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Teachers balk at giving up day‘s pay Paper Maple Leaf netminder is fan favorite Fidelity Investments Canada Potvin is tops Setting up shop Doyle Baseball Academy makes Oakville home base SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS Loblaws, Food City Canadian Tire, Net Media AP, Kmart, The Bay, Savâ€"Aâ€"Centre, Oakville Place, Victorian Order of Nurses, Page 19 Page 20 Mark Slipp (416) 359â€"4633 STACKABLE CHAIRS WHITE #88â€"0155â€"4 Rosemary Makhan: Quilting Teacher of the Year. Teacher of the Year" by the Canadian Quilting Association, represents the finest tradition of the craft. She has been teaching this timeless needlecraft for almost 20 years in Oakville and has designed some of her own quilts. Rosemary Makhan, recently named "Quilting Interviewed at her home, she admitted modestâ€" ly, "I didn‘t really know that much at first, but I knew more than most, so I started teaching night school throuch the Halton Board of Education." One thing led to another, Makhan added, and she helped to form the Halton Quilter‘s Guild which now has about 150 members. Over the years, she has taught quilting to literally hundreds of women at ‘The Quilt Patch‘ in Bronte and Nothing patchwork about the way she teaches quilting A Lot More To‘ Canadian Tire NOW For A Lot Less ‘Quilts and Other Comforts®, also in Oakville. She has done many clinics and workshops for other groups and guilds as well. Born and raised in rural Nova Scotia, her mothâ€" er was a quilter, as was her grandmother before her. So that‘s where Rosemary learned. With (See‘Quilting‘ page 13) (Photo by Peter McCusker) By ALEX MATHESON Special to the Beaver he request for a charitable I donation of one day‘s pay from employees to offset school board expenses has caused a furor in the high school teachers‘ unions. Some members of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation in Halton took their protest to the union‘s headquarters in Toronto. The central body is opposing the request because they say it‘s opening up bargaining. Lenore Alexander, an executive officer with the OSSTF, said "we view it as a request to reopen barâ€" gaining and concession bargainâ€" ing." Asking to finance the situation, she said, is like a rollback in salary and "we are opposed to that." The Halton Board of Education has asked all 4,000â€"plus board employees to agree to give one day‘s salary to the board to reduce 1993 expenses by $1 million and eliminate the need of laying off 75 fullâ€"time staff in the fall of 1993. Initially, the board wanted each employee group to independently support the idea and have all members make the charitable donation. However, legal considerations have forced the board to offer the idea for individual employees to decide on the contribution. But the OSSTF from Toronto has intervened. It is supporting a motion through the local secondary school teachers council â€" made up of representatives of all the high schools â€" to direct the president of OSSTF Halton, Sally Rewbotham, not to reopen the collective agreeâ€" ment or support the voluntary donation. Rewbotham has said publicly, she personally supports the board proposal. However, she declined to comâ€" ment on the pressure being exertâ€" ed on her by the OSSTF central or (See ‘Union‘ page 4)