Thurs., Jan. 22.19G1 (Sec. D SANDY (Ore.) POST—5
Fantasy game conjures up medieval romance
Frequent burglaries
plague Boring couple
by DAN DIU.ON
To its afficionado6, it’s
affectionately known as D
and D.
To the uninitiated, it’s a
la b y rin th of confusing
twists and turns dictated
by one player who the
others think of as a god.
Which he apparently is —
in the game — because he
holds the fate of the others
in his hand.
Nevertheless, Dungeons
and Dragons has nestled
into the subconscious of
enough game players that
it has established a
worldwide following in less
than
10 years.
The
la b yrin th
can
be
straightened out for willing
Sandy residents beginning
tonight, Jan. 22, when an
ongoing game is begun at
the Sandy Community
School trailer at 7 p.m.
It w ill be ongoing
assuredly, because two of
the coordinators spent six
months on the first game
they ever played.
Bryan Zimmerman and
Jack Harris caught the bug
from
B rya n ’s
older
brother, Tim, “ a game
fa n a tic ,” according to
Bryan Six months later,
they had completed their
first dungeon and begun
what can be a lifelong
pursuit of experience
points and control of a
worldwide network of D
and D fanatics.
“ I think a lot of people
are going to be D and D
addicts after this class,”
Zimmerman said.
In its most basic sense,
Dungeons and Dragons is a
fantasy, role-playing game
for adults 12 years old and
up. Each player creates a
character who may be such
things as a dwarf, human
fig hte r or cleric. The
BORING - Julie and Rich
Hager are hoping their
neighbors w ill help them out
a little.
The Hagers, 12815 SE
School Ave., have been the
victims of two burglaries in
seven weeks. And they
suspect the same group of
local teenagers in both in
cidents.
During the first burglary,
which occurred about 2:30
a m. Dec. 1, Julie’s car was
stripped of its tape deck and
stereo and $2,000-worth of
tools and small motors was
taken from their garage, she
said.
During
the
second
burglary, which occurred
about 7 p.m. Sunday, all of
Rick’s work tools, a large
black tool box, several ap
pliance parts and other items
were stolen from inside the
canopy of their pick-up
truck, she said. The truck
was parked at their home.
The loss, which could be
much more than in the
previous theft, may not be
covered by insurance, she
said.
This doesn’t count the time
their home was broken into
on Jan. 4. Apparently the
Hagers returned home in
time to scare off the in
truders, because they found
nothing missing, she said.
Julie, 26, believes the Jan.
4 break-in and Sunday’s
burglary could have been
prevented if neighbors in the
Chip Jones and Bryan Zimmerman warmed up with Dungeonmaster Jack Harris this week
for tonight’s inaugural session of Dungeons and Dragons. The figures at right represent
players and the monsters they encounter.
characters
are
then
plunged into an adventure
in a series of dungeons,
tunnels and secret rooms
run by the Dungeonmaster,
or referee.
The dungeons are filled
w ith untold evils and
fortunes. As the players
engage in game after
game, their characters
grow in power and ability.
The game is limited only
by the imagination of the
players and the in
ventiveness
of
the
D u n g e o n m a s te r who
designs the dungeons. The
results of combat are
resolved by rolling special
dice. Death is elimination
from the game, loss of all
gained experience points
and the unhappy task of
beginning at level one.
And the players get
caught up in the game.
‘ ‘Later on we get
talking about it like it’s a
real experience,” Harris
said.
He’ll
serve
as
Dungeonmaster in the
Community School game
and said it is well within his
realm to drop a few hints if
he doesn’t like what the
players are doing and
bump them off if they keep
it up.
That possibility doesn’t
set well with his two
classmates at Cedar Ridge
School who have spent
months gaining levels of
experience.
‘‘I don’t know,” said
Zimmerman who after 18
months is a fourth level
player, “ sometimes it’s not
very good.”
lake if your friend zaps
you in a friendly game of
Dungeons and Dragons and
sends you back to square
one right in the middle of
your quest to build a castle.
— Continued funding for
Oregon Project Indepen
dence, a program designed
to keep the elderly living in
their
own
homes
by
providing programs like
weatherization,
telephone
contact and homemaking
help.
— Increased tax credit to
those who provide home care
for an elderly person.
— Provide for a long-term
ombudsman for seniors. This
would include the provision
that the Health division can
act upon the complaints.
—
Increasing
retired
public employees income by
more than the standard two
percent each year.
— Requiring group in
surance issued in other
statesmeet Oregon stan
dards.
— Requiring the posting of
signs to
indicate
han
dicapped parking spots.
In additionto Posey’s talk,
Terry Ann Rogers, a lobbyist
for Citizens’ Coalition for
Better Nursing Home Care,
explained nine bills she w ill
introduce this session to
improve care in Oregon’s 199
nursing homes.
Of major importance, she
said, is a bill to prohibit
discrimination
against
Medicaid patients.
“ Medicaid patients stay an
average of 10 days longer in a
hospital before being trans
ferred to a nursing home
than do private paying
patients,” Rogers said.
And, she added, when
private pay patients exhaust
their funds, and switch to
Medicaid to meet nursing
home expenses, they are
often transferred out of the
facility.
Rogers w ill also lobby for
passage of a bill that w ill
require
nursing
homes
provide
their
financial
records to the public to
determine
where public
funding is spent. The bill w ill
also require annual sum
maries of complaints and
penalties against the nursing
home be made public.
“ This will, we hope, im
prove care in terms of ac
tually making nursing homes
compete because then the
public would be able to see a
report of their care," Rogers
said.
Much of the legislation
Rogers plans to introduce
concerns nurse’s aides in
nursing homes, the “ primary
providers of care,” she said.
“ Nurse’s
aides
are
traditionally poor quality
with high turnover,” she
said.
One bill would raise the
minimum wage for nurse’s
aides to the same wages a
nurse’s aide receives in a
hospital.
Another
would
require that aides receive
standard
testing
before
certification, and if because
of poor care, an aide could
also be decertified.
“ There is no way now to
decertify a nurse’s aide. I f an
aide is cited for patient
abuse, she can just quit that
job and go to another care
center. There is no uniform
way now to check creden
tials,” Rogers said.
Although the state requires
that nursing homes be in
spected on a regular basis,
the only program training
investigators is a one-week
federal course.
“ There
are
1,500
regulations nursing homes
must comply with and that’s
quite mind-boggling. But
surveyors get only one week
of training. What this bill
would do is upgrade training
Photos by Dan Dillon
Both Posey and Rogers
said the success of their bills
is tied to good testimony
when the bills are in the
legislative committees.
of surveyors so, for example,
we won’t have a sanitarian
looking at a facility’s social
services program,” Rogers
said.
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Sunday, a neighbor noticed
that lights left on in the
Hager home had been turned
off but apparently did
nothing about it, she said. It
was her children, at a
babysitter’s home across the
street, who noticed a teenage
boy carrying a box of tools
into a light-colored, 1960s-
model Ford, she said. They
then alerted their parents,
who were attending a dance
at the Boring Grange a few
blocks away.
The same light-colored
Ford was connected to three
other theft reports Sunday,
Julie said. Sgt. Pat Reed, a
detective
with
the
Clackamas County Sheriffs
Office, could not confirm
that, Monday but he did say
there are suspects in the
Hager case.
“ If people would get
together and report anything
suspicious, it would really
help,” Julie said. “ They’d be
helping themselves.”
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Nursing homes are home
for 13,000 people in Oregon.
The average person there is
79 years old and female. And
if you are 60 years or older,
your chances are one in five
that you, too, w ill be a
resident of a nursing home
someday.
So says Cecil Posey,
president of the United
Seniors, a coalition of
organizations
concerned
with the rights of senior
adults in Oregon.
Posey talked to senior
citizens at the Gresham
Senior Center Friday about
legislation United Seniors
plans to support in the 1981
session of the Oregon
Legislature.
Three major areas concern
seniors most, Posey says,
economic security, health
and security such as freedom
from crime and abuse.
“ Our primary interest is to
keep secure property tax
relief. We want to keep
people in their homes and out
of institutional care settings.
Income tax relief gives little
back to seniors because most
of jus (seniors) do not earn
much income,” explained
the
71-year-old
former
lobbyist with the Oregon
Education Association.
O th e r
im p o r ta n t
legislation United Seniors
w ill support this session
include:
area had been more a le rt
“ We have neighbors here
close. . . but people just don’t
watch,” she said. “ We try to
watch out for everything. If
other people would do that, I
think that really would have
saved us.”
The Hagers' back door was
left open following the Jan. 4
break-in. “ If someone bad
noticed, who knows, maybe
they would have been
caught,” she said.
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