TERRACESTANDARD ;

Wagon i

is back

on track here

_NEW BABIES and new
residents to Terrace’. will
‘again be welcomed to the
community by the Welcome

Wagon after a year and a half .

‘discounts.
“Any sponsors say it’s all
‘positive for them,” Chris-
tensen said. “It's like a com:

munity service.”

' Terrace’s ‘Welcome Wag:
on has’ been an on-again, .“]
off-again. operation but ©
Christensen is confident the
new local hostess will make. °
it work here once again.

Christensen said Bowles’
fits all the necessary criteria
that Welcome ‘Wagon ‘seeks <
in its. hostesses: outgoing,
friendly, positive, willing
to do‘sales and people and
baby friendly.

“Bowles said. she’s eager
to get started and says the |
community has felt- the ser-
vice’s absence... |.”

“There’s been a- ‘great
response to hear it’s back
again,” Bowles said...”

Welcome Wagon i in Ter-

. Tace first Started in'1966 and
was *.administered’ ‘by the’
Terrace Drugstore.

without the service here. .

_ The: for-profit company
has found a new local host-’
ess in Rayna Bowles, a re-
tiree. ;

“I’m retired and ‘IT want
to keep on: top of things,”
said Bowles, who ‘will be-.”

. gin: work this week: follow-
ing two weeks of intensive
training in April and May.

_ The company, which has
operated nationally since
1930, sends its hostesses to. .
greet newborns and new res-

. idents to communities with a
~ Welcome Wagon basket.

Hostesses fill the baskets

‘through agreements with lo-

cal and national sponsors.
Typically, a baby basket’

_ will have items such as wa-
ter, baby food and coupons |

_ offering a variety of things

- for new parents.:

Adult baskets are filled

‘with practical and informa- - a
tional items, such as“maps, — Se
and rebates for participating _
businesses. a

“Ina: Christensen, who.
". came from Smithers to train
_ Bowles, says ‘it’s a service ‘
that benefits all involved. _

_ She said the baskets’ con-.

_. tents alert their recipients to
, . the businesses in town while
“providing: information and. '

| Expect
j changes —
at local ©

Safeway

twa fx;

A STARBUCKS. kiosk is
just one of many changes the
local Safeway may see once
a remodel is completed.’

Safeway officials can’t”
confirm’ when the remodel
may take place, but the com-
pany is in the process of
updating stores across B.C.
Half the 77 Safeway stores
in B.C. have already been
remodeled as lifestyle stores
= Stores: with softer, more.
ambient lighting, wider —
aisles, made- to-order sand-
wich_ bars and, of course,
Starbucks. -_

“To date, in all our new
remodeled lifestyle stores
we have added Starbucks ki-
‘osks,” says Safeway spokes-
person Scott Gibney. “There ~
will be a couple. Safeway —
baristas — they"Il have a
» Starbucks apron.”

In ‘addition to the much
coveted coffee centre; many
new stores have manned
Bank of Montreal kiosks,
rather than just an automated
banking machine, but Gib-
ney says that may not neces-
‘sarily be part of the plans for
this location.

The «new ‘stores all also
have full service meat coun-' -
ters with a butcher cut meats
to. specifications and provide

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RAYNA Bowles, right, was helped in her training by
- Welcome. Wagon’s s Smithers hostess Ina Christensen,
left. _ DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO.

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these things will be in the
-Terrace store but. to date
those are the things that have -
happened,” Gibney said of
Stores that have been reno-
vated to. date. “We hope to
remodel all of our stores in
the next several years.”
Hints of the conversion
to the new type of store have
been evident in Terrace |
for some time, including a
switch to brown uniforms
and the addition of a spe-
cialty soup stand which is
another hallmark of the life-
Style stores.

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Northern Motor Inn’
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Celina's Greek Taverna.

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floral departments which in- Fork n Spoon House of Sim-Oi-Ghets_ _— Boston Pizza . .
clude custom made orders Kildala Store. - “McDonalds Bulkley Valley . Houston es
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