NEWS ERIEFS

Retailers

Copeland Lumber Yard closed its 18-year-old Stanwood, Wa., yard

Anderson Lumber, Ogden, Ut., has acquired Heber Lumber & Hardware, Heber City, Ut., and Stronks & Sons.fnc., Ashton, Id., increasing the chain to 26locations

Ziggy's opened a 50,000-sq. ft. store on 15 acres in Post Falls, Id., early this month ...

Tustin Hardware, Tustin, Ca., is closing after 87 years

BMC West has signed a lease for a new office build-ing in Boise, Id., to consolidate corporate headquarters from three separate buildings Nov. l... BMC West has aequired Standard Building Materials, Hazel Dell, Wa., which allows BMC's adjacent yard to expand from five to eight acres

Thurman's Building Materials, Bellingham, Wa., has been closed by B.J. and Dave Miller, who bought the franchise 10 years ago after 3 t years with Thurman lndustries.-.

Valley Lumber Co., Juneau, Ak., is rebuilding its retail store and main warehouse destroyed last year by fire

Medimer Marble & Granite has relocated to a new 30,000-sq. ft. showroom in Sacramento. Ca.

Nielson's Building Center, Point Roberts, 'W'a., recently hosted a belt sander drag race, attracting more than 750 spectators and 30 participants ...

Marson & Marson Lumber Inc., Leavenworth, 'Wa., opened a drywall supply division in Wenatchee, Wa., offering boomtruck delivery and drywall stocking service to area drvwallers ...

HomeBase and ,Saars Hardware are among rumored possibilities to be the unnamed suitor said to be buying 117-unit Hechinger's for $126 million...

Rima Building Supply, Pullman, Wa., has built a new 12,000-sq. ft. store and demolished its former location to provide parking ...

San Bruno Lumber, San Bruno, Ca., has been forced to delay expansion plans due to BART rail construction that has fallen months behind schedule...

Framco Home Improvement Center, Yucaipa, Ca., won an Ace Premier Dealer Awarc

Home Depot opened a new store July 3 in Reno, Nv.; opens in Peoria, Az., and La Quinta, Ca., July 31; received unanimous city council approval to build a 105,984-sq. ft. replacement store with 24,723-sq. ft. garden center on 9-l/2 acres in Huntington Beach, Ca., and got an okay from the Albany, Or., planning commission for a 101,795-sq. ft. store with 18,51O-sq. ft. outdoor center ,..

Orchard Supply Hardware will open a 55,000-sq. ft. store in Bakersfield, Ca., by Oct. 1

Anniversaries: M ead Clark Lumber Co., Santa Rosa, Ca., 85th

George L. Throop Co., Pasadena, Ca., 76th The Merchant Magazine, 75th ... Somerville Plywood Corp., Hawthorne, Ca., 50th ... Outvvater Plastic Industries, 25th Barrelhead Building Supply, South Beach, Or., 20th i-C Trucking, Long Beach, Ca., 19th...

Fullmer Lumber Co., Donald, Or., has opened a new office in Fontana, Ca.; Hal Smith, mgr. ...

Louisiana-PaciJ'ic plans to sell 100,000 acres of timberlands, about a third of its Mendocino County timber holdings, and, after Mendocino County supervisors approved a Z4-acre rezoning adjacent to its ukiah, ca., sawmill, will invest an additional $2.5 million to expand drying operations, including six new dry kilns ... Tali-Pak,Hopland, Ca., added a new moulder and dry storage building

TriStar Skylights, Orange, Ca., was acquired by Potter-Roemer; Tri-Star co-founders Ivan Johnson and Kevin Norcross will stav on. working with Potter-Roemer-pres. Lance McCabe, formerly pres. of Bristolire Skylights

Clopay Corp. has agreed to purchase Holmes - H ally Industries, with garage door and hardware manufacturing plants in Arizona, California and Washington, and installation centers in California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada and Utah ...

WTD Industries, Portland, Or., opened a new fingerjoint stud mill in Philomath, Or. ...

Nor-Cal Moulding Co., Marysville, Ca., is back in full production following devastating floodinginJanuary...

Weyerhaeuser's Building Materials Distribution Business and Dow Chemical Co. aided former Pres. Jimmy Carter and Habitat for Humanity in construction projects at seven sites in the Appalachian Mountains

New Web sites: GeorgiaPacific subsidiary G-P Gypsum Corp., www,gp.com/gypsum Hardwood Council. www.hardwoodcouncil.com ... Diamond Cabinets, www.diamond2.com

Wholesalers & Manufacturers

C e dar s ouc e M anufact uri n g, Inc. has relocated its corporate office to the site of its Portland, Or., warehouse ...

Housing starts in May (latest figs.) slipped 4.8Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.397 million single-family construction slipped 4Vo ... permits remained flat at 1.443 million ... starts in the West were up 5.2Vo to 365,000 units ...

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