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NORTHWEST East Oregonian A2 Saturday, December 29, 2018 Social worker left surprise $11M to children’s charities long devotion to his older brother who had a develop- mental disability influenced Naiman, though he rarely spoke of it. The brother died in 2013, the same year Naiman splurged on a sports car — a modestly priced Scion FR-S. “Growing up as a kid with an older, disabled brother kind of colored the way he looked at things,” close friend Susan Madsen said. A former banker, Naiman worked the past two decades at the state Department of Social and Health Services, handling after-hours calls. He earned $67,234 and also took on side gigs, some- times working as many as three jobs. He saved and invested enough to make several millions of dollars and also inherited millions more from his parents, said Shashi Karan, a friend from his banking days. Thrilled when he finally qualified for senior dis- counts, Naiman bought his clothes from the grocery store. He loved cars, but for the most of his life, drove beat-up vehicles and seemed to enjoy the solitude and savings of solo road trips, friends say. After Naiman’s death, Karan realized how little he knew of the other aspects of his longtime friend’s life. By SALLY HO Associated Press SEATTLE — Alan Naiman was known for an unabashed thriftiness that veered into comical, but even those closest to him had no inkling of the fortune that he quietly amassed and the last act that he had long planned. The Washington state social worker died of can- cer this year at age 63, leav- ing most of a surprising $11 million estate to children’s charities that help the poor, sick, disabled and aban- doned. The amount baffled the beneficiaries and his best friends, who are laud- ing Naiman as the anniver- sary of his death approaches in January. That’s because the Seat- tle man patched up his shoes with duct tape, sought deals at the grocery store deli at closing time and took his best friends out to lunch at fast-food joints. Naiman, who died unmarried and childless, loved kids but also was intensely private, scrimping, investing and working extra jobs to stockpile money that he rarely spent on himself after seeing how unfair life could be for the most vul- nerable children, his friends say. They believe a life- AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, file photo, Chris Meyer, left, and Maddi Heim, fold and sort donated clothes at Treehouse, a nonprofit organization in Seattle that serves the needs of children in the foster-care system. “I don’t know if he was lonely. I think he was a loner,” Karan said. Many of the organi- zations benefiting from Naiman’s gifts said they didn’t know him, though they had crossed paths. He left $2.5 million to the Pediatric Interim Care Cen- ter, a private organization in Washington state that cares for babies born to mothers who abused drugs and helps the children wean off their Forecast for Pendleton Area TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY dependence. The group used some of what was its larg- est donation ever to pay off a mortgage and buy a new vehicle to transport the 200 babies it accepts from hospi- tals each year. Naiman had called the center about a newborn while working for the state more than a decade ago, and its founder, Barbara Dren- nen, showed up in the mid- dle of the night to get the baby. “We would never dream that something like this would happen to us. I wish very much that I could have met him. I would have loved to have had him see the babies he’s protecting,” Drennen said. Naiman gave $900,000 to the Treehouse foster care organization, telling them that he was a foster parent years ago and had brought kids in his care to the group’s popular warehouse, where U.S. investigating CenturyLink internet outage, 911 failures By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press Mostly cloudy and not as cool A rain or snow shower; cooler Partly sunny and chilly Mostly cloudy A blend of sun and clouds PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 52° 37° 43° 26° 36° 23° 44° 32° 39° 27° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 54° 39° 49° 28° 41° 24° 42° 33° 41° 27° OREGON FORECAST ALMANAC Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Seattle Olympia 53/43 44/32 49/33 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 55/40 Lewiston 53/42 54/39 Astoria 54/42 Pullman Yakima 46/31 53/39 49/39 Portland Hermiston 52/42 The Dalles 54/39 Salem Corvallis 52/39 Yesterday Normals Records La Grande 41/32 PRECIPITATION John Day Eugene Bend 52/40 48/29 45/32 Ontario 37/31 Caldwell Burns 36° 23° 39° 27° 67° (1937) 2° (1983) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Albany 52/40 0.00" 0.66" 1.33" 7.62" 9.31" 9.80" WINDS (in mph) 38/33 40/28 0.00" 1.35" 1.45" 10.22" 16.28" 12.92" through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Pendleton 41/29 52/41 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date HERMISTON Enterprise 52/37 51/40 39° 28° 39° 25° 64° (1917) 2° (1990) PRECIPITATION Moses Lake 53/37 Aberdeen 42/30 42/33 Tacoma Yesterday Normals Records Spokane Wenatchee 54/41 Today Sun. Boardman WSW 10-20 Pendleton SW 8-16 Medford 50/38 W 7-14 W 8-16 SUN AND MOON Klamath Falls 40/28 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last BOISE, Idaho — U.S. officials and at least one state said Friday that they have started investigations into a nationwide Cen- turyLink internet outage that has disrupted 911 service. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai called the outage that began Thursday “completely unacceptable” because people who need help couldn’t use the emergency number. “Its breadth and duration are particularly troubling,” he said. The commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau will investigate the cause and effect of the outage, he said. The Monroe, Louisiana-based telecom- munications giant is one of the largest in the United States. It offers communications and information technology services in dozens of states. Customers from New York to Cal- ifornia reported outages. CenturyLink spokeswoman Debra Peter- son said the outage “is not related to hack- ing,” but she declined further comment. The company said on Twitter that it’s working to restore service and appears to be making progress. It hasn’t provided a cause for the problems. “Where CenturyLink is the 911 service 7:36 a.m. 4:19 p.m. none 12:17 p.m. New First McKay Creek Estates NATIONAL EXTREMES Dec 29 Jan 5 provider 911 calls are completing,” the com- pany said in a tweet. Regulators in Washington state also said they were opening an investigation into an outage of its statewide 911 service. The state Utilities and Transportation Commission said interruptions began about 8:30 p.m. Thursday. The commission’s reg- ulatory services division director, Mark Vas- coni, said the system appeared stable Friday but the agency was monitoring it. In Idaho, Emergency Office Management Director Brad Richy said he didn’t receive any reports of 911 service failures, but some state agencies, including the state Depart- ment of Correction, lost service on inter- net-based phones. Some businesses in Idaho also lost the ability to make credit card sales, and some ATM machines weren’t working in Idaho and Montana. Due to sporadic 911 outages in Mas- sachusetts, public safety officials recom- mended individuals looking for emergency help use the 10-digit telephone number of the fire or police departments they wanted to contact. In Greeley, Colorado, the Weld County Regional Communication Center on Friday said 911 calls were being dropped, but call- ers should keep trying and emergency dis- patchers would try to call back. Full FREE Cognitive Screening Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 88° in Immokalee, Fla. Low -18° in Gould, Colo. wards of the state can chose toys and necessities for free. Treehouse is using Naiman’s money to expand its college and career coun- seling statewide. “The frugality that he lived through, that he com- mitted to in his life, was for this,” said Jessica Ross, Treehouse’s chief devel- opment officer. “It’s really a gift to all of us to see that pure demonstration of philanthropy and love.” Jan 13 Jan 20 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Is Mom a little more forgetful lately? There are many early warning signs of a potential memory disorder, such as Alzheimer’s disease. That’s why we’re offering a FREE and CONFIDENTIAL cognitive screening. We encourage anyone who is concerned about cognitive decline to take this short, in-person screening. The screening is administered by a qualified health care professional. To schedule your cognitive screening today, please call (541) 704-7146. Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. 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