BLOODCURDLING BARN; HALLOWEEN COMES EARLY ON THE RANCH.Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer A trip through the stables at Pete Peters' ranch in Moorpark on the weekend before Halloween was like entering a barn of horrors, with headless corpses, severed sev·er v. sev·ered, sev·er·ing, sev·ers v.tr. 1. To set or keep apart; divide or separate. 2. To cut off (a part) from a whole. 3. limbs and bloody clothing. In just three days, a model maker, a theme-park expert, a filmmaker and special-effects and makeup artists had transformed stalls into such things as a lab for a mad scientist, a mummy's tomb, a cemetery and a torture chamber. The transformation was made to raise funds for the ranch's 10-year-old Handicapped Equestrian equestrian a rider of horses. Learning Program, in which people with mental and physical disabilities learn to ride horses. Peters did not get the crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 he had hoped the Halloween fund-raiser would attract. ``We're going to lose money, a lot of money,'' he said, but the HELP program will continue. ``We'll go on, come hell or high water Adv. 1. come hell or high water - in spite of all obstacles; "we'll go to Tibet come hell or high water" no matter what happens, whatever may come .'' The sparse sparse - A sparse matrix (or vector, or array) is one in which most of the elements are zero. If storage space is more important than access speed, it may be preferable to store a sparse matrix as a list of (index, value) pairs or use some kind of hash scheme or associative memory. crowd Sunday afternoon was treated to country music and barbecue, as well as Indian crafts, music and singing. Inside the barn, things were a little more gruesome grue·some adj. Causing horror and repugnance; frightful and shocking: a gruesome murder. See Synonyms at ghastly. . A man strapped to a table appeared to be having his intestines Intestines The intestines, also known as the bowels, are divided into the large and small intestines. They extend from the stomach to the anus. Mentioned in: Malabsorption Syndrome torn out in the mad scientist's lab. In another stall, a jungle snake was ready to jump out at visitors. The Moorpark Melodrama theater loaned enough props for the scene designers to convert the entire barn. For example, the designers made a mummy's pyramid from the Melodrama's fireplace. ``All of these are original,'' said Harry Evry, one of the designers. ``We just kind of start throwing stuff in here.'' Horses in two of the stalls spent one weekend night in the barn of horrors, but then were moved. ``The horses, we discovered, do not like fog machines A fog machine (also called a smoke machine) is a device which emits a dense vapor that appears similar to fog or smoke. This artificial fog or smoke is known as theatrical smoke and fog within the entertainment industry. ,'' Evry said. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Color in Simi Edition only) Children peek into stables turned into a Halloween barn of horrors Sunday in Moorpark. (2--Color in Simi Edition only) Mago Rios accompanies her 3-year-old son, Juan, into a ``haunted'' barn at the Pete Peters ranch. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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