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March

Natlonal Dlmenslon Manufac{urers Assoclatlon - March 1215, annual meeting, Embassy Suites South, Orlando, Fl.

North Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club -March 15, initiation meeting & Past Presidents Nighl La Connq Yacht Club, La Conner, Wa.

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Phoenlx Hoo-Hoo Club - March 15, golf, dinner & initiation, Scottsdale Golf & Country Club, Scottsdale, Az.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club - March lZ, meeting, Spokane, Wa.

Mountaln States Lumber & Bulldlng Materlal Dealers Assoclatlon - March 17-18, annual buying show, Holiday Inn/Je Hammons Trade Center, Denver, Co.

Internatlonal Hardwood Products Assoclatlon - March 21-25. annual convention & World of Wood, Orlando, Fl.

Bulldtng Industry Credlt Assoclatlon - March Zl. contracts & lien law classes, Ontario Airpo,rt Hilton, Ontsio, Ca.

Hardwood Manufacturers Assoclatlon - March 23-25, annual meeting & lumber production expo, New Orleans, La.

Wood TechnologSr Cllntc & Show - March 23-25, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Or.

Natlonal Lumber & Bulldlng Materlal Dealers AssoclatlonMarch Z!-25, legislative conference, Washington, D.C.

Natlonal Bulldlng Materlal Dlstrlbutors Assoclatlon - March 24-26, executive management conference, Westin Mission Hills Reso$ Rancho Mirage, Ca.

Hardware Industry Conventlon - March 27-30, Hyatt Regency, San Diego, Ca.

Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club - March 2E-29, lumber grading school, Bellevue Inn, Bellewe. Wa.

April

Amerlcan Plywood Assocletlon - Apr[ 4, regional meeting, Post Ialls, Id.; Aprll 5, IGlso, Wa.; Aprll 6, Eugene, Or.; Aprll 7, Medford, Or.

Tacoma-Olympla Hoo-Hoo CIub - Aprll 5, meeting, Diamond Jim's, Tacoma, lVa.

Kltchen/Bath Industry Shon, -Aprtl 6-10, Chicago, tr.

Home Center Instltute - Aprll 10-13, loss prevention/safety conference, Sandestin Resorg Destin, Fl.

Natlonal \trood tr'loorlng Assoclatlon - Aprll 13-16, annual convention, Hyat Regency at Reunion, Dallas, Tx.

VYoodwork Insdtute ol Catlfornla - Aprll 13-17, annual meeting, Ir Meridian Hotel, San Diego, Ca

Loc Angehs Hardwood Lumbenan,s Club - Aprll 14, golf & dinner, Mountain Meadows Golf Club, pomona, Ca.

Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club - Aprll 16, joint meeting with portland Hoo-Hoo Club, Cenhalia, Wa.

Paclflc Coast \ilholesale Hardwood lXstrlbutors AssoclattonAprll 17-20, annualmceting, Camel Ca.

North Cascsde Hoo-Hoo Club - Aprll 19, speaker/election meeting, Ttrlalip, Marysvillg Wa.

Phoenk Hoo-Hoo Club - Aprlt 19, golf, Oakwood Golf Resor! Sun l-akes. Az.

Southwest Plne Assoclatlon - Aprll 2l-23, annual invitational golf lournaurent Orange Tree Golf & Conference ResorL Scottsdde, Az.

North Amerlcan Wholesale Lumber Assocladon - Aprll Zt-2,6, annual meeting, Marriot's Camelback Inn, Scotsdale, Az.

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AfricanProject Needs Tools

After 17 years in forest products, Tom Arsenault, sales mgr., StraightLine, Sacramento, Ca., is headed to Africa this spring to serve as a vocational trainer.

Last year he co-founded the African Self-Help Assistance Program (ASAP), a non-profit organization to develop self-reliance in Sub-Saharan Aftica through vocational and business training. Before joining his present employer, Arsenault served with the Peace Corps from 1989 to 1991, teaching woodworking in Swaziland.

Arsenault, accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, will be a volunteer project director at a community based vocational training center. Here unemployed young people will be taughr business skills and furniture making.

ASAP is soliciting donations of cash or tools to equip tle classroom. Twenty-two sets are needed. Each costs $233 and includes a planer, jointer, shaper, table saw and radial arrn saw, all220V. Donations, which are tax deductible, can be made through ASAP, P.O. Box 601135, Sacramento, Ca. 95860, (916) 4896219.

Depot Buys Into Ganadian Home Center Ghain

Home Depot is acquiring a75%o rnterest in Canada's Aikenhead's Home Improvement Warehouse retail chain from The Molson Companies Limited in a deal that was due to close in late February.

Home Depot will be managing partner in the enterprise which will tre known as The Home Depot Canada. The transaction includes five warehouse stores in the Toronto area, four stores due to open in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia by April 13, commitments for 13 sites in major Canadian meEopolitan markets and 22 sites under consideration or negotiation.

Home Depot had announced plans to open a Vancouver, 8.C., area store inhte 1994. Rival Fagle Hardware & Garden, Tukwila Wa, has an Edmonton, Alberta, location and plans for opening three or four additional stores in Canada.

Magnetic Tags Foil Shoplifters

Home Depot will install Sensormatic Electronics Ultra-Max anti-shop-lifting equipment in all stores.

Installation is expected to cost $10 million plus $10 million annually for anti-theft labels, main0enance and accessories. About 100 vendors have agreed to build the magnetic ags into their products at the point of manufacture, thus making them harder for shoplifters to remove.

fags will be placed on high priced items prone to theft, such as paint sprayers and tools, said Ed Wolfe,

Home Depot loss prevention vice president. Items now displayed in locked cabinets or secured to shelves by cable will have tags which, if not removed by Oe cashier, will activate a silent alarm when passed through exit pedestals. Lumber, garden plants, boxes of nails and similar merchandise will not be tagged.

"We have items like telephones, power tools and some hand tools in the front of our stores that are on a pick-ticket system and not available to the customers until the point of sale," Wolfe said.

Projected Depot Openings

Currently operating 260 stores, Home Depot Plans to open more than 600 new stores over the next four years.

Reportedly planned for the West:

Seattle Area Grading School

The Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club, an industry organization, is sponsoring a lumber grading school March 2B-Zg ar the Bellevue Inn and Meydenbauer Convention Center, Belleurc, Wa.

The two-day oourse will be conductedby Carl Massie, president, hofessional Association of Lumbermen, former West Coast Lunber Inspection Bureau district supervisor and now head of this own lumber certifying agency.

Through lec0re, demonstratiqr and hands-on grading, students will become faniliar with WCLIB Rule #17. Clears, appqrance grades, structural and construction grades, framing grades, special use items and design values will be covered.

Young Westerners Gonference

A record 149 people attended Western Building Material Association's Young Wes0erners Club's 25th annual conference.

The three day education conference in Eugene/Springfie[ Or., Jan. 2l-23, featured tours of Jerry's Home Impfovement center and a residential construction site, motivational and in- fomution semin615,, product knowlodge workshops, industry speakers and pfograms to develop group interactive skills.

Bruce Abel, Don Abel Building Supply, Juneau, Ak., was elected secretary-treasurer and Russ Vance, Gerr_etsen Building Supply, Roseburg, Or., and Scott Rice, Boise Cascade Building Material Distribution Division, Vancouver, Wa, joined the board of trustees. Continuing offtcers: Eric Fritch, president; Chris perrin, v.p.; Rick Estes, Dale Kyle, Bill Gerretsen, Cathy Steiner, trustees. Natasha Edscorn is l9g5 yWC Conference chairman.

Mountain States Products Erpo

Mountain Sates Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association's 1994 hoducts Expo and Building Materials Buying Show will be March 1718 at the Holiday Inn/JQ Hammons Trade Center, Denver, Co.

The show, which is free to reailers, will be open 2-8 pm. on Thursday and 2-7 p.m. on Friday. Free food and beverages will be available from 3:30 to 7 pm. both days.

Educational prcgftilns will be held Friday morning.

Pre-expo registration can be made by calling the MSLBMDA office in Englewood, Co., (800) 365{919.

Lumber Merchants Annual

Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California's 55th annual oonvention and trade show with the traditional golf tournament will be lvlay 1214 at the Hyatt Regency, Monterey, Ca

E<lucational seminars will be offered in conjunction with a Management C€rtification Progfam.

Lfarch 3l is the deadtine for nominations for Bob Patterson Memorial Scholarships covering convention regisnation fees. Criteria include being a dealer member enployee, having worked in the industry for at least tlree years, showing commiunent, lnowledge of the industry and leadersbip ability, and having taken outside training or self directed study. Nominations are limited to two ftom each company.

Honoring the memory of Bob Pattetrson, Jr., president of Cenral Valley Builders Supply, Sr Helena Ca, and a LMA past president, the boad of directors will award nvo sclolarships for t994.