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Giants YOUR HEALTH notebook Tuesday Striving for Imperfection .............Page 6 May 20, 2008 ...................................Page 3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Wednesday: Mostly sunny H 69º L 44º Thursday: Sunny, 7 58551 69301 0 breezy H 76º L 46º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 150 Number 150 email: [email protected] UDJ Spring Judge Fund Drive Still missing awaits report on Parker By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Memo Parker will have to wait another two weeks for sentencing while the Mendocino County Probation For the Ukiah Department works out the details of his probation, after Boys & Girls Club the department on Monday turned in a report indicating that Parker would not be a B&G good candidate for probation. Last month, Parker pleaded no contest to one charge of Club Drive conspiracy to commit acts injurious to the public health continues or morality after being arrest- The UDJ Boys & Girls ed a second time for growing Club Spring Fund Drive is up hundreds of marijuana plants to $30,849.97. in his two Ukiah homes. The latest donations The plea bargain carried, include: Anonymous $200, among other stipulations, the Joan & George Borecky possibility of up to three years $100, Megan & Jorge Allende in prison, though at the time MD $100, Thomas Force & of the plea deal Mendocino Gudrun Allenstein $100, County Superior Judge David Ronald & Francine Selim Nelson said he did not expect $100, Ronald & Anne Barnes to sentence Parker to more $50, Betty Lacy MD $50 for a than one year imprisonment total of $700 and and total for followed by probation. During the Monday sen- the drive to date of Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal $30,849.97 Sisters Linda Jacinco, left, and Michelle Vazquez hold a picture of their sister Erenid Vazquez tencing, Nelson said he had Our goal for this fund drive Dueñas who has been missing since Feb. 3, 2008. read the probation depart- is $50,000, which will allow ment’s report and had some our Ukiah Boys & Girls Club concerns. to continue to srve our local “Probation does not feel children. Please give whatev- Family searching for woman last seen in Mexico that Mr. Parker is a good can- er you can. By BEN BROWN us,” Jacinto said. didate for probation based on Please make your check or The Daily Journal The family called the Federal the interview they had with money order to: Ukiah Boys “For the last three months its Bureau of Investigation but Jacinto him,” Nelson said. & Girls Club, and bring to been nothing but a nightmare,” said said they got a similar answer, there Despite the report, Nelson our offices at the Daily Linda Jacinto from her sister’s home was very little they could do said the sentencing hearing Journal at 590 S. School St. on Waugh Lane Monday. because Mexico is outside their should be delayed two weeks or mail it to us c/o Boys & Jacinto, her sister Michelle jurisdiction. while the probation depart- Girls Club Drive, at P.O. Box Vazquez and the rest of their family Despite the lack of official help, ment worked out the details 749, Ukiah, 95482 or mail it have been living with the nightmare Jacinto said the family has contin- of Parker’s probation. directly to the Ukiah B&G since their sister, 28-year-old Erenid ued to look for Dueñas. A private “Given the proposed dis- Club at P.O. Box 67, Ukiah, Vazquez Dueñas, went missing investigator the family hired got a position, we will give Mr. 95482. while on a trip to Mexico to visit hold of Dueñas’s phone records and Parker a chance with proba- family and friends. found that there had been no calls in tion,” Nelson said. “We think she was abducted,” Missing Ukiah woman Erenid or out since she disappeared. It was not clear what the Jacinto said. “There is not question Vazquez Dueñas was last Dueñas’s mother is still in standards of probation would Willits be, but Nelson said it would in our minds that that is the case.” heard from while on her way Mexico, putting up flyers in Tijuana On Feb. 3, Dueñas got off a plane home from a trip visiting family likely include a search clause and Mexico City, hoping someone and bar Parker from growing hires in Tijuana, talked with airline per- and friends in Mexico has seen her daughter. sonnel about her missing luggage February. medical marijuana as a care Jacinto said their mother was giver, but not from growing it and left the airport. Footage from recently approached by a girl who interim surveillance cameras in the airport enforcement, both in Mexico and in for himself with proper docu- show that she was there. Since then, the United States. said she may have seen Dueñas in a mentation. her family has not heard from her. Dueñas traveled to Mexico in nightclub common to escorts. Parker’s plea brought an “She went back to the airport in December with her mother to spend Vazquez said the girl said Dueñas manager looked like she had been beaten. By MIKE A’DAIR Mexico city,” said Vazquez. “That the holidays with her family. She See PARKER, Page 16 was the last we heard from her.” flew back ahead of her mother Feb. “That’s the only real lead we’ve TWN Staff Writer had,” Jacinto said. The Willits City Council Jacinto said Dueñas, while an 3, but when the family lost contact, American citizen, did not have a Dueñas’s mother went to the local As the search goes on, it becomes PASTELS has hired Robert M. increasingly expensive. The family Christofferson of Mendocino passport but was planning to cross police to report her missing. IN THE PARK the border into San Diego in a car. “They waited a week before they has been spending money on hotels, as interim city manager, on private investigators and to pay a beginning July 1. American citizens do not currently started doing anything,” Jacinto have to present a passport if they said. Mexico City police officer, working Effective immediately, on his off-time, to help them look Christofferson will work for plan to cross the border in Tijuana, The police in Mexico told the Willits as an executive but they do if they are traveling by family that there is little they could for Dueñas. recruiter. His job will be to air. do. Dueñas is 28 years old and local Earlier the month, the family find a full time, permanent Jacinto said, in their quest to find police told the family she may have held a rummage sale to raise money, city manager, replacing either their sister, the family has talked to gone off on her own. but have only raised about $2,000 Ross Walker, who will leave the United States Border Patrol. “They think she probably doesn’t so far, Vazquez said. his position as Willits City “We know she never made it to want to be found,” Vazquez said. An account has been opened in Manager on June 30, or him- San Diego, to her next flight,” she Jacinto said that doesn’t seem Dueñas name at the Savings Bank self, if he has not found a suit- said. likely, and even if it was, she says of Mendocino. able candidate by that date. Jacinto said that was the only real Dueñas would have called home. Ben Brown can be reached at Slideshow at Christofferson has been help they have received from law “We were very close, all four of [email protected] interim city manager of sever- ukiahdailyjournal.com al cities, including Fort Bragg, (1999), Colfax, (2000 and 2001), Mount Shasta (2002), Cotati (2003) and Fort Bragg again in 2004. Report: ‘Optimistic’ lottery plan could hurt schools He has been a full time city By MIKE ZAPLER Schwarzenegger last week ly, that sales could grow that said, referring to the gover- manager in San Dimas (1965 MediaNews called for the state, in essence, much, legislative analyst nor’s target. But “it’s pretty to 1968), Covina (1968 to Sacramento Bureau to borrow against future rev- Elizabeth Hill said. And if risky to get there because of 1972), Salinas (1972 to SACRAMENTO - Gov. enues generated by a massive they don’t, education could the aggressive assumptions on 1983), Fresno (1983 to 1986) Arnold Schwarzenegger’s expansion of the lottery. The lose out on money it currently profits and sales.” and Redding (1987 to 1994.) plan to raise $15 billion for state would receive $15 bil- gets from the lottery, because The governor’s plan envi- The City of Willits will be the state’s ailing budget by lion over three years from investors rather than schools sions California reaching the paying Mr. Christofferson dramatically expanding the Wall Street investors and pay would get first dibs on the national average in lottery $125 an hour for his services. lottery is “overly optimistic” it back from lottery proceeds proceeds. The losses to sales per capita; it currently Initially, Kristofferson had and would jeopardize billions over 30 years. Lottery sales schools could total $5 billion ranks 28th. Voters would be offered to work for Willits for in payments to public schools, Capitol report would have to double for the over 12 years, Hill said. asked in November to loosen $140 an hour. During the California’s independent bud- from the plan to work. “We do think it is possible get analyst said Monday. Sacramento Bureau It’s possible, though unlike- to reach the $15 billion,” Hill See LOTTERY, Page 16 See WILLITS, Page 16 2 – TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C.