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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
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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
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Associated Press
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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-
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CenturyLink spokeswoman Debra Peter-
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The company said on Twitter that it’s
working to restore service and appears to be
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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-
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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.
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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.”
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