Peter Jensen

Hello Everyone!

Well, I don't think we're getting as much coverage as Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan but we were "newsworthy enough" to rate the following articles:

(This is the title used by 24 Hours newspaper) 

You can view the 24 Hours newspaper article here:

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2007/08/10/4406838-sun.html

Or view page 3 coverage in "The Metro" newspaper:

http://www.metronews.ca/uploadedFiles/PDFs/20070809_vancouver.pdf

Wow!

We wanted to help out by getting some garbage picked up…big mistake.

We are NOT going to have garbage picked up.

We started to receive phone calls from CUPE members and their legal counsel.  Soon we had 8 CUPE members out front picketing our office.  I went out front to let them know that we are not going to do the pick ups and so they left…(but I did get some interesting photos…)

Obviously we were not trying to do anything political…

I guess I’ll speak to my legal counsel before I create my next marketing piece….

Ah, the garbage strike.  We thought that the city and the workers would reach an agreement.  With every single other municipality reaching agreements, we assumed that the dispute would quickly come to an end however, it was not to be...   Myself and my colleague Ric Dai have decided to do our part to help keep Vancouver clean. We are providing free garbage removal service to 400 homes in the city as our commitment to helping out.   Our intention is to help...we have no political motivation in any way.  We just want to do our bit to help.    It was enjoyable to go door-to-door speaking with