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lenc because of falling j)riccs. dwindling demami and foreign compctition.

Lumber company fires 121

High ichoot *enlor» Dina Ralaton, lett. and Jasmino Olyael wotk on thelr sidewalk art Saturday ketplace during the annual Vla Arte, an Itallan Street Pafntirig Featlval. In Bakenfleld, Callf.

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BOISI: — Stimson Lumber Co.. *a privatcly bek) wood. pro<luci.s company that ossus 500.000 acrcs uf foa*st in Idaho. Montana. Orcgon and Washington. is firing 121 workers as it shuttcrs a sawmill in Cocur d’A-

The Atlas mili In the northcrn dalio timbcr and resort t«vvn prodneed pilic lx»anl. molding. redar boards, dccking and aher kłiids of worki produets for the luiilding industry. li will cbse Dcc. 31.

Idahos ćongrcssinnal dolega-tion hlamcd the job lusses on chcap Canadian sofiwood im* perts that hnvc bccn at the ccaier ofahittcrycars-ołd trade dLfIUtc. •

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Northwest sawmill to an-ttotmee rcrontly it was firing workers hecausc of difiicult operat ingconditkms.

Iloisc Cascade. a Holsc-hascd wnod-prtHlucts comjwny. sald Wednesday it‘s laying tiff 70 workers at a Li dramie. Ort*., sawmill hccsmsc natural gas priceshave madę it toocoslly to run gas-fired Imilcrs.

.Stimson hlaimd its uoes on intpons and alternatiw wood woducts mhbing its (iietir tlA-lenemill of business.

"Stimson is no longer able to economicallycompete willi import and aiteriialiee wood produets to its pinc and cerlar Products." Ci:t) Andrew Miller said in a statement releasetl In-day. "We face dwindling market demami and pricing."

Hordami. Orc.-hascd Ślini-son. whkh nms sepantte snuł mills in Coeur d'Alene and l*riest ltiver. asweil as in I lauser foliowing its biiyout o. tliat fa-cłllty in 2001. plaas to uppiy tur lYade Adjustment Asslslance front the U.S. I\*ponmcnt of tabor. That federnł program helps workers who lose tbeir jobs lxfcau.se of Increnserl cotn-petition or jobs bcing ntovcd outside the United States.

Immedfatdy afler the dosure announcement. tliree mcm* bers of Idabo*s congrcssional delegation. Sen. Ltrry Craig. Sen. Mikę Crapo and Hep. Hotch Otter. all Iłepuhlicnns. lambast-ed wliat tliey caUctl the rcsult of a spike in softwood lumber im-pnrts from Canada.

"We will .siipport your peti-tion for 'lYntlc Adjustment Assistanec to help willi this tnuisition and will also work to help outside workers. such as loggers. wito are not dlrectly employerl iry Stimson but will l>e impaeled." the thrcc said in a statement.

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Search-aml-mscue eoordina-tor Dong Meyer .said Thunsday nights rcscuc probably savcd lite lift* of the 71 -ycar-old hunter, who was dragged after his liorse slipped in a imtddy spot.

"It ended ui> nad the guy spcnl the niglit in tlierc he wouldnl luive madę it." he said.

Meyer sald the hunter, whose namc hc dklnt know. was with an outfitter in a remotc pan of the Teton Wikl«’mess when the aeddent happened Ihursday aftemoon. The outlitter provld-ed initial niedical carc. helping to stahllizc the hunter wlule a helicoptcr from listem Idalio Hegional MedicaJ Center in klalio Polis raced to try to reaclt a landing arna during dayllght.

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