NEWS BRIEFS

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, An 8.500-ss. ft. Ace Hardware was opened in Citroy, Ca., by Mamrel Rodrigqe%lis 3rd

HomeBase will open a 109,540sq, ft. store with 23,000-sq. ft. exterior nursery in Everett, trrya., ih late spring zens rallying to save the diner on a newly selected Santa Rosa site

Cantractars Warehoa.ve parent Grosstn*n's Inc., after reaching *n Agrsement in principte on a reorggnization plan, expects to eulsrge from bankruptcy next month as a privately held company owned SAVo by certain creditors and 5OVo by Jeld-Wen,Inc. ...

Home Depot, whiCh will open 111 stores this year, about 137 next vear and in the next three yeun iilans to more than double its stores in Washington to over 2O, opened a 40,@0-sq. ft. Northwest merchandising office in Tukwila, Wa., to handle buying, merchandising and advertising for its stores in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utatr, Idaho and eventually Alaska and Montana; the tasks had been coordinated from Western Division offices in Fullerton, Ca. ...

Sears opened a 40,000-sq. ft. Eagle Hardware & Garden, Orchard Supply Hardware Sept. after appealing preliminary 27 itt Bakersfield, Ca., and a approval for a 113,000-sq. ft. 20,000-sq. ft. Sears Hardware it llame Depot store in Bend, Or., Las Vegas, Nv. ... has subrnitted plans for its own BMC west,Boise, Id., has reor- 142'8ffi-sq' ft' Bend location "' ganized, becoming a wholly- Leonard Green & Partners has owned subsidiary of newly- completed its acquisition af Suildformed parent company Build.ing ers Square and Hechinger's Materials Holding Corp., San Francisco' ca' "' wholesalers & Manufaeturers

American Pacific Supply, Everett, Wa.; the roofing, siding and window distributor now has 91 branches...

US Timber, Boise, Id., has acquired Channel Lumber Co., Craigmont, Id.; Jim Wallace, sales mgr., Boise,Id.

Fibreform Wood Prcducts, L,os Angelei, Ca., plans a new millwoik plant in Diboll, Tx.

Tenneco Buildins Products has opened an extruded polystyrene foam insulation manufacturing plantin Yakima" Wa. .".

MacMill*n Bl'oedet L,td. is suing the British Columbia governrient for up to $200 mil-lion (Canadian) in cbmpensation'for lost timber rights

Boise Cascade's veneer and specialty plant in Willamina, Or., received an APA safety awards, along with U.S, Forest Industries' mitls in Whire City and Grants Pass, Or.

.Pella Corp. has filed a copyright infringement suit against KML Windows over Pella's Architect Series window and doors...

Klean-Strin maker W.M. Barr & Co. is acquiring Armor AII Home Care fromthe elorox Co.

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Reid & wrisht, Inc. has put irs pct, l6 ll- Belle."y:_-13!,Ei,:t at"uta cL., r"iiuituiu.turnj punt Spokane., W?.,.*.d Laguna Hills, ua. . tne cnam DroKe grouno ln Palo Alto, Ca.; will bJgin con-

The Hood Co. is the new name it*"tion iroun'a ttri ririt of the for Hanel-Lwnber parent !9yry. & year on approximately 105,000-sq. Morgan Lumber ftrc., Mill City, ft. stores with 25,000-se. ft. ga1- Or., after filing for Chapter ll den centers in Silverdale, netflng- banknrptcy protection ... ham andNorth Spokan_e, W^a.; sub- Hamipon Buitding Materials, mitted e9o:.f9ll l0sJ00-s+ ft, o*;;;; d;; t.i :,-"f^yt11A'19?-',q; *.::*f i'uiio u $6 miuion, eo,ooo-sql ft. $ll1:i-:-:"litl 9i,lj:".:::-1'^li drywall compound manufactuhng IT",o:l:::.:ui^pt}*,,,"":It}" ra6itity on 10 acres in woodlandl rnto LanCastef' Ua.' ang lS COnSIO- Cq erins sites in Boise. Nampa and Meri'dian,Id. ... The assets of bankrupt R.4, ' ,: I _^-, Trucking,Inc., Fonfana, Ca., will . Home,Depot has made conces- b""*.tion"d off Oct. 29 at Reti:1o"1 j?^lo^T9^**T-^*".",ntT^1{ able htmber Co., Fontana, Ca. tne notse at lts 5orse, Icl., store and after abandoning plans to dis- Allied Building Products has place a mobile home park in Santa purchased -unit A&R Suppty, hosa, Ca., is now up-against citi- Ilerkeley, Ca', and 2-unit 18 ThnMrncrr.lnrMlclznm Ocroeen 1997

Anniversaries: Western Wood P re s e rv e rs I nstitute, Vancouver, Wa., 50th ... Woodfold-Marco Manufacturing, Inc., Forest Grove, Or., 40th ... Dellen Wood Products, Spokane, Wa., 35tlt Simpson Strong-Tie Co. parent S imp s on Manufacturing C o., Pleasanton, Ca., applied for listing on the New York Stock Exchange ...

New Web sites: California Cascade Industies, Sacramento, Ca., www.californiacascade.com ... Columbia Forest Products, Portland, Or., www.columbia forestDroducts.com ... North Amer{can Buitding Material Distribution Association, www. nbmda.org...l

Housing stnrts in August (latest figs.) fell 4.8Vo to a seasonally adjusted a4nual rate of 1.363 milii+,r single-family construction dropped 5%, while multi-family drop@ 4.3Vo ... permits slipped I.6Vo.

New Name, Board For WPCC

WPCC, Inc., the Bend, Or.-based association of secondary wood products manufacturers, has changed its name to the Northwest Wood Products Association, reflecting its expansion through Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Northern California.

At the group's recent annual meeting, Scott Morelock, Morelock Wood Products, Bend, was elected chairman.

New board members: Ted Fullmer.

Fullmer Lumber, Donald, Or.; Phyllis Morris, Pacific Crest Manufacturing, Canby, Or.; Chris Neufeld, WoodWright Manufacturing, Milton-Freewater, Or., and Bill Fischer, Rodgers Instruments, Hillsboro, Or.

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