Donation boosts Mackenzie High School clothing and textiles move

Home Economics teachers of Mackenzie High School (right) accept an iron as part of the donation while members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, teachers and students of the school look on.

Headmaster of the Mackenzie High School (MHS) Gary Roberts took a leap of faith when he reintroduced Clothing and Textiles under the Home Economics Department but things worked in his favour.

“All it took was one phone call and a few emails and today we have these things to truly reintroduce the Clothing and Textiles subject,” Roberts said, adding that it has been approximately 30 years that the subject was not done at the senior Linden Secondary School.

Roberts made the statement at a simple presentation ceremony in the school’s auditorium yesterday as members of