| Smart Card Marketing Systems Inc. Enters Into Agreement With The ...
SAN ANTONIO, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- July 24, 2006 -- Smart Card Marketing Systems Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SMKG) (FRANKFURT: QYH), a leading provider of prepaid cards, value smart storage cards and payment transaction management services, announced today that they have entered into an agreement with The Genesis Network to provide card fulfillment services. The Genesis Network is a consulting company that specializes in the customer relations market and their existing client base is between three thousand and seven thousand active customers in the US and Canada and most of these would be directly enrolled in the prepaid card fulfillment campaign. The agreement states that the initial order will be for fifteen thousand prepaid Canadian MasterCards® and five thousand prepaid US MasterCards®. The cards will be used within the payday loan industry in North America.
County Board Considers Truancy Ordinance
The Perry County Board began discussing a unified truancy ordinance for the county, which has already passed in Pinckneyville and is currently placed on public display for consideration in Du Quoin."As it stands now, there is no mechanism for a truant person to be picked up by police and taken to school in a squad car," said Perry County State's Attorney David Stanton. "This ordinance will help us do that."According to Stanton, the school and court systems must go through a lengthy process while dealing with truant students that typically takes the majority of the school year to complete.At this time, the child must have missed at least 10 percent of the school year, or 18 days, before being reported to the Regional Superintendent.After that, the Superintendent must provide all interventionary tools he has to offer before reporting the truant to the State's Attorney for prosecution.
Goodwill, Dell launch citywide computer-recycling program
Goodwill Industries of San Antonio and computer-maker Dell Inc. are working to keep more old computers from ending up in the dump. Goodwill and Round Rock, Texas-based Dell (NASDAQ: DELL - News) unveiled a new computer recycling program called "Reconnect San Antonio" that allows consumers to drop off unwanted computers. The program is free. The partners expect this program alone will be able to divert almost two million pounds of equipment annually from local landfills. Computers that are recycled will be sold by Goodwill at its computer store at 4914 NW Loop 410 in Northwest San Antonio. All proceeds from the sale of refurbished computers will support Goodwill's nonprofit job-training and community programs. Local residents will be responsible for removing data from hard drives and other storage media before donating equipment to Goodwill.
Texas to receive Homeland Security grants.
The funding is part of a $25 million program targeted for the highest-risk chemical plants and storage facilities in nine states. By Julia MaloneWASHINGTON BUREAU Friday, July 07, 2006 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Homeland Security Department announced Thursday that Texas would be allotted $5 million to set up "buffer zones" around chemical facilities to protect them from the threat of terrorism. The funding is part of a $25 million program targeted for the highest-risk chemical plants and storage facilities in nine states. .
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