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GLLCA 2025 Conference



April 24-25, 2026
Gateway Lodge
4103 County Rd B
Land O'Lakes, WI 54540
715-547-3321


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The GLLCA is an organization of professional log builders and others interested in the art of handcrafting log structures. "PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN THE HANDCRAFTED TRADITION."







GLLCA ANNUAL MEETING & CONFERENCE 2026
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"ATTENTION"

I would like all of you to mark your calendars right now for Friday, April 24th and Saturday April 25th, 2026 for the GLLCA Annual General Meeting so you won't schedule anything else for these dates!

You won't want to miss this conference.  Mary, Dan and Cameron Wait hosted our 2025 AGM and Conference; and it was such a great success, they have graciously agreed to host our 2026 AGM and Conference again.  I want to really thank May Wait for all of her hard work on putting together the 2025 AGM and Conference.

Mary, Dan, Cameron Wait and I think Matt Delgado had a hand in providing a very interesting conference.  We had presentations on Kerry Rabenold, Emeritus Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University talking aout "Net Zero Log Home," Danny Deetz (from Stihl), and Dan Finke (Nelson's Ace Hardware) gave a demo on chainsaws, Jesse Woods of Jesse Woods Lake Country Log and Cedar gave a talk on Boodge Wood Treat, Jeff Simons of H-Window Compay gave a presentation on "H-Windows," Greg Baas of Baas Inspection Agency gave a talk on "Building Codes," Greg Harant of Composite Panel Systems, LLC gave a presentation on "Epitomie Composite Foundation Panels," Perry Camodeca, Sr. and Perry Camodeca, Jr. of Midwest Certified Insurance gave a talk on "Current Insurance issues impacting construction and manufacturing sectors," and Michael Koeppel of Milwaukee Tools Designer, Chainsaw carver gave a demonstration on "Milwaukee Tool/Chainsaw carving," and the best attraction of the 2025 conference was the presentation on "Robotic Solutions, Inc." put on by Nick Bently CCO of Robotic Solutions, Inc. and Todd Rathcamp of RSI - Software for wood manufacturing the the "ABB Robot Demo: Design to log Panels" done by Cameron Wait and Matt Delgado of Frontier Builders, Inc.

If you missed that conference, you really missed a lot of good information.  Everyone talked about it for the whole conference.

So this should tell you that our 2026 AGM and Conference will be even better.  I am sure Cameron and Matt will come up with even more exciting things about Robotic Designs and usage.

So, again, I ask uou to mark your calendars for Friday, April 24th and Saturday, April 25th, 2026, and don't miss out on what the future will be for log home builders.

Kay Sellman
GLLCA Business Manager
612-590-7133

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