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Wanke Cascade president was a leader in flooring, “green” products and friendship
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Jim W. Johnson, 3/25/54-9/18/11[/caption]
Every time I talked to Jim Johnson, I got stronger. The first time was at a panel discussion during a Surfaces trade show, where a past-president of Teragren LLC was to speak.
I was a Teragren bamboo flooring distributor, Jim was Teragren’s West Coast sales manager. When he sat down at my table, I was looking for a misplaced receipt, worried that an attendant would be around to verify that I had paid to get in.
“Why did you pay?,” Jim pressed. “You’re a distributor here to support a vendor. You are entitled to just walk in.”
Jim W. Johnson, 3/25/54-9/18/11[/caption]
Every time I talked to Jim Johnson, I got stronger. The first time was at a panel discussion during a Surfaces trade show, where a past-president of Teragren LLC was to speak.
I was a Teragren bamboo flooring distributor, Jim was Teragren’s West Coast sales manager. When he sat down at my table, I was looking for a misplaced receipt, worried that an attendant would be around to verify that I had paid to get in.
“Why did you pay?,” Jim pressed. “You’re a distributor here to support a vendor. You are entitled to just walk in.”