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Builders Hardware plans to consolidate its operations in Buellton, Ca., by constructing a 40,000-sq. ft. warehouse and office building on 6.7 acres; the city planning commission recently approved the development plan

Pacific Lumber & Truss Co., Lake Oswego, Or., is remodeling its retail showroom to emphasize window displays ...

Hills Flat Lumber, Sacramento, Ca., added an in-store door manufacturing shop; Kenny Wadding, door shop mgr. ...

Lomita Building Materials, Lomita. Ca.. has been renamed Thompson Building Materials and has added a natural stone yard in Wilmington, Ca.

Sutherland's Lumber Ca,'s old S-acre property and 20,000-sq. ft. building in Pueblo, Co., were auctioned last month ...

Home Depot this month opens new home centefs in Avon. Co., and N. Fresno, Ca. ... Depot targets a July 31 opening of a 90,000sq. ft. store with 30,000-sq. ft. garden center in Porterville, Ca. ...

Home Depot submitted plans for a 91,000-sq. ft. transit facility on 34 acres in Woodland. Wa.: broke ground in Kauai, Hi., for a 95,000sq. ft. store with 24,000-sq. ft. garden center; will begin construction late this year on a 100,000-sq. ft. store in Eagle, Id., and passed on an ex-Kmart site in Ponderay, Id.

84 Lumber opened a new store last month in Redding, Ca. ...

Inwe's is negotiating with Black & Decker to open a 165,000-sq. ft. store in Pacoima (Los Angeles), Ca., where B&D subsidiary Price Pfister is closing a 24-ase plumbing manufacturing facility this June; the city has received a $7.4 million federal loan to redevelop the area ...

Edelen Custom D.oors & Win' dows has leased 2,473 sq. ft. of space in Lake Oswego, Or., from Withers Lumber Corp. ...

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Lumber Products, Eugene, Or., is relocating its Salt Lake City, Ut., door, millwork and cabinet materials warehouse from an 80,000-sq. ft. facility to a 140,000-sq. ft. building in June

Stimson Lumber Co., Portland, Or., agreed to buy the operating assets of Friesen Lumber Co., St. Helens. Or.: the transaction is expected close by June 30

Stromberg Moore Hardwoods has opened a new sales office in Bellevue, Id.; Bob Leahy, mgr.

Castlerock Materials, Spokane, Wa., suffered a three-alarm fire Apnl23 at its wooden pallet and truss plant; the blaze is under investigation ...

Lewis County Forest Products started its new Winlock, Wa., sawmill last month ...

Enyeart Trading Group, Kel' logg, Id., purchased land to expand operations from l0 to 15 acres; its cedar plant, scale center and loading operation will be enlarged by October

Herb L. Pearce Construction Inc., Comelius, Or., opened a solid vent block and web stock manufacturing plant in Prineville, Or.

Seneca Sawmill Co., Eugene, Or., eliminated its third shift, laying off 115 of its 420 employees, only the mill's second layoff in its 49-year history...

Potlatch Corp., Spokane, Wa., agreed to sell 15,200 acres of hardwood bottomland in Arkansas to Bradlev Lumber', Potlatch closed its Bradley hardwood mill in July and two months later sold the facility to Bradley Lumber president Dr. David Chambers

Peterman Lumber, Fontana, Ca., installed a new 70-ft. flag pole; the local Chamber of Commerce was on hand May 2 for the flag raising ceremony ...

USP Lumber Connectars has been renamed USP Structural Connectors

Crown Pacific, Portland, Or., temporarily curtailed production at mills in Gilchrist, Or; Marysville and Port Angeles, Wa., and indefinitely shuttered its Prineville, Or., planing and drying mill; Prineville may reopen when economic conditions improve

Loui s i ana - Pac ift c temqorari lY closed its Bonners Ferry, Id., mill until lumber prices rise and established a claimant offer program for homeowners who filed claims under the Inner-Seal siding liability class action settlement

Sierra Pacific Industries sold 1,900 acres in the Sierra Nevadas to the Trust for Public Land; the land will be incorporated into the Tahoe National Forest ...

Crown Bolt Inc., Aliso Viejo, Ca., recently won a five-year tax freeze in Memphis, Tn., where it plans to consolidate three DCs into a 91,000-sq. ft. facility

C.C. Crow Publications, Portland, Or., is expanding its "Crow's Nest" market report column into a new weekly publication

Nexwood Industrie s exPanded its Ontario, Canada, plant, adding equipment and doubling the caPacity of its floor line ...

Deceuninck bought Thyssen PolYmer, the extrusion business unit of ThyssenKrupp Technologies ... Fremont Sawmill. Lakeview, Or., operated by Collins Cos., has installed a backpressure steam turbine-not a cogeneration facilitY as reported last month

Redwood Empire, Morgan Hill, Ca., is now distributing Eon composite decking ...

Reid &Wright Inc., Broomfield, Co., is now distributing SynergY Pacific's complete line of Quattro Post KID engineered posts and columns, inventoried in WRC, DF and SPF, solid and F/J, primed and raw, clear and knotty ...

Anniversaries Gray Lumber Co., Tacoma, 'Wa., 100th Fred I C. Holmes Lumber Co., Fort I Bragg, Ca., 55th ... DMK-Pacffic i Corp., Fresno, Ca.,Zith... l- r!li! rirl

Housing starts in March (latest figs.) climbed 8Vo Io an annual rate of 1.780 million ... single familY starts rose 7.l%o to 1.414 million permits fellTTo to 1.685 million.

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Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association is sponsoring Bill Darling estimating courses May l4-16 in Flagstaff, Az., andMay 20-22 in Salt Lake City, Ut.

During its recent Product Expo in Denver, Co., MSLBMDA presented booth awards to (best single booth) Valley Steel & Wire, Fort Collins, Co.; (honorable mention) Quikrete of Colorado; (best double booth) The Millworks, Durango, Co.; (honorable mention) Stilewood International Manufacturing of Canada; (best multiple booth) Boise Building Solutions, and (honorable mention) Reid & Wright, Broomfield, Co.

Lumber Association of California & Nevada's next 2nd Growth meeting May l5 at the WestCoast Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Ca., will tackle "Certified Wood & California Forests:

What Customers Need to Know."

Christopher Dicus, Ph.D., assistant professor of natural resources management at Cal Poly State University-San Luis Obispo, will discuss major findings in his new study, "A Comparison of California Forest Practice Rules and Two Forest Certification Systems."

Western Building Material Association executive Casey Voorhees joined dealers from across the country at National's Legislative Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

The WBMA delegation included Ed Waite, Spenard Builders Supply, Anchorage, Ak.; Jeff Swan, Evergreen Lumber. Port Orchard. Wa.: Bob and Phyllis Kerr, Kerr's Ace Hardware, Brookings, Or.; Bob and Pat Jacobsen, Lloyd Lumber, Nampa, Id.; Bob and Becky Perrin, Capital Lumber, Boise, Id., and Joe Lovato, Hadlock Building Supply, Port Hadlock, Wa.

A Young Westerners Club board meeting is set for June 28 in Seattle.

Western Hardwood Association has a lengthy lineup of speakers for its 48th annual meeting June 2l-24 at Sunriver Resort, Sunriver, Or.

Mark Rey, U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture, speaks on "The President's Healthy Forest Initiative," John Bredeson, Puget Sound Truck Lines, "Changes in Trucking Regultaions & Competitive Edge;" Evert Slijper, Whittier Wood Products, "Challenges in U.S. Furniture Manufacture;" Dan Meyer, Hardwood Review, "Hardwood Analysis & Reporting;" Randy Wisner, Lumber Products, "Distribution Center Operations;" Mike Snow, AHEC, "International Markets;" Rick Breuner, Fibre Industry Consultants, "Pulp & Paper Industry Health & Forecast;" Larry Mason, RTI & UW, "Economics of Alder over Douglas Fir," and a spokesman for Webster Forest Nursery, "Successful Planting & Growing of Alder."

Western Wood Preservers Institute is hosting its summer retreat June 22-24 at the Skamainia Lodge, Stevenson, Wa.