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GLULAM GURUS: During its recent annual meeting in San Antonio, Tx., the American Institute of Timber Construction celebrated a record year of glulam output with ,|23 million bd. ft. produced in 1999. Also at the event. new ofiicers were elected, including (/efl fo right): (11president Dick Cormier, past president John Anthony, vice president Ed Jones and treasurer Mike Lane. (2) Monie, Margaret, Trygve & Jill Rhude. (3) Carlton Whittle, Clary Anthony. (4) Shannon & Mike Caldwell, Nancy Jaenicke. (5) Mike & Barbara Parks. (6) Eddie Jean & Gary Kriedeman. (7) Ed & Stacy

Fisher. (8) Vern & Jeanne Schumacher, Jerry & Pat Leslie. (9) Phyllis & Gary Weaver, Pat Anthony. (10) Mark & Amy Seech, Marie

McQuarrie. (11) Genie Quinn. (12) Wilma & Mike Foster. (13) Orrin & Mary Koenig, Sharon Kerber, Doug Hucke, Lori Knopp. (14) Bill Vickry, Lane & Margie Holland, Steve Tillett, Frank & Betty Dalhoff. (15) Tommy & Nancy Hewitt. (16) Gary & Kaye Burley. (17) Pat & Scotty Giles. (18) Gordon & Wilma Foster, Holton 0uinn.

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Victor Larnber Co., Spokane, Wa., has acquired Stokes Lumber, Spokane, from Dick Stokes, owner and operator for over 30 years; Victor Lumber is owned by Steve Victor, ex-BMC Wesf, and Ellen Victor ...

Aeneas Valley Lumber & Building Supply, Tonasket, Wa., has been acquired by Jonna and Michael McFarland from Patty and Rick Baker, who have opened a nursery

Hicks Lumber Co., Greenfield, Ca., has closed after 52 years ...

Copeland Lumber closed its Lindsay, Ca., yard, transferring mgr. Jim Smith to the Exeter, Ca., store as an outside sales rep

Ganahl Lumber Co., Lake Forest, Ca., installed a new Robinson resaw ...

Parr Lumber, Hillsboro, Or., completed a $500,000 remodel including adding a 33'x90' warehouse at the Woodland, Wa., yard acquired last year ftom Copeland Lumber Yards ...

MidPac Lumber Co. Ltd. and Maui Home Supply.Honolulu, Hi., have been charged with failing to provide financial information to trustees handling their Chapter 7 bankruptcy

Hon"teBase, Irvine, Ca., launched a new radio ad campaign, partly aimed at Hispanic markets

Lowe's Cos. paid over $6 million for 11.2 acres in Valencia, Ca.; is fighting to build on a historic landmark in Glendale, Ca., that HomeBase aheady gave up on; also is seeking approval to build in San Dimas, Roseville and Stanford Ranch, Ca., and is including a Wendy's restaurant in a store tintatively iet to open Sept.

15 in Rancho Santa Margarit4 Ca. ... Lowe's has begun testing Internet sales on its Lowes.com site ...

Home Depot next month opens a 105,700-sq. ft. home center in Turlock, Ca.; an 87,876-sq. ft. Expo Design Center in Anaheim, Ca.,and a newly relocated 107,920-sq. ft. store in Van Nuys, Ca....

Home Depot will receive $1 million from Redondo Beach. Ca.. to help build an Expo Design center; plans to relocate its Oxnard, Ca., store; is eyeing a 22acre site in Camarillo, Ca., and evaluating two possible locations in Covington, Wa.

Home Depot's Santa Barbara, Ca., store was briefly evacuated after smoke began pouring in from a fire in a trash compactor at the rear of the building ...

DM Hardwood Designs, Mission Viejo, Ca., received Floor of the Year and Best Design in a Commercial Application lonors from the National Wood Flooring Association; Bray's Hardwood, Sacramento, Ca., won a Member's Choice Award ...

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Quality Veneer & Lumber is permanently shuttering its QVL Plywood Division, Omak, Wa. ...

Burns Lumber Co., Medford, Or., has acquired National City Distibution, National City, Ca.,

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fuam Hampton Lumber Sales and added a sales office in Laguna Hills, Ca. ...

J.M. Thomas Forest Products, Ogden, Ut., opened a Salt Lake City distribution center, primarily a will-call facility, on 4 acres

Tre e S ourc e Indusffie s, Portland, Or., has postponed the bankruptcy court hearing to evaluate its reorganization plan due to continuing declines in the lumber market

Trex Co.'s Fernley, Nv., plant suffered a partial shutdown due to a June 4 el6ctrical fire ...

Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Portland, Or., has acquired Sawyer Lumber Co., including a narrow dimension mill in Gwinn, Mi.

Weyerhaeuser Co. has acquired Delta. B.C., producer Coast Mountain Hardwoods

Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Id., agreed to buy Alliance Forest Products' AllJoist wood I-joist plant in Edmunston, New Brunswick, for $17 million ...

TheJobsite.cort, Laguna Hills, Ca." has formed an e-commerce partnership with Timberline Saftuare Corp....

Books That WorWisual Home has joined the SierraHome Network, which is now operating as HomeCentral.com ...

Anniversaries: Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co., 105th Matthews Lumber Co., Woodinville, Wa., 70th ... C a s ella Transp o rtation, Petaluma, Ca.. 45th ... All-Coast Forest Prod.ucts, Chino, Ca..25th Zircon Corp., Campbell, Ca.,25th ... Flex rim uouldings, Rancho Cucamonga, Ca., 15th Mello Reload, Woodland, Ca., 1st ...

Housing starts in May (latest figs.) slipped 4Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.656 million ... single family starts fell5To to a 1.250 million rate, multifamily increased to a rate of 317,000 for 5+ units and 25.000 for 2-4 units ... permits decreased 4Vo to 1.559 million units.