NEWS BRIEFS

Sandpoint Building Supply will open a 5,000 sq. ft. store and a 9,000 sq. ft. warehouss on 8 acres in Sandpoint, Id., in July, selling both contractors and retail customers

Lumberjack opened a 1,500 sq. ft. Yutra City, Ca., salesofice/showroom/catalog store for contractors and do-it-yourselfers to test the feasibility of opening a fully supplied store in the YubaSutter area in about 2 years

HorneBase will move corporate headquarters from Fullerton, Ca., to neighboring Irvine, expanding from 90,000 sq. ft. to about 150,000 sq. ft with a $23 million, 11 year lease ... Victorville, Ca., H omeBase celebrated completing a renovation and addition of a 33,000 sq. ft. drive-through lumber yard, new store lighting and a 3,600 sq. ft. special order area for kitchen and bath design ...

Home Depot, which plans to open 50 new stores and relocate approximately seven others nationwide this year, intends an early '94 opening in Federal Way, Wa., just across the street from rival Eagle Hardware and Gardeni Seattle, Puyallup and Tukwila, Wa.. Valencia and Chula Vista (San Diego), Ca., stores are in the offing ...

A building boom in Wenatchee, Wa., is attracting contractor suppliers with Wenatchee Lumber Co. (sharing space with U.S. Pallet) and Wenatchee Lumber Supply opening and Schaecher Lumber and Building Matericls expanding sales to the area...

Woodv and Carole Pierson withdrew their request to build a retail lumberyard in Klipsan, Wa., after neighbors protested rezoning

Builders Emporium, Tustin, Ca., was burglarized recently; a suspect has been arrested Home Depot has joined the effort to eliminate graffiti by locking up spray paint at San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles County, Ca., stores...

Errtst Home and. Nursery, Seattle, Wa., received the 5/. Matthew Award for outstandins community service to the pooi from Northwest Harvest HomeBase received a Hundreds of Partners Award for its leadership in electronic data interchanse ltom EDl, Dallas Tx., and ef&T Easv Link Services

Fidelity Management & Research Co. will be the new majority owner of Standard Brands Paint Co., Torrance, Ca., under a reorganization plan approved by a federal bankruptcy courljudge...

Anniversaries; Ernst Hame & Nursery, Seattle, Wa., I00th; Building Material D istributors, Galt, Ca., 50th; Plywood Pioneers Association, 29th

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Assaciation has moved to 9034 E. Easter Pl., Suite 103, Englewood, Co. 80112; phone numbers remain the same

Sam's Select Wood Review, a new weekly lumber and panel market report by Dr. Sam Sherrill, former exec. editor of Crow Publicatiotts, is based in Porttand. Or., (800) 500-5100...

Pacific Western Forest Industries, St. Helens, Or., has reopened Brazier Forest Industries, Seattle, Wa., has a new computerized stud mill with an

The Merchant Magazine estimated 40 million b.f. annual output in Molalla, Or. Cedarbrook Lumber, Cashmere, Wa., opened a re-man facility on 36 acres formerly occupied by W.l. Forest Products, upgrading with 140,000 sq. ft.of dry storage, an 11 acre asphalt yard, kiln dryer, moulders, saws, notching and pointing equipment...

Fred C. Holmes Lumber Co., Ft. Bragg, Ca., is moving this summer into a new office, warehouse and wholesale yard north of town; new facility is double the size oftheir current operation

Hampton Lumber Sales Co., Portland, Or., has formed a Southern California Sales and Distribution Division, incorporating the Rygel Lumber Sales staff in Newport Beach, Ca., to develop new services, customers and products in So. Ca. and Mexico markets; Rygel will voluntarily liquitlate...

PrimeSource Inc., has moved major accounts hq. and sales supp0rt offices from lrvine, ca., to Dallas, Tx. Exatic Woods, lnc., Torrance, Ca., is voluntarily liquidating ...

Louisiona-Pacific and its Kirby Forest Industries ftrc" sutlsidiarv will pay $11.1 million to avoid liiigation for violation of the Clean Air Act at 14 plants in 11 states and spend $70 million to install emissions control equipment; the fine is the second largest ever collected by the EPA under the Clean Air Act

Trus Joist MacMillan, Boise, Id., is negotiating to build a TimberStrand Iaminated strand lumber facilitv on a 100 acre site in Kentucky

Housing starts advanced 6.7Va in April (latest figs.) to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1,213,000 .." single family home building rose 6.3o/o; multifamily 9.SVo ... building permits increased 5.8Va ... in the West new construction edged up 3.44/o with permits up 4.3Vo

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