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Catering manager gets a chance to shape customers' lives Careers, E-6 PPT" i i section LISA HILDEBRAND News Notes USENESS Contact Business editor Lisa Hildebrand at (920) 431-8221 or lhildebrgreenbaypressgazette.com Green Bay Press-Gazette Sunday, February 13, 2005 China scraps ffir recyc ki paper ing for other U.S. recycled products, mainly fibers, metallics and plastics, said Jerry Powell, the editor of Resource Recycling, a monthly magazine for municipal recyclers. "China's key to all three," Powell said. Exports of U.S. scrap of all kinds grew to $8.4 billion last year, according to the Commerce Department.

That's more than double the 1999 total. half the paper produced in the United States. In addition to improvements in the tactics of waste-paper collection, recycling is gaining from China's suddenly ravenous appetite for U.S. scrap paper. Its hunger for recycled paper is fueled by its own shortage of wood pulp and a mushrooming need for boxes in which to ship its exports.

U.S. papermakers, who need scrap themselves, are struggling to compete against China's mills, which made off with about 6 million tons of American scrap paper in 2004. That's from a total U.S. paper recovery of about 50 million tons. Mills in India, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea also are ardent bidders for American scrap paper.

"American mills are scared. They're pulling out World demand sends product prices soaring Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON Americans are recycling paper at an all-time high, recapturing 300 pounds per person each year. That's about their hair," said Mark Ar-zoumanian, the editor of Official Board Markets, an industry price newsletter. "It's as though we're a Third World country, providing raw materials to manufacturing countries," fretted Stanley Lancey, an economist at the American Forest Paper Association, a Washington-based industry trade group. Recovery rates are steady but prices are soar Scrap paper is now the top American export by volume, according to the paper industry.

It's growing faster than traditional U.S. exports such as advanced technology products, farm products, manufacturing, and goods and services. What's keeping U.S. and Chinese papermakers stocked with scrap is the eagerness of Americans to recycle. 1 1 met- fk KM More pay someone else to fill out forms Taxpayers enjoy peace of mind Gannett News Service Wayne Baughman isn't about to do his own taxes.

A consultant on corporate training and public i i I I j-" i i Rustic Rail ready to fire up the grill The large log building at U.S. 41 and Velp Avenue in Howard the Rustic Rail opens Tuesday The two-story restaurant specializes in wood-fired grill and rotisserie items, including steaks, chicken and fish. It also features a microbrewery with four house beers and a root beer. Mike and Cindy Haverkorn, Rob Ser-vais, Neal Van Boxtel and Greg Kamps own the restaurant. Steve Mellberg, a 1994 graduate of Green Bay Notre Dame Academy, is general manager.

Each floor seats about 300 people, but the second-floor banquet facility won't open until summer, Mellberg said. J.R. Schoenfeld, who owns Chives restaurant in Suamico, is the opening executive chef. Mick Jadin has down-' sized and opened The Soup'r Bowl in downtown Kewaunee after selling his interest in the Birchwood Inn to his partner Lisa Schaller. "I wanted smaller," said Jadin, older brother of Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce President Paul Jadin.

The 20-seat restaurant is in a former Taco Bell at the Town Mart next to Harbor Lights Lodge. About 80 percent of its business is carry-out. "Our focus is that we know people want to get in and out quick," said Jadin, adding that the majority of his business is during the lunch hour. The Soup'r Bowl offers three homemade soups each day, with one always achilL "We rotate our menu so that you might see something once every week to 10 days," he said. The restaurant also serves sandwiches on homemade breads such as marble rye and cracked pepper.

"It's not just your basic white and wheat breads," he said. It is currently open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., but Jadin expects to increase to seven days a week during the summer, when he will add ice cream to the menu. Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is celebrating its grand opening this week by donating 50 cents from every burger sold Monday through Sunday to the local Salvation Army The new restaurant at the Shoppes at the Village on South Oneida Street in Ashwaubenon features 22 varieties of burgers, all of which can be made with veggie or turkey burgers. Ken Harju of Ashwaubenon has taken over the former Arthur's Steakhouse, 1605 Fort Howard De Pere.

It's now Long Shots Bar Grill. Harju and his son, Donny, did some remodeling and now serve lunch and dinner seven days a week. "We have a good crowd," said Donny Harju, adding that their place offers "classic rock and a little bit of everything else on the jukebox." If you're looking for a unique way to celebrate Valentine's Day on Monday, stop by Long Shots is hosting a pajama party "Ladies in PJs drink free from 8 to 11," Donny Harju said. Arthur's owners Kevin and Susan Burkel recently relocated to Kettle Creek Crossing in Belle-vue. Lisa Hildebrand is the Press-Gazette's business editor.

She can be reached at (920) 431-8221 or lhildebrandgreenbaypress gazette.com. speaking, Baughman realized several years ago his business had grown beyond his ability to fill out his tax return. "It was growing, getting multifaceted, and I was having a lot of unknowns coming in that I wasn't sure what to do with," he said. So the Cincinnati resident hired Tax Tyme in West Chester, Ohio, to do his taxes, and today he wouldn't have it any other way. "I don't want to mess with it anymore.

I'd rather pay somebody for the peace of mind that it's done correctly" he said. More and more Americans are opting to have their taxes done by a paid preparer. Of more than 130 million tax returns filed in 2002, (the latest figure available) roughly 55 percent were signed by a paid preparer. That's 72.5 million returns, nearly 16 million more than 10 years earlier. Taxpayers looking for someone to do their taxes face a range of options, from tax preparation services such as Block or Jackson Hewitt to enrolled agents, CPAs and tax.

lawyers. The costs vary and can be expensive. Most people seeking a tax preparer for the first time See Forms, E-5 Randy Bitter, a machine operator in the napkin department at Georgia-Pacific's Day Street mill in Green Bay, trims a paper core. Patrick FerronPress-Gazette Georgia-Pacific steps up safety efforts Company sets goal of slashing injuries by 50 percent in 2005 Hand Safety Program Georgia-Pacific 18 domestic tissue, towel and pulp mills are striving to reduce hand injuries by 50 percent, or 300 injuries, in 2005. The mills have an annual accident rate of 1 .6 per 1 00 workers, with the majority of those being injuries to hands.

That compares with 4.7 per 1 00 in the paper industry and 5.4 per 1 00 in overall manufacturing, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those are 2003 statistics, the latest available. Safety managers from the mills, led by Chris Gobris of Green Bay's Broadway mill, established three areas of focus: Concentrate on employees with less than 5 years experience. Improve the job-hazard analysis process.

Provide easy-to-read and easy-to-follow information about lock outtag out requirements. Employees must place locks and 1 tags on machines to prevent someone from turning them on while repairs or maintenance are being performed. work too fast and being on the night shift" made a mistake. With his left hand he was using the onoff switch to jog the machine, and with his right he was threading the paper. One finger on his right hand got too close to cutting blades and in an instant his finger tip was sliced off nearly to the first knuckle.

"It was a clean cut. Luckily, there was no mangling," Bitter said. "The hand surgeon was able to do a pretty good job of leaving me with some extension." Hansen's injury was less traumatic, but only slightly. Unlike Bitter, he had more than 30 years on the job when the accident happened last February, but he too was working on a machine that he knew less about than he thought. Hansen said he had operated similar banding machines before but was unaware that a clutch had been removed in an upgrade.

He tagged the machine to prevent someone from turning it on and assumed the clutch would allow him to jiggle the stuck packages without incident. See Safety, E-5 BY RICHARD RYMAN rrymangreenbaypressgazette.com The kind of accidents that happened to Randy Bitter and Harlan Hansen are happening less often at Georgia-Pacific, and a new companywide safety program is designed to eliminate them altogether. Bitter lost the tip of a finger and Hansen had a finger broken in on-the-job accidents. Chris Gobris, safety manager at the Broadway mill in Green Bay, said about 25 percent of injuries in Georgia-Pacific's U.S. mills are hand injuries.

Charged with finding ways to reduce injuries, a team of safety managers from around the country, led by Gobris, decided that was the area where they could make the fastest improvement. On average, the Georgia-Pacific mills are already well below industry and national injury rates, but Gobris refuses to accept that zero isn't an achievable goal. For 2005, they are working toward a 50 percent reduction in injuries. "A fifty percent goal is a stretch, but we would like to make the point we've given (the Pay the preparer More taxpayers are using paid preparers to do their taxes. Percentage of people who paid for tax preparation: 55.8 60 1 mills) the tools," he said.

Bitter, a machine operator in the napkin department at the Day Street mill in Green Bay, and Hansen, who works in the towel department at the Broadway mill, attest it's a worthy goal. When the safety managers crunched their numbers to determine the most at-risk employees, someone like Bitter would have shown up on their radar. When the accident occurred two years ago, he was a relatively new employee, working a night shift around midnight on a machine with which he wasn't thoroughly familiar. He was working on a napkin folder. The paper web broke and had to be rethreaded.

Bitter "being practical, maybe trying to 55 -r 45o II. 85 90 95 00 02 Source SOt Bulletins Gannett News Service Procter Gamble line targets post-Pampers kids rv Kandoo, a line of hand soaps and wipes meant for children who are out of diapers. The line hit stores across the country just before Christmas. It comes at the same time as fierce competitor Kimberly-Clark maker of Huggies, introduced a line of washcloths, body washes and other personal-care products, following a similar strategy as With millions of dollars invested in their biggest brands in case. Pampers big companies want to keep consumers using them for longer periods of time and for a wider variety of tasks.

"It makes good sense for them to try to keep those kids as long as they can," said Tom Vierhile, executive editor of Productscan Online, an' upstate New York firm that tracks new-product introductions. "But boy, 7 years old, that may be pushing it." Pampers is biggest brand, with more than $5 billion in annual sales. But Pampers has moved aggressively to go beyond diapers and wipes. Last summer, it introduced Feel 'n Learn, a diaper that featured a new liner that keeps wetness against the baby's skin for a short period of time. Letting the child feel the wetness made the diaper more useful for potty training, said.

The next step was Kandoo, which hopes create loyal consumers of those already out of Pampers. The line includes a pop-up tub of flushable wipes, a stool that helps children reach the sink and a hand soap. "What we learned on Kandoo is that we really hadn't helped Mom or the toddler complete the task." said Jane Wildman. vice president of global baby and toddler care at "Existing products did not meet the needs of a young, potty-trained child." Gannett News Service CINCINNATI, Ohio Baby care isn't just for babies at Procter Gamble Co. anymore.

Starting with new training pants and extending into wipes and hand soaps, is trying to stretch the age of children who can use its products to age 7 and perhaps even older. "We'll exploit those opportunities whether it's up, sideways or down," said Kirk Perry, a vice president of North American Baby Care at "We'll go wherever moms want us." The newest vehicle is Drew Hornback, 6, uses the Kandoo stool and handwash in his parents' home. Procter Gamble is selling new training pants and soaps to extend its market to children as old as 7. Gannett News Service VIit our" Wh itC imwiw. Brasnbaypraasgaxtttt.com 4.