SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION

Florida Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association's convention and buying show Sept. l3-16 at Marriott's World Center, Orlando, is the group's 75th annual. The show will feature over 125 exhibitors at more than 250 booths and, for the first time, a demonstration atea.

Four seminars will be held Thursday Sept. 14, while architects and engineers or building contractors and building officials who attend either of the all-day seminars Sept. 15 will receive CEU credits.

Speakers include presidential candidate Pat Buchanan and Grand Ole Opry star Jerry Clower. Country music star Eddie Rabbitt, country and western band Cimmaron. and the Platters will entertain.

Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association is seeking videos on safety, employee training/orientation and public/school education to be donated to its lendine librarv. Mark

Hempel, branch mgr., Georgia Pacific, Louisville, recently dropped off I I videos.

Louisiana Building Material Dealers Association's executive committee will meet Oct. I I at association headquarters in Baton Rouge.

Carolinas-Tennessee Building Material Association will stage a fall management workshop on "You Are Breathing Hard, But Are You Enjoying It Yet? (Bankers, Benchmarks and Beancounters - Why We Need Them, How to Love Them)." It will cover nurturing the bank relationship and benchmarking your financial ratios.

The presentation will be held Oct. l7 at the Holiday Inn, Jackson, Tn.; Oct. 19 at the Quality Inn-Biltmore, Asheville, N.C., and Oct.25 at the Holiday Inn I-95, Fayetteville, N.C.

Workshop leader Richard E. Heath, CPA, has 2l years of professional experi- ence in public accounting and the retail building material industry. His Surfside Beach, S.C., company specializes in forensic accounting and taxlfinancial services to multilocation merchants.

Lumbermen's Association of Texas and the Texas Forestry Association are staging their 2nd annual East Texas Mill Tours and Environmental Issues Field Tip twice - Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 17-19.

The trips will provide an opportunity to discuss some of the more involved environmental issues facing wood-based industries in Texas and to visit various lumber manufacturing, including TempleInland's fiberboard mill, Cal-Tex Lumber Co., and International Paper's OSB plant, logging operation and seed orchard.

Virginia Building Material Association has compiled a series of seminars based on the topics most requested on a recent education survey.

A three-day residential framing estimating class will be held Oct.9-ll, an effective quoting and bidding seminar Oct. 12, an installed sales program Oct. 13, and a VOSH/OSHA class on HazCom, Lockout/tagout, machinery guarding rules and regulations Oct. 17.

All sessions will be held in Richmond and limited to 20 participants at the request of the instructors.

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