Event covers I.D. theft, cybercrime
Washington State University will host a two-day conference focused on preventing identity theft and cybercrime.
Presenting the keynote address for the Oct. 25-26 conference will be Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna.
Others taking part are Microsoft child safety expert Linda Criddle and Scott Jacobs, assistant director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
The event will be at the Mirabeau Park Hotel in Spokane Valley.
To register, go to http://capps.wsu.edu/ conferences/cybercrime/.
Longview, Wash.
Longview Fibre closing sawmill
Longview Fibre Co. plans to close its sole sawmill operation, near Leavenworth, in the next 60 days, the company said Wednesday.
The sawmill, built in 1991, employs about 100 people. The mill’s yearly production capacity has averaged 65 million to 70 million board feet of lumber products. The company said it intends to process the remaining log inventory into marketable lumber as the mill phases into full closure, scheduled in December.
“Production of lumber is not a core part of our business as we move forward with our previously announced operating plan,” Richard H. Wollenberg, president, chairman and CEO, said in a statement.
Longview Fibre continues to seek a buyer for the sawmill as part of its previously announced plan to potentially sell certain assets.
Longview Fibre is a diversified timberlands manager and a specialty paper and container manufacturer.
Washington
Corn harvest off, soybean crop up
September showers came too late for cornfields in the Midwest, lowering the nationwide forecast a bit and also raising prices.
Still, last month’s rains were timely for the soybean crop, now on track for a record harvest, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. The monthly crop report had good news, too, for wheat growers, who are seeing the best prices in a decade.
Early harvest results for corn showed that the hot, dry summer curtailed yields more than expected across the central Corn Belt, the department said. Analysts reduced the corn forecast by 2 percent, to 10.9 billion bushels.