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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Saturday, January 9, 2016 Former employee and wife sue embattled foster care provider “They were told it was needed to keep the charities going,” Tschudy SALEM — Problems said. “Knowing Mary for continue to mount for Mary so long, they didn’t ask too Holden, the former execu- many questions. They didn’t tive director of the troubled GHPDQG¿QDQFLDOV´ According to the Portland foster care provider complaint, Holden told Give Us This Day. A former employee and them that the sale of another his wife have sued Holden property on Alberta Street in for breach of contract, fraud north Portland was pending and abuse of a vulnerable and offered to pay the couple person in connection with back the loan principal, plus $155,000 in loans they gave 10 percent, when the sale Holden to keep Give Us This ZDV ¿QDOL]HG ,Q IDFW WKH Day and two other charities north Portland property was sold at a tax auction in May in operation. Felix Cabrera La Rosa, 2014. Holden made only 65, and Eva Diaz Palomino three payments on the loan, claim that when Holden equaling $30,000, in April, requested the loan, she May and June of 2015, the hid information that she lawsuit states. Give Us This Day shut and Give Us This Day were under investigation down in September under a for allegedly misspending settlement agreement with state money allocated for the Department of Justice foster kids, according to the in which Holden also was barred from holding any complaint. “They have known ¿GXFLDU\SRVLWLRQVLQ2UHJRQ Mary for years,” said James QRQSUR¿WV 6KH UHIXVHG WR Tschudy, an attorney with sign an agreement that also 3RUWODQG ODZ ¿UP (EOHQ would have shuttered another Freed representing the QRQSUR¿W VKH FRQWUROV ² couple. “They thought they Alfred Yaun Child Care were helping to further the Centers, according to the mission of the charities complaint. That same month, she and like many others were deceived and are trying to worked with associates to WU\ WR HVWDEOLVK D IRUSUR¿W recover as best they can.” Holden approached corporation, Trinity of Cabrera and his wife in Oregon, based out of a prop- March 2014 to request an erty owned by the Alfred initial loan of $120,000, the Yaun Child Care Centers. The house on Northeast complaint indicates. By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Rodney Avenue in Portland had previously served as a group home for foster kids placed with Give Us This Day. That month, Holden also asked Cabrera for another loan of $35,000 to help avoid a tax foreclosure on the Rodney property scheduled for the next day, according to the complaint. A promissory note between Cabrera and Alfred Yaun Child Care Centers granted power of sale over the Rodney property to Cabrera if the loan was not repaid by Oct. 30, 2016, the lawsuit states. The second loan went toward paying off about $50,000 in delinquent taxes on the Rodney house, according to the lawsuit. Cabrera was 65 at the time of the second loan, and therefore is considered a vulnerable adult under Oregon statute, Tschudy said. The Department of Justice began investigating allegations of child neglect and misuse of funds at Give Us This Day in 2012, according to a report by The Oregonian. The foster care provider is accused of spending $2 million in state money on travel, luxury items and services, paying off debt on Holden’s personal home and other items, Willa- mette Week reported. Seahawks fly over Capitol Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, left, celebrates after he passed a football to Blitz, the Seattle Seahawks mascot Thursday at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Inslee raised a Seahawks lag as part of a rally before the Seahawks face the Minnesota Vikings Sunday in an NFL wild-card game. Zoo staff infected by TB from elephants PORTLAND (AP) — Seven staff members at the Oregon Zoo tested positive for tuberculosis after an outbreak among three elephants started in 2013, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The seven had a latent form of the respiratory disease and displayed no symptoms, according to the CDC report released Thursday. The report adds to the somewhat thin knowledge about the transmission of tuberculosis from elephants to people, said Dr. Jennifer 9LQHV GHSXW\ KHDOWK RI¿FHU for Multnomah County. According to the CDC, the illness is one of many that can spread from pets or wildlife to humans. Those include ELUGÀXPDGFRZGLVHDVHDQG West Nile virus. Roughly 5 percent of the captive Asian elephants in North America are infected with the disease, the report said. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said in a statement Friday that WKH UHSRUW FRQ¿UPV ZKDW WKH group has been saying for years about the risk of captive elephants to human health. “People concerned about BRIEFLY Madras hospital to resume deliveries later this month Gentry says the hospital now has 11 trained OB nurses. MADRAS (AP) — A hospital in Madras that hasn’t admitted mothers in labor since July will resume deliveries later this month. The Bulletin in Bend reports that St. Charles Health System will resume delivering babies Jan. 25. The hospital closed its labor and delivery unit July 10 due to a shortage of nurses trained in obstetrics. The shutdown was intended to last only 30 days, but an ongoing nurse shortage forced the hospital to continue to send mothers to Redmond or Bend much longer. The hospital needs to have 10 nurses trained in obstetrics on its roster and two working at all times to ensure safe deliveries. 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Those with positive tests had chest radiographs, were evaluated for symptoms and were offered free medication. Two of the three infected elephants were later euth- anized because of painful injuries. Rama had an old leg injury, and Tusko had a decades-old foot problem. “TB wasn’t a factor in deciding to euthanize them,” Lee said. “They had done really well with the treat- ment.” The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in WKHSDSHUSOHDVHFDOO Legal Advertising:$PDQGD-DFREV DMDFREV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Single copy price: 7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\6DWXUGD\ Forecast SUNDAY their own health as well as the elephants’ should stay far away from circuses, elephant rides, and any other cash-grabbing stunts still featuring elephants,” said Rachel Mathews, counsel with PETA’s Captive Animals Law Enforcement unit. The outbreak at the Portland-based zoo began in in May 2013, when a test on an elephant named Rama was positive. At the time, the animals were checked annually for TB by testing secretions from their trunks. Packy tested positive in December 2013 and Tusko did so in June 2014. Bob Lee, the zoo’s elephant curator, told The Oregonian that the infected elephants were put on a months-long round of treat- ment and the zoo enacted safety measures, such as keeping the public at least 100 feet away. While zoo staff tended to the animals, Multnomah County epidemiologists tried ClassiÀed Advertising: FODVVL¿HGV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Copyright © 2016, EO Media Group TODAY AP Photo/Ted S. Warren 0 0 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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