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FISH & CHIP shots: (1) Tina Randall. Nancv Gillis at New South, inc.'s annual Customer

Appreciation Day Sept. 10 in Myrtle Beach, S.C, (2) Paul Wyola, Chris White, Chris Adams, Jeff Hallman. (3) Joey Hill. (4) Alethea Brown. (5) Jim Halsted, Bobby Smith, Bill Cox, Ken Greene, Ronnie Thomas. (6) Mack Singleton, Michael Short, Dick Rose, Harold Stowe, Ben Phillips. (7) Vic Brown, John Thompson, Ricky Stroup, John Blades, Allen Lundsford. (8) Chester Abee, Regina Williams, Frank Roberlson, Joey Singleton, Bob Williams. (9) Keith Blanton, Jimmy Leroy, Dale Seay, Roej English, Mike Barnes. (10)Trip Derryberry, Don Olson, Steve Roundtree, David Faris, Robin Green. (11) Mitch Schneider, Ed Robinson, Joe Olliff. Richard Stiles. AlGarson.

Ace E-Commerce Venture

Ace Hardware is teaming Internet firm Our House, Inc., to create an industry-first "home solutions portal" offering products, projects, information. service. installation and an online community.

Called OurHouse.com, the e-commerce venture will be launched this month.

Ace will serve as the key minority stockholder in the company, acting as the fulfillment house by initially offering some 22,000 individual products extending beyond regular Ace catalog items.

Consumers will either purchase items directly from the OurHouse.com Web site or by visiting participating Ace stores with instore kiosks to be in place by April. Prior to introduction of the kiosks, individual stores will offer consumers online products via store Web sites launching in December.

Kiosks will be provided free to Ace retailers meeting prescribed criteria. They also will receive commissions from product sales generated from their store's kiosks and Web sites at about 607o of gross projects adjusted fbr direct expenses.

Commissions also will be earned on service providers, while consumer traffic will be driven toward participating stores for assembly, pick-up, delivcry and returns on certain items.

Universal Teams With TJM

Universal Forest Products and Trus Joist MacMillan have signed a national agreement to sell engineered lumber systems to customers in the manufactured housing market.

Universal will stock and distribute nationwide Trus Joist MacMillan's products such as Microllam laminated veneer lumber, Timberstrand laminated strand lumber, and the TJI Marriage/Ridge Beam.

The deal does not include products for other markets, nor does Universal have exclusive distribution rishts.

He served in the Army Air Corps during WWII and later was a schoolteacher.

In the 1950s, he, Lloyd Landry and Gordon Q. Landry purchased Luling Lurnber Co. and renamed it Landry Lumber & Supply.

The firm was sold to Dudley Webre in 1982.

T.H. "Buddy" Wadsworth, 71, retired partner of Wood Treaters, Inc., Jacksonville, Fl., died Oct. l.

A longtime lumber industry veteran, he worked for family-owned Wadsworth Lumber Co., Bunnell, Fl., for rnany years, including after ITT Rayonier purchased the firm.

He founded Wood Treaters, Inc., in 1980, with partners Stan W. Hill, H.W. Hill, and J.C. Walker.

He was a past president of the Quality Wood Preserving Society.

Ervin Wesley Goodroe, Sr., 58, president of the Construction Suppliers Association, Roswell, Ga., died Oct. 8.

A resident of Perry, Ga., he was instrumental in setting up group selfinsured funds in Georgia, and helped to draft the language of the Georgia Lien Law.

He was a lobbyist for the independent retail lumber industrv from 19'12 until his death.