Titan Studs Opens Central Office

Titan Studs has opened a centralized sales office in Grants Pass. Or.. to market production for Lewis County Forest Products, Winlock, Wa., and Mason County Forest Products, Shelton, Wa.

Production for the firm's three sawmills had been handled from three different locations. "The company grew at a fast rate and, three years down the road, recognized a need to streamline," said Josh Dean, sales manager.

Dean is joined in sales by Crista Yonker, formerly with Burns Lumber. and Faith Dimmick, previously with D.R. Johnson. Remy Morris is sales coordinator and Mandy Clark is in sales support.

Eventually, the office will handle sales and billing for all three mills.

Palco To Sell Scotia Homes

Pacific Lumber Co.'s hometownScotia, Ca.-is one of the nation's last company-owned towns, where generations of lumbermen and their families have rented their homes from their employer since the late 1800s. Now. Pelco has decided to sell its 270 homes.

Some of the town's working class citizens are worried that their houses will be bought up from under them. Yet, Pnlco president and c.e.o. Robert Manne promises that he is determined to make the houses affordable.

Manne has formed a team dedicar ed to the project, headed by Dennis

Wood, vice president of strategic planning and implementation. Among its tasks are working to rezone the area from unclassified to residential and identifying sources of financial assistance for residents.

Wood would also like to attract more tourism and business to the area, to strengthen residents' property values.

Still, residents will face a number of other issues, including rvhether to be annexed or join the city of Rio Dell, and whether to form a homeowners association or become a community services district.

Hardwood Course Goming

For reportedly the fint time in its 50-year history, the Western Hardwood Association will help conduct a National Hardwood Lumber Association-approved grading school May 9-12 in Portlan4 Or.

NHLA chief inspector Mark Horne will teach the first half of the four-day school on eastern hardwoods. Ludwig Rabold, WHA's long-time instructor on western hardwoods, will teach the second half of the course, emphasizing the new alder grading rules that will appear in the upcoming 2m7 NHLA grade nrle book.

Grade sticks are required. All other materials will be provided.

Tuition for WHA or NHLA members is $35O for the fust person from a company, $250 for additional employees. Non-members are $450 and $350, respectively. For companies that have never been a part of the association, WHA is offering a first-year membership special of $150, which includes free registration at the annual meeting in I ^s Vegas, Nv., in June.

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