The Hillsboro-based Westside Quilters Guild is Oregon’s newest group for quilters, quilt collectors, quilt historians and self-proclaimed “fabric-holics. Steve Rice, owner of Sharon’s Attic Quilt Shop in Hillsboro, put out a call on his business newsletter last year and quilters came from throughout the region to help form and join the guild, said Jean Lasswell of Hillsboro, the group’s first president. For the past year, the Westside Quilters Guild has put together bylaws, obtained nonprofit status and stitched more than 100 quilts that have been donated to victims of the Vernonia flood last year. Local quilt shops - Sharon’s Attic, Furever Friends and Crazy 4 Quilts - also donate materials and supplies. The new guild has been drawing on its own expert members for programs (guild member Patty Dobbs of Hillsboro will teach appliqu頴echniques soon), but Lasswell expects to draw speakers from throughout the metropolitan area as well as famous quilting gurus traveling through. The guild has been showing up at more and more of Hillsboro’s art events, including the popular First Tuesday Art Walk held each month, not only showing their work and promoting the guild, but selling tickets for quilts made for causes such as Alzheimer’s disease.

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Members of the Busy Body Quilters club at Montegut Middle School pose for a picture with their creations. In 2003, then fifth-graders Alicia Bergeron and Kimberly Naquin convinced their teacher, Anne Hitt, to start a quilting club. Hitt recently took 60 of her students to view an exhibit at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library featuring five quilts her students made. Since the club began, students have hand sewn and stuffed more than 15,000 squares, according to Hitt. Two of her students, Heather Himel and Aryn Bergeron, Alicia’s younger sister, designed a quilt for the State BETA Club Convention held in Lafayette a few weeks ago.

This is a State mandated body of parents, appointed by the school board and given specific tasks at the direction of the school board. When the smaller, prettier Fire Eater explained our view of the situation the DAC suddenly became an effective, aggressive defender of children’s rights and education AGAINST the board and superintendent. Over the past month these few parents who have been frustrated and even ridiculed publicly for their expectation that the board or superintendent cares one bit what they say or do, have begun to focus on the school board elections in 2009 and IMMEDIATELY some school board members began to listen to them. When those barriers serve to diminish the authority of the parent in the eyes of the child, to make the parent seem, and indeed be, impotent in the face of a school superintendent, they are agents of destruction of the concepts of family, community and local control in favor of state orchestration of sad, demented facsimiles of these social units. So instead of saying, “thank you for making dinner”, “you’re welcome”, “thank you for bringing in firewood”, “you’re welcome”, “thank you for doing dishes”, “you’re welcome”, “thank you for warming up the bed”, “you’re welcome” we just say, I’m glad you did the dishes because my fingers are chapped, or “I’m so glad you made dinner because all I had was a carrot for lunch”, or “Watching you split wood makes me Horny. The views expressed in this article are those of Jahfre Fire Eater only and do not represent the views of Nolan Chart, LLC or its affiliates.