When you think of Quality Pressure Treated Wood...

Building a solid reputation doesn't come easy. lt takes time and a promise to meeting needs and keeping our word. Our customers and suppliers know they can count on us. We've built a solid reputation for over 7 5 years delivering construction-grade building products and services at competitive prices. l Handling, storage and job site delivery for building products as well as hardwoods and panels

WE OFFER.

) LTL service and route truck service

! Creen and kiln-dried Douglas Fir;2 x 4-Economy, Utiliry, Std/Btr, #2, #1, Selects, 4 through 24 loot; 2 x 6 throu8h 2 x 1 4-Economy, #3, #2/Btr, Selects, B through 28 foou timbers, studs and MSR lumber

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Please send to Editor, 4500 Campus Dr., Suite 480, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660; Far 949-852-0231, or by e-mail to Publisher Alan Oakes at ajockes@aol. com or Editor David Koenig at dkoenig@ ioc.net.

Integrity Counts

I just read your editorial ("Doing Business Honestly and Overcoming Cynicism," May, p. 6). I think it is an excellent piece, and I applaud your observations and opinions.

I feel you speak to bigger issues than just business practices and personal finance. It is my view that the very fiber of our society (certainly national and perhaps global) is deteriorating to a point where integrity is routinely compromised without a second thought-if it gets one out of trouble, provides financial gain, or allows one to "get the edge" in a grven sltuatron.

It has long been my contention that a growing lack of personal accountabilhy is the root of many, if not most of our modern day problems.

When we look at things such as the number of lawsuits, unethical business practices, and how we often treat each other in society, it almost always comes down to a lack of both personal accountability and personal integrity, usually motivated by greed and often fueled by laziness. Perhaps if we focused more on teaching the values of both personal accountability and integrity to our youth, instead of the "it's someone else's fault" and "win at any cost" philosophy so prevalent these days, we could begin to turn things around.

The biggest impediment to these concepts, unfortunately, is that we will have to learn and practice them ourselves.

Ctiff Zielke

QB Corp. 1420 Hwy.28

Salmon, ld.83467

Our new Oregon plant means we have capacity to deliver almost double the amount of lowenvironmental impact treated wood. That means that you've got almost double the opportunity to deliver customer satisfaction.

Your clients can have the preserved products that make them feel good about using real wood and you can deliver to your customers in a timeframe that keeps them coming back, l'lost of our low-environmenlal impact treated wood products have the same handling requirements as untreated ruood. i\4ost producls have less restrictive disposal oplions lhdn tradit onal lreared wood.

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Most active ingredients are nol lisled on California's Proposition 55, which means that consumer warnings are not requrred.

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