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December

Lumber Merchants Association - Dec. 12, drug & alcohol testing workshop, Gateway Plaza Holiday Inn, La Mirada, Ca.; Dec. 14, West Sacramento, Ca.; (916) 369-7501.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club - Dec. 14, wine tasting, Spokane, Wa.; (s09) 6v+-45sr.

Phoenix Hoo-Hoo Club - Dec. 19, golf, Western Skies Golf Resort, Phoenix, Az.; (612) 974-1556.

January

Ifardware Wholesalers Inc. - Jan. 5-6, winter market, Walt Disney World Dolphin, Orlando, Fl.; (219) 748-5300.

Servistar - Jan. 7-10, rental convention, Marriott World Center, Orlando, F1.; (412) 283-4567.

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - Jan. 8-12, estimating, bidding and quoting seminars, The Pinnacle/Four Seasons Hotel, Albuquerque, N.M.; Jan. 15-19, Denver, Co.; (303) 793-0859.

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club - Jan. 11, meeting, Maggie's Pub, Santa Fe Springs, Ca.

Ace llardware Corp. - Jan. ll-l2,lumber & building materials show, Walt Disney World Dolphin, Orlando, Fl.; (708) 9906600.

California Forestry Association - Jan ll-12, annual meeting, Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nv.; (916) 4446592.

Cotter & Co. - Jan. 14-16, winter market, Bally's Casino & Resort, Las Vegas, Nv.; (312) 975-4903.

International Housewares Show - Jan. 14-17, sponsored by National Housewares Manufacturers Association. McCormick Place, Chicago, Il.; (708) 292-4200.

Phoenix Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 16, golf, Villa DePaz Golf Course, Phoenix, Az.; (612) 97 4-1556.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 17, industry night, Broiler Steak House, Ukiah, Ca.; (916) 378-8000.

Humboldt Hoo.Hoo Club - Jan. 18, annual crab feed, Eureka, Ca.; (707) 822-0371.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 18, club night and past presidents night, Spokane, Wa.; (509) 624-4551.

Western Building Material Association - Jan. 18-21, Young Westemers Conference, Coeur d'Alene, Id.; (360) 943-3054.

American Hardware Manufacturers Association - J an. 2l-23, manufacturing conference, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Phoenix, Az.; (708) 605-1025.

Pacific Northwest Wood Products Showcase - Jan.23-24, Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall, Tacoma, iNa.; (206) 2244344.

Lumber Merchants Association - Jan.26-27, management seminar, Marconi Conference Center, Mill Valley, Ca.; (916) 369-7501.

National Association of Home Builders - Jan. 26.29, annual convention & exposition, Astro Dome, Houston, Tx.; (800) 368-5242.

National Association of Wholesaler.Distributors - J an. 29 -31, annual meeting, Washington, D.C.; (202) 872-0885.

American Fence Association - Jan. 31-Feb. 3, FenceTech '96, Bally's Casino & Resort, Las Vegas, Nv.; (800) 822-4342.

G-P Buys Domtar Wallboard

Georgia-Pacific has agreed to purchase Domtar Inc.'s gypsum wallboard division for nearly $350 million.

The deal, expected to close in early 1996 and subject to various approvals, includes the division's 18 plants in the U.S. and Canada with combined annual sales of about $300 million.

Big W Merges So. Cal. DCs

Weyerhaeuser Building Material Distribution Business has merged its Anaheim, Fontana and North Los Angeles, Ca., Customer Service Centers into a single organization.

Headed by new Southern California general manager Eric Walz, the new structure allows the company to take full advantage of its collective information and resources, increasing operational and administrative productivity by eliminating current boundaries and duplicated processes.

Don Peters, George Rife and James Cederholm serve as sales mgrs. at the Anaheim, Fontana and North Los Angeles CSCs respectively. The entire geography will be represented by a yet-unnamed sales mgr. for industrial sales and Nathan Dickens as sales mgr. for national accounts and specialtylnon-wood products.

The market development management team overseeing engineered wood products, hardboard siding, OSB and other products will be expanded.

Not included in the change but continuing to work with the new organization are the Long Beach CSC headed by Marty Temple and the San Diego CSC led by Jim Johnson.

Singer's Dream Takes Flight

Pursuing a dream of becoming a successful country western singer/ songwriter, Robyn Brunson has sold B&B Hardware Do-it Center. Camarillo, Ca., after l0 years.

The sale of the 10,000-sq. ft. store to Ray Collins ends her family's association with the hardware industry which began when her grandfather opened another B&B Hardware in Culver City in 1926.

"I started working in my grandfather's store when I was eight years old," 37-year-old Brunson said. "It was my grandfather's kick-in+he-butt inspiration that got me to start this store."

Brunson's first compact disc,

"Robyn Michelle," is available at B&B Hardware.

Wood Technology Expands

The Wood Technology Clinic & Show, March l3-15, has joined the Pacific Woodworking Conference & Exposition, March 13-14, to come together as the Pacific International Wood Week, March 11-15.

Held at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Or., the event, which is sponsored by Wood Technology magazine, is anticipated to attract more than 1,500 woodworking professionals.

Charred Yard To Relocate

AndersonLumber Co. has acquired a 35,000-sq. ft. former grocery store to replace its Pocatello, Id., unit devastated by fire.

Since the Aug. 19 fire that destroyed its main retail space and a storage building, the company has been operating out of temporary buildings. The new location, expected to open in the spring, will include a 45,000-sq. ft. drive-through shopping area.

Support

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Training

We want to see you get the most out of your Dimensions system and the best way to do that is through training. We provide local advanced training classes throughout the United States, classroom training monthly and a national Users' Conference everv year.

Boise Cascade Enters Mexico

Set on introducing a good quality Mexican pine to the U.S. market, Boise Cascade has secured timber from previously untapped Mexican forests.

The company has formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Costa Grande Forest Products, to handle timber purchasing, sawmilling and exporting. It has contracted to purchase the entire production from one local sawmill and is leasing a second sawmill.

"These are very nice forests for which there had never been a market established," communications manager Doug Bartells said of the area in Guerrero, inland between Ixtapa and Acapulco.

He said a challenge will be battling the perception that Mexican pine typically is low quality wood. "This is very good quality, good grained wood from sizeable trees. It's more machineable and has a finer texture than radiata pine," he said of the wood, which is predominately ponderosa pine, with some sugar pine and fir.

So far, more than 3 million board feet has been shipped to Boise Cascade's Coos Bay and Medford, Or., facilities for finishing. Kiln dried lumber will be shipped to the U.S. and in- ternationally, targeting mainly to industrial uses and current radiata pine markets.

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"There is something terribly wrong when a man is arrested and faced with jail time, hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and loss of property because he inadvertently killed a rat plowing his field. The arrest of Tuang Ming-Lin is an example of a situation out of hand."

- Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.), on the Endangered Species Act

Noyes Lumber Torn Down

Noyes Lumber Yard, Napa, Ca., has been torn down after more than 80 years to make room for a possible commercial development.

The 1-ll2 acre lot, which has laid vacant since 1986. contains a historic commercial building with a false wooden facade datins back to the

1880s. The building, which had been slated for demolition, was saved and may be moved to the Napa Valley Exposition.

The property, which overlooks the Napa River, was purchased in Nov. by Mike DeSimoni, owner of Channel Lumber.

B&W Moves Operations

B&W Industrial Sales Co., formerly of Monrovia, Ca., has relocated to a 22,000-sq. ft. facility in Duarte, Ca.

The company, which is a spin off of Myrtle Ave. Lumber, has recently expanded its industrial product line to include plumbing supplies with the purchase ofErnest Ray Co., according to Don Wallace.

Door Hardware Growth Solid

U.S. door hardware market sales are expected to reach $3.1 billion in 1995 and $5 billion by 2001 due to accelerated growth from rising residential construction activity, reports Specialists in Business Information.

An upturn in the last three years has centered on door locks. door controls and padlocks.

Wayne Earley, Newquist & Bergstrom, Newport Beach, Ca., has retired to a new home in Minden, Nv., after 50 years in the lumber industry.

Rick Cortez. ex-Ponderosa Products. has opened an Albuquerque, N.M., sales office for Cooley Forest Products. Charlie Jones is new to mktg. in Phoenix, Az.

Chuck Wertz, ex-Conrad Wood Preserving and G-P, has opened a Santa Rosa, Ca., sales office for Agwood Mill & Lumber, Inc. Sam Keator, Agwood Mill & Lumber, Tualatin, Or., recently climbed 86 stories in the tallest stair climbing competition in the U.S., finishing in the top 39Vo of 397 people with a time of 16:55 minutes.

Wayne Noll has joined Chesapeake Hardwood Products, Inc., Chesapeake, Va., as regional sales mgr. in N.M. and Az.

Frank Daluddung is new to sales at Voorhees Wood & Manufactured Products, Eugene, Or.

Marie K. Kroesen was appointed public relations mgr. for HomeBase, Irvine, Ca., succeeding Carol Elfstrom, who has joined CompUSA. Mike Byrum is now fashion plumbing buyer and Will Martinson has been promoted to decor buyer.

Dan Good has joined the sales staff at Mallco Lumber & Building Materials, Phoenix, Az.

Jon Salvesen has been promoted to gen. mgr. of Southwest Hardwood Co., Phoenix, Az. Geoff Cree is now mgr. of inventory and custom milling, and Pat Sullivan, controller.

Bob Milne, veneer div. sales mgr., will retire in the second half of 1996 after 20 years with Columbia Forest Products, Portland, Or. Gary Gillespie will replace him as director of veneer sales. Bill Doran is now director of hardwood plywood sales.

Bob Abbott is now with T&J Lumber. Lake Havasu City, Az.

Pat J. Sheehan, owner, Sheehan Lumber Co., Spokane, Wa., has retired after 59 years in the business.

Ed Gavotto, formerly with American Mill & Lumber, San Diego, Ca., is now with Incredible Vacation Associates. San Diego.

Marine Sgt. Brad Richardson, son of Dennis Richardson, Oregon-Canadian Forest Products of Califomia, Orange, Ca., is a candidate for a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from San Diego State University. He receives his commission as a 2nd lieutenant Dec. 20.

Todd Pollard, Gemini Forest Products, Los Alamitos, Ca., and his wife, Amy, are the proud parents of a second daughter, 8 lb. l0 oz. Kelly, bom Sept. 29. Gemini's Shirley Crabtree has retired as her husband, Larry, recently did from Coos Head Lumber and Plywood Co., Inc.

Ace Johnston, Sunshine Wood Products, is the new chair of the Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau. Kirk Nagy, Waldun Forest Products, is vice chair/treas. New directors: Jerry Banner, Fair Shake Co.; Scott Burke, Los Gatos Roofing; Rodger Lennox, B.C.F. Shake Mill; Dan Lunde. Chemco. Inc., and J. Seidel, Julius Seidel & Co.

Cindy Aveard is new to sales at Vistawall Architectural Products, covering N.M. Brad Richardson is now project mgr. for the Modesto, Ca., facility.

John Frederickson

Ross Hines

Bruce Keith

Jim Lawson

Jerry Long

Juan Magallanes

Bobby Malone

Bud Oliveira

Michael Parrella

Janet Parrella

Peter Parrella

Matt Petersen

Nestor Pimentel

Bill Pritchard

David Sclimenti

Lois Tavenner

Melinda Taylor

Peter Ulloa

Robert Williams

Pamela Winters

Ed Mittleman is asst. store mgr. of the new Orchard Supply Hardware store in Whittier. Ca.

Gary Malfatti and June Snowden, Morgan Creek Forest Products, Inc., Santa Rosa. Ca.. have retumed from a business trip to Las Vegas, Nv., to finalize preparation for their showcase at the AFA FenceTech '96 convention and trade exhibit Jan. 31-Feb. 3 at Bally's Resort.

Steve Power, formerly of Power Forest Products Corp., has started Power Wood Corp., Coquitlam, B.C., Canada, specializing in the wholesale and remanufacture of westem red cedar.

Gene Giesie, v.p., Capital Lumber Co., Phoenix, Az., will retire Jan. 1 after 38 years with the firm.

Wayne llunter, gen. mgr., BMC West, Grand Junction, Co., has been elected president of the Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association, succeding Mark Statham, gen. mgr., BMC West, Glenwood Springs, Co.

Kevin Sauder, Sauder Woodworking, was elected chairman of the Particleboard-MDF Institute, succeeding Elliott Savage, Georgia-Pacific Corp. Bruce Tate, Weyerhaeuser Co., is chairman-elect.

Barbara Clausen Mayginnes, owner of Penofin-Performance Coatings Inc., Ukiah, Ca., was awarded the Golden Nike Employer of the Year by the Ukiah Business and Professional Woman organization for her achievements as a leader and role model in the workplace.

Jim Stanhope, formerly with Salmon Creek Lumber, has joined the sales team at Northwest Forest Products Inc.. Tualatin. Or.

Lewison Clarke is seeking new sites for Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Bowman Lumber Sales

(707) 894-2575 FAX 707-894-2588

P.O. Box 547, Cloverdale, Ca. 95425

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Wholesale Forest Products

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