ASSOCIATION

Northwestern Lumber Association elected Bob Egan, Lampert Yards, Saint Paul, Mn., chairman of the board.

Other new officers are lst vice chairman Jeff Reinhardt, Interstate Building Supply, Cannon Falls, Mn.; 2nd vice chair Trent Peabodv. Lumber

Mart West, Grand Forks, N.D.; treasurer Ron Enter, Wright Lumber & Millwork, Buffalo, Mn.; chairman-atlarge Wayne Briggs, Crane Johnson Lumber, Fargo, N.D.; associate director Dave Charpentier, Midwest Lumber Minnesota, Stillwater, Mn., and state directors Stephen McCarron,

McCarron's Building Center, Forest Lake, Mn., and Brad Kranz, Salem Lumber. Salem. S.D.

Indiana Lumber & Builders' Suppty Association's annual meeting and members' party is set for Dec. 13 at Hyatt Regency Downtown, Indianapolis, In.

Louisiana Building Material

Dealers Association will host a Mardi Gras party Dec. 8 at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, La.

After appetizers and cocktails, attendees will tour Blaine Kern Studios, which creates sculptures and floats for Mardi Gras. Dinner will folIow.

North American Deck & Railing Association elected new officers during its Oct. l0 annual meeting at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, Md.

The association's new president is Bill Ross, Fiberon, New London, N.C. Newly elected directors are Brent Gwatney, MoistureShield, Springfield, Ar.; Laura Kueny, DecksDirect.com, Saint Louis Park, Mn.; Lainie Sleppin, Mid-State Lumber, Branchburg, N.J.;

Matt Breyer, Breyer Construction, Reading, Pa., and Gus DelaCruz, Barrett Contracting, Millstone Township, N.J.

Mid-America Lumbermens Association will host its winter meetings Jan. l0-11 in Columbia. Mo.. and Jan. 24-25 in Atchison, Ks.

Northwestern Lumber Association will hold its annual building products expo for Jan. 14-15 at Rivers Edge Convention Center, St. Cloud, Mi,

Lake States Lumber Association will hold its annual winter meeting Jan. l7-18 at Radisson Hotel & Conference Center, Green Bay, Wi.

1969, during which he also served two terms as chairman of National Lumber & Building Materials Dealers Association's State Managing Officers Council.

Glen Pieczynski, 71 , retired owner of Linden True Value Hardware, Linden. Mi.. died Oct.5 in Linden.

He and his wife, Judy, owned and operated the store for 32 years.

Ronald Dean Hrabak. 64. former manager of Hrabak Lumber Co., Chelsea. Ia.. died Oct.2 in Chelsea following a sudden illness.

In later years, he assisted his son, Kyle Hrabak at Hrabak Lumber's yard in Toledo, Ia.

Gus P. Tsioutsias, 88, retired Bay City, Mi., lumberyard manager, Oct. 3 in Bay City.

After serving in the U. S. Army Air Corps. during World War II and then running his own construction firm for 27 years, he managed Hirschfield Home Center from 1974 to 1984 and King Lumber Co. from 1984 to 1994.

Mark Allen Braswell. 50. lumber buyer for Burruss Lumber Co., Lynchburg, Va., died Oct. 4 in Lynchburg.

Edwin T. Brown,93, retired foreman for DelSignore Lumber Co., Bayard, W.V., died Oct. 3 in Oakland, Md.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Robert Lawrence "Bobtt Craft, 94, former executive vice president of the Indiana Lumber & Builders Supply Association, died Sept. 23 in Indianapolis, In.

He graduated from Butler University in 1940. During World War II, he served as an officer in the Army Medical Administrative Corps in Europe.

He worked at ILBSA from 1950 to

DECK EXPO landed at Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Md., Oct. 10-12. [1] Mike Rodenhaus, Dan lvancic. t2l Shannon Huneycutt, Dan Grebenc, Carol Kelly. [3] Brooke Whiteside, Alan Oakes, Rachel Avara. [4] Craig Jacks, David Elenbaum, Stuart Dimery. [5] Rick Ralston, Jim Miller. [6] Nancy Hamilton, Karl Sedlarz. [7] Scott Ricke, David Jacobson. [8] Glenn Eberle, Bill Tucker. [9] Adam Gangemi, Doug Reid, Katie Eberly. [10] Kim Drew, Charlie

Jourdain, Jessica Hewitt, Carter Welch. [11] Ulf Konradsen, Wayne Hilton. [12] Bill Schaffer, Lee Robinson. [13] Scott McCrawley, Tom Heard. [14] Brian Orchard, Phil Lail. [15] Mike Coffey, Chris Johnson. [16] Paul Houck, Ted Davis. [17] John Forbis, Ralph Leyh. [18] Gary Roth, Erica Savage, Tom Curtin. [19] Tom Horvat. [20] John McGill, Bill Griffith. [21] Gary Bernstein, Ken Bernstein. [22] Erik Kiilunen.

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MORE DECK EXPO (continued from previous page) in Baltimore: [1] Joao Alexandre Malinski, Lucas Lundin, Romel Bezerra. 1Zi Cfriis Kollwitz, Kbri panitt. I3l Jay P_eterson, Danell Hungerford. [4] Terry Brady,-Brett McCutcheon, Dustin Schro'edei [5] Paul Cavanelli, Dean Place. -[6] St'epnen-HlcNally, Chuck Anson, Tim Luttrell. l7l yVa$g. {19!t, Cindy Miller, Coy Green, Jerome Zerioby. [8] Vern Vincent. t9l Frairti Butterfield, P,eter Krihak, Robert Simon. [10] Tom Zimmeiman. Brian Bejo'w, Eric Yg{f, Sleyg^,Sqhulz t_JllChantale Pitts, Biad Finck. [12]Geratd Heatherington, Witl Prichard. {131 Cathy Schaefer, Travis Jungers, Kelli tjerfen. [14] Lisa Martin, Jamie Kreiser. ['15] Flo Sanchez, Brent Gwatney,l.C. Rentschldr. 1t61 (irf Hammond, Mark Smith, Huck_DeVenzio, Erin Canosa. [17] Shawn O'Keefe, Lauren Booth. [1g] Joe Dilio, David Kenworthy. [19] Joe Belden, D-avid Peterson, John Burkhart.