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Acdve Members

Southern Cypress Manrdactuers Assocladon l.W. Black Lumber Company 501/857-9576

Coastal Lumber Company 919/r?G421 |

Corbitt Cypress Company c)04 / )97 -267 6

Georgia-Pacific Corporation 404/ 521 -5118

Griffis Lumber Company 904/772-965

Mackey's Ferry Sawmill 9 19/ 79)-2950

Marsh Plywood Corporation 80t/ 497-51 | |

Associate Members

Bames Lumber Sales, Inc. 912/764-875

Florida Clpress Wood Prod. lnc. c)04/791-9752

Gaiennie Lumber Company 11 8/ 948-)066

McEwen Lumber Company 919/472-lW

Rex Lumber Comparry 617/26)&55

Richard landry Lumber Sales 718/442445]

The Mann and Parker Lumber Co. 717/2)5-48)4

Wifliams Lumber Company of NC 919/442-2176

Wlson Lumber Company, lrrc. c)01 /27 4&7

Editorial

How good health can pay dividends

llt ELLNESS, as opposed to sickness, is a UU concept that has gained increased acceptance of late. Its basis is simply that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Wellness also presents the business community with at least two opportunities to profit from involvement.

One is that retailers who stage Wellness Fairs can draw additional customers and concurrently present a caring image to the community. Fairs are easier to put on than you might think. Local hospitals, pharmacies, fitness centers, health clubs, AIDS organizations, the American Cancer Society and life insurance companies and agents can help organize a Wellness Fair and will likely participate in it. The theme of such fairs is to inform people on the basics of good health and physical well being and how some illnesses can be avoided. The roles of diet and exercise are central.

The other is a wellness program just for company employees. Almost inevitably, firms benefit from protecting the health of their workers, their most important asset. Similar in general concept, company wellness programs seek to educate and counsel employees so their health can be as good as possible. Productivity increases, absences decline.

Companies have found that their costs for medical and health programs are markedly reduced when the eflects of a company sponsored wellness program begin to take effect. One large corporation found that a prenatal training and education course for its pregnant workers sharply cut birth defect claims, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in insurance costs and immeasurably benefiting the life of its employees.

One nice thing about both these programs is that, seemingly, everybody wins.