strives to host family-friendly events at her eatery, Big Earl’s Greasy Eats. So, it was a natural fit to open a candy shop next door. Earl’s Old Time Candy opened Dec. 1 and, Dallas said, the response has been overwhelming. “We’re having the time of our life,” Dallas said. “It’s not hard to be in a good mood when we’re selling happiness, sugar and memories.” Brooke and her husband, Collin, purchased the building next door three years ago to store walk-in coolers and freezers for Big Earl’s. “When we purchased it, we still had Blue Coyote Gallery in there,” she said. “We were go-
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Columnist David Leibowitz offers his 2023 predictions
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Ed Delph wishes readers a merry ‘crispness’
OPINION......................8 FEATURES.................11 YOUTH.......................21 CLASSIFIEDS.............22 Zone 2
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Collin and Brooke Dallas opened Earl’s Old Time Candy to complement their Big Earl’s Greasy Eats on Dec. 1. Their children, Calvin, 2, and Navy, 4, enjoy helping out. (Cassandra Tomei/Contributor)
Woman killed in four-vehicle collision BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor
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hoenix police detectives continue to investigate a four-vehicle collision that killed 23-year-old Sarah Warren near Pinnacle Peak and Cave Creek roads around 4 p.m. Dec. 11. She died at the scene. No other injuries were reported.
According to police, preliminary information indicates Warren was driving north on Cave Creek Road. Where the road merges to one lane, Warren crashed into a vehicle who was also going north. After the collision, Warren’s vehicle went into a raised median and into southbound lanes where she collided into a truck pulling a travel trailer.
A fourth vehicle going south collided into Warren’s vehicle. The driver of the truck pulling the travel trailer was identified as an adult male who was processed for DUI and released. There were no other reported injuries. A fundraising website has been set up for her funeral expenses, https://bit.ly/ SarahWarrenFuneral. As of Dec. 18, $4,750 of the $15,000 goal had been met.
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