Washington State's Long Beach Boardwalk...Tourist Attract ion And Environmental Goup

I ONG Beach, Washington, boasts L the first ocean-beach boardwalk in the Pacific Northwest and sets environmental precedents. The boardwalk is the result ofcareful design, engineering, and construction guaranteed to protect the fragile dunes and dunegrass boarding the picturesque shore. The boardwalk weaves in and out for 2,300 ft., following the natural contours of the precious dunes. Although it took just three months to construct, the Long Beach Boardwalk was five years in the planning, according to Nabiel Shaw, Project Coordinator.

Aptly named, Long Beach lays claim to the world's second longest white sand beach,28 miles in length, and is located on the southwest corner of the Long Beach Peninsula where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean.

Aesthetically pleasing, the Long Beach Boardwalk immediately gamered the unabashed support of townspeople, tourists, and environmentalists alike. This was an interesting occurrence, as the Pacific Northwest is perhaps among the most sensitive of areas to the compatibility of the environment and the ecosystems, according to Dick Theil of Gray & Osborne, Inc., Seattle and Yakima, WA, Consulting Engineers for the project.

"This unusual and automatic acceptance of the boardwalk by the public was a most interesting part of the project," Theil said. "Initially there were fears that the boardwalk would be too imposing and interfere with the skyline. However, the feedback was positive after people saw the boardwalk was not obtrusive, was rugged looking, and fit right into the environment."

Theil said the wood chosen for the project was Douglas fir and the wood preservative treatment recommended by Gray & Osborne was Chemonite@ (ACZA - ammoniacal copper zinc arsenate).

"We specifically mentioned Chemonite because we were lookingfor a 50+ year life for the boardwalk," Theil said. "This is a particularly corrosive environment with a lot of salt water, sand and salty winds. Generally we would not specify a tradename but in this case we did. Chemonite is pretty popular here in the Pacific Northwest."

The Chemonite-treated lumber was supplied by the Wyckoff Company, Seattle, WA, to the building contractor, Quigg Brothers McDonald, Inc. of Aberdeen, WA.

For over half a century Chemonite has provided unparalleled protection of Douglas fir, and other hard-to-treat wood, against

Ernst Home & Nursery will open a 60,000 sq. ft Tacoma, Wa., store this spring, closing a 20year-old, 30,000 sq. ft. location, and shutter a l5-year-old Bellevue, Wa., store with plans to replace it with a superstore

Knoll Lumber & Hardware rearranged its Snohomish, Wa., yard, expanding the parking area, and enlarged its Discount Lumber operation yard in Marysville, WaFoxworth-Galbraith added a showroom at the Deming, N.M., store ...

Barr Lumber Co., Los Alami[os, Ca., is operating recently acquired Homestead Lumber Co. stores in Apple Yalley, Needles, Yucca Valley and 29 Palms, Ca., plus a door and finishing facility in Apple Valley, as Barr Lumber Co. locations

San Lorenza Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, Ca., purchased the former B ranson-Cross Lumber, Lathrop, Ca., reopening it as their 6th yard ... R. Q. Mills Hardware will open a second store in Lincoln City, Or., this year ... Friedman Bros. open6O a 25,000 sq. fr. home improvement center on 6 acres formerly occupied by Yaeger & Kirkin Sonoma, Ca. ...California Do-it Center, Jess Ruf owner, expects to open in Hemet, Ca., in mid-April in a former Builders Emporium location ...

HomeBase, which now has its own no-annual-fee credit card, opened a Clovis, Ca., location Feb. 12 ... Home Depot opened Tigard, Or., and Reno, Nv., locations; projected a Eugene, or., store later this year and several more in Portland, Or., over the next two to three years; had an East Palo AIto, Ca., retail center which they will anchor approved and faced neighborhood opposi- tion to a proposed Seattle, Wa., stofe...

Artisan's Well is being developed by Thomas R. Meinhausen in Tucson, Az., as a showcase for home improvement suppliers and contfactors Payless Cashways Inc., (Hugh M. Woods in Colorado and Lumberjack on the West Coast) plans four new stores this year, one in Lincoln, Ne., one in Bloomington, In,, and two at undisclosed locations

F oxw orth- G alb ra ith Lumbe r and Southwest Lumber donated materials for a new audiovisual room in the museum section of the Yuma, Az., Territorial P rison state park...

Seneca Sawmitt Co., Eugene, or., completed a state-of-the-art equipment update at the "A" mill Thunderbird Moulding Co. has resumed operations at the recently acquired former Geargia-Pacffic plant in Cottonwood, Ca. ...

Caastal Wood Producr. Ciw of Industry, Ca., acquired Geniral Wood Products Laminating, City of Industry ... CA Co. added 20,000 sq. ft. of extra storage space adjoining its existing Tacoma, Wa.. warehouse for a total of about 80,000 sq. ft. Louisiana-Pacific converted to a formaldehyde-emission-free gluing process at its Red Bluff, Ca., Ijoist mfg. plant

Hampered by timber harvest restrictions, Miller Red,wood will close its Crescent City, Ca., sawmill at the end of Feb" ...Weyerhaeuser Co. opened a lumber reload facilitv in Alameda. Ca., with sales hairdled by the Hayward, Ca., DC

D imens ion s SoftwarelC omp uter Advisors,lnc., Salt Lake City, UL, has merged with Minicomp Systems, Inc., Grand Rapids, Mi. Nuline Industries, Fredericksburg, Va., acquired the remaining 50% interest in Omega Corrugated, Anaheim, Ca., to become completeowner ... Palram Plastic Works lrd., Ramat Yohanan, Israel, opened a distribution warehouse in Los Angeles, Ca. ...

Trex is the new name for Mobil Chemical Co.'s Timbrex woodpolymer composite building material ... Southern Pacific Lines increased lumber and panel products prices 4%Feb.l ...

Schuller In ternational, Inc.. Denver, Co., a wholli owned subsidiary af Manville Corp., Denver, exchanged its North American residential roofing business for Owe n s -C orning's North American commercial and industrial roofing business...

Jeld-Wen, Inc., KlamatJt Falls, Or., acquircd Michigan Birch Door Manufacturers, /nc., Chesterfield, Mi., and Doorcrafters of Vermont, Ludlow, Vt. ... Chicago Metallic Corp., Forest View, Il., acquired Alcan Building Products' U.S. ceiling producl.s business

Fortune magazine nnked Pope & Talbot 47th on its list of the best 50 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in 193; BMCWestZ\th of the 25 best on the Over-TheCounter Exchange, and Fibreboard Corp.Znd and Forest City Enterprises 10th of the 25 best on the American Exchange

Custom Building Products, Seil Beach, Ca., has confacted a joint venture, Adhesivos Y Boquillas, witb Interceramic, a div. of Grupco Cencor including a new plantin Chihuahua, Mexico ...The Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago, Il., has added Structural Panel Index futures ..-

Housing srarrs for Dec. (latest figs.) jumped 6.2Vo to a seasonally adjusted annuai rate of 1.54 million, the highest since Jan. tr990 and the fifth straight increase building permits jumped 7.4Vo 1993 starts were the hishest since 1989 with a7.lvo increlse lol.Zg million units.

PriceGostco Tests Building Products At Washington Site

PriceCostco is test marketing home inprovement products at its Tukwil4 Wa., location.

Tukwila south of Seattle, neatr Renton, is the home of Eagle Hardware & Garden. The result of a merg€r by The Price Club and Cosrco membership warehouses, PriceCostco plans to add 50 stores this year. They now have 2Z locations in four countries.

Between 15,000 and 18,000 sq. ft. of space has been merchandised with tbe home improvement categories handled by maju home improvement centers, explains Gary Ojendyke, v.p. and merchandise mgr.-hardlines. This includes lumber, drywall, insulation, roofing, plumbing and lighting fixtues and mixed on-site paint. No special services such as delivery are offered.

Aimed at contractors and do-ityourselfers, the deparunent will be added to other PriceCosrco operations if successful, Ojendyke said. A few locations including Merced, Ca., already have very limited stocks of home improvement products.

Murder Trial Visits Depot

Home Depot, San Fernando, Ca., the scene of a grisly 1992 slaying of a security van driver, for an afternoon became the site of the murder trial.

More than half a dozen police officers escorted the shackled defendanl along with the judge, court reporter, defense attorney, prosecutors, 12 jurors and four alternates, retmcing the path taken by the guard, Edwin MaIdonado.

Store manager Ronald Schultz led the entourage down the aisles Jan. 10, detailing the routines followed by Maldonado July ?.0, 1992. He was shot twice in the head while taking $82,000 from tle store vault to his security truck.

"[t's impossible for the jury to understand from aerial photographs and layouts," said Deputy District Attomey Jeff Jonas. "The walk-through, the observation and general feeling help them see what had to be done to pull this off."

Prosecutors hoped to show that the robbery was well-plarmed and required the help of someone familiar with sore procedures. They claim that the defendant, Sean Darnell Slade, was the man who shot the guard, but that two others remain at large, police said.

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