Donald Warshaw, the ex-Miami police chief and city manager who served federal prison time for ripping off a nonprofit, is working at another nonprofit -- The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation.

Warshaw, 65, is a part-timer who does computer research on early childhood programs throughout the country, says David Lawrence Jr., foundation president and a former Miami Herald publisher. Warshaw does not handle finances, Lawrence adds.

Warshaw did 10 months for embezzling $70,000 from Do The Right Thing, a kids' crime prevention charity.

''I so believe in the possibility and opportunity of redemption for all of us,'' Lawrence says. ``There is no better human story than a person who redeems himself or herself with virtuous work.''

Says Warshaw: ``It's good, meaningful work.''

FUNNY GIRL

Miami native Kristy Webb, granddaughter of retired Knight Ridder CEO Alvah H. Chapman Jr., made The New York Daily News' front page -- as a Sarah Palin impersonator. Webb, 29, a Manhattan ad agency office manager, got recruited by the newspaper to dress up and parade around the city as the VP wannabe.

''Star-struck voters hounded her for autographs and pictures,'' the Daily News wrote. ''`Most people were fooled.'' The paper posted videos at nydailynews.com.

The Daily News found Webb through Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, a comedy venue that has produced such talent as Bobby Moynihan of Saturday Night Live and Rob Riggle of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Webb is a regular UCB performer.

Webb got an up-do at Warren-Tricomi salon at The Plaza and sported a cherry-red suit from Ann Taylor. One gawker looked her in the eye and declared: ''We're voting for you and we're excited!'' Another lit into Webb about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Since the newspaper spread, she has appeared on the TV show Extra and is garnering media attention. Webb, who graduated from Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Coconut Grove, hopes for a comedy career.

Her mom, Dale Chapman Webb, is director of The Protocol Centre in Coral Gables, and father Dennis Webb is a Fort Myers lawyer. Brother Aubrey is a Miami-Dade prosecutor, and sister Wendy an adjunct professor at New York University, teaching film history. Alvah, 87, and wife Betty, 88, got a kick out of Kristy as Sarah. ''My dad thought she did a good job,'' Dale says.

Kristy, by the way, supports Barack Obama.

ALL BETTER NOW

Evelyn Greer, defeated Miami-Dade School Board member and former Pinecrest mayor, says she has recovered from a stomach virus that led to gastritis.

''Late nights, running around, the campaign,'' she says, referring to the recent School Board election. She lost her seat to Larry Feldman.

Greer, 58, says she feels ''100 percent'' better than last month. ''A little bit of antibiotics, and familysupervised rest.'' She is back at work at her law office and will attend her last regular School Board meeting on Oct. 15.

CLEAN BREAK?

Salomon Mishaan, Oxxo Care Cleaners prez and CEO, and wife SimonaZimmerman are back at it in Miami-Dade divorce court. She filed last year, but the case got put on hold after Mishaan filed his own divorce papers in Venezuela, where they once lived.

A Caracas court ruled it lacked jurisdiction because Mishaan had not been a Venezuelan resident for the requisite year prior to his divorce filing. ''This case is declared extinguished,'' that court ruled. So the divorce saga continues locally.

Mishaan, a native of Bogotá, and Zimmerman, a native of Haifa, have three grown children. Zimmerman says she and her estranged husband lived a ''lavish lifestyle'' during their 27-year marriage, with ``numerous assets including various corporations, offshore investments, an extensive stock portfolio . . . and bank accounts.''

She wants alimony, and their $1.03 million Williams Island condo. He says the assets should be distributed based on a 1985 post-nup they signed in Colombia.

Oxxo, based in Hollywood, Fla., has locations in the Sunshine State, Washington, D.C. and in New Jersey.

Her lawyers: Raquel A. Rodriguez and Cynthia Greene. His: Dori Foster-Morales. Circuit Judge Joel Brown has the case.

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