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Chintimini Forest Products. Albany, Or., and Modesto, Ca., is liquidating by year's end after a potential sale of the Z7-year-old, company fell through

Pine Tree Lumber, Escondido, Ca., has been sold bvMichael Wexler and Mark Wylind to Jack Brouwer, owner of Superior Ready Mix, endine 58 years of family ownership; operations include yards in Escondido and Fallbrook and sales offices in San Diego and Vista...

Kelseyville Lurnber will relocate from downtown Kelseyville, Ca., after receiving planning commission approval tobuild a larger facility on 17 acres on the edge of town

A.C. Houston Lumber Co.. Las Vegas, Nv., expects its new Indio, Ca., truss plant to be fully operational by Jan. 1 and will open a prefabricated wall paneling/truss facility in Indioby September 2004...

Adobe Lumber, Petaluma, Ca., is preparing to relocate within the coming months to a new site in American Canyon, Ca.

Parkro se Hardware. Portland. Or., will open a 30,000-sq. ft. store early next month in east Vancouver. Wa.

G&G Hardware, Temescal, Ca., lost its lease and is closing after 57 years; Mike Ghiorso is retiring, but his partners, Annabell and Sharon Graziano, are considering new locations in town ...

Lowe's Cos. recently opened new locations in Eastlake and Visalia, Ca., and Grand Junction. Co. ...

Lowe'snextmonth opens a $16.5 million, 160,000-sq. ft. unit in Kailua-Kona, Hi. (Dan Stephenson, store mgr.); proposed building on 25.6 acres in Huntington Beach, Ca.; is roughly a year away from completion in Nampa, Id., and is considering sites in Cotati and Petaluma,Ca.

Home Depot this month opens new home centers in Kenai, Ak. (Terry Rahlfs, store mgr.; Holly Palmer, operations mgr.); Hercules and Mira Loma, Ca., and Wenatchee" Wa. ...

Home Depot will move into a shuttered Super Kmart in Oakland, Ca., and expects a second quarter 2004 opening in Nampa,Id. ...

Cole Hardware, San Francisco, Ca., has selected a former Walgreen's location to open its fourth store in the city lf[norrslr:ns/illrutlcrunrns

Grover Electric & Plumbing Supply, Walla Walla, Wa., is closing its doors ...

Reliable Wholesale Lumber Inc. has opened a ZD-acre, rail-served contractor/wholesale vard in Stockton, Ca. (Eric Clouse, Northern Division sales mgr.)

Pno Group, Inc. bas relocated from Englewood, Co., to larger quarters in Centennial, Co. ...

Mendocino Wood Specialties Co., LLC, Ukiah, Ca., has been renamed TrueGuard, LLC; neither ownership nor location have changed...

MontanaWest Lumber. Missoula, Mt., sustained at least $500,000 in damage, including the loss of machinery and a 12,000-sq. ft. warehouse, in a Nov. 22 fire of undetermined origin ...

Canfor Corp., Vancouver, 8.C., agreed to acquire Slocan Forest Products...

D.R. Johnson Luntber Co..

Riddle, Or., was high bidder for a 586-acre commercial timber sale on Oregon's Little Canyon Mountain ...

Swanson Group, Glendale, Or., is now maintaining an inventory of green Douglas fir dimension at Delta Reload, Stockton, Ca.

North American Reload. Cloverdale, B.C., has launched a unique online, real-time inventory system for its customers

Correct Building Products, ILC will introduce fascia and newly designed post caps and post skirti in2004...

Capital Lumber Co., Phoenix, Az., and Building Material Distributors, Inc. (BMD), Galt, Ca., are now distributing TimberTbch composite decking products

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Engineered Wood Products has joined the American Institute of Timber Construction ...

Anniversaries: Potlatch Corp., Spokane, Wa., 100th ... Pno Group, Centennial, Co.,50th ...

Housing starts in October (latest figs.) rose 2.9Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.960 million single-family starts climbed 6.2Vo to an annual rate of 1.617 million; multi-family (5+ units) were at 319,000 ... building permits jumped 5.2Vo to a 1.973 million annual pace.

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APA-Engineered Wood Association - Dec. 11, EWP design solutions seminars, Salt Lake City, Ut.l Dec. 16, Vancouver, B.C.; Dec. 18, Sacramento, Ca.; (253) 565-6600.

Portland Wholesale Lumber Association - Dec. 12. Christmas lunch, Doubletree Hotel, Portland, Or.; (503) 648-4156.

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Winema Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 9, meeting & past president's raffle, Klamath County Fairgrounds, Klamath Falls, Or.; (541) 882-7559.

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - Jan. 12-15, estimating courses, Casper, Wy.; Jan. 19-22, Denver, Co.; (303) 793-0859.

Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 13, crab feed & past president's meeting, Crab Pot Restaurant & Bar, Bellevue, Wa.; (253) 796-7 155.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 14, industry night, Broiler Steakhouse, Redrvood Valley, Ca; ('707) 462-3700.

Humboldt Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 15, annual crab feed, Eureka Inn, Eureka, Ca.: (707) 445-3521,

Western Pallet Association - Jan. l6-21, annual meeting, Rancho Mirage. Ca.: (305) 427-0938.

International Builders Show - Jan, 19-22, sponsored by National Association of Home Builders, Las Vegas Convention Center. Las Vegas, Nv.; (800) 368-5242.