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by Linda Purschke

According to Brock
Elliott project leader,
this year's Neigh-
bourhood Watch Home
Security Program will

once again give Terrace.

residents a chance to both
meet neighbours and
improve home security at
the same time.

“The program, which
will be starting this week,
has three main com-
ponents,” said Elliott.
“First, we want to use the
program to help en-
courage residents to
communicate better with
the RCMP, and to get to
know thelr neighbours go

’ that if and when they spot

suspicious activity they
call the RCMP."

“Second, we will be
providing electric
engraving pencils for
permanently marking
valuables with — the
resident’s Social In-
surance Number, and

recording valuables with
“the RCMP.”’ Elliott
continued. -

“Third, we will be
providing stickers that
will indicate to a potential
thief the hhouehold has
articipate n
program,” said Elliott.
‘Few thieves steal for
their own use, they fence
the goods and if the
valuables can be easily
identified this acts ag a
deterrent.

Elliott said that the’

program will be door-to-
door and said he and four
other students will
canvass the Terrace
area. Elliott stated that
the students would be

ed with engraving

paatils for identification
of valuables that they will
lend toresidents. When
canvassing the students
will also inform neigh-
bours about the time and

place of meetings that

the .

NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
Home security program here again

would be ii their area.

Elliott explained that at
the area meetings, an
RCMP officer would in in
attendence to describe
the program in detail and
to show a film to
residents. Elliott said the
officer would be able to
give information and
suggestions to residents
in response to particular
home or personal
security questions that
they might have.

Elliott added that
residents who attended
meetings or who were
canvassed last year
should come out again
this year.

“Coming to the
meetings again will give
people a. chance to meet
their new neighbours and
give them the opportunity
to offer suggestions.
When they are cayassed
by the students, they will
also have the opportunity
to te marking of

upda
their valuables with the

engraving pen.”

Elliott also explained
how the program was.
encouraging an. im-
provement of home
security procedures
beyond the three main
component by informing
residents about the types
of locks they may
require, or the security
procedures to institute
while they go on holidays.

“When people go on
holidays, they should
arrange with neighbours
to watch the house, and
get the lawn cut. They
should also arrange to
have delivery of
newspapers stopped. A
pile of papers at the
doorstep is Ike a neon
sign saying the ‘residents
are not home,” Elliott
said.

“People should also
phone the RCMP

while they’re away and
- the RCMP will regularly
check doors and windows
‘to make sure they're
locked. Elliott added,
Elliott added that the
students would also be
working on a program of
“business identification"
where the group would
check to see that the
businesses had proper
signs identifying
themselves at rear en-
trances. Elliott noted this
was particular problem
in malls, where an officer
on patro] would only see
ten doors when looking
for the back entrance to a
c store,

“We will be identifying:

those businesses that
RCMP feel should be
better identified,” ex-
plained Elliott. “We will

approach the managers.

and ask for a small
donation so that we can
make up a proper sign

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Elliott also stated that
the four students who will
be working with him on
the Neighbourhood
Watch program will
carry proper RCMP
identification while
canvassing and said the
program will start in the
centre of town, and then
fan outward, covering as
much of the Terrace arez
as possible, before th
program ends in lat

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Ellicott said residents
not at home when the
canvassers call will be
left brochures detailing
the program and advising
them when the area
meeting in their neigh-
bourhood will be held,
and added that there will
be a “catch-all” meeting
for those who were out of
the area to discuss the
program with the RCMP,
which will be announced
ata la

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Questioned firm closed

The Saskatchewar-based
head office of a company
known as Luzzi investments
Ltd. has been closed down
and officials of the provincial
Consumer Affaira Depart-
ment are not aure what they
can do about complaints
from the company’s clients
in Prince Rupert and Prince
George.

Luzzi Investments is the
holding company for two
firms which conducted
business in the two northern
B.C. cities this past winter;
‘Let's Get Acquainted” and
Heritage Studios.

“Let’s Get Acquainted”
sold'1,000 coupon booklets in
Prince Rupertand upto 5,000
booklets in Prince George
this past January offering
reductions on the mer-
chandise and services of
local busineasmen. The
coupon booklets also offered
reduced rates on a family
portrait session by Heritage
Studies,

In both cities, a number of
persons who took advantage
of the Heritage Studio offer
have complained to Con-
sumer Affairs officlals and
representatives. of the
British Columbia Better
Business Bureau about
delays in receiving the

photographs, and early this

week it was discovered that
the company's office in

Saskatchewan had been:

abandoned. .

According to a
spokesperson for the Better
Business Bureau in Van-
couver, Luzzi Enterprises
was jointly owned by
Saskatchewan residents Don
Laskar and Bonnie Kriebel,
and the firm’s surety
company has recently
elected to terminate the
company’s performance
bond .

Another couple were in- -

volved with. the company
originally, but reports in-
dicate they have: since split
off and begun another
‘similar enterprise: called
“Be Our Guest,” None of the

- company principals could be _

located for comment,

The Bureau spokesperson
also said that the company
had not been licenced by the
Saskatchewan government

this year. oo,

Dunn . of the
Saskatchewan Consumer
Aifairs Department says
, there is little the department
‘ean do about the complaints
‘against the company

it was ‘performing out: of
province. Saskatchewan and

New Brunswick are the only
two provinces which do not
have Better Business
Bureaus.

Meanwhile, officials at the
Prince George office of B.C.
Consumer Affairs say they
are still Investigating the
situation and advise any
pesons who have not yet

‘recelved photographs to.

contact their office,

Thus far-there have been
no indleatlons that the
company intenda to file for
bankruptcy. Sam Hobbs, an
Investigator with the

The Herald, Monday, June 18, 1979, Page 3

Federal Consumer and
Corporate Affairs Depart-
ment in Vancouver sald in an
interview today that people
who buy from door-to-door
merchants or salespeople
dealing over the phene are
“often the authors of their
own downfall.”

Hobba speculated that the
Saskatchewan-based
company had struck ‘nor-
thern B.C, hoping to find
residents more gullible than
in the south.

“I guesa people up there
are just more hospitable,”

_ he said.

this summer. .

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