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Lumber Association of Texas has booked F. Barry Lawrence to discuss optimizing your company's profitability and return on investment during its annual convention April 12-14 at La Torretta Resort, Lake Conroe, Tx.

Activities include golf, a daylong tour of logging sites and mills, an evening beach party at Lake Conroe, and a president's gala dinner with awards and raffle.

Florida Building Material Association pushed back the dates of its annual convention and trade show three weeks to Oct.2-4. The location remains the same: Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, Kissimmee, Fl.

Southern Building Material Association honored vendors at its Feb. l-2 buying show in High Point, N.C.Weyerhaeuser, Federal Way, Wa., for best presentation of a new product; Snavely Forest Products, Greensboro, N.C., most dramatic product presentation; Cedar Creek Wholesale, Broken Arrow, Ok., most original booth display, and Cox Industries, Orangeburg, S.C., most profes-

TMI Launches Tuenron Pro Brand

TMI Forest Products, Morton, Wa., has revived its former company name-TuBAFoR-as a brand for its highgrade coastal western red cedar fencing manufactured for and sold specifically to the pro market.

"The TMI name has always represented reliable products; however, with our new computerized grading system, we can produce the same quality TMI brand coastal WRC fencing and cater to the ultra-high-end pro-installer with a separate product line," said Todd Shipp, pro sales account manager. "We brought back the TueepoR name for this premium product category. The industry has always recognized 'Tus.Apon' as synonymous with high quality, so it was the perfect fit for this new product lineq" sional booth display.

To ensure the quality of Tue,Apon-marked fencing, TMI installed a proprietary electronic grade scanner and optimizer. Additional quality assurance practices were created, including tightened manufacturing tolerances, inspection by tags in every unit, and forklift drivers signing every tag when trucks are loading to verify correct shipments.

Pro shipments will be covered with TusA,poR wrap; retail shipments will continue in TMl-marked manila bags.

Sales contest winners were Jimmie Elliott, Bluelinx; Bruce Shelton, Capps Home Building Center; Vernon Queen, Paul Argoe Screens, and Mike Siewers, Siewers Lumber & Millwork.

Supplier of the Year went to DMSi Software, Omaha, Ne., while Dealer of the Year went to Massey Builders Supply, Richmond, Va.

Kathy Wooley, assistant to SBMA president Larry Adams, will retire Oct. l.

Northeastern Retail Lumber Association regional director David Gluck received the Robert J. Horne CHIPs Award during the Northeast Young Lumber Execs' recent annual meeting.

Redwood Awards went to Steve Howe, Howe Lumber; Rich Keating, Andersen Windows, and Jonas Kelly, Jay-K Independent Lumber.

Mike Miller, Bluelinx, is the new president of NYLE, succeeding Mike Yazwinski, Russin Lumber. Robert Bicknell Jr., Bicknell Building Supply, is now lst v.p.; Daniel Martin, Reeb Millwork, 2nd v.p.; Jason Thacker, Howe Lumber, 3rd v.p.; Jen Quinlan, LitmanGerson, treasurer, and Jordan Russin, Russin Lumber, secretary.

Kentucky Buitding Materials Association will gather April 18-20 for its annual convention and product expo at Griffin Gate Marriott, Lexington, Ky.

Ohio Construction Suppliers Association is sponsoring an installed sales roundtable April 3-5 in Cincinnati.

Indiana Lumber & Builders Supply Association now posts members' classified ads and announcements on its webpage.

New Jersey Building Materials Dealers Association and Eastern Building Material Dealers Association are steering dealer members to the IDEAS (Independent Dealers Education Association Services) Mid-Atlantic LBM trade show May 15 at the Valley Forge Casino, King of Prussia, Pa.

Seminars include a Frame to Finish carpentry clinic with Rick Arnold and Mike Sloggatt; "The Trouble with Trim: Myths & Mysteries of Making the Best Choice for Exterior Trim Details," presented by Stephen Jones, president, Princeton Forest Products, Orange, Ma.; "The DesignBuild Process," by Joe Augustine, JFA Architecture, and "Turning Hard Times to Your Advantage."

North American Wholesale Lumber Association hosts a regional meeting Apnl 26 at Seaport Hotel, Boston, Ma.

American Wood Protection Association has scheduled its annual meeting for April 29-May 2 at Hilton Nashville Downtown, Nashville, Tn.

Kentucky Forest Industries Association will host its 47th annual meeting March 28-30 at the Seelbach Hilton, Louisville, Ky.

The event will feature exhibits, the KFIA/KY Tree Farm Awards, Senator Rand Paul with a Washington update, and George Barrett, Hardwood Review, discussing the wood products industry and the economy.

We welcome your letters to the editor. Send comments to Fax 949-852023 l, dkoenig@ building'products.com, or BPD, 4500 Campus Dr. #480, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660.

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I have read Alan Oakes' editorial ("Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? Me," Feb., p.6) three times and I believe this is the most truthful information anyone has ever written. Everyone has the same opportunity to be what they want to be if they are willing to work for it. You actually brought tears to my eyes when I read this, because that is what America is all about!

I worked for a small lumber company back in the 1960s and stayed with them for 30 years, working my way up to president of that company. I left after 30 years to buy my own lumber company. This could only happen in America.

Let's hope our elected officials in Washineton don't take that opportunity away from us, our children, and our grandchildren.

Frank Blair

Blair Lumber Co. Cohoes, N.Y. frank @ blairlumber.com

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The article ("Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? Me") represents how so many people in this country feel. As for so many of the OWS crowd, they are young and know no better. Most have never really had to work, nor know the principles of hard labor required to succeed.

Too much government in our lives is a dangerous path to follow, and too many in the U.S. have become followers rather than leaders. Even if you are the lowest-paid employee, you still must be able to lead yourself to water and not rely on someone else to do it for you.

Charlie Quarles

McShan Lumber McShan, Al. charlie @ mcshanlumber.com ness as c.e.o. in 1953 and worked there until his death. The company was founded in 1863 by his greatgrandfather.

Jeffrey C. Garmire, 64, owner of Bakertown Lumber & Building Supply, Buchanan, Mi., died Jan.27 in Niles, Mi.

Prior to owning Bakertown, he worked for Baroda Lumber. Baroda, Mi., and Williams Home Center, Niles.

Hugh R. Madden, 73, owner of M&M Builders Supply, East Palastine, Oh., died Jan. 28 in Youngstown. Oh.

He had owned and operated the business since the early 1960s.

William Reeves Weinmeister. 85. retired owner of Farmers & Builders Supply, Kingsland, Ga., died Jan.23 in Peachtree City, Ga.

He owned the company from 1962 to 1992.

Charles Franklin "Frank" Jackman, 87, longtime Indiana lumber salesman, died Feb. 1l in Indianapolis, In.

Genita Schorling Poole, 68, owner and manager of Poole Lumber, Covington, La., died Jan. 29 in Covington.

She assumed management of the company in 2004, after her husband, Wally, died.

Ross Hodgkins, 70, former executive vice president of Manufacturers Reserve Supply, Irvington, N.J., died Jan.27 in Irvington.

A 37 -year veteran of MRS, he was named New Jersey Lumberman of the Year by the New Jersey Building Material Dealers Association in 2005.

Charles Lindbergh

"Lindy"

Markland, 83, co-owner of Highland Hardwood Sales, Augusta, Ga., died Jan.2l in Albany, Ga.

Mr. Markland served with the U.S. Army during World War II and Korean War. He started his lumber career at Ritter Lumber, worked as assistant sales manager at GeorgiaPacific, and became sales manager for Hammermill Hardwoods. He cofounded Highland in 1986.

He also served as a director for the &riHlt4rPlodu<lsom

Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Association, Southern Hardwood Lumber Association, ApPalachian Lumberman's Club, West Virginia Forestry Association, and Kentucky Forestry Association.

Charles R. Hale Jr.' 62, president and owner of Tuxis Lumber, Madison. Ct.. died Feb. 4 in Middleton, Ct. He started the company more than 40 years ago, after graduating from the University of Maine.

He was a past president of Northeastern Retail Lumber Association.

Manuel ttMannyt' Fernandes, 99, retired owner of Fernandes Lumber & Home Center, Easton, Ma., died Jan. 18.

As a teenager, he worked at his father's restaurant in Easton during the day and studied carpentry and construction at night. During World War II, he built and repaired U.S. Naval ships.

He started his own lumber business in 1958 and retired in 2005.

Wilfred E. "Bubber" Gross Jr., 83, c.e.o. of W.T. Harvey Lumber, Columbus. Ga.. died Jan.25.

Mr. Gross joined the family busi-

Mr. Jackman retired from Georgia Pacific in 1989, after 15 years with the company. He had also worked at Midland Building, Skelton-Skinner Lumber, Henry Poor Lumber, and V.E. Anderson Window Co.

Earl English Matthew III, 59, owner of Southeast Door & Trim, Melbourne. Fl.. died Jan. 22 in Melboume.

He had owned the business for 25 years.

Harold James Cady, T3,longtime Texas lumberman, died Jan. 14 in Hewitt, Tx.

After serving with the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he worked for Barnes Lumber, Cameron Wholesale, and Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber for more than 40 years.

Ray Burgess,73, owner of Burgess Hardware, Tulsa, Ok., died Jan. 30 in Tulsa.

His parents bought an existing hardware store in 1943, which had been operating since 1918. Mr. Burgess took it over in 1962.

Bruce Gale, 49, manager of Higginbotham-Bartlett Co., Colorado City, Tx., died Jan. l8 in Abilene, Tx.

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