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Septbmber

Western Building Material AssociationSept. 12-13, Young Westerners tour, Mount St. Helens, Wa.; (360) 943-3054.

WPCC, Inc.Sept. 12-13, secondary wood products manufacturers' annual meeting, Warm Springs, Or.; (541) 385-5353.

APA-The Engineered Wood AssociationSept. 1.3-16, annual meeting, Hyatt Regency-Gainey Ranch Resort, Scottsdale, Az.; (2O6) 565-6600.

Shasta Hoo-Hoo CIubSept. 18, golf, Gold Hills Country Club, Redding, Ca.; (916) 824-4220,

Pacific Logging ConferenceSept. 18-20, annual convention, Doubletree Hotel-Bellewe, Bellevue, Wa.; (503) 224-8406.

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's ClubSept. 20, Symphony in the Glen, Griffith Park, L.A., Ca.; (213) 263-9361.

Western Wood Products AssociationSept. 20-23, fall meeting, Westin Seattle, Seattle, Wa.; (503) 22/+-3930.

North American Wholesale Lumber AssociationSept. 23, regional meeting, Multnomah Athletic Club, Portland, Or.; (847) 870-7470.

National Wooden Pallet & Container AssociationSept. 2427, show, Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tn.; (703) 527-7667.

National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - Sept. 25-29, annual convention, The Breakers, West Palm Beach, Fl.; (800) 634-8645.

Construction Business & Technology Conference & ExpoSept. 26-28, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Ca.; (800) 375-5981.

True ValueSept. 26-30, tall market, Ernest Morail Center, New Orleans, La.; (773) 695-5000.

North American Wholesale Lumber Assn.Sept. 27.Oct. 3, mktg. seminar, University of Id., Moscow, Id.; (800) 527-8258.

National Particleboard AssociationSept. 2E-30, fall meer ing, The Buttes, Tempe, Az.; (301) 670-0604.

Lumbermen's Golf AssociationSept. 29, annual golf tourney, Chickasaw Country Club, Memphis, Tn.; (901) 323-6216.

October

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers AssociationOct.2-4, annual convention, Yarrow Inn, Park City, Ut.; (303) 793-0859.

Forest Products SocietyOct. 6-8, lumber drying conference, Penticton, British Columbia; (608) 231-1361.

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's ClubOct. 9, golf & dinner, Mountain Meadows, Pomona, Ca.; (213) 263-9361.

Oregon State UniversityOct. 9-10, selling course, Corvallis, Or.; (541) 737-2329.

Western Wood Preservers InstituteOct. 12-15. annual meeting, Westin Mission Hills, Palm Desert, Ca.; (360) 693-9958.

ServistarOcL 17-21, tall convention, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Md.; (412) 283-4567.

Hardware Wholesalers, Inc.Oct. 18-21, market, Indianapolis, In.; (7 13) 644-1495.

National Hardwood Lumber AssociationOct. 18-21. annual convention, Montreal, Quebec; (901 ) 377- I 8 I 8.

National Sash & Door Jobbers AssociationOct. 18-22. annual convention, New Orleans, La.; (800) 786-7274.

National Forest Products WeekOct. 19-25; (202) 463-2700.

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Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association hits the links for its annual Western Slope Golf Tournament Sept. I I at the Rifle Creek Golf Club, Rifle, Co.

Also on the MSLBMDA calendar: Norvell Spearman conducts a yard foreman's seminar Oct. 16 at the Holiday Inn Downtown, Denver, Co.; the annual fall management conference takes place Nov. 2-4 at the Yarrow Inn, Park City, Ut.; Bill Lee leads estimating seminars Jan. 19-23 at the Day's Inn, Greenwood Village, Co., and Jan. 12-16 at a location to be announced in either Arizona or New Mexico, and the annual Products Expo & Buying Show takes over the Holiday Inn DIA, Denver, March 12-13.

Lumber Association of California & Nevada is gearing up for its lst annual convention, themed "It's a Shore Thing,"

Nov. 13-15 at the Doubletree Hotel, Monterey, Ca.

The program includes a golf tournament at Laguna Seca Golf Club, executive committee meeting, past presidents' reception, dinner at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, table-top exhibit show, presentation of the 1997 President's Award and Associate of the Year Award, and president's banquet honoring outgoing president Bill Sullivan, Tynan Lumber Co., Salinas, Ca., and welcoming his successor, Kevin Lindsay, Lindsay Lumber Co., Inc.. Paramount. Ca.

Seminars include attorney Laura Innes on labor and employment law, a presentation led by Donn Zea, California Forest Products Commission, and roundtable discussions on "Preparing Your Employee Handbooks," "Handling Product Conflicts," "Security Auditing" and "lnspring & Empowering Employees."

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City Again Circles Wagons Against Home Depot

Twenty-four Sonoma County businesses have launched a campaign to derail Home Depot's second attempt at opening a store on Old Redwood Highway in Santa Rosa, Ca.

"This project has such negative economic, environmental and traffic effects that local businesses and Santa Rosa would never recover," said a Redwood Empire Merchants Association spokesperson.

Home Depot would like to build a 131,000-sq. ft. store and garden center plus 72,000-sq. ft. of other retail buildings on the 18.6-acre site of a 46-yearold restaurant and a vacant Grossman's Lumber, a mile north of an 80,000-sq. ft. future Yardbirds and a half-mile from Journey's End Mobile Home Park. Two years ago, the chain abandoned much-protested plans to displace the park's 200 residents.

The merchants association filed objections with the city against Home Depot's environmental impact report, specifically questioning Depot's plans to "build on a site that has such a long history of toxic contamination, with- out first doing the clean-up."

The merchants claim the local home improvement market is already oversaturated, and that the project will detrimentally affect their businesses, traffic and living environment.

Among the association's 24 members are Yardbirds, Friedman Bros. Hardware and Mead Clark Lumber.

Bankruptcy Laws Hurt Dealers

Current bankruptcy laws, especially Chapter 11 proceedings, adversely affect lumber dealers, past National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association chairman B. Harold Smick Jr. argued before the National Bankuptcy Review Commission.

Smick explained that since dealers sell mainly to contractors with no unencumbered assets, they are often the first and biggest losers in bankruptcy cases. "We get nothing! Debtor-contractors walk away with our lumber and leave us with an empty cash drawer and empty shelves," he said. "Changing the basis of payment under Chapter 1l from the liquidation

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"While we could provide hundreds of thousands of trees on a sustainable basis, the president's request (for 60 Christmas trees) is hypocritical given the forced shutdown of the Tongass (National Forest) and the resultant devastation to families and communities."

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Smick also called on the commission to protect unsecured lenders like lumber dealers from secured creditors who dominate the system.

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Yard lgnores Protesters

When two protesters locked themselves to the front gate, instead of asking sheriff's deputies to cut them free, Malibu Lumber & Hardware, Malibu, Ca., just served customers through a side entrance.

"I didn't want anyone to get hurt," explained president Erik Jorgensborg. "I thought I'd let them do the protest."

The pair, unable to close the business or persuade Jorgensborg to discontinue selling old growth redwood, spent a painful ll-plus hours July 15 pinned to the front gate with Ushaped bicycle locks around their necks.

Along with about a dozen other picketers, they represented the Rainforest Action Network, San Francisco, Ca., which has gotten hundreds of builders, architects, landscapers, independent retailers and chains, including Home Depot and HomeBase, to sign a pledge not to sell old growth.

Jorgensborg, who also owns Fisher Lumber, Santa Monica, Ca., which the group picketed a few months earlier, said he'll carry old growth lumber as long as his customers want it. "I listen to my customers, I don't listen to a few people from Northern

California who come down here and try to extort things from me," he said.

He said old growth redwood represents about one-half percent of his sales, and he hasn't bought new supplies in over a year.

Entry LevelJob Pool Grows

With countless former welfare recipients expected to flood the entrylevel job market, employers should reevaluate their recruiting and hiring procedures, advises Reid Psychological Systems.

Over the next five years, the traditional welfare system is expected to be reshaped by the Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which was designed to encourage hundreds of thousands of able-bodied adults to enter or rejoin the work force.

A recent survey revealed that 58Vo of respondents believe employers have a responsibility to help the government move welfare recipients off welfare by providing access tojobs.

While 22Vo said that their companies have already hired former welfare recipients, more than 50% were more likely to hire welfare recipients if an intermediary organization was responsible for meeting their training needs.

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