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Come AlongVolume 2010 Issue 4
A letter from Chapter President,
Hello all,
Since our last newsletter our organization has seen a few changes. We received news that Mike Carrol will be leaving us as he has tak-en a position back in his home state of Colorado. We are happy for him and his family as he takes on this promotion and hope that he enjoys this change. Debbie Smith’s ex-assistant Serena Wood will be beginning her training to take over the reponsiblities of the secre-tary of our chapter, under our official secretary and treasurer Dennis Fleck, at our March meeting. Debbie will continue this training for a 6 month period. Jake Warren has left his position with R & S and has joined with Gates & Controls at their Portland branch. He intends to remain on our board and the group will be discussing the logistics of this at our next meeting. Speaking of meetings, we had a smaller gathering than our aver-age winter meeting but it turned out to be a very warm group and an enjoyable event. Alex Weisensee has the educational meetings down to a science and everyone in attendance walked away with a better knowledge of the upcoming health care requirements and points to consider for each of their company estimators. The din-ner held at Elephants Garden Room was cozy and comfortable. A special thanks to Dennis Fleck and my wife Ramona for making it a memorable event. In keeping with Denny Wade’s recipe for success in his recent meeting, Town & Country Fence, Metro Access Control, and our local chapter all pitched in cash for envelopes handed out to the group as door prizes. Maybe the biggest news is the unofficial acceptance of the ap-pointment of Dick Boyle to our chapter’s president elect position. His experience with the AFA will make him a great choice to lead us in the upcoming years. I hope to see you at the Las Vegas show the second week in Feb-ruary and hope that we can all be in attendance at our upcoming local educational meeting. Let’s all work at building up this event and get as many of our fellow members to join us as possible.
John Krueger
PRESIDENTJOHN KRUEGER
Metro Acess Control503-595-4716
PAST PRESIDENTHAROLD HARTLEY
Northwest Fence Co. 541-426-4259
SECRETARY/TREASURERDEBBIE SMITHABC Fence Co. 541-447-6780
RICHARD BOYLE Dick’s Evergreen Fence &
Deck, Inc. 503 640-7700
DENNIS FLECK Town & Country Fence Co.
503 655-2055 [email protected]
SHAWN TOMLINSON Gates & Controls
425 251-1020 shawn@gatesandcontrols.
com
DENNY WADE Willamette Fence
503 285-2761 denny@willamettefence.
com
JAKE WARREN Gates and Controls
503 331-2321jake@gatesandcontrols.
com
ALEX WEISENSEEPacific Fence & Wire
503-659-6881 [email protected]
DON BOOSE Builders Fence Company
253-535-5500 [email protected]
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Today’s chain-link offers consumers morevariety and value than ever before.Whether you want to fence in your pool,protect your children and pets, or keep intrudersat bay, chain-link is the perfect choice for along lasting, relatively inexpensive fence.Residential chain-link fencing is availablecolor-coated and metal-coated. Color-coatedstyles are available in black, brown and green,blending into the surroundings and providingfabric that is softer to the touch. Metal-coatedchain-link has the traditional silver look andprotects your family and property.In addition to new colors, chain-linkfencing is also available in updated styles thatincorporate square posts and elegant post capsto create a more stately look.“Today’s chain-link fences are strong,durable, attractive and last a long time, manyup to 20 years,” explained Bill Ullrich,former President of the Chain-Link FenceManufacturers Institute (CLFMI). To ensurethe long life of your chain-link fence, CLFMIrecommends you purchase fencing that meetsor exceeds quality standards issued by theAmerican Society for Testing and Materials(ASTM).
The ASTM guidelines suggest three tofive feet high chain-link fences should beconstructed of the following: fabric that is atleast 11 1/2 gauge and 2 1/8” in mesh size withtop rails that are 1 3/8” in diameter, 17 gaugeand have .055” in wall thickness. Line postsshould be 1 5/8” in diameter, 17 gauge and.065 in wall thickness.According to Ullrich, also a member of theAmerican Fence Association, fences that meetthese guidelines are 55 percent stronger andcost only 10 percent more.Even with all the recent productinnovations, chain-link remains the lowcost fencing leader. According to Ullrich,“Metal-coated chain-link is considerably lessexpensive, about half the price of wood fence,a quarter of the cost of ornamental picket, andabout 80 percent less than PVC fencing.”Color-coated chain-link, while a little moreexpensive than metal-coated, is still quite costeffective when compared to other fencingmaterials.Chain-link fences, always a popularfencing choice, are much improved these days.Today’s chain-link still gives you security for arelatively low price, and now offers manychoices.
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Residential or Commercial License? Do you know the difference? Update your homeowners contract….are
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AFA Winter DinnerAFA Winter Dinner
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Winter 2010 Educational Wrap-up
We listened as Chris Avery and Eric Aaberg of Montgomery & Graham painted a grim future for small business owners as they gave our group the ins and outs of the up-coming health care plan. The main guar-antee? That our costs will go up to insure our employees. Possibly the scariest part was when we were told that our com-panies may be taxed for providing too good of insurance for our people. We all walked away terrified but certainly more aware of how these changes will affect our operation.
The second class was a slightly different format than our usual as Alex Weisensee of Pacific Fence, David Edie of Town & Coun-try Fence, and John Krueger of Met-ro Access Control led a session on project estimating. Their PowerPoint presentation warned of estimating pitfalls found in material sales, fence
installation, and gate automation. After the presentation a round table discus-sion was held with many stories that showed the importance of a well trained estimator, hopefully we all learned from each others mistakes.
The best part is we not only received free training but all in attendance re-ceived documented hours of training for our CCB licensing requirements.
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August 12th & 13th
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Western Chapter of the Canadian Fence Industry Association and
Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Fence Association
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We can use your help!
We’re looking for the following:-Your “Project of the Quarter” entry.-Pictures of fence (backstops, wood, chainlink and iron)-Feature articles, what do you have to offer this industry?-Suggestions of potential advertisers.-Recommendations of improvement of this newsletter.-More recipients to send this newsletter to.-Thanks to Jake Warren, Denny Wade, Debbie Smith and Jennifer West for their input in this newsletter.
Send them all to:[email protected]
-ASTM Standards: www.astm.org-AFA Website: www.americanfenceassociation.com-AFA PNWC Website: http://www.americanfenceassociation.com/ Members/Chapters/PacificNorthwestChapter/ tabid/348/Default.aspx-AFA Facebook: www.facebook.com/americanfenceassociation-AFA PNWC Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Pacific-NW-Chap ter-of-The-American-Fence-Associa tion/169092446136-Pool Standards: www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/pool.pdf-AFA Newsletter: http://www.americanfenceassociation.com/ LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=pty%2bDm90KlY% 3d&tabid=382-Call before you dig: www.call811.com-NW Chapter Shutterfly: http://fencelines.shutterfly.com/
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Answer: Can you guess who this is? Debbie Smith, ABC Fence.
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