STATES MOUNTAIN

FRED CARUSO executive secretary

T HE MSLBMDA Board of Directors

I recently approved a new logo commemorating the countdown to the Association's l00th anniversary in 1991.

The logo has the words, "The Lumber Dealers" and "98 Years" in bold letters and is designed to be used in 1989. In 1990 it will be changed to read, "99 Years" and in 1991 it will say, "100 Years".

A three-day Residential Framing Lumber Estimating and a one-day Blueprint Reading seminar will be held next January in Denver, Co.

The Blueprint Reading class is scheduled for Jan. 10. The Estimating seminar is scheduled for Jan. 11. 12 and 13. Both programs will be held at the Holiday Inn Downtown in Denver.

Both courses are taught by Bill Darling of Ontario, Canada, a management consultant whose special emphasis is personnel training for the retail lumber industry.

The three-day estimating class is tentatively scheduled to be repeated in Phoenix, Arizona, Monday through Wednesday, January l6-18, 1989.

Two Building Material Shows are scheduled for March. Two-day buying and product education shows will be held in both Denver and Salt Lake City, Ut. The dates of the Denver show are March 9 and 10. at the Denver Merchandise Mart. The show in Salt Lake City will be held on March 23 and 24 at the Salt Palace Center.

The scope of both shows will be expanded this year for not only buyers to place orders on the show floor, but also for retail sales people and other employees to gain product knowledge. Many new products and services will be presented and both shows will feature a wide selection of building materials from roofing to particleboard. The Denver show will feature 138 booths. The Salt Lake show will feature 62 booths.

The Arizona Lumber & Builders Supply Association is in the final stages ol disincorporation, says ALBSA president Dave Runyan, Babbitt's Home Center, Flagstaff, Az. Runyan has been nominated to serve as one of two Arizona representatives on the MSLBMDA regional board of directors.

Arizona members have been joining MSLBMDA, although many are waiting until all ALBSA debts are cleared and the disincorporation is complete, says Mountain States president Steve Olson, Build-Rite Lumber & Supply, Rawlins, Wy.

In addition to the expansion of the board, other changes will be required. Our logo will now depict six states as the ends of stacked timber. And trademark flag settings used as table centerpieces at most meetings will now include the flags of six states.

Arizona represents a major addition to the Mountain States region with 113,417 square miles of land and nearly 2.8 million residents. It ranks first among Mountain States in the number of residents per retail yard, with 13,938 persons for each of 195 locations reported.

Two programs were held in Phoenix this summer to build visibility and gauge the interest and needs ofthe dealers and suppliers.