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Construction Supplier's Association - July 10-13, summer management conference, King & Prince Hotel, St. Simons, Ga.; ('770) 75r-6373.

Oklahoma Lumbermens Association - July 11-13, Summer Fling, Shangri-La Resort, Grove, Ok.; (405) 840-1771

Mid-Hudson Lumber Dealers Association - July 14, golf outing, Powelton Club, Newburgh, N.Y.; (800)292-6752.

Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers AssociationJuly 14, golf outing; July 15, summer board meeting, Lexington, Ky.; (800) 844-1774.

Northeast Window & Door Association - July 14-15, summer meeting, Hershey Hotel, Hershey, Pa.; (609) 799-49OO.

Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers Association - July 16, board meeting/F-l Racing, Braintree, Ma.; (800) 292-6'752'

Retail Lumber Dealers Association of Maine - July 17' board meeting, Augusta, Me.; (800) 292-6752.

Vermont Retail Lumber Dealers Association - July 17, board meeting, Okemo National Park, Okemo, Vt.; (800) 292-6752.

House-Hasson Hardware Co. - July 18'20, summer market, Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, Tn.; (865) 525-O4'll.

North American Wholesale Lumber Association - July 19'24, wood marketing seminar, Moscow, Id.; (800) 527-8258.

Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, Inc. - Jtrly 20-22, summer meeting, The Green Briar, Sulphur Springs, W.V.; (336) 885-831s.

National Retail Hardware Association - July 21-23, annual meeting & convention, Westin Resort, Hilton Head Island, S.C.; (317) 290-0338.

Columbia Forest ProductsJuly 22-24, hardwood plywood training class, Trumann, Ar.; (800) 547-4261.

Ohio Lumbermen's Association - July 23-24, installed sales workshop, Columbus, Oh.; (614) 267-7817.

American Lumber Standard Committee - JuJy 24, summer meeting, Washington, D.C.; (301) 9'12-1700.

Northeastern Young Lumber Execs - July 27, Family Fun Day, Six Flags, Agawam, Ma.; (800) 292-6752.

Watters & MartinJuly 27-28, market, Norfolk Scope Exhibition Hall, Norfolk, Y a.; (7 57) 857-065 1

Builder Marts of America - July 30-Aug. I, fall market, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Md.; (864) 2813633.

International Woodworking Fair - July 31'Aug. 3, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, Ca.; (800) 752-6312.

Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association - July 31Aag.2, annual meeting, The Grand Floridian, Orlando, Fl.; (404) 36r-1445.

Southern Building Material Association -July 31-Aug. 4, summer conference, Ramada Inn Plaza, Virginia Beach, Va.; (704) 3'76-t503.

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Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers Association - Aug. 4' golf outing, Pine Hills Country Club, Plymouth, Ma.; (800) 292-6752.

Northern New York Lumber Dealers Assn. - Aug. 6, board meeting, Lobster House, Norwood, N.Y.; (800) 292-6752.

Temperate Forest Foundation - Aug. 6-9, Lakes States Teachers' Tour, Escanaba, Mi.; (503) 57 9 -67 62'

Indiana Lumber & Builders' Supply Association - Aug. 7, golf outing, Oak Tree Gold Club, Plainfield, In.; (800) 752-5829.

Northeastern Young Lumber Execs - Aug. 8, board meeting, Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Ct.; (800) 292-6752.

National Hardwood Lumber Association - Aug. 9-12, leadership development program, Vicksburg, Ms.; (901) 377-1818.

Window & Door Manufacturers Association - Aug. 9-12, summer meeting, Silverdo Country Club & Resort, Napa, Ca.; (800\ 223-2301.

National Hardware Show/International Hardware WeekAug. 10-12, McCormick Place, Chicago, Il.; (847) 605-1025.

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Northwestern Lumber Association - Aug. 10-15, summer mill and plant tour, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Kenora, Ontario, Canada; (612) 544-6822.

Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association - Aug. L3-16, semi-annual meeting, Victoria, B.C.; (800) 550-7889.

Oklahoma Lumbermen's Association - Aug. 14, health benefits comminee meeting, oklahoma City, Ok.; (405) 840-1771.

Moore-Handley Inc. - Aug. 15-17, fall show, Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex, Birmingham, Al.; (205) 6638235.

Central New York Retail Lumber Dealers Association - Aug. 16, summer outing, Vernon Downs, N.Y.; (800) 292-6752.

Florida Hardware Co. - Aug. 17'19, fall show, Orlando, Fl'; (904) 783-1650.

Columbia Forest ProductsAug. 19'21, hardwood plywood training class, Old Fort, N.C.; (800) 547-4261.

Independent Builders Supply Association - Attg.2l'22, buying show, Charlotte, N.C.; (919) 934-7616.

Orgill Inc.Aag.2l-23, dealer market, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga.; (901) 754-8850.

Florida Building Material Association - Aug. 22-23, annual building products & design show, Renaissance Orlando Resort, Orlando, Fl.; (352) 383-0366.

TruServ Corp.Lug.23-25, Powerama outdoor power show, Cleveland, Oh.; (773) 695-5165.

Ohio Lumbermen's Association - Aug. 27, golf scramble, Bent Tree Golf Club, Sunbury, Oh.; (614) 267 -781'l

Scotty's Closes More Stores For Another Refocus

In the latest effort to remake itself, Scotty's is closing most of its larger stores, reducing their square footage and leasing the remaining space to other retailers.

The makeover resembles Scotty's failed attempt in 2000 to split larger locations into five bargain stores-inone, including a discount hardware store.

This time, however, the other stores will be operated by other companies. such as office supply, furniture and general merchandise businesses.

In recent months, Scotty's, Winter

U.S. Wood Shipped To Cuba

Lanahan Lumber Co., Jacksonville, Fl., became the first U.S. company to sell wood to Cuba since 1958, when it shipped 25 containers of southern yellow pine last month.

The firm shipped the wood from Jacksonville and Gulfport, Ms., to Havana in mid-June, with plans to continue twice a month for the next six months.

"We are very excited to announce this partnership with Cuba and to be the first in almost 43 years to create such a partnership," said company president Michael Lanahan, who went to Cuba six times last year to make contacts.

The lumber will be used to rebuild farm houses destroyed by hurricanes and to build pallets for transporting wheat and other grain shipped from U.S. farms.

The lumber sales are permitted by the U.S. Trade Act and authorized by the Department of Treasury.

Haven, Fl., has closed at least 10 stores, including South Lakeland, North Lakeland, Ormond Beach, Sebring, Bradenton and Clermont, Fl., reducing the chain to 6l locations.

The Scotty's in Palm Coast, Fl., will close after a Home Depot opens locally in the fall.

Overall, Scotty's will redevelop more than a dozen larger stores in Florida and one in Savannah, Ga., into the new format.

The chain already has downsized stores in three Florida cities and leased the remaining space to Staples.

Lanahan officials said they have the potential to ship nearly 800 containers of lumber to Cuba over the next year.

Feisty N.Y. Yard Goes Under

Singer-Denman Lumber Co., Boiceville, N.Y.. has shut down after financial troubles and an ongoing dispute with a neighboring supermarket.

Singer-Denman owner Kevin F. Scanlan made news when he blocked the entrance to Boiceville Supermarket with U-Haul trucks, alleging the market was violating a lease agreement by selling hardware products.

Scanlan closed the business June I and posted a letter to customers in his doorway which said he'd dropped "over a million dollars" and that no lending institution would give money to his nearly 50-year-old business.

Scanlan, who also operates a Subway sandwich shop in the plaza, said business at Singer-Denman has "gone down the tubes" since the Sept. I I attacks.

"We were trying to refinance the store and I got turned down by the U.S. Small Business Administration," he said.

He also cited the big boxes as a mitigating factor. "There's no doubt that Lowe's and Home Depot put the final nail in my coffin, " he said.

The dispute with the supermarket centered around a 30-year-old agreement over Edwards Lane; Scanlan owns the short road and under the agreement allows the market to use it.

The agreement stated the supermarket was not allowed to sell products that also were sold by the hardware store; Scanlan said the supermarket broke the pact by selling items like riki torches, gardening implements and hand tools.

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To Get New Dealer

James Bellard, owner, B&B Builders, Opelousas, La., plans to redevelop an old Opelousas wholesale drug building into a lumberyard.

"It will be called Opelousas Lumber Yard. We want to do something new," Bellard said. His company will sell lumber exclusively to contractors and special accounts.

Bellard, who also owns Helping Hands Rental Inc., Opelousas, paid $75,000 for the 35,000-sq. ft. building.

An opening date has not yet been announced.