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In a court statement, Home Depot lawyers said the alleged remarks were made "without malice."

Thomas says he had never met the Expo Design clerk before the July 16, 2002 incident.

Loss Dogs Builder, Supplier

A Colorado lumberyard has teamed up with a distraught contactor to help bring his lost dog home.

Mesa County contractor Steven Josephs has offered to build a house, at no markup for his labor, for anyone who finds his missing dog, Shelby.

To sweeten the reward, Foxworth Galbraith Building Materials, Grand Junction, has pledged to provide the building materials at cost.

The savings on a new $200,000 home would come to more than $25,000.

"You always hear people say, 'I'd do anything to get my dog back,"' said Josephs. "Well,I would.I will."

Josephs' dog went missing on Super Bowl Sunday in January.

Josephs has received over 200 phone calls, some as far away as Quebec, Canada. So far, none of them have led to the yellow labrador's return.

Lumber Wins Over Movies

Lumbermen's Building Centers is expanding its Mccall, Id., location, and in doing so, is closing down a popular local movie theatre attached to the store.

Lumbermen's bought the store and movie theatre space from Payette Lakes Lumber in 1993. Payette originally divided the neighboring retail space into a movie theatre and a Radio Shack in 1986.

Lumbermen's store mgr. Craig Perseo said that his store needed the extra retail space to keep up with customer demand and its main competi- tor, May Hardware, which is moving into a larger retail space this spring and expanding its services.

The new space will allow the firm's Radio Shack franchise to expand as well.

The operators of the closed Evergreen Theatre, Teresa and Joe Johnson, said they were forced out by Lumbermen's executives.

Lumbermen's contends its was a simple business decision.

"Everybody has a right to be mad at Lumbermen's. but we are trying to grow the business and keep up with the times." said Perseo.

Pacific Inspection Now 100

The Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau, Federal Way, Wa., is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Founded in 1903, PLIB started out providing grading and mill inspection services to lumber producers along the tidewaters of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

Today PLIB provides services to mills in Idaho and Northern California, in addition to its original territory. Covering 33 firms and 46 mills, PLIB clients produced over 3 billion bd. ft. of lumber in2002.

the past century," PLIB's Jeff Fantozzi explained, "because we're focused on quality control and grade stamping."

The Bureau also provides heat treat (HT) certification to four dry kiln operations, which is often needed for lumber exports to Japan, Europe and other overseas destinations.

Since 1928, the Bureau has published the Export R List Grading and Dressing Rules, which explains the rules used when exporting rough lumber from the U.S.

B.C. Overhauls Forest Policy

The government of British Columbia has unveiled sweeping forest policy changes that could result in up to 45Vo of the province's timber harvest eventually being offered on the open market.

The new rules are designed to ease the cost burden on the industry by easing provincial regulations, remove barriers to regional job creation, and create new partnerships with other countries.

Minister of Forests Mike Mr. de Jong said the provincial government initially will reallocate 207o of logging rights from major licensees, adding to what is already available on the open market.

He also said that barriers to regional job creation will be removed by allowing the province's 600 mills to obtain B.C. timber no matter where it is logged. The share ofthe province's allowable annual cut available to other countries will be more than doubled. from 3Vo to about 87o. The province will also share $95 million in forest revenues with these nations over the next three years.

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