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Alien plants invade Sidney »

Somewhere, deep in the bowels
of Parkland School, lives a series
of alien plants.

There are young ones, big ones,
giant ones, with orange warts and
one mean green Mother as big as a
classroom.

They feed on blood — lots of
blood, and their purpose is World
Conquest!

A cmde Halloween joke, right?
Wrong!

These plants are part of the
props for the upcoming Grassroots
Theatre production of Little Shop
of Horrors. Run by a crew of nine
puppeteers, these magnificent
creations form the center piece of
what should be one of the biggest
hits of the greater Victoria theatre
scene this season.

The show is staffed by a sensa-
tional cast including Donna Hugh-
es who plays Audrey, the Fay
Wray-like heroine; David Radford
plays Seymour, the florist shop
flunkie who creates the monsters.

Ken Fetherston play Orin Scri-

vello, the sadistic dentist; Barry
Grimshaw plays Mushnik the
tyrannical and greedy flower shop
owner; Bill Cinar sings the menac-
ing gravel-throated voice of the
plants.

Completing the cast are Kim
Thomas, Susan Black, and Jeni
Griffith who play the skid tow
version of the 60’s pop group, The
Supremes; Vincent Rees as T.V.

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Weird rings seized by police

A 20-year-old Vancouver man is
facing charges of possession of
prohibited weapons after Central
Saanich police seized a variety of
spiked rings, about 12:30 a.m. Oct.
21.

A police constable stopped a
male and a female dressed like
“punk rockers’’ walking in the
2200-block Keating Crossroad.

The man apparently was carry-
ing a baseball bat while the wom-
an was Catrying an open can of
beer.

Upon investigation police found
several rings, a large knife with a
sliding blade and several uno-
pened beer hidden in a jacket the
woman was wearing, deputy

police Chief George Lawson said.
The investigation moved to a
house party in the 6700-block East
Saanich Road where the owner of
the jacket was placed under arrest.

Among the rings seized was one
ring with a skull design anda
protruding spike, another with a
Viking head with an axe and
protruding spikes and another with
a circular steel ball with protrud-
ing spikes.

“When you put them on a hand
they become offensive weapons
because of the spikes that come
out of them,” Lawson said.

Other rings had hooks protrud-
ing as part of their design, he said.

by Valorie Lennox
The Review

Cuts to the $8 million Van-
couver Island Regional Library
system budget Saturday were not
sharp enough for North Saanich
— and were then blunted by the
board allowing access to library
reserve funds to compensate for
budget cuts.

“Tt was an absolute sham,” said
North Saanich library board repre-
sentative Dee Bailin.

The board passed a budget
which was 11.5 per cent higher
than the 1990 budget, then author-
ized staff to draw on reserve funds
to fund programs affected by
budget cuts.

“Tt brought the budget back up
to over a 14 per cent increase, if
they use those reserve funds,”
Bailin said.

The budget passed on a 155 to
139 weighted vote although 19 of
the 34 representatives at the meet-
ing voted against the budget.

The use of proxy votes and
alternates at the meeting is now
being challenged by Metchosin
council, which has a legal opinion
that such votes are not allowed
under the Library Act.

Metchosin Ald. Sue Watt said
board members did not know how
much they were committing their
municipalities or school districts
to contribute, since the assessment
method for library funding has not
been finalized. (see related story,
A3).

Bailin voted against the budget,
in accordance with an Oct. 15
North Saanich council motion
Opposing any library budget
increase over 8.5 per cent, exclud-
ing local branch costs.

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