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a Very Early Stage at PacTfic Southeast Forest Products

Whatever happened to . . .?

Bv Matt Moulder

The summer of 1989 was characterized by more bad news than qood news for the lumber industry. There was much talk of mills ihutting down permanently and much worry about a supply of timber ade-quate to sustain the mills remaining. Perhaps it would serve a purpose to reflect on some of the less serious things that took place.

In July there was the Mosquito Festival held every year in Paisley, Oreqon. Strange though it may seem, they really do have such a celebration in the"small faiming community located near Klamath Falls in Southern Ores,on. Paisley has more than its share of the pesky little insects and thEy apparently have a light hearted attitude towaid the problem. In conjunction with the festivities, a queen contest is held and, are you ready for thisthe winner is given the title Ms. Quito.

Our Yuba City correspondent, Randy UcNally, tells us that the peach and pear harvest there was a big success this year. The annual harvest festival included a beauty cont6st and competition to find the qrower with the bis,gest pear. Interestingly, one lady farmer won both Eontests. Randy aliS advises that the iearby community of Cridley has put up a sign on the highway throug,h town proclaiming to all passers by that"Cridley is th"e sister city of te puke, New Zealand. Now there is an image building P.R. gimmick if I ever saw one!

Money Magazine,"followingithe leiad of Randy McNally, recently came out with their list of the best and worst places to live in the U.S. We are sorry to report that Yuba City made the bottom ten on this one also.

El Dorado County, the county that we reside in, was not without its share of notoriety last summer. One of our County Supervisors made headlines in newspapers all over California by being convicted of growing marijuana on his ranch near Placerville. He was a well resfected-and vbry popular member of the community. He will be goihg off to prison soon for a few years and some of his friends in the area are planning a going away party for him. Naturally, it will be a pot luck dinner.

The North Coast area of Northern California is buzzing about Louisiana Pacific's recently announced plan to build a wobd products reman. plant in Mexico, between Ensenada and Tiiuana. Creen products will be shipped by barge from L.P.'s mills in the Eureka, Ca., area and will be dried and proceised at the Mexico plant. The only observation that we wish to make, and we are sure you agree, is that it would be a terrible oversight if the new mill does not come out with a siding called "pattern Tijuanaleven." Agreed?

PACIIIC SOUTHEAST FOREST PRODUCTS

P.O. Box 81 9, Diamond Springs, Ca.956.1 9

Larry White

Curt Crane (.916) 626-4221

Manufacturers: Ponderosa & Sugar Pine Mouldings and Cutstock