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Valley Dropping the Lumber

Valley Lumber & Hardware, Mesquite, Nv., is liquidating its retail inventory, to transition from hardware and tools to home d6cor and specialorder industrials.

Tom Hayes, who owns the store with Mike Egan, said, "We are moving into more of a home d6cor store, selling carpet, tile, laminate flooring, and paint. We'll also be selling more 'in-com' or industrial/commercial type of products. We can order most anything online through the Do it Best warehouse system and have the products delivered the next day. That way we don't need to stock as much inventory and pay the overhead costs of that."

Earlier this year, Valley Lumber downsized from a 30,000 to a 3,000sq. ft. facility and in July it was honored as business of the month by the local Chamber of Commerce.

Vaagen Readying Midway Mill

Vaagen Brothers Lumber, Colville, Wa., expects to start production as early as Oct. 7 at the retooled Boundary Sawmill in Midway, B.C. Boundary is acquiring the facility, idle for three years, from Fox Lumber Sales, Hamilton, Mt., and leasing it to Vaagen.

Being installed is machinery to accommodate smaller logs-an R200 MSA HewSaw with log positioner, three additional log bins, a new merchandising system to cut the logs to length and sort by diameter, and a whole-log chipping system.

"Not a lot of mills specialize in small wood. They think the bigger the wood, the more money there is to make, where (the Midway project) is the exact opposite philosophy," said Vaagen project manager Mark Deverson. "The smaller the wood, the faster we run it, the more money we make."

The mill will initially employ about 35 workers, with hopes to add a 20man second shift in June, demand permitting.

Bohnhoff Gunman Sentenced

The man who shot and killed his boss and a fellow employee at Bohnhoff Lumber, Los Angeles, Ca., has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Saul Gastelum Moreno. 53. shot owner Alan Bohnhoff. 55. and coworker Jaime Sanchez,37,on May 18, 2009, and then fled from police.