"TERRACE ~ The local vic-
‘tims’ assistance Program spon-
sored by the RCMP has found
itself the unwanted owner of a

box of coupon booklets now.

+ that a company it hired to sell
‘them has pulled out of town, |

- Promo-Xtra, ‘a Montreal-

based company which
specializes in selling the
booklets offering discounts or
free services at, local businesses,

has also left behind allegations.

of unpaid bills and not paying
those it hired here. ;
The comipany set up shop in

Terrace latetlast year, hiring up-’ |

wards of-15 local people to sell
the booklets over the phone,
It ceased operations.over the
Christmas holidays but despite
statements made by company

officials at the time, has not and -

will not be back: to finish the
‘And that means the victim’s
assistance Program must now
figure out what to do with the
booklets ‘in its possession, says
Program .co-ordinator Karen
Walker,

“0'll be. contacting the

businesses (in. the booklets) to

see if they'll still honour their
coupons,” she said last week.

As well, Walker will be look-
ing for those people hired by
Promo-Xtra but not yet paid in
hopes they’H be able to sell the
remaining booklets as compen-
‘sation.

One of the employees,
18-year-old Trevor Andrews,
said he’s owed approximately
$80 by Promo-Xira. ‘The
money means a lot to me
because I pay room and
board,’’ he said.

Walker’s. also. worried about
that stories of Promo-Xtra not
paying its bills or its local
employees will have an effect on
the assistance program.

“T don't like people being left
in the lurch,’’ said Walker in
adding the events have “‘left a
bad taste ir in-her mouth. ”

Bt

saponins ¢ $10,000 i in ‘pro-
moting the coupon booklet sales
and described the venture as a
normal business occurrence.
tsHe said approximately 260
booklets were sold on behalf of
the local victims’ assistance pro-
_ gram and its Kitimat counter
part.

Walker says she has tried bit
has been unsuccessful in getting
a breakdown on how -many
booklets were sold:in Terrace
and in Kitimat because monies
raised are to be divided accor-
ding to sales in each city.
'.Promo-Xtra approached

Walker late last fall with an of- -

fer to assemble discount offers
‘into booklets and then to sell
them.

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. TERRACE — A_ proposed
change to the boundaries of the
Skeena Provincial Forest will
provide the “iron clad tenure’'
needed to ensure the future of
‘the Red Sands denicnstration
forest, says the Kalum district
Operations manager,

At present, explained Jan
Bowie, the approximately 330ha
earmarked for the demonstra-
tion forest is under the jurisdic-
tion of the lands branch.

_ Although the forests ministry
has placed a reserve on the
‘parcel — located on the
-southwest side of Kitsumkalum
Lake — he said bringing it into
the provincial forest offered the
security required for the
demonstration. forest project.
: The addition is one of two be-

‘ing “sought by» the forests

ministry. The other is approx-

‘imately. 600ha on the west side -

‘of the Kispiox River which

. -Kispiox forest district. manager
... ‘Charlie Willson said consisted

“,0f several previously logged
Areas.

“gested the parcels were suitable
ms, "for. farming, Willson said talks
with? ¢hé ‘agriculture: ministry

sand local farmer’

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Karen Walker

In return, the program would
receive a portion of the selling
price. Walker asked for and
received an advance of $1,500
based on future sales, At $3 to
the program for each booklet,
that worked out to sales of 500

‘booklets,

The Terrace, Kitimat and Area
Gift Certificate Book

“distributed by .,

- PROMO- XTRA IN

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‘Terrace Victims Assistance Program.

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Trevor Andrews, 18,
one of the people: ‘hired
by Promo-Xtra to self
coupon booklets, says
he’s owed $80 by the
company. “The. .money
means a lot to me

because { pay room and
board,”

women’s centre in Trail which
were using it to raise money.
She said she first become
worried about Promo-Xtra in
the. weeks before Christmas
after receiving phone calls ask-
ing her how much money the
victims program got from each

Promo-Xtra ceased

operations over the

Christmas holidays but despite statements made by
company officials at the time, has not and will not

be back to finish the job.

Although | it had ‘been “sug.

s.institute had §
“determined that was not tthe

tacted at least one other com-
munity service organization in
Terrace with the same offer.
Walker added she first check-
ed out the company with a food
bank in Cranbrook and a

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cost of each booklet at $39.95
but did not indicate how much
the program received.

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representative and asked him to

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gram) would receive. from each
sale,"' she’ said. Walker had
hoped the revised - sales pitch
would be inctuded when
Promo-Xira . returned in
January,

: But the next contact with the

“company came when she receiv-

ed a phone call from the airport
saying there was box addressed
to her. That box turned out‘to
be coupon booklets with no in-

‘structions on what to do with

them,

At the same time, a local
businessman who said he was’
hired by Promo-Xtra to
organize its operations here
claims he is owned approx-
imately $4,000.

Emmanuel Cenetagoya said
he travelled to Winnipeg as well
for Promo-Xtra. but hasn't
received any money. He’s now
talking to his lawyer about legal
action.

Promo-Xtra’s Valentini

' refutes any claim to owing

money, saying proper payments
were given to company workers
in B.C. to cover expenses and
other costs.

{Attempts to further question
Valentini have become difficult.
In January, the company
disconnected a toll-free line to
its Montreal offices and, on
Feb. 14, disconnected its regular
line.)

Meanwhile, the city’s licens-
ing inspector has written
Promo-Xtra telling it it’s not
welcome again to Terrace.

Paul Gipp said that while the
company did pay for a 1989
business licence, it did not
return and pay, as promised, a
$1,000 security deposit.

That deposit is applied
against non-resident businesses
and is held for six months after
they shut down operations in
case their are any problems,
Gipp said.

As well, the effect of Promo-
Xtra's booklet selling campaign
is- hard to gauge. Two
businesses contacted said they,
had*"no response to their
coupons while a third said two
or three people have come in,

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