WESTIERN ASS0elATtn0N NEWS

Western Building Material Association has slated two more estimating seminars, Feb. 17 at WBMA Headquarters, Olympia, Wa., and Feb. 22, Holiday Inn, Bozeman, Mt. (as a prelude to EmPire Building Materials' spring buying show).

Conducted by WBMA field rep Casey Voorhees, the workshops consist of a full day of instruction and discussion of residential construction methods, blueprint reading and material take-off. Cost is $135 per person (non-members $195) and includes materials (manual, set of blueprints, joint/truss layout scale) and lunch.

The first course was held Jan. 23 in Everett, Wa., as a followup to the annual Young Westerners Conference. The Jan. 79-22 conference included mill tours of Welco Lumber Co. and Seattle-Snohomish Mill and seminars presented by Dick Lundgren, Rick Estes, John HumphreY, Bruce Abel, Natasha Edscorn, Eric Fritch, Kip Steele and Robert Legg.

YWC raised $3.445 for Educational

Link Foundation Scholarships by holding a raffle at WBMA's Nov. convention.

Sharon Hennick, Hennick's Home Center, Bandon, Or., won a trip for two to Baja.

Lumber Merchants Association has deleted the "of Northern Califomia" from its name to reflect its expanded scope. Lumber or building material dealers in California and Nevada are now invited to join the association.

The Owners Seminar March 3l-April 3 in San Diego, Ca., will focus on warehouse competition. Programs include Bill L,ee on "Inside Home Depot: Market Expanders or Competition Busters?," "Developing Your Marketing Strategy Alongside Home Depot," the secrets and misconceptions of the chain's success and a group tour of the prototype Home Depot Expo. Also on tap: roundtables, golf and Cheryl Bann on NLBMDA's Retailing 2000.

LMA also added a Train the Trainer Forklift Safety Workshop Feb. 16 at the Safety Center, Sacramento. Conducted by Jerry Bach and Paul Hayes, the session is design to equip the safety controller or forklift trainer of each company, who in turn can properly train the rest of the staff.

Cost is $20 for members who particpate in LMA's workers' compensation program, $35 for other LMA members and $100 for non-members.

Approximately 100 members attended forklift safety courses in Fresno, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, San Jose and Reno.

Lumbermen's Buys 2 More

Lumbermen's of Washington, Inc., has purchased Farmterials, Baker City, Or., and Cannon Lumber Co., Wenatchee, Wa.

The retail yards reopened with the Lumbermen's name in late JanuarY following two- and three-week transition periods.

Headquartered in OlymPia, Wa., and a subsidiary of Redmond, Wa.based Lanoga, Lumbermen's has grown in two years from 13 to 34 locations, principally through acquisition, said mktg. dhector Doug Grover'

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"Seventy percent of all animal candidates for listing (in the Endangered Species Act) are snails, spiders, insects and other invertebrates."

- Robert Gordon , Executive Director National Wilde me s s Ins titute

New Tenants For BE Sites

Although realtors steadily continue to find new tenants for Builders

Emporium stores, most of those moving into the former home centers are in unrelated businesses.

Recently California Do-it Center acquired the Fallbrook, Ca., location and Sears picked up the Corona, Ca., unit for a new srnaller format store.

Concurrently clothing retailer Ross took over in Los Angeles, Venice and Long Beach, Ca.; Pic 'n Save in Torrance, Ca.; T.J. Maxx and a credit company at stores in Las Vegas, Nv., and a Vons market, self-storage firm and another unrelated business at three former Albuquerque, N.M., Allwoods.

Home Resales Near Record

Undeterred by rising mortgage rates, existing home sales rose last year to the second highest level ever, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Sales of previously-owned homes climbed 4.5Vo last year to 3.97 million, second only to 1978's 3.98 million. All regions experienced gains.

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Lowe's sponsoring major professional motor racing teams.

"We feel that Terry Lumber along with associate sponsors Simpson Strong-Tie and Skil-Bosch power Tooli all get great exposure to a large group of potential customers through our race program," he said. "(Racing's) popularity is growing nationally and there has been a real resurgence in Southern California."

Terry Promotion In High Gear

Terry Lumber Co., Tarzana, Ca., is again gearing up for a very "racy'' promotion.

For six years the company has sponsored a stock car that races in the NASCAR Grand American Modified class at tracks in Saugus, Bakersfield and El Cajon, Ca.

Rick Smith, manager, Simi Valley, Ca., theorized that the demographics of the motorsports' audience are responsible for the recent surge of companies like Channel Lock Tools, Stanley Hardware, Drees Wood Products and

LEGENDARY WINTERS in Vladimir, Russia, have had titile eftect on the U.S. building malerials used to build this American Home house in 1992. Designed as a typical single-family dwelling, it serves as a school where 250.Russians. are_ taught English each ye-ar. Georgia-Pacific provided the hardboard siding and all-wood fiber composite material forihe trim. Average daily temperatures are below zero.

In business since 1955, HooverTreatedWood Products, Inc., is the prcmierfull-line prcssurc trcater in North America. In addition, Hoover'sfirc rctadantfomulations arc licensed to a select grcup of licensee trcating plants.

Hoover has had the same Amedcan ovvnership since 1983 and the same executive team for over 20 years. Stability and experience assurc the industry's most effective products and support.

Owl Goes To Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court will review a forest management case that could greatly affect the federal government's ability to restrict forestry on private lands. A decision is expected by July.

The Sweet Home Chapter of Greater Oregon sued the federal government after wildlife officials barred logging on private land, arguing the harvest would constitute a "take" of spotted owls. The Clinton Administration requested the Supreme Court reverse an appeals court ruling that government could not assume that habitat modification, including timber harvesting, harmed the owls.

If the Supreme Court upholds the decision, federal agencies would have to prove that an endangered species was directly harmed in order to show that a private landowner violated the Endangered Species Act.

Depot Demands Slipsheeting

Home Depot is now requiring all shipments from its nearly 4,000 vendors to arrive on thin plastic slipsheets rather than wood pallets. The only exception is for merchandise which can only be shipped by pallet.

Depot projects million dollar savings during the program's first year, since high volume stores may receive 100+ wood pallets a day costing the company over $700,000 annually just to discard.

Nationwide LTL carrier Yellow Freight System has equipped forklifts at its facilities serving Home Depot and its vendors with new chisel platen blades, while drivers and dock workers underwent a special training program on specific handling techniques for slipsheeted shipments. Depot has extended receiving hours and established individual performance standards for receiving employees.

Depot notified vendors of the Jan. I deadline in late September.

IHPA AnnualTo View Markets

J. Michael Ginnings will keynote The International Wood Products Association's annual convention March 7-10 at the Hyatt Newporter, Newport Beach, Ca., discussing "Changes & Trends the Evolving World Marketplace."

Other topics: "Tomorrow's Markets: the Outlook for Major Producers," discussing Brazll, Chile, Malaysia, Indonesia and Russia, and "Tomorrow's Demand for Imports: the Customer's Perspective," highlighting architectural woodwork, furniture, kitchen cabinets and plywood/veneer. Sessions are open to non-members.

Big Growth Out West

Eight of the 10 fastest growing states in the country are in the West, according to the Census Bureau.

Nevada led all states with a 5.4To gain from 1993 to 1994. Arizona was second at 3.3Vo, followed by Idaho (3Vo), Utah and Colorado (2.6Vo), New Mexico (2.3Vo), Montana (l.\Vo), and Oregon (l.1%o).

Floods Ravage California Yards

Extensive flooding and minor injuries plagued lumber companies in the Santa Barbara and San Diego areas following a series of storms which pounded California in late

January.

County Lumber Co. suffered $350,000 in damages to facilities in Goleta and Santa Barbara, according to vice president Bob Blanchard when

"walls" of water and mud poured into the yards and left "morgues" of floating lumber.

Floating Southern Pacific railroad ties plugged a nearby creek, creating a three foot wall of mud that flowed into the Goleta yard. It took three days and the help of Southern Pacific to clear the mud and debris from the yard.

Three feet of water plunged into their new door and window facility in Santa Barbara.

"At first you feel helpless, you can't do much. You don't know what to save first," Blanchard said. "After the water receded 16 hours later, we sifted through the floating lumber, separating the good from the bad."

Four employees, who were wading through the water and debris in an attempt to salvage material, broke out in rashes a day later. The rashes were diagnosed as poison oak, wfrich had mixed with the rain water on the mountainsides and eventually flowed into the yard.

Blanchard broke out in a rash, but it wasn't linked to poison oak. "The second day, I broke out in a rash from

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