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Online Edition Updated March 1st 2001
Bobus loses licence to perform
By Sandra ThomasStaff writer
Dressed in a big red hat, polka-dot coveralls and giant black shoes, Bobus the Clown pleaded with the parks board Monday night to let him continue selling balloons in Stanley Park.
He was backed by almost a dozen members of the Rhino Party in clown costumes, who chanted, "Leave the clown alone," and presented chairwoman Laura McDiarmid with a Jello brain and a box of paper hearts—items they felt the board is lacking.
But the board was unmoved and voted to change Bobus’s performance licence to a busker’s licence, which means he can no longer sell balloons or amplify his voice and must change locations every hour.
Bobus’s 56-year-old creator Sterling Undem says the move means the death of the clown, who has entertained in the park for 14 years. "After a year on death row, Bobus will die April 1, and I’ll be holding a funeral in the park."
Undem said he received notice two years ago that his performance licence was at risk, but under an unofficial grandfather clause, he was temporarily allowed to continue entertaining. Last March, he received a second letter warning his licence would change April 30.
Undem said the main point of contention is his sign offering balloon animals for $2 each. Under parks regulations, buskers and artists are not allowed to advertise or charge for services, with the exception of musicians selling original music. Undem said his sign saves confusion.
"Parents can look from a distance and see exactly what’s going on," he said. "That way they have a choice of coming over, or heading in the other direction."
Undem said he had no idea the Rhinos planned to create a spectacle on his behalf. "I received an e-mail from them telling me they were going to attend the meeting and that someone was going to strip naked," Undem said from his Pitt Meadows home. "I told them I would be embarrassed by something like that and please don’t."
Undem said he even picked up the silly string sprayed by one of the group members, who left the building when McDiarmid called a recess.
"I didn’t want it to get pushed into the carpet," he said.
Parks media liaison Terry Clark, said Bobus is still welcome to entertain in the park and the licence restrictions are minor.
"If you only knew how many requests the board gets for people to sell or entertain in the park," she said. "We have to be very careful or it could end up looking like Coney Island."
Terry Walton, manager of recreation services for Stanley District, said Undem had the last remaining performance licence in the park.
As for Bobus, Undem has no plans for the future. Being Bobus was his only means of support, bringing in $200 on a good day.
"Out of Bobus a new character called Who Knows will rise, because who knows what will become of me after that."
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