Innovative Building Material Dealers To Meet

Retailers can become even higher Building Supply, Duluth, Ga., and tech by attending the National Patti Williams, Brown Lumber Co., Lumber & Building Material Dealers Traverse City, Mi. Association's upcoming annual con- Bruce Merrifield, Merrifield Convention. sulting, will also speak on "ReorgaThemed "Innovate '98," the event nizing Your Company Around the Sept. 23-26 at the Rancho Bernardo Customer," while Jack Nunn, ConInn, San Diego, Ca., will feature struction Marketing Associates, will hands-on computer demonstrations address "Critical Profit Variables & and seminars on such topics as inter- The Profitability Index." active Web commerce, EDI, estimat- Other activities include banquets, a ing software and the Year 2000 vendors showcase, golf tournament, Problem. and sidetrips to La Jolla, the Wild AnMartin Powell, Guardian Fiber- imal Park, a winery and sportfishing. glass, will moderate "The Do-It-ForMe Era: The Independent Dealer & Installed Sales," with panelists Peter Recycled Waste Exempted Scherer, Scherer Bros. Lumber Co., Wood treaters have gained a speMinneapolis, Mn., and Doug Kooy- cial wastewater exclusion from the man, Kooyman Lumber Co., Pella, federal Resource Conservation & Ia.; Ruth Kellick-Grubbs, BMA, RecoveryAct. Greenville, S.C., will moderate "Cus- After years of lobbying by the tomer Care," with panelists Bill Stew- American Wood Preservers Institute art, Stewart Lumber Co., Dickson, and others in the industry, the EPA Tn.; Jeff Pohle, Southern LumberCo., has amended the definition of solid San Jose, Ca., and Kevin Hancock, waste to exclude recycled wood preHancock Lumber, Casco, Me. Han- serving wastewaters and spent presercock also will moderate "Reinventing vatives. Previously, treaters had to Your HR Program," with panelists report, as waste, process waters recyDeborah Hayden, Tindell's Inc., cled and used repeatedly in the treatKnoxville, Tn.; Jim Hershey, Magbee ing process.