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Sanchez afinalist for

San Bernardinochief of police

By PETER LANCESPECIAL TO THE NEWS-PRESS

The News-Press has learned SantaBarbara Police Chief Cam Sanchez isone of two finalists being consideredfor the job of police chief in San Ber-nardino, the sprawling 81-square-mile Inland Empire city with a popu-lation more than twice that of SantaBarbara.

San Bernardino Police Chief Keith

Kilmer, who started his term June 1,2009, announced his retirement inearly March.

While San Bernardino city officials,including Mayor Patrick Morris andCity Manager Charles McNeely,refused to confirm or deny that ChiefSanchez was a finalist, a member ofthe citys nine-member Board ofPolice Commissioners as well as a CityCouncil member say Chief Sanchezmade it to the final two from a list of 30candidates that first was whittleddown to a list of five, including threelaw enforcement officials from Ari-zona and one from Ohio.

According to Councilwoman WendyMcCammack, Mayor Morris was

Chief Cam Sanchez

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Stocks resume sell-off; Dow down 519

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Specialist James Ahrens works at his post on

the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeWednesday.

By STAN CHOEASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK Back to reality and backdown, Wall Street focused Wednesday onthe bleak landscape ahead for the economyand wiped out its big gains from a day earlier and then some.

The Dow Jones industrial average closeddown 519 points and has now lost more than2,000 in less than three weeks. Swings ofseveral hundred points in just minutes havebecome commonplace.

This time, the selling was intensified by

worries about debt problems in Europe.On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve said it

planned to keep interest rates ultra-low fortwo more years. After some initial confu-sion, the stock market staged a huge come-back and had one of its best days.

But the interest-rate news proved to be adistraction. The Fed made the pledge

because it sees almost no chance that theeconomy will improve substantially by 2013,

and when investors focused on that, theydumped stocks again.

Now it gets back to the fundamentals,said Mark Lamkin, founder of LamkinWealth Management, which manages $215million.

The Dow closed at 10,719.94, down 4.6percent for the day. By points, it was the

ninth-steepest decline for the market.Wednesday was another day marked by

big moves. The Dow was down more than 300points within minutes of the opening bell. Itrecovered some of that loss, then driftedsteadily lower in the last two hours.

The market has traded that way for twoweeks, lurching up and down. The mostextreme example was Tuesday, when theDow swung more than 600 points in the onehour and 45 minutes after the Fedsstatement.

The stomach-churning highs and lows arereminiscent of the fall of 2008, the depths of

Wall StreetfocusedWednesdayonthebleak landscapeaheadfor

theeconomyandsoldoff,wipingoutthebiggainsfromaday

earlierandthensome.TheDowJonesindustrial averageclosed

down519points.

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By KATHRYN WATSONNEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

One might guess that completestrangers from three differentcountries Poland, the CzechRepublic and the United States would have little in common.

But as 13 high-school-agedexchange students with Liberty

Education Tours learned as theytrekked across the country by planeand bus on a two-week tour of his-toric Ronald Reagan sites, peoplehave certain commonalities that noteven geographical and linguisticbarriers can disguise for long.

For me, it seems similar, 18-year-old Lucie Charvatova from theCzech Republic said of the assort-ment of students she had been trav-eling with from Washington, D.C., toCalifornia since Aug. 1.

The tour stopped Wednesday atthe Reagan Ranch Center on StateStreet, and his home in Rancho DelCielo.

The sponsored students hail fromfrom downtown Los Angeles, toNipomo, to Georgia and overseas. Allwere selected and sponsored by theReagan Legacy Foundation for thepurpose of simply giving them a fla-vor of the principles of freedom Mr.Reagan so dearly held. For many of

the international students, this August visit was their first to theUnited States.

I met so many interesting peopleand I improved my English skills,18-year-old Konrad Jaworski ofPoland told the News-Press outsidethe late presidents residence atRancho Del Cielo, where studentshad a private tour of the ranch fromYoung Americas Foundation staffmembers and Michael Reaganhimself, son of the late president.

Despite their differences, thestudents found common ground,with the Spanish-speaking Ameri-cans teaching their newfoundfriends Spanish, and the Polish stu-dents teaching their native tongue totheir American peers.

The tour, a part of the Michael

Reagan-founded Reagan LegacyFoundation, was open to any Euro-pean or American high school stu-dent with at least one year remainingof their secondary education, and agrade point average of 2.0 on a 4.0scale to qualify.

At the ranch, Michael Reaganshared his fond memories of the688-acre property and 1,600-square-foot home, where he and his childrenwould visit for special occasions likeThanksgiving dinner.

Everything is there the way thathe left it, Michael Reagan told the

students of his fathers residence.Students were enthralled by sto-

ries of Rawhide, the Secret Ser-vice code name for the powerful manwho loved to spend his free hoursriding horses on the trails he cut withhis own hands.

The ranch, as Michael Reagan andYoung Americas Foundation staffmembers explained, was Mr.Reagans place to relax and rejuve-nate, away from the demands andpressures of public life.

Undoubtedly, they said, Mr.Reagan was a president at all times,

taking and making official calls anddevising policies on the grounds ofRancho Del Cielo, which meansRanch in the Sky in Spanish. Thelate president even signed hisfamous tax-cutting bill, whichslashed the top marginal tax ratefrom 70 to 28 percent, on the prop-erty almost exactly 30 years ago.

But the ranch tells the story notjust of an American president, but ofa down-to-earth person who cutwood with a chainsaw, enjoyed

Learning about ReaganStudentsglimpselatepresidentslifeincross-countrytrip

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Students and chaperones munch on sandwiches on the lawn outside the late President Ronald Reagans Ranch,

Rancho Del Cielo, on Wednesday afternoon.

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embezzledfrom police

By ANGEL PACHECONEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

A civilian Santa Barbara PoliceDepartment employee accused ofembezzling parking citation revenue

could have

swiped asmuch as$ 7 2 0 , 0 0 0 ,according to asearch warrantaffidavit.

The depart-ments busi-ness offices u p e r v i s o rKaren Flores,47, has beencharged with

embezzling more than $100,000 theamount authorities say Ms. Floresadmitted to taking when she wasarrested Friday.

But in an affidavit in support of asearch warrant signed a week ago bySuperior Court Judge Clifford

Anderson, District Attorney Investi-gator Robert Lowry writes the city hasnoticed up to $720,000 in unaccountedfunds from parking revenue over thepast five years.

During the course of this investi-

gation evidence has shown that KarenFlores has been responsible for part,if not all of the theft occurring, wroteMr. Lowry, who has 32 years of expe-rience as a peace officer.

Senior Deputy District AttorneyBrian Cota has charged Ms. Lowrywith grand theft by embezzlementwith a special allegation that the theftwas more than $100,000. She is alsocharged with four counts of thedestruction of parking citations.

Mr. Cota told the News-Press that atpresent, he has filed what he believesto be the appropriate charges andcircumstances.

He said he can amend the complaintagainst Ms. Flores if different oradditional charges are warranted.

Karen Flores

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By NORA K. WALLACENEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The aftermath of a once-per-decade exer-cise known as redistricting manifested itself invarious ways Wednesday with Santa BarbaraCountys five supervisors.

First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal wasmaking plans to take a group of departmentheads and county staff on a field trip in Sep-tember, to the far-flung community of Cuyama.

Third District Supervisor Doreen Farrhopes to introduce herself and her staff to themembers of the Guadalupe City Council assoon as the new political boundaries take

effect next month.Fourth District Supervisor Joni Gray,

meanwhile, had tears of joy in her eyes atgetting to represent the city of Lompoc as awhole, though she is grieving at losingGuadalupe.

In the 2nd District, Janet Wolf is thankful tohave kept the Mesa neighborhood in herboundary and said she plans to bring her staffto the Goleta City Council, to give its membersan update on county government.

The newest member of the board, 5th Dis-trict Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, despitebeing upset at how the process evolved, calledit a new day.

On Tuesday during its meeting in SantaMaria, the board gave its final approval to anordinance creating five supervisorial districts,each with roughly 84,500 constituents.

In a process that was acrimonious at times,the board in a 3-2 vote settled on county mapdrawn by Mr. Carbajal that shifted Cuyamafrom the 5th to the 1st; Guadalupe from the 4thto the 3rd; the Santa Barbara Airport from the3rd to the 2nd; and kept the 5th with its mainbulk in the densely populated neighborhoodsof central and north Santa Maria.

In the most politically charged decision, theboard majority left Isla Vista and UCSB in the3rd District as it has been for more than 100

years igniting the fury of a group of SantaYnez residents who said the more liberalstudent population to the south was swayingelections and board decisions.

Ms. Wolf sought to reassure people at theend of the meeting Tuesday.

I think you will be well served by any of us,she said. We are all hard workers and want todo whats best for this community.

The most visible change geographically is inthe 3rd District, which now runs from Goleta toGuadalupe, along the coastline.

Im really excited about it, Ms. Farr said ofher new lines. Im really looking forward toserving the new areas that I have.

In addition to Guadalupe, she also nowrepresents the unincorporated communitiesof Mesa Oaks and Mission Hills in the Lompoc

Valley, and the Tanglewood area near SantaMaria.

Ms. Farr said she takes her staff on an annualretreat where they drive through the entiredistrict, so she plans to now make sure they visita Guadalupe City Council meeting and thetowns senior citizen program.

Though Guadalupe Mayor Lupe Alvarez wasangry about the shift to a new district, Ms. Farrsaid she has an excellent working

County supervisors prepare to represent new districts

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