CALENDAR

July

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - July 13, Idaho golf tournament, Idaho Falls Country Club, Idaho Falls, Id.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club - July 13, board of directors meeting & dinner, Spokane, Wa.

National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - July l3-14, executive committee meeting, Denver, Co.

Western Red Cedar Lumber Association - July 14-15, annual meeting, Blaine, Wa.

National Retail Hardware Association - July l5-19, annual convention, Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, Tx.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club - July 17, Angels baseball night, Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, Ca.

Maui Hoo-Hoo Club - July 17, election of officers, Maui. Hi.

Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club - July 20, golf & dinner, El Rancho Verde Country Club, Rialto, Ca.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club - July 27, annual barbecue & golf tournament, Ukiah Municipal Golf Course, Ukiah, Ca.

San Joaquin Valley Hoo-Hoo Club - Juty 27, Coast Frolic golf tournament & dinner, Nipomo Golf Course & Shorecliff Hotel, Pismo Beach, Ca.

August

National Wood Window & Door Association - Aug. 4-8, summer meeting, Silverado Country Club & Resort, Napa, Ca.

California Dry Kiln Association - Aug. 6-10, lumber drying workshop, Richmond, Ca.

Lumber Association of Southern California - Aug. 9, board of directors meeting, Old Ranch Country Club, Seal Beach, Ca.

Humboldt Hoo-Hoo Club - Aug. 10, annual golf tournament, Baywood Country Club, Arcata, Ca.

Rogue Valley Hoo-Hoo Club - Aug. 10, Rogue Valley Country Club, Medford, Or.

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Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club - Aug. 10, installation of officers, Spokane, Wa.

National Hardware Show/Hardware Industry Week - Aug. l2-15, McCormick Place, Chicago, Il.

Woodwork Institute of California - Aug. 22, area meeting, San Diego, Ca.

Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association - Aug. 22-26, summer meeting, Inn at Semi-Ah-Moo, Blaine, Wa.

International Woodworking Machinery & Furniture Supply Fair - Aug.24-27, Atlanta, Ga.

September

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club - Sept. 8, golf tournament, San Diego, Ca.

Yakima Hardware Co. - Sept. 8-10, Yakima Convention Center, Yakima, Wa.

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Hoo-Hoo International - Sept. 9-13, annual convention, Hyatt Regency, Oakland, Ca.

Lumber Association of Southern California - Sept. 11, Second Growth dinner meeting, Industry Hills Sheraton, City of Industrv. Ca.

L-P Halt on Mexico Plant

With construction halted on its plant near Ensenada, Mexico, Louisiana-Pacific officials were optimistic at press time that a settlement would be reached quickly.

"With the support of the governor of Baja California, we believe the permit and concession to use Louisiana-Pacific employees to offload lumber will be reinstated," spokesman Shep Tucker said.

More than 400 Mexican construction workers were laid offwhen work on the 200,000 sq. ft. redwood planing and drying facility halted. Louisiana-Pacific stopped construction due to a labor dispute with the Mexican government. InitiallY, L-P employees were to unload barges carrying rough cut timber to the plant from the Northern California mills but the Mexican government changed that to insist on the use of Mexican longshoremen.

Using their own less costlY employees rather than the unionized Mexican labor was a significant reason for L-P becoming the first U.S. lumber company to set uP a large maquiladora operation in Mexico, Tucker said. The maquiladora zone is a free trade area along the U.S.-Mexican border for firms doing business in both countries.

The plant, due to open in SePtember, occupies 80 acres purchased by L-P at El Sauzal, a portjust north of Ensenada, some 60 miles below the border.

Despite having spent $7.8 million on the project, L-P said it would pull out unless the dispute is settled.

Louisiana-Pacific plans to dry and plane redwood brought from northern California and then ship the lumber back across the border, mainlY for sale in southern California. In addition to purchasing land and constructing the planing and drYing facility, the company made Port improvements in order to accommodate the large lumber barges from the north.

Tony Ramirez, vice President of Made In Mexico, a Chula Vista, Ca., company which advises foreign manufacturers setting up plants in Mexico, said that Louisiana-Pacific's problems are indicative of the "mine fields" that U.S. comPanies can encounter in Mexico if not attuned to political and cultural differences there.

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Stage at PacTfic Southeast Forcst Products

Whatever happened to . . .?

8y Matt Moulder

Vern Lindgrenl Vern served as general manager at Michigan California Lumber Co. fiom 1970-1985. Prior to this tour of duty he was part owner and president of Feather River Lumber Co. with mills in Loyalton.and 5loat. Ca.,'both of which were sold to DiCiorgio Corp. in 1967' Both are now ;;ilJ by Sierra Pacific. Lindgren also serv:ed a teim at the.old Vaughn Millwork operation in Reno, prio"r to setting up camp at Loyalton'

Vern had two laminectomy operations, one in 1985 and one in 1987 to .ott".i o f'"tniated disc probi:ni so severe he could hardly walk uN Yus bedridden for long periohs. The second operation was so successtul that Vern was able to f,sume playing golf with iro restrictions. He gardens,at his Placerville, Ca., home wh'en he-isn't golfing at the local country.club and shows absolutely no sign of ever having had a back.problem' To those who saw Vern lust prior to the operation, he is considered a meclcal Pnenomenon' bar none!

owr Droppings

Durine the Earth Week hoopla in April, the san Francisco Chronicle re' oorted th"at a qroup of environmentalists in that city planned to sponsor an larth Day celebration for fellow activists. The article said the party committee ran into a snag, when they could find only plastic spoons tor their Eala event. The obviouJ reason foi their dismay was that plastic is made trom a non-renewable resource - petroleum. The production and disposal ot olastic creates a certain amount of environmental pollution_. What they sought and could not find to take the place of the plastic tlatware was, would you believe itwooden spoons. lt was reported that the Sroup was quite frustrated at not being able to locate the wooden utensils anywhere in the area after a very extenlive search. -li

' it inconceivable that one or more of these scholarly activists might have stumbled upon the fact that wooden spoons are made from trees? lt J""i ri[" one wonder about the mentality of some of the folks who particioate in demonstrations and etc. aimed at curbing logging, then turn riSht jround and express a preference for wood over plastic on environmental grounds. lf wood is betder than plastic for spoons, isn't wood also better than flastic for windows, doors, and mouldings?

Wrxld sD(x)ns are m.rde from trees, as are hot tubs, decks, fences, houses and furnituie, all of which are used by environmentalists and all of which are better m.rde from w<xrd th.rn fnlm plastic.

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