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Listings are often submitted months in advance. Always veifu dates and locations with sponsor before making plans to attend.

September

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumbermants Club - Sept. 12, golf outing, Mt. Meadows, Pomona, Ca.

APA-The Engineered Wood Association - Sept. 15-17, annual meeting, Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando, Fl.; (206) 565-6600.

Hardware Wholesalers Inc. - Sept. 17, locksmithing workshop, Retail Service Center, Woodburn, Or.; (219) 748-5300.

Dimensions - Sept. 17-18, owner/manager computer training class, Denver, Co.; (800) 648-5065.

Lumber Association of Southern California - Sept. 18, management training seminar, Glendale, Ca.; (800) 266-4344.

Used Building Materials Association - Sept. 18-21, conference, Hotel Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Manitoba; (204) 489-2739.

T. A. Auctioneers, Inc. - Sept. 19, mill auction, Santa Barbara Mill & Lumber Co., Santa Barbara, Ca.; (213) 851-2008.

Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau - Sept.20-21, annual meeting, Victoria, B.C.; (206) 453-1323.

Quojem - Sept. 22-25,hardwuehome improvement show, Porte de Versailles & Villepinte, Paris, France; (708) 605-1025.

American Wood Preservers Association - Sept. 22-27, technical committee meeting, Holiday Inn, Missoula, Mt.; (410) 4653t69.

Building & Construction Indonesia 96 - Sept. 24-28, lntemational Exhibition Centre, Jakarta, Indonesia; (301) 656-2942.

National Lumber & Building Material Dealers AssociationSept.25-28, annual convention, Sheraton Tucson El Conquistador, Tucson, Az.; (800) 634-8645.

National Particleboard Association - Sept. 29-Oct.1, fall meeting, Red Lion Inn, salt Lake city, ut.; (301) 670-0604.

American Wood Preservers Institute - Sept. 30-Oct. 2, annual meeting, Amelia Island, Fl.; (703) 893-4005.

October

American Forest & Paper Association - Oct. 1-5, fall meeting, Phoenix, Az.; (202) 463-2769.

Dimensions - Oct. 2-4, computer training classes, Denver, Co.; (800) 648-s06s.

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - Oct. 3-5, fall management conference, Sheraton Steamboat Resort, Steamboat Springs, Co.; (800) 365-0919.

North American Wholesale Lumber Association - Oct. 5-11. wood marketing seminar, Moscow, Id.; (800) 527-8258.

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club - Oct. 10, dinner meeting, Maggie's Pub, Santa Fe Springs, Ca.

Western Hardwood Association - Oct. 10, directors meeting, Red Lion Inn at the Quay, Vancouver, Wa.; (360) 834-5202.

Ace Hardware Corp. - Oct. 11-14, fall convention, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nv.; (708) 990-6600.

National Sash & Door Jobbers Association - Oct. 12-16, annual convention, Convention Center, Reno, Nv.; (800)786-7274.

National Forest Products Week - Oct. 14-18; (202) 463-2700.

Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Association - Oct. 16-19, fall convention, Harvey's Resort Hotel & Casino, Lake Tahoe, Nv.; (703) 435-2900.

Dimensions - Oct. 17-18, computer training class, Olympia, Wa.; oct.29-30, salt Lake city, ut.; (800) 648-5065.

attended an Aug. 9-10 board of directors meeting hosted by LMA president Bob Rossi and his wife, Donna, in Fort Bragg, Ca. The retreat featured tours of Rossi's Building Materials, Georgia-Pacific's mill and forestlands, and the Union Lumber Co. Guest House, now a museum.

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association has booked retail strategists Richard Outcalt and Patricia Johnson to conduct a workshop on "The Future of Retailing...Don't Be Myth Led" during its annual fall management conference Oct. 3-5 at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort, Steamboat Springs, Co. Outcalt and Johnson will also be available for several private 50-minute consulting sessions.

Other speakers include Denver Nuggets announcer Jerry Schemmel addressing "The Real Meaning of Success" and adventurer, author and award-winning photographer Brian O'Malley with a motivational multi-media presentation, "Everest: The Challenge in All of Us."

Western Building Material Association will hold its annual convention Nov. 8-12 in Portland, Or.

Lumber Association of Southern California's annual management conference is set for Nov. 14-16 at the Indian Wells Resort Hotel, Indian Wells, Ca.

Lumber Merchants Association will present its first Associate of the Year Award during its 58th annual convention Nov. 7-9 at John Ascuaga's Nugget, Sparks, Nv. This year the three candidates are Don Koch, Building Material Distributors, Galt, Ca.; Mike Palmer, Martin Forest Products, Healdsburg, Ca., and Clay Ray, Weyerhaeuser Co., Sacramento, Ca.

Appointed was an Associate of the Year committee, including Weyerhaeuser's Ray; Kris Spickler, Trus Joist MacMillan, Sacramento; Tom Glancy, Lumber Insurance Companies, Roseville, Ca., and George Shea, PGL Building Products, Sacramento.

Approximately 40 members and guests

2nd HELPING; John Neel (left), Ban Lumber, Rosemead, Ca., and president of Lumber Association of Southern California's 2nd Growth, thanks guest speaker Dick Beam, formerly an L.A. Rams coach and now president of Executive Sports Productions, who spoke on "Developing a Winning Team" during the gr0up's recenl meeting in La Quinta, Ca. Wayne Gardner then discussed the effects on LASC of a proposed merger with LMA.

ELEMENTARY school instructors learned about forest management durino North American Wholesale Lumber Association's recent Redw6od Region Teachers Tour. Starling in Arcata, Ca., they visited various forest!, a tree farm, Simpson Timb-er Co.'s nursery and lab, and Pacific Lumber Co.'s watershed and stream restoration project.

Simpson Consolidates Offices

Simpson Timber Co. has consolidated the Arcata, Ca., administrative offices of Simpson Redwood Co. and Arcata Redwood Co.

Jim Brown is now v.p. and general manager of the combined adminstrative unit. Dave Kaney, fbrmerly Simpson Redwood v.p. and gen. mgr., will assist Brown during the transition, then continue working with pres. J. Thurston Roach on companywide strategic projects.

Bill Scott is now general sales mgr. filr both Simpson and Arcata Redwood.

Sales and operations remain separate, with Simpson Redwood's sales force moving to Ktlrbel, Ca.. Arcata Redwood's stavins in Arcata.