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Wednesday, July 5, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
SHOW: ‘Elegant’ system
in place to organize
quilts
Oregon Legislature
passes workers bill
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“People need to be able
to plan for doctor and den-
tist appointments, as well as
know when they can sign up
for courses and classes,” she
wrote. “If people work part-
time, then they need to know
when they might be available
for a second part-time job,
because they most likely will
need one.”
The companies must also
give workers 10 hours rest
between two shifts, which
they can waive and receive
time-and-a-half rates.
Julie Harbold, who owns
a Subway sandwich shop in
Portland, called the measure
“completely unrealistic in
operations of actual business.
“Our restaurants run on
such narrow margins, are
faced with rising minimum
wage costs and are often
in fluctuations that are not
within our control as far as
weather, customer flows,
and unforeseen variables,”
Harbold said.
Other states considering
similar initiatives include
Connecticut, California,
North Carolina, and Ohio,
said Carrie Gleason, direc-
tor of the Fair Workweek
Initiative, which has led the
organizing nationwide.
By Andrew Selsky
Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) —
Workers in Oregon for large
companies will know their
schedules in advance, sav-
ing them from scrambling
to arrange child care and
enabling them to have more
orderly lives, under a bill the
state Legislature passed on
Thursday.
The bill was described
as being a first among U.S.
states. Rep. Ann Lininger,
D-Lake Oswego, one of
its sponsors, said it could
become a national model.
Under the bill, passed by
the House on Thursday and
previously approved by the
Senate, retailers and food
services and hospitality busi-
nesses that have 500 or more
employees worldwide must
give notice of schedules at
least seven days in advance
as of July 2018, and at least
14 days in advance as of July
2020.
More than 100 Oregonians
wrote to lawmakers support-
ing or opposing the bill.
Among them was
Alexandria Levin, a resident
of Portland, who strongly
backed it.
Executive Director Jeanette
Pilak told The Nugget. “Gary
Miller and Ann’s brains are
this system.”
Pilak noted that a lot of
work goes into assigning
space for each quilt, based
on the dimensions and color
scheme of each Sisters build-
ing — all with the goal of
showing off the quilts in the
best possible light. It’s not
done willy-nilly, which is
something that is sometimes
hard to communicate to
quilters.
“Every year we have peo-
ple who show up on Quilt
Show day with their quilt and
say, ‘where do I hang this?’”
Pilak said.
Pilak noted that when she
takes show sponsors like
fabric manufacturers around
town for a tour, “they are just
gobsmacked (by) how all the
quilts go together. They’re
not just thrown up.”
Pilak estimates that it
takes three full eight-hour
days to sort and assign the
quilts. Part of the effort
Year-round
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Memorial quilts using shirts from loved ones are popular at the Sisters
Outdoor Quilt Show.
involves bringing in new It’s an expression of my
volunteers to learn the ropes, heart. It’s an expression of
because, as Pilak notes, it’s love for material and love
critical to retain and pass for the finished product.
on knowledge of the system There’s a quilt on every bed
and protocol to younger vol- at home.”
That kind of passion is
unteers who will carry the
common among quilters,
SOQS into the future.
On Friday, 93-year-old and is reflected in this year’s
Virginia Bradley brought show theme — “Every Quilt
in her quilts for registration Has A Story.”
Many quilts are composed
— just as she has done every
of physical manifestations of
year since 1976.
“All of Virginia’s quilts memory — such as the shirts
are done by hand,” Pilak of a father who has recently
died.
noted.
All will be on vivid dis-
“I grew up quilting and
I never quit,” Bradley said. play across Sisters on July 8,
“Quilting is my life, really. starting at 9 a.m.
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