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r most famous tion was a Christmas gown made entirely een ostrich feathers. 9 dress was equipped Italian biinking s in the form of little s. It had music that d Tannenbaum. SON WITH HER st Hoskins lived 13 s at Morton Grove, 3 go suburb, in a 10- , three-bathroom e before she started n her travels with ,huck. vas a year off from 01 for a travel ation for him. Then they‘d finished co and ended up in ka, Chuck, his an Shepherd dog after her unusual er as a trail blazer. rn in Chicago, Peggy ins is now 61. e had her career as a on designer who coâ€" ated her own oneâ€" an fashion show for entertainment of and groups. e program was all . She designed, made iodelled the clothes. ‘ she was com- ator. e didn‘t sell her ons. They were “too ul“. Procedures. Fire ersonnel Committee nday November 21, :45 p.m. Council bers, Regular cil Meeting. day November 22, p.m. Council bers, Planning ittee Meeting. boy at a party, ried him and became g champion at the Canada Games in ouver. ughter Pat is now a ary housewife, - ied to Rob, son of t back home to rage for the first time iree years. wasn’t ready for the [er and the knitting tiles," she declares. te‘s thinking of trying ralia. daughter is expecting n Houston, Texas, for stmas. nybody should try it ey feel they would like wouldn’t tell anyone 0 do it.” e visits Richmond because her daughter regor-. e McGregors have at 403 Paliser Cres. , since moving here i Barrie in 1954. it and Rob have a son Rob Roy Third) and had a daughter my. with travelling idmother Hoskins on for the big event. t was the first ied woman on the pic team when she Ligames champion. aybe that shows it‘s 9 following meetings )ivic interest have scheduled during the two weeks: rdnesday November 10-room household youngest son into a r home with your ing machine and ry. come the 44,000â€"mile elling grandmother. sit relatives in Rich» d Hilll hd have one heck of a hat‘s what Peggy kins did. She loves it. BACK HOME 1is week she‘s on her â€" 7:30 pm. Com- 9 Room “B” By- ihat do you do if you’re idowed only child \ois fashion designer- lel, mother of six, with Ling to do? pu sell out and pack 7 p.m. Council nbers, Planning nittee meeting. By HAL BLAINE .iheral Staff Writer on the Cana'dian npic diving team ing in 1965. met a for you to be 'ied,” says grandma. least it shows Pal :sday November 29, 'ra vel/in g gran dmo z‘h er 'a3 relatives in Richmond Hill baggage weré JIVIC orner and Dorothy community news In Mexico the mobile home travelled piggyback on a railroad flat car across mountains through 80 tunnels with Chuck and her inside. It also travelled from Alaska to Washington State while she took the renowned inside passage l'erryboat ride from Juneau to Seattle. “Trailer parks, I avoid 'em. Can‘t back up to park when towing a care Trees catch. I got stuck She hasn't stayed in a trailer park since leaving Phoenix in mid-June. She travelled the 1,422 miles of the Alaskan high- way, all gravel with no shoulder. She made a pact with the Lord when she started. “If he'd be the pilot, I‘d be the driver.“ N0 TROUBLE Mrs. Hoskins had only driven a car and a daughter's small van before she tackled her big mobile home. But she didn't let that bother her. The speed limit was about 35 mph. "Only a jéckass would goiany faster,” she says. It is square and has much more baggage room than the rounded ones. Also she can carry baggage on top. She needed a lot of room for her sewing machine, TV, golf clubs, skis and tennis racquet. In all that travelling, she‘s only had one flat tire. That was right at a gas station in Dawson City, Yukon. So after getting her money back, she bought the $15,000 product of a well known maker. “Now if I don‘t like the neighbors or landlord II can leave. no notice required," she declares. It would be a problem if she had one that was going out of production and would be hard to get service and repairs for. It was going to be the last one of its kind produced. Then somebody convinced her if she was going to travel long and far, she would need one that had dealers everywhere. That did it. She gave the startled woman a big hug and kiss. Then she hurried to a magazine stand and library to study up on RVs (recreational vehicles). Mrs. Hoskins visited the mobile home factories in four states before she picked one and made a desosit. That's why she has a green turtle statue on top of her car. In a pet shop to study turtles to see what the dream might mean, she told one, “Tell me, buddy, if there‘s something I‘m supposed to know.“ THEN THAT DID IT Then another customer in the pet shop asked her, “How would you like to carry your house around with you like that?" She looked up the dream meaning for turtle. But it meant good luck and didn‘t really fit in any message. Mrs. Hoskins believes dreams are messages. She keeps working to understand them and tries to follow them. The dreams always were about meeting people all over North people all over North America. There always was a turtle in them. She didn't tell her family before she started out. Some of them were sure she‘d gone com- pletely berserk, she says. How did it all start? The main thing was she kept having a dream. It haunted her for months. shipped by air back to his sister at Calgary, and schooL The mobile home has gone 34,000 miles and the car 10,000 since 1974. Since then grandma has travelled alone, towing a compact car behind her mobile home for side trips and errands. Both vehicles are equipped with citizen band radio. Fastened on the front of her mobile home is a bicycle for keeping in shape and fit. It’s for her figure seeing. not for sight- Wednesday, November ‘16, 1977 Necklace of 400 silver charms collected from all over North America is displayed by travelling Grandmother Peggy Hoskins beside her travel trailer and tow-car in Richmond Hill often." ’ stop. Instead she finds an all- Coming to Richmond night gas station or truck Hill from Calgary she Central, 10 Trench. Nov. 21-25. 9 to 5. “Helpmate In- formation Week". Open House at York SANTA CLAUS PARADE. 1.30 pm. Bayview to Markham Road to Yonge St and north to R. Heights Plaza. HELPMA TE INFORMA TION COMMUNITY CALENDAR 883-2234 881 November-Decem ber Sunday Ir Monday Corn Husk doll con- struction. Gallanough Library. Thornhill. 7.30 pm. York Central Assn. for Mentain Retarded “ice hockey & skating skills". 4 p.m. Wheelhouse Club euchre. Oak Ridges. 7.30 p.m. York Region camera club. R.H. High School. 7.30 p.m. 884- 7161. York Central Association for Mentally Retarded “ice hockey & skating skills." 4 to 5 p.m. every Monday at Rich- mond Hill Arena. The art of corn husk doll construction. Gallanough Library, Thornhill. 7.30 p.m.~ 9.30 p.m. took what she calls “the Husky trip", Husky having truck stops and 24- last week. Crests collected in her travels almost completely cover the orange jumpsuit she’s wearing. Legal Aid Clinic. 10.225A Yonge. 7-10 p.m. 884-9148. “Morning Out". St. Paul's United, Oak Ridges. 9.30 a.m. 773- 5152. Morning Break. R.H. United. 9.30-11.15 a.m. 884-4294. Morning Break. Richmond Hill United. 19.30-11.15 a.m. 884- 4294. Legal Aid Clinic. 7-10 p.m. 10,225A Yonge. 884-9148. A “Morning Out”. St. Paul‘s, Oak Ridges. 9.30-11.30 a.m. 773- 5152. “Mystery History" Thornhill Comm. Ctre. 8 p.m. Tuesday IWednésdayI Thursday W | 16| 1 Section C Parent Cancer}: Group. 8-10 p.m. 884- 3505. “Meet The Mayor“ night. Consumers’ Gas bldg. 8-10.30 p.m. Travel & Film night. “The Orient". R.Hill Library. 7.30 p.m. hour gas stations strategically located all the way. Parent Concern group. 8â€"10 p.m. 884- 3505. Thornhill New- comers Meeting. Heinzman House. “Vicky Alty” guest speaker. 8 p.m. 889- 8148 or 881-0639. Adult education seminar. St. Gabriel’s “Marriage enrich- ment". Parent Concern Group. 8-10 p.m. 884- 3505. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. LCW meeting. 8 p.m. St. G a briel ’ 5 educational seminar “marriage enrich- ment". 8 p.m. Maple library travelogue “Hawaii”. Free. 23 Mrs. Medham started collecting dolls when she was “very young”. Marshal Rodney Medham, 3 Richmond Hill resident for three years, will have part of her collection of 400 dolls on display at The Grange in the Art Gallery of Ontario starting November 20. Her parents published a travel trade magazine and their business took them all over the "world. Wherever they went, they bought dolls to bring home to Marsha. Some girls never throw their dolls away. They just keep on collecting them, long after they have grown up and acquired a husband, children and even grandchildren. She enlarged the collection on her own travels and now any relative or friend who takes a trip out of the country knows enough to bring back a doll. The national costumes on dolls from five continents make a colorful display in the glass case that fills one wall of the Medham home. “I don’t have a doll from Greenland yet," says Mrs. Medham. “It is hard to persuade someone to go there just to pick up a doll." But everything else, from Winnieâ€"the-pooh or Raggedy Ann, from Polish bridal dolls in traditional white to a Japanese geisha in gold, from home-carved or sewn to plastic, they all seem to be there. Richvale Writers’ Club. Richvale Comm. Ctre. Free. 884-0855. “I am actually very young for a doll collector.” She is a member of the Trillium Doll Club where she meets Recreation club for disabled adults. Maple. 883-2087. A favorite is her water mer- chant from Merekesh with gold ornaments in his costume. But Mrs. Medham says her collection is small compared with some in the Toronto area. Air cadets. Legion building. 7 p.m. Coffee House. York Central Assn. for Mentally Retarded. St. Mary Immaculate. 8- 10 p.m. Oak Ridges Minor Hockey general meeting. Bond Lake Arena.8p.m. “About the Arctic". Gallanough Library. 8 Her _do|| collection continues to grow Recreational Club for disabled adults. Maple. 883-2087. Rotary Club film night. Bayview 8.5. 8 D.m. 884-772. Recreational Club for disabled adults. Maple. 6.30 p.m. Air Cadets. Legion hldg. 7 [MIL Thorn'h‘ill New- comers coffee morâ€" ning. 10 a.m. 889-8148 or 881-0639. By LARRY JOHNSTON Liberal News Editor Art exhibit by “Touzalin”. Richmond Hill Library. Display of hand painted dishes at R.H. Library by Elsie Edmed. Richmond Hill Lions Majorette & Drum Corps Christmas bazaar & garage sale. Lions Hall. 6-10 p.m. St. Paul's Lutheran, R . H i l I . Y o u t h progressive dinner. 6 Tag Day. Richmond Hill Air Cadets. 6-9 R.H. Naturalists meeting. Consumers’ Gas bldg. Dr. Don Archibald speaker. York Central Hospital gift 8; shop sale. 7.30 a.m.-9 p.m. Charles Connor Library “Canadian Film Festival”. 4 p.m. Ages 6 and up. Friday Every collector has a dream of just one more acquisition. In Mrs. Medham’s case, it is for a “bathing beauty”, 3 reclining, china figure about seven inches long, that she has seen a pictgure of but never seen. By the way, her husband has a hobby too. He is building a drag racer in the basement. The tiny dolls represent the fastest growing hobby in the United States, ranking behind stamps and coins in popularity, she says. Mrs. Medham does minor repairs on dolls herself, something that doll club members discuss at their monthly meeting. She has also given talks on how to photograph the dolls. Her collection is now, in a sense, getting smaller, as she moves to miniature. Many have valuable antiques, which make the collections worth thousands of dollars. women in their fifties, sixties, or seventies, some of whom have thousands of dolls. MARSHA MEDHAM AND HER DOLLS 25 883-2234 Wheelhouse Club senior citizens bazaar. Oak Ridges. 1-4 p.m. St. Anthony’s School g y m . ‘ ‘ W h i t e elephant" sale. 1-4 p.m. Thornhill. St. G a briel ' s Hollyberry bazaar. ll a.m.â€"3 p.m. Thornhill Lions’ Lionette fall frolic. Th. Comm. Ctre. 8.30 p.m. Xi Beta Pho chapter “Torchlight” Ball. Lions Hall. 8.30 p.m. Oak Ridges minor hockey bazaar. bake sale. Bond Lake Arena. 10 a.m. Turkey Shoot. Victoria Square Comm. Centre. 1 p.m. Rummage 8: Bake Sale. Lake Wilcox comm. ctre. 10 a.m.-2 St. Mary Im- maculate Christmas bazaar. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. St. Paul‘s. Oak Ridges. bazaar. 2-4.30 Carrville United bazaar. 1.30-3.30 p.m. Richvale Library Film Show. 10.30 a.m Tag day. R.H. air cadets. R.H. hockey assoc. women’s aux. bazaar. Banquet room, new arena. 10 a.m.-2p.m. R.H. Library. Story Hour. 10.30 a.m. Saturday