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Supply One will close its Albany, Or., store in mid-Oct., saying the unit was too small to compete with an 8-month-old Home Depot; the location was acquired in 1992 from Pay 'n Pak

A to Z Lumber & Components has been opened in Bear Lake, Id., by James K. Morrill and Sean Passey...

Fischer Lumber/Ace Hardware, Firebaugh, Ca., has acquired the inventory and equipment of Dos Palos Lumber & Sales. Dos Palos. Ca.

Anderson Lumber's Pocatello, Id., lumber yard was destroyed by fire July 16; arson is suspected ...

Mendo Mill Home & Lumber Center, Willits, Ca., held a grand reopening following a remodel and expanslon

Lowe's Cos. opened a new store in Redlands, Ca. (Keith Drake, mgr.); opens this month in Victorville, Ca., and plans to break ground in the spring in Huntington Beach, Ca. ...

Home Depot opens new stores this month in San Pedro. Manteca. Temecula, Sacramento/Antelope (Eric Berger, mgr.), and North Santa Ana, Ca. Depot also has a new $13.5 million, 151,400-sq. ft. Hq. in Poway, Ca., for its Maintenance Warehor.rse division

Home Depot broke ground on a 105,700-sq. ft. store with 24,000sq. ft. garden center on 10+ acres in Yuma, Az.; got city council approval to build a store on 16 acres in Glendale, Az., and a 3rd Phoenix, Az., location; hopes to begin construction next month in Lake Havasu City, Az.; got the okay to add a 2,100-sq. ft. tool rental center and 900-sq. ft. storage area to its Escondido, Ca., store; paid $6.23 million for 12 acres to add a 2nd Escondido location, and is seeking approval to build on 14 acres in western Camarillo, Ca. ...

Home Depot is pushing to build a 108,000-sq. ft. store on the site of the abandoned Schlage Lock & Key factory in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley, but the board of supervisors has proposed changing its zoning from industrial to lowscale commercial, which would prevent a new store from exceeding 50,000 sq. ft. in Hawaii, Depot acquired 12.7 acres in Kahului, Maui, Hi.; broke ground in Pearl City for its 2nd Oahu location, and lost its bid to build a 3rd Oahu store on a parcel in Hawaii Kai...

Anawalt Lumber, Los Angeles, Ca., added a rental center

Exeter Building Supply is erecting a 29,000-sq. ft. warehouse/ office in Meridian, Id.; the siding distributor hopes to move from its current 8,000-sq. ft. premises next month...

HomeBase will install 600-sq. ft. Jitters coffee cafes in the front of its new House2Hom€ stores

Ace Hardware's tw o-year-old Helpful Hardware Club customer loyalty program has reached the 1 million customer level ...

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U.S. Wood Products. Inc.. Golden, Co., declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy July 31; included were subsidiaries Southwe st Plywaod, E.H. Wood Products and Goldenberg Plywood in the Los Angeles, Ca., area and Down River Forest Products in the Sacramento, Ca., area...

Roseburg Forest Products wlll permanently shut down its Dillard, Or., large-log mill Oct. 6 due to poor markets

Sroneway Roofing Supply, Inc., Seattle, Wa., agreed to acquire Homestead Roofing Supply, Inc., Clackamas, Or. ...

Potlatch Corp. has curtailed indefinitely production at its Jaype Plywood mill near Pierce, Id., due to weak plywood markets

International Paper Co. will sell 293,300 acres of Washington timberland as part of a plan to shed $3 billion in non-core assets; IP acquired the property in its recent $7.3 billion takeover of Chnmpion International Corp. ...

SierraPine Ltd. has moved into new Hq. in Roseville,Ca.

Boise Cascade had 300,000 acres of its western Oregon timberlands certifiedby American Forest & Paper Associationb Sustainable Forestry Initiative program

C ertainTb e d completed acquisition of Celotex's roofing and fiberglass mat businesses, including asphalt shingle plants in Los Angeles and Fremont, Ca. ... CertainTeed's Chowchilla, Ca., plant received a Diamond safetv award from parent Saint-Gobain .-..

Lumber Yard Supply, Great Falls, Mt., is a new distributor of Willamette's E-Z Frame system ... Arctic Builders Source, Anchorage, Ak., is a new E-ZFrurrc dealer...

Plywood Hawaii, Honolulu, Hi., is now distributing Kerfkore and Timberflex bendable plywood

I).5. Dept. of Agriculture's Forest Products Laboratory estimates 160 U.S. and Canadian softwood mills curtailed operations during the summer, reducing the lumber supply by up to 775 million bd.ft. (see July, p.21)

Independent Fore st Products

As sociation, Portland, Or., borrowing a tactic from enviros, joined six Utah county govemments and a Montana forester to sue the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service alleging the lack of timber harvesting is harming endangered species

Anniversaries: Harwood Products, Branscomb, Ca., 50th ... Western Building Material Association's Olympia, Wa., Hq., 30th Horizon Forest Products, Richmond, Ca., 20th ou'r'e triecl thost trenclv siclings. Iltt'r matlt'.tll rotts ()l l)r{ 'rl)i\r\, lrtrt none o1 tlrrrn llveci Lrp to their l'orris. It's tinrc to conre back to rral rccln'ooc1 siiling, the orte tlte othe r\ tfv to ilnit.rte. Ilrchvrxrcl is available toclav linrl lrccause \\'r gro\\', harvt'st ;ind replant tret's on our on-n lantl, the rt rvill bc evcrr rnorc in tltc future. licst of all, rcrln'ooci is rrrtire lrllorrluble thurr vou thirtk l'.\L(-() hus u recluoorl product lot rverv Llsc. ( .lroose I{rrstic sitling for littotterturecl charrr. Choosc finger- jrtintcrl trinr for (.ltar gracle tltrrrlitr , long lrngtlts anil stabrlitr'. (.hoosc I).\1.(.() Prirrrc t<r (ut \'olir iinislring tinrc in half. YoLr krton rerln'oocl liolrls up beatrtiltrllr Ltncit't ull tr'pcs oI conrlitions. l iurt nrt'lins tcrlt'r clIIlr.rt'ks, ictvt'r ht'utlliclrt'r. \\'otrltlrt't tlrlrt irt' nict iol lr t lrangr/

Housing starts in July (latest figs.) slid 3Vo to an annual rate of 1.512 million ... single family starts fell 2Va to a 1.197 million rate, multifamily reached a rate of 279,000 for 5+ units and 36,000 for 2-4 units permits fell 2Vo to a 1.497 million unit rate.

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Listings are often submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with sponsor before making plans to attend.

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Lumber Association of California & NevadaSept. 14,2nd annual PAC golf tournament, Cypress Golf Club, Los Alamitos, Ca.; (800) 266-4344.

TruServ Corp.Sept. 15-18, fall market, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, La.; (773) 695-5000.

American Wood-Preservers' AssociationSept. 17-22, technical commitree meetings, Salt Lake City, Ut.; (817) 326-6300.

Pacific Logging ConferenceSept. 17-24, Alaskan Sea Cruise, Vancouver, B.C.; (503) 885-8022.

Lumber Association of California & NevadaSept. 19, insurance trust meeting, Sacramento; Sept. 21, 2nd Growth meer ing, LAX Holiday Inn, Los Angeles; (800) 266-4344.

National Hardwood Lumber AssociationSept. 2l-23, convention/exposition, Washington, D.C.; (800) 933-031 8.

West Coast Regional Fence ShowSept 21-23, annual convention, John Ascuaga's Nugget, Reno, Nv.; (70'l) 585-1795.

Cedar Shake & Shingle BureauSept 2l-24, anmal meeting, Empress Hotel, Victoria, B.C., Canada (604) a62-8961.

Ace Hardware Corp.Sept. 2l-25, fall convention, Cervantes Convention Center, St. Louis, Mo.; (630) 990-6600.

North American Wholesale Lumber AssociationSept. 2329, wood marketing seminar, Best Western University Inn, Moscow, Id.; Sept. 26, regional meeting, Multnomah Club, Portland, Or.; (800) 527-8258.

National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - Sept. 27-30, annual convention, Southhampton Princess, Bermuda; (202) 547 -2230.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo ClubSept. 29, fall golf tournament, Healdsburg Golf Course, Healdsburg, Ca; (707) 462-3700.

APA-The Engineered Wood AssociationSept. 29-Oct. 3, annual meeting, San Antonio, Tx.; (253) 565-6600.

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International Wood Products AssociationOct. 4-7, tade fair, Jonkoping, Sweden; (7 03) 820-6696.

National Sash & Door Jobbers AssociationOct. 14-18, annual convention, Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa.; (800) 786-72',14.

Resource Information Systems Inc.Oct. 18-20, annual forest products convention, Boston Cambridge Marriott, Boston, Ma.; (781) 271-0030.

National Association of Home BuildersOct. 20-22, Remodelers Show, Detroit, Mi.; (800) 368-5242.

Do it Best Corp.Oct.2l-24, fall market, Indianapolis, In.; (219) 493-5300.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo ClubOct.26, initiation, La Hacienda, Cloverdale, Ca.: (707) 462-3700.

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North American Building Material Distribution AssociationNov. 2-4, annual convention, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, Tx.; (888) 747-7862.

North American Wholesale Lumber AssociationNov. 2-4. Traders Market, Wyndham Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Tx.; (800) 527-8258.

Western Building Material AssociationNov. 2-5, annual convention & Doubletree Lloyd Center Hotel, Portland, Or.; (888) 551-9262.

Lumber Association of California & NevadaNov. 9-l2.4th annual convention, Marriott Resort Hotel, Monterey, Ca.; (800) 266-4344.

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WE'RE NUMBER TWO: 2nd Growth golf 2nd place finishers Pete Ganahl. Ganahl Lumber, presenler Bob Baxter, Mendocino Forest Products, Kevin Mclernon, Learned Lumber, and John Allen. California Cascade Industries (not pictured Mark Sabre. BMD).

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CASCADE Lumber, which formerly concentrated on smaller glulams for residential hea'ders, is now shipping larger beams and timbers for roof framing in commercial buildings. Cascade supplied 24" deep bv 56' lono Power Beams for exoosed roof framino oir Nortn C-reek Presbyterian Chuich, MillCreek, WaI

Anthony WoodWorks computer programs. "We believe that ongoing education for specifiers highlights the excellent strength values of laminated beams for standard applications," Holskenecht says.

To promote engineered wood, the firm treats its builder accounts to Friday evening customer appreciation "cook-outs"-where engineered products are prominently on display.

Dealers Go Long With Glulams

More retailers are increasing their sales volume of engineered wood by promoting long-span glulam beams.

Golden State Lumber, San Rafael, Ca., is dealing in longer length glulams. Says Moshia Smith: "The glulams fill the same function as LVL, but they are stronger, better looking and less expensive."

A typical sale at Golden State might be 3-1/2", 5-l/2" or 7" wide glulams in I-joist depths. Golden State inventories the Anthony Power

Beam, supplied by Georgia-Pacific. "Because the Power Beams have Ijoist depths, our customers don't have to pad out their walls, and the glulams don't shrink or twist like solid sawn timbers," Smith explains.

Evan Holskenecht, Cascade Lumber, Stanwood, Wa., says the 3000Fb design values of Power Beams are good for the longer spans in custom homes today.

Cascade provides engineering assistance to builders with their

Cascade builder customer Ryan Payne, Camano Island, Wa., says that local inventories of the glulam beams help complete construction projects faster than steel framing because steel takes a longer lead time for delivery, and requires extensive shop drawings.

"With the Cascade/Anthony computer program, we can punch in our loads and come up with strength values for beam applications," Payne says. "Engineers feel comfortable putting their stamp on the drawings. And the glulams are stronger, lighter and cost less than PSL or LVL."

House Probes Maxxam Deal

A House Resources Committee task force is investigating possible banking regulatory improprieties regarding an $821 million federal claim against Maxxam Corp., Houston, Tx., parent of The Pacific Lumber Co.. Scotia. Ca.

Under particular scrutiny is a 1995 plan by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of Thrift Supervision to pressure the federal government into taking ownership of roughly 63,000 acres of Northern California timberland in lieu of claims against Maxxam and its chairman, Charles Hurwitz, pertaining to a failed thrift.

Lawsuits allege Hurwitz and Maxxam failed to meet capitalization rules during their tenure as controllers of the now-defunct United Savings Association of Texas and its holding company, United Financial Group, Inc., which went bust in 1988.

"Banking regulators' lawsuits from our perspective are politically motivated, " said Maxxam spokesman Josh Reiss. "The regulators have engaged in a bureaucratic shell game in order to seize the private property of one of our subsidiaries."

Legislation was passed in 1999 that provided $450 million to purchase some 5,600 acres of redwoods in the Headwaters Forest from The Pacific

"They could gobble up companies like Potlatch with the snap of their fingers, as recent history has shown."

- Paul Ehinger.

Eugene, Or.-based consultant on industry giants IP, Weyerhaeuser, G-P and Kimberly-Clark

Lumber Co. As new legislation is required for additional redwood purchases, the task force is investigating whether banking regulators working with the Interior Department attempted to circumvent the law through lawsuits.

Committee chairman Don Young (R., Ar.) suggested regulators, possibly influenced by environmental groups, sued Maxxam to pressure the firm to surrender the land.

"Everyone understands that the Headwaters Forest issue was settled, period," said Young. "Now we are learning of a backdoor attempt to break the asreement."

LACN Convention Nears

Under the theme "Team LACNGo for the Gold," the Lumber Association of California and Nevada's fourth annual convention will be held Nov. 9-12 at the

Monterey Marriott, Monterey, Ca.

Opening day activities include golf at the scenic Bayonet Golf Course, a board meeting and an evening reception with hors d'oeuvres and a no host bar.

The second day (Friday) will feature an associates council meeting, officers' elections, California legislative updates and tabletop exhibits. In addition, speakers Peter Burwash and Deborah Hayden will discuss, respectively, "Gold Medal Leadership," and "How to Develop Olympic Winning Employees."

Roundtable discussions will be held the following morning, featuring Rich Geary, Western Wood Products Association, on "Dealing with Claims, Insects;" Don Olson, Georgia-Pacific, "Civil Treatment;" Matt Petersen, Mead Clark Lumber Co., and David Jones, Foster Lumber Co., "Product Liability," and Augie Yenezia, Fairfax Lumber Co. and Acordia/Pettit-Morry, "Cal OSHA Visits/Worker's Comp Issues."

The final day will include an ecommerce/Internet panel discussion chaired by Bob Jessell, Central Valley Builders Supply, and Matt Petersen, followed by education and membership committee meetings.

The president's dinner will close out the festivities. welcoming incoming president Erik Jorgensborg, Fisher/Malibu Lumber Cos., and thanking current president John Saunders, Economy Lumber Co., for his fine work.

Call (916) 369-7501 for additional information.

Bigger Digs For Retailer

Sheridan Discount Building Supply, Sheridan, Or., has moved across town into a larger store formerly occupied by Copeland Lumber.

The move separates the retail operation from wholesale businesses Myers Woodline, Inc. and Pacific Fir Lumber Co.

"We think it's going to be a good location," said co-owner Brad Meyers. "We'll be able to display things and we'll have a lot more room to carry essentials."

Meyers said that insufficient display space had been a problem at the previous store. "I think we're looking at about doubling in size," he said. "It'll be easier to shop. We're adding more items and expanding the product line."

In addition to lumber, doors, ply- wood, mouldings, fencing and hardware, the new location also will carry Pittsburgh Paints, according to Myers.

"We've got a smattering of all different kind of things," he chuckled.

Penofin Prez Pens Primer

Castle "Skip" Newell III, president, Penofin-Performance Coatings Inc., Ukiah. Ca.. has written a book about volunteerism, a subject he is most familiar with.

A recipient of the 23lth Point of Light Volunteer Award, Newell's book, Point of Light: Portrait of an American Volunteer is a "true adven- ture book," according to his wife, Dr. Barbara Newell, ceo and chairman of Penofin-Performance Coatings.

"We feel strongly about volunteering to help the sick, ill, injured and unfortunate," said Dr. Newell. "I hope everyone in the home improvement industry will read my husband's book and encourage their employees, vendors. customers and distributors to continue to promote social change."

The book covers the author's more than 20-year career as a volunteer. "It is my hope that each of you who read this will commit to helping someone somewhere," Newell said.