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Woodworkers' Convention to Move to Las Vegas in '05

The Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers will move its AWFS Fair to Las Vegas in 2005, ending a relationship the event has had with Southern California since 1957.

The Commerce, Calif.-based association has scheduled its first Las Vegas show at the Las Vegas Convention Center July 27-30, 2005. The biennial event, which has had an average attendance of 27,500, will be marketed as AWFS Vegas, pronounced "aahfs-Vegas."

Tom Orlando, president of AWFS, said moving the event to Las Vegas is expected to boost attendance and exposure for the show, which has been conducted at the Anaheim Convention Center since 1987 and in Los Angeles prior to that.

While Orlando said Las Vegas' attributes contributed in the decision to move, the Orange County Register reported that AWFS is attempting to retain exhibitors who boycotted the show last year after a power outage at the Anaheim Convention Center at the 2001 convention ruined the opening day of that event.

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