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Former employee and wife sue
embattled foster care provider
“They were told it
was needed to keep the
charities going,” Tschudy
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continue to mount for Mary so long, they didn’t ask too
Holden, the former execu- many questions. They didn’t
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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.
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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
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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
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for Multnomah County.
According to the CDC, the
illness is one of many that can
spread from pets or wildlife
to humans. Those include
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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
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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. St. Charles Madras CEO Jeanie
Dozens still without housing
due to Oregon City landslides
OREGON CITY (AP) — Dozens
of people are still without housing after
parts of two large apartment complexes
in Oregon City were evacuated due to
landslide dangers.
The Oregonian reports that of the
approximately 50 families displaced by
the mandatory evacuation orders the day
before Christmas at least 30 are still trying
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Many of those displaced initially were
sheltered at Oregon City High School by
the American Red Cross. The shelter closed
Sunday. Others are being temporarily
housed at the Rivershore Hotel.
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The Dalles 37/28
35/26
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John Day
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snow, accumulating 1-3 inches near the Cascades.
Clouds and sun in the upper Treasure Valley.
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people who might have been
at risk for the disease that’s
generally spread by coughing
and sneezing. They included
zoo staff with close contact
with the animals and volun-
teers and members of the
public who may be have been
exposed to trunk secretions or
elephant feces.
The report said no one
who tested positive had spent
time in TB-endemic countries
or had other risk factors, such
as a history of injection drug
use. 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.”
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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
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