Engineered Wood Journal - Spring 2009 - (Page 10) Dateline APA Potlatch, Calvert Execs Elected to APA Board Tom Temple, vice president of wood products at Potlatch Corporation, and Doug Calvert, president of Calvert Company, Inc., were elected recently to the APA Board of Trustees. Temple served on the APA Board from 2003 to 2007, most recently as vice chairman, while at Canfor Corporation. Calvert has served for 16 years on the APA Glulam Tom Temple Management Committee, including a term as chairman. He also served four years as chair of the APA International Market Subcommittee. The elections, which fill recent vacancies, return the governing body to 16 members. quarterly data reporting, reduction in the number of competition categories, and creation of safety innovation and safest member company awards. The annual competition henceforth also will be restricted to APA members, although safety data will continue to be sought from the entire industry. In keeping with the goal of broadening recognition of the competition winners, the latest honorees also were recognized during the Chairman’s Dinner at the Association’s 2008 annual meeting. The winners were: • Boise Cascade’s Willamina, Oregon, veneer mill; • Georgia-Pacific Wood Products’ Corrigan, Texas; Fordyce, Ark.; Gloster, Miss.; and Madison, Ga., plywood plants; • LP’s Athens, Ga., OSB facility and Wilmington, N.C., I-joist and LVL plant; and • Timber Products Company’s Yreka, California veneer plant. Annual Meeting Set for Nov. 14-16 on Amelia Island, Florida APA’s 71st annual meeting, set for Nov. 14-16 at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida, will return to a Saturday through Monday schedule, which is a more popular format according to APA attendee surveys. The meeting last year began on Sunday and ran through Tuesday. Located approximately 30 minutes from Jacksonville International Airport, Amelia Island is the southernmost of the Sea Islands, a chain of barrier islands along the eastern U.S. seaboard. The hotel features 444 guestrooms, each with a private balcony; four restaurants; 1.5 miles of dune-lined beachfront; and an 18-hole PGA championship golf course just outside the front door. The venue was booked prior to the economic downturn and could not be changed without incurring substantial penalty. More information about the resort and meeting will be sent soon to all APA and Engineered Wood Technology Association members. APA Mill Safety Awards Program Redesigned Several changes were made recently to APA’s annual Mill Safety Awards Program designed to elevate its prestige within the industry and to broaden recognition of the annual winners. The changes were recommended by a new APA Mill Safety Competition Awards Program Standing Committee and approved by the Board of Trustees. The committee is chaired by APA Vice Chairman Jeff Wagner, LP, and comprised of leading APA member company safety professionals, including Pat Wright, Roseburg Forest Products Co.; Mark Dicarlo, RoyOMartin; Bill Sellen, Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC; Blu Santee, Plum Creek; Keith Harned, LP; and Christine Alford, Hood Industries, Inc. Changes include implementation of a severity-weighted Time Incidence Rate (TIR), annual versus 10 Engineered Wood Journal • Spring 2009
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