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Winter is over, but you wouldn't know it by the March 31 snowstorm here in Southern New Jersey. We got about 7 inches of heavy snow... So, the stoves and fireplaces are still being used here.

We also had a 3 hour hour power outage recently..It was after dark, so we simply lit up the candles and flashlights and fired up the woodstove. Reminds me that a wood or gas appliance can provide "heating insurance" when your furnace breaks, runs out of oil, or when the power fails.

New HearthNet Feature - Searchable Q and A database..

We finally did it. Our archive of over 450 hearth related questions and answers have been put into a searchable database. Instead of paging though the dozens of digests, you can now simply enter a search term and retrieve the matching entires.

This solution is running on a Macintosh Server (on my desk) running the Filemaker Pro database and Lasso Lite, which ties the database to the web.

Please check it out at http://chi.hearth.com/search.html

List for industry members

I notice that a lot of the names and addresses on this list are folks involved in the Hearth trade. For those of you that fit this description, I'd like to invite you to join our Industry Discussion list.... This is open only to Trade members and deals with all the issues surrounding our fair industry... To subscribe, please email to hearthlist@hearth.com with your name and industry affiliation. I'll get right back to you if you qualify.

Reminder for Wood, Coal and Pellet users - Make that appointment to have your chimney checked and cleaned.

Get your firewood cut, split and stacked so it can season over the spring and summer !

New Automated Mail Server

This list has outgrown my humble email program, and is being moved to another machine which has a listserv program. Hopefully, everything wwill turn out OK...Please follow the instructions at the top of this post to unsubscribe to this newsletter...