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There are honest peaks and valleys to the ridges. Damn, *ris sruff is as rough and craggy ^sthe real thingt through every step. Itt why we can offer not only the legitimate look ofwood, but a full 3O-year warranty that, unlike most, is 30-yar watantl tuan{rabb to allwm. transferable to all owners. For the whole story visit www.CollinsWood.com. Or call us at I-800-417-3574.

And it's not easy creating imperfecdon. To more perfecdy recreate wood, we took a hunk of Western Red Cedar from Oregon to Rochester New York, where a German artisan hand-chiseled and sculpted a precise 4'xI6'mirror-image metal plate with a naturalistic iregularity modern methods cant match. Add74O tons of prbssure ro each sheet and, voili, an exact reproduction every cime. Down to the last hiccup.

TluWood is made by Collins Products LLC with the same artenrion to detail Distrib*tcl by Wclcrhacuscr.

IDAHO ACCENTS: Braided Accents is completing work on a new 12,000-sq. ft. warehouse and oflice building in Hayden, ld. The facility is expected to be open by mid-December.

Yardbirds Sued By Neighbor

Yardbirds Home Center's Santa Rosa, Ca., neighbor and former partner is suing it over alleged construction defects at its store.

Grocery retailer Albertsons hired the multi-unit Yardbirds in 1997 to prepare a building pad for a store at the base of so-called Moving Mountain.

Albertsons now claims that its concrete floor has moved as much as 6 inches because of improper construction. In its lawsuit. the company is seeking $300,000 in damages.

The lawsuit also names a geotechnical engineering firm and the general contractor of the project.

The two dealers are situated next to each other in the 33-acre commercial center built by Yardbirds.

Alaska Plant May Rise Again

Timber Products Co., Springfield, Or., is looking to restart a closed veneer plant in Ketchikan, Ak.

Timber Products officials visited the site in late September and are considering a partnership with the Alaska Industrial Development Export Authority, wherein the state would own the plant and Timber Products would run it.

Currently the former Gateway Forest Products facility is owned by the Ketchikan Gateway Borough.

Timber Products officials have also indicated they would like Sealaska Corp., Juneau, Ak., to be its log supplier.

A technical team from Timber Products Co. has been assessing the mills equipment to see what kinds of further investment will be necessary.

Company officials are also trying to determine whether federal and state