NEWS ERIEFS

HomeBase will open locations in Vista" Ca., and Albuquerque, N.M., this month and begin preparations for opening a fifth San Diego County, Ca.,location in :,lKearn}..Mesa yin'93 ...,,,

Orchard Super Hardware opened in Lodi, Ca., in mid Sept., Mitch Biddle, mgr. ... Pan htmber Co. broke ground in Hillsboro, Or., for its eleventh store ...

Home Depot, which pledged $4O nillion to tlrc 1996 Olympics, opened a unit in Torrance, Ca., received an okay to expand an Anaheim, Ca., outdoor display area, signed to buy bankrupt Frederick & Nelson's Tirkwila, Wa., distribu- for $8.5 million and an Issaquah, W&, site. t'rYrfrufa, rureit r ruuucr$ -4txJ co., a g stributq.'.Tils- gJolgo y"?#f{if ,#;%i,itil";irl #l #J3ffi'".f,!'#":,#f;'?i'a"Tfi il;#' il;H*i;^"?;eil ; iwas pufChasod by its ergrployggg,,,

,,.,;;, Wes.:t&./&,&:'closeriits Temecula, Ca., retail store and moved its National City, Ca., sales D force into new offices'... Roswett -,:io!to lwnber co* Rialto, ca-, Iiiiuii-oi-it-^Ciii",";:"."J.:i' Plans to close around.D-ec' I "' TtE N il; i6i;a,:1:t:&31;trii ffff;,,1:,"'f#,#",r x&,,,,, Beautitul^Special Beautification ij[,_.d i{cWilgwtu tumi"iCo., Award in Sept. ... #ffi;:6ili* il6,idffi;":..-""

,'?:J{:#ft{:!{K^""';i.eil .- !ryngor Miu * My:gy: tion tururica Goacnnnte disribu- fe-l,9llll Yi*l_q*' has-fuermai;; "' o;;;-'E;ild;; v";;;;'' 991llv crosed-its dil -' ca\lona' after,35 t"*...',.. ,,,,,,,., .,..1..... r':.:i:..,li?;p;i';d;;;,-fi-fr,,,bfri,,W,....ll1 l:

'' Ff^nk Lunber & Ace Hardware, *alfle, Wa-, burned Sept. 14 in a fire of unknown olisin

...IJncIe Ed's Factory Dirict Fence Awlkr 33.nT ini.rigutt;:,.Or.

Anniversarj s: White Brothers, Oakland, Ca., l20th; .G;len Au6n ktmber,ea, Mi& lnmdtl:Ca, 50 i; G,1pnt ft@ IMer Ca., Ttrcson, Al., 44th; Swaner Hardwoodx,;;, Burnankr,ea., 25fh,,,,,.,'.,,.,',.1:,,,,,,, lirr''rr'il

Lakewood Forest Products, Pomona, Ca., has chaogedib name tn PinatourCA, Inrr;l,...'llr:'l C l.,,,.. ., r& Carson Inc., Lewiston, Id., acqnired Ezgflarson City, neered Wood Products, East, SpokaAe- Worri,,,,&8 all.:,.:tdiv., ,Bbn Kassa staying on as mgr.

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