NEWS BRIEFS

Orcas Lurnber, Eastsound, Wa., and Fisherman Bay Lumber, Lopez, Wa., were permanently closed by owners Chuck and Sandy O'Donnell due to a slow local -economy, expensive expansion projects and unspcified personal financial constraints ...

Raks Building Supply has moved its Albuquerque, N.M., store to a 7-acre site, double the size of the previous location; Wesley Young, mgr. ...

HomeBase held a srand reooening at its recently retiodeted wlarehouse in Vista, Ca., the 7th unit overhauled in two months

Ernst Home & Nursery opened a 45,000 sq. ft. store with 15,000 sq. ft. nursery in Bend, Or., Rick Gillespie, store mgr.;66,0O0 sq. ft. store in Albany, Or., Bruce Kalmbach, frgr., and Tyler Nichols, asst. store mgr.; 87,000 sq. ft. store in Carson City, Nv., Mark Smith, mgr.; a unit in Green Valley, Nv., Wes McCoy, mgr., and one in Salem, Or. ... Ernst plans to build a 65,000 sq. ft. store in Springfield, Or., this summer; has agreed to acquire a former Costless Foods building now being remodeled in Chico, Ca., and will expand irs Billings, Mt., urut rnto a superstore

B&H Buitding Supply, Cartez, Co., has been acquiredby Carroll Ventures /2c., Albuquerque, N.M., as its 4th Red Barn Lamber lcr,ation; former owner Vernon Hoffman remams mgr.

Keith Brown Bargain Shed opened a new store April 19 in Tigard, Or. ...

South Coast Lumber Mill, Inc., North Hollywood, Ca., is a new industrial lumber milling facility for4ed by Dave Duncan, who is completing liquidation of North Hollywood MiU & Lumber following its bankruptcy filing ...

Mill River Architectural Hardwoods, Inc., is a new Post Falls, Id., rnoulding/millwork dealer begun by Clint & Cheryl Bower

Coeur d'Alene Building Supply, Post Falls, Id., earlier known as Coeur d'Alene Hardwoods, Inc., has temporarily closed

Sheehnn Lumher Co., Spokane, Wa, has liquidated

Davis Lumber & Hardware Inc., Roswell, N.M., will expand from 4,000 to 6,ffi0 sq. ft., to be completed in October ...

Hunt's True Value Lumber, Flagstaff, Az., has purchased Double G True Value Lumber. Chino Valley, Az., as a 2nd Hunt's location;Russ Halbert, rgr.

Home Depotopened last month in Phoenix, Az., while its proposed Expo Design Center for Mission Bay (San Francisco), Ca., has hit a snag, with the city requiring additional hearings before giving approval

Lumbermm's B uilding Centers, Olympia, Wa., is celebrating its l00th anniversary by awarding $ 1,000 college and vocationaltechnical school scholarships in each of the 33 communities where it has stores

Eagle Hardware & Garden has opened in the West End area of Billings, Mt.

Tri-City Lumber & Supply, Carlsbad, N.M.; 84 Lwmber Co., Carlsbad, N.M.; Trader Horn's True Value, Portales, N.M., and Cop e lqnd Lurnb e r Yarid, Hi llsboro, Or., have been remodeling

Rio Grande Ace Hardware. Taos, N.M., celebrating its 24th anniversary, is installing a cmopy for a drive-thru lumber yard

Whittier Inmber Co., Whinier, Ca., lost two trucks, 15 units of plywood and lumber, and other rnaterials to lumber thieves earlv morning on April 17

Davis Lumber & Hardware. Davis, Ca., was honored for Besi Customer Service by the Enterprrse newspaper

Anniversaries: Terry Lumber Co.,Tarzura, Ca.,45th . Westem Hardwood Association, 40th Waldron Forest Praducts, Fair Oaks, Ca., lTth

Hardwgod Industries has begun construction on a new 12.000 so. ft. warehouse/office facilitv iir Bend, Or., targeting an Aulust completion

Enyeart Trading Group, Lake Oswego, 0r., has been fonned by Ron Enyeart and Marc kby, handling primarily cedar products

Chinrtmini Forest Products has opened a San Diego, Ca., office headed by Ron Lauderbach Hardwoods Inc. has opened a 27,W sq. ft. DC in Eugene^, Or.

Louisiana-Pacffic has begun construction in Ukiah, Ca., on a $12 million high-tech sawmill, the frst phase of a possible $100 million lumber manufacturing complex ; the mill should be-operational by Oct. to replace an older plant L-P shut down at the site last year; under consideration: a $40 million waferboard production facility or consolidating all of LP's Mendocino manufacturing operations at the site ...

Pacific Lumber Co. is temporarily closing Mill A at Scoti4 Ca., and releasing 105 workers, the first layoffs at the 1,200employee company in morc than a decade; the announcement came a day aSer Palco was blocked from logging a 198-acre grove by a Eureka" Ca., Superior Court judge who, a week later, removed himself from the case after beine accused of being responsible foi the mill clozure

Housing stans inMarch (latest figs.) fell 7.9Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of l.2l million, single-family starts dropped 6{o, multi-family dwellings fell l5%: the largest drop in starts came in the West (down 20.7%) with analysts blaming *et weather in California.

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