Staff photos by Duffy Coffman
Deputy Candy Dufor reacts to questions during an interview
Dufor’s police work not fun and games
By Darla Weinberger
Of the Print
“I worked in security at the
College during the work study
program and got involved and
learned about the sheriff’s
reserves,” Clackamas County
Deputy Sheriff Candy Dufor
said. “Then I joined the
reserves while I was working
with emotionally disturbed
children, and found that law
enforcement was where I
wanted to go with my career.”
Dufor graudated from
Clackamas Community Col-
lege in 1977, with an associate
degree in Development
Disabilities. She then joined the
reserve in 1978 after working
at the Perry Center for the
emotionally disturbed.
“Working with the emo-
“The training I have gone 2,000 hours on the road alone
tionally disturbed put me in a through is the same as for the
and 50 hours in the jail, and
position where, if I’m being men. She said, “1 have to make
the second class requires 1,000
yelled at by someone angry, the same grades, do the same
hours on the road with another
I’m able to not take it personal things they do. I was nervous
officer and 50 hours in the jail..
ly and to realize what is going about it at the start, wondering
“I went into reserves to learn,”
on with them and understand if I could handle myself or if I
Dufor said.
what’s going on with me too,”
could make the grade.
“When I first got into it I
Dufor said. “Not allowing
“There was a situation thought it was more like the
myself to get angry or get I once, in which I was off duty
T.V. shows, “One Adam
caught up in their anger is im and a man entered a building
Twelve” or something like
portant.”
with a gun. He was suppose to that,” she noted. “It’s not quite
“I’ve only been on duty
have threatened a woman with that exciting.
since October, and it’s mostly it. I was able to assist two
“The TV programs and
been training,” she explained. citizens in taking the man down
dreams have a lot of excite
“Because of that, I haven’t had
and holding him until the unin ment, not real hard work; just
to tell myself Hey, it’s time to formed officers arrived,” Dufor
fun,” she explained. “I think it’s
back-off, yet. I’m sure I’ll have
said.
much more serious than that, a
to soon,
“I’ve been taught some lot deeper. It’s more involved
Dufor said she is currently
good self-defense tactics and I than just arresting them and
on probation, where she will
am able to take people down in throwing them in jail. They are
work with field training officers
a safe way without breaking my real people.”
until they feel she is able to
arms,” she noted.
Dufor pursues the cases
work alone. Then she will be
While in the reserves, the concerned from the beginning
observed for the rest of her
officers go through a three- to the end. “During the in
one-year training period.
month training program at the vestigation it’s fine, I do my job
College conducted by the but afterwards, it is difficult
sheriff’s office. There they learn remembering back,” she said.
law enforcement, report “Because I have so many
writing, and search and things to do at the time
seizure.
reports, investigations, protec
They also take two ting the crime scene or
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don’t have time to get emo
tionally involved.”
“I want to stay with the
county,” she said. ' “I’m real
happy with the training pro
gram and the people there. I
like to work in all the different
departments in the sheriff’s of
fice and I’ll get that through the
training. But,” she added, Td
like to work with the detectives
doing investigations, apart
from that, I’d like .a good
understanding of the justice
system.
Dufor commented that
“Most of us would like to go out
and save the world hnd protect
everyone,
but
it
is
impossible,’’she continued.
“You have to experience it first
hand and deal with it yourself,
you can’t have a blanket rule.”
For relaxation Dufor plays
tennis, hikes and goes to a spa.
She said, “I’m more relaxed
when I’m at home, I don’t have
to take care of anyone except
myself.”
“The friends that I’m close
to have given me a lot of sup
port and there’s been no pro-
blems about my iob.” she said.
Music class proues enIîgntenmg
for instructor as well as students
Music instructor, Gary
Nelson conducts a “music ap
preciation” class every Monday
night from 7-10 p.m. at
Willamette View Manor in Oak
Grove. The class, part of a
CCC community education
program, attracts 4Q or more
elderly residents.
The class focuses on the
structure and elements of a
piece of music, Nelson explain
ed noting that he concentrates
mainly on the classical works,
but other types ofmusic are also
covered.
Admittedly, Nelson said,
“Many of these residents are
Symphony members and rock
and roll is on the bottom of
theirprioritylist”^
Nelson, a free lance trom
bone player and a member of
the Opera orchestra, is uncer
tain about the future of the
class. “I think we’ve done
about all we can do. We’ve
covered the historical approach
to music, now we’re kind of
winging it.”
Nelson explained, “We
would have to go next to a
survey type class, which would
involve independent reading.”
Margaret Cheetham, a
resident of the Manor, is a
regular student at the classes.
“He presents his work
beautifully, she said, “We’re all
interested in music... just about
any kind.”
Nelson enjoys working
with the elderly residents.
“They’re not here because they
have to be, they’re here
because they Want to be,” he
said. “They don’t have to
worry about credit, and many
of them already know music.
It’s not an old folks home; it’s a
retirement home.”
“You’d never guess that
some of these people are as old
as they are,” he observed.
“The youngest in the class was
born in 1908 and we have a
few who were born in 1881
and 1885.1 can be discussing a
turn-of-the century concert,
and someone will turn around
and start telling me about it!”
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