Dolls make wishes come true for kids |

“MAKE a wish.” We’re
a bit long in the tooth
for those games now,
eh, but it was part of
our growing up — we
would wish on the
first star of the

evening and on the
candles on our birth-
day cake.

We took every opportu-
nity to cross our fingers and
close our eyes and think fer-
vently “I wish it would hap-
pen.” We always wished to
be rich or somewhere else or
a famous movie star, some-
thing like that.

So it is pretty nice that
there are all sorts of grown-
ups nowadays involved in
doing just that for children
in peril.

The Make A Wish
Foundation exists in various
communities in the Lower
Mainland and involves a lot
of people who commit a
great deal of time and inspi-
ration to providing funds to
help make wishes come true
for the young afflicted.

The workers this story is
about are The Doll People.
Their real name is Doll
Treasures of Yesteryear, and
the members are all doll
fanciers who collect and
restore old dolls, as well as
make brand new ones.

They together study the
history of doll making, and
the “how-to” of it, and then
once a year they have a big
tea party and display their
year’s new work, hoping to
make money for charitable
groups. They have been
going strong since 1964, and
in those years their dolls
have done a lot of good
things.

Their special concern is
for sick children, who very
much need cuddly compan-
ions. Between the years 1979
and 1982, the group donat-
ed $7,000 for a kidney dial-
ysis machine to give
Children’s Hospital. Sunny
Hill has also been bettered
by their efforts as well as the
special Outreach Program.

it will be a tittle different
for them this year, because
of venue, They have always
before been able to arrange
display space in one or more
of the shopping malls but
that has now got out of
their range. To have such
space in a mall nowadays
requires out lay of a consid-
erable sum of money to
cover the insurance which is
now mandatory.

The mall authorities were
having to take the rap for
accidents happening on their
premises, accidents occur-
ring due to some alien space
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and old ladies tripped up.
Some of the claims were
really stiff.

So now it is necessary
that displays and displayers
be well covered in case of
suit, and as you can imagine
that puts a burden on alot
of organizations made up of
ordinary people.

The fall months are his-
torically the time when so
many worthy groups try to
gather in funds for their
Christmas charities, and the
rule will require re-thinking
for many deserving and hard
working committees.

On the other hand, last

year brought its own little
miracle of joy, so who
knows.

A gentleman, a resident
in North Vancouver, had
won a trip to Disneyland for
four, ina lottery of some
sort. But he had already
been to Disneyland a couple
of times, he and his family,
so he gave his wonderful
ticket to the Doll people,
who promptly gave it to the
Make a Wish people. Lisa, a
seven-year-old, was the
lucky winner, taking her
family with her, of course.

The Doll People’s effort
this year will take place on

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Admission is a modest three
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the display and sale of dol-
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There’s a charming child-
size quilt to be raffled, plus
a Clown Doil, a Birdhouse
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to come and help them
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